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Chrasmere "Chrome" Black, the name is one many knew. When it comes to running the streets, his crew is the most qualified. Black Metal Gang is the blueprint and holds an undefeated title. Burning rubber is what kept most of them out of jail or in a grave. Chrome is the man who knows how to protect and provide, and those who don't know how hard in the paint he goes soon find out.

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max: Fury Road—with more than 130 new interviews with key members of the cast and crew, including Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, and director George Miller, from the pop culture reporter for The New...

I lead my Grulla Mare, Savanna, to water. She is the gray of a mule deer's winter coat, with a dorsal stripe and zebra markings on her legs that trace back to the original wild horses, though she is quarter horse, not mustang. The mustang follows. It is his first time here, to the pinon pine and juniper woodland that defines my desert home.

Operation Chrome Dome uncovers one of the Cold War’s most astonishing and unsettling secrets: for years, the United States kept nuclear-armed B-52 bombers flying around the clock, ready to launch a retaliatory strike at a moment’s notice. This gripping, factual narrative takes readers inside the hidden world of airborne deterrence—where “peace” was protected by aircraft carrying weapons capable of ending entire cities, and where routine missions depended on perfect discipline, flawless technology, and a constant battle against fatigue, weather, and human error.

William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of the most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.

Magus is dying from the inside out, and only the destruction of the barrier can save it. Even color magic can't defend against earthquakes, strange weather patterns, and erratic wildlife behavior. After discovering hundreds of captive Yellow magic-users, Ava and Elm fight to set them free. However, new dangers and unexpected enemies await at every turn, forcing them to face their greatest challenges yet.

She gave him everything. Someone's making her pay for it. Razor The club votes on whether Aria Caldwell is a liability. I don't wait for the count. She's mine to protect. Mine to hide. Mine to keep in the one place her father can't touch her — the Devil's Mercy clubhouse. They say I'm compromised. They're right. But compromised men still kill clean. Aria I thought I understood leverage. I thought I could outmaneuver Razor Dillard. Then the police raid Devil's Mercy at dawn. They arrest him. They recover the gun from the gala. With my fingerprints on it. I've never touched that weapon. ...

The aliens offered food. The price was soldiers. With Earth collapsing and his daughter in need of treatment he cannot afford, paramedic Mark Calder does the unthinkable: he volunteers to fight in an alien war. Ripped from his world and sealed inside a deadly combat frame, Mark is sent to the front lines of a conflict where human troops are treated as expendable assets and survival is little more than a statistical error. Every battle is a slaughter. Every victory comes at a cost. And the more Mark sees of the war, the more he begins to suspect that humanity’s alien saviors are not ...

Tank is done with his old life. All it's brought him is trouble and misery in the form of a four-year prison term. Though he did find one good thing while behind bars: Charles "CJ" Crane, pen pal extraordinaire. After months of exchanging increasingly personal letters, Tank knows exactly where he's headed as soon as the prison gates open. CJ doesn't know he's coming, and he's not sure what he'll say when he gets there, but he knows one thing for certain.

His body is healed, his spirit forged in cosmic fire. But the Last Riftwalker’s sanctuary is a gilded cage, and his new enemy wears a human face with an ancient, chilling intellect. Thrust from a restored nexus of ancestral power into the heart of a sprawling, high-tech human metropolis, the Riftwalker finds himself a prisoner of the very species he sought to escape. The enigmatic Archivist, or those who share its cold ambition, now understand the rifts, his heritage, and the power he wields. Their city of shifting steel and oppressive order is not just a prison, but a laboratory, and he ...

A fireball over the Arctic. A missing hydrogen bomb. A Cold War program exposed in a single, shattering night. Before dawn on January 21, 1968, a U.S. Air Force B-52G code-named HOBO 28 streaked across the polar sky carrying four thermonuclear weapons. Its mission—Operation Chrome Dome—kept nuclear-armed bombers in the air 24/7, ready to strike Moscow in minutes. But when a cockpit fire roared through the bomber at 41,000 feet, the crew faced an unthinkable choice: burn alive or bail out into −60 °F darkness. Minutes later a mushroom-shaped blast lit North Star Bay, scattering ...

One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a few of the subjects competing for discussion among the amiable cast of eccentrics drawn together at Crome, an intensely English country manor.

A day in the life of a rogue cyberdoc—deep in the Sprawl, far from anything clean. In a corner of Crossfall Sprawl held together by rust, graft, and blackout wiring, Hennix runs a clinic made from stacked cargo containers and old favors. He's not a hero, not a villain—just a medtech who knows when to cut and when to vanish. But when a high-clearance client shows up under lockout protocols, Hennix’s routine is shattered. Something bigger is moving in the shadows, and all he has to shield himself is a surgical toolkit, a deadpan wit, and the ghosts in his hardware. Set in the world of ...

Tautly-written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 of William Gibson’s best short stories with a preface from Bruce Sterling, co-Cyberpunk and editor of the seminal anthology Mirrorshades. These brilliant, high-resolution stories show Gibson's characters and intensely-realized worlds at his absolute best.

Albrech Miller is the younger child of the town of Larroggio’s miller. He has grown up learning the mill’s operation. Al’s mom has also been teaching him to be an adventurer, helping him gain experience for when he can first see his status sheet and start limited adventuring on his own. During the first two times Al and his two friends, Lyr and Charlie, are allowed to go adventuring alone in their zone of the forest, the monsters are highly abnormal for that area. It all points toward a monster surge coming against their town. **** Tales of Morla is based on a system world. A world ...

In this sixth chilling novel in the pseudoverse, Detective Lori Lynn Gutierrez, and former journalist Amanda Sese, both poisoned in Onyx and "recruited" by the NIB, have their work cut out for them as they are pulled into the biggest gun battle the nation has ever witnessed. An America divided is on the verge of a New Civil War over weapons that never need reloading while pushing the second amendment to its limit.

Houston has a secret. One he hasn’t even shared with his motorcycle club. One that involves rope and dominance and pretty little subs kneeling at his feet. And he’s fine with that. Prefers it, really. It keeps his life nice and orderly.

When skilled assassin Jackson Cole meets with a news reporter, he’s thrust into the position of detective and guild enforcer all rolled into one. Finding a missing musician whose life is in grave danger becomes his top priority. The deeper Jackson digs into the investigation, the more peril he and his family faces. Suddenly, his guild’s bar and headquarters are the setting for a shootout, putting his own mother’s life in danger. When Jackson discovers that one of his friends was also shot by the same gunman, Jackson knows time is running out for the missing woman.

Leather and Chrome Boxed Set Luca Summer and Ethan Rae of Leather and Chrome will give you a rough ride on their way to Love, and their HEA. Book 1 Leather and Chrome isn’t part of this boxed set. You can purchase it separately. This boxed set contains 4 scorching M/M romance books about Ethan Rae and Luca Summer. Leather and Cuffs: When Ethan met Luca in the cool night of a desert town on his ride to San Francisco, he had no idea that he would fall in love in one night, and that would seal his fate. Leather Bound: When Luca met Ethan in a sleazy bar in Nevada, neither of the men knew ...

There are mages out there...and some of them are kind of cute - like Tannim, a young human mage with a taste for hot Celtic rock, fast cars, and dangerous women. Now he thinks he's found Ms. Right, but there are some small problems: Her father is a dragon; she's not human, though she's definitely a fox; and she wants to kill him!