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From Stranded in the Heart of Darkness... "Red-shirted man speaks once more. In turn, I gaze at the interpreter, await his translation. “You have fought and killed many men?” he hesitantly asks. I shake my head. “No,” I say, taken aback. “I have never killed anyone.” “In the voodoo culture,” the translator goes on, “men who are able to wear such a band are considered to be powerful fighters.” Now gesturing towards the red-shirted man. “This man here envies you for your power.” _________________ In 2009, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vincent Zandri ...

Based on true events, PERMANENCE, is a dark, "Hitchcockian" literary tour-de-force about Mary Kismet, a woman who is holding onto a deep dark secret too painful and startling to reveal. Now, having isolated herself from the world, she attempts to break away from her demons by immersing herself, body and soul, into a passionate and erotic love affair with her psychiatrist. From NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, comes a story with an unforgettable climax. Called "hauntingly beautiful" by bOOk R3vi3ws, PERMANENCE is a tragic novel of obsession, dark compulsions, ...

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU PLAY A PRACTICAL JOKE ON. IT COULD COST YOU YOUR LIFE. When a drunken man named Chuck (aka Chuckles) decides to play a joke on his barfly buddy, Timmy (aka Buddha), by drawing a rather accurate rendering of the male anatomy on Buddha's dusty black BMW, all hell breaks loose. You see, it only takes a couple of minutes for Chuckles to realize he's created the stunning artwork on the wrong car. In fact, the car belongs to an underworld executioner known only as Rod Last Name Not Known. What follows is Chuckles and his buddy, Jones, being kidnapped by Rod and made to endure ...

WHEN WE DIE WE DON'T GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL. WE GO TO THE METAVERSE! Writer Casey Smith is dead. He was decapitated after the getaway car he was driving immediately after a bank robbery smashed into the back of a semi. And yet, Casey Smith is very much alive inside the Metaverse. But what he also discovers upon waking up in the Old West town of Deadwood in 1889, is that he is a wanted man for the crimes he committed while alive in the mid-21st century. Bank robbery and 2nd-degree murder. Who's hot on his trail? None other than Wyatt Earp himself! From New York Times and USA Bestselling ...

HE'S KILLED FOR ART'S SAKE. HE WAS EXECUTED FOR ART'S SAKE, BUT SOMEHOW SURVIVED. NOW HE MUST KILL AGAIN. BUT NOT FOR ART'S SAKE. INSTEAD HE WILL KILL ON BEHALF OF THE WOMAN WHO HAS ENSLAVED HIM. HIS MUSE, STELLA. Bestselling author and Handyman, Victor Casey, is out of prison. But not after having been declared clinically dead for almost a full minute when he was strapped to the executioner's table. Now that he's back with his muse, Stella, and her live-in lover and fellow Sex Club member, Megan Lawless, he is told he must kill one more time if he is to be free from his past. But there's ...

RULE NO. 1: BEWARE DAMSELS IN DISTRESS...RULE NO. 2: BEWARE DAMSELS IN DISTRESS WHO WANT TO KILL! From the ITW Thriller Award and Shamus Award Winning Series... When a sexy dame shows up unannounced at Dick Moonlight's office begging for help over a man who wants to kill her, she makes the black leather coat-clad PI an offer he can't possibly refuse. But in typical Moonlight fashion, he's listening not to the head on his shoulders, but instead the head...Well, you know the rest! What results is a whole lot of mayhem and bullet blasting inside the dark concrete jungle of Albany, New York. ...

Does the Ark of the Covenant, or what’s also known as the Ark of God, truly exist? Adventurer, writer, and treasure hunter, Chase Baker is about to find out, the hard way. Adventurer, Chase Baker is back in the thick of it. This time, he along with his sexy and adventuring archaeologist partner, Dr. Sarah Gibson, are entrusted by both a wealthy financier and an old English, Paris based Biblical scholar to unearth perhaps the greatest archaeological treasure of all time: The Ark of the Covenant. Or what’s also known as the Ark of God.

Originally published in Conor Friedersdorf's Culture 11 Magazine, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vincent Zandri's BREAKDOWN recounts the story of a teenage boy who suffers his first nervous breakdown due to a genetic condition known as Severe and Recurring Non-Psychotic Depression. Suggested reading for parents of children who suffer from depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other emotional and psychologically debilitating diseases. Praise for Vincent Zandri: "Sensational...Masterful...Brilliant." --New York Post "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-...

Ike Singer is a demolitions expert, or master blaster. He is second to none at his craft, knows every type of explosive known to man, and is the one everyone turns to when they need a safe, controlled explosion. Despite being at the very top of his profession, a personal mistake that led to catastrophe nearly brought Ike's life to ruin. He has spent every day since atoning for that sin and trying to piece his family back together. And after a great deal of work and soul-searching, Ike believes he has finally moved on.

"SOMETIMES BEING BEHIND BARS IS BETTER THAN BREAKING OUT!" When two murderous cop killing cons doing life sentences at New York's Dannemora Maximum Security Prison decide to make dramatic, almost Hollywood style prison break, Jack Marconi, a private investigator and former prison warden, is called in to locate the two killers. But during the course of their investigation in Upstate New York's thick woodlands, what Marconi and his trusted sidekick, Blood, discover going on inside in the basement depths of the maximum security prison, is nothing less than shocking and deadly. For fans of ...

When ex-con and novelist JA Kingsley loses everything he's ever cared about, including his wife and teenage daughter, he abandons his home in order to start anew, write a new book, and, most of all, restart his fractured life. Traveling to the Adirondack Mountains, he checks himself into The Loon Lake Inn, a peaceful lake-side resort. For a brief moment, he feels at peace with himself and a world that has seemingly turned its back on him. But what he doesn’t expect is the lurid attraction that ignites between him and the wife of the owner of the Loon Lake Inn.

Featuring a brand new introduction by the author on how he willingly gave up his birthright as the heir apparent to a multi-million dollar commercial construction firm in order to pursue his writing passion, Pieces of Mind contains essays on topics as diverse as lost love, sex, divorce, coping with a child's severe depression, experiencing Carnival in Venice, to sharing a first beer with your teenage son. But every word is delivered under the umbrella of a full-time fiction writer and freelance journalist trying to make sense of the lush world that surrounds him.

Richard 'Dick' Moonlight is back!

In the best-selling Moonlight Falls (RJBuckley, 2009), he barely survived his own suicide attempt, not to mention numerous attempts on his life from a gang of Russian thugs operating an illegal organ harvesting operation out of a Saratoga Springs restaurant. Now the former Albany Police Department detective is forced to go through life (or in some cases, near-death) with a piece of .22 caliber bullet lodged in his brain.

When a defeated looking man shows up at Moonlight’s riverfront loft in the middle of the night seeking the P.I.’s services, he does something quite unexpected. He kills himself with a gunshot to the head. After the APD Chief Homicide Detective Nick Miller arrives on the scene, it’s discovered the now dead man was married to a cheating woman who goes by the unlikely name of Virginia Gamble.

Adventurer Chase Baker is back in action. He, along with the beautiful daughter of a Hasidic Jew who owns a New York City pawn shop, fly to Europe to uncover a stash of Nazi gold estimated to be worth over $1.5 billion dollars.

When Dick Moonlight PI is instructed by Homicide Detective Nick Miller at the Albany Police Department to investigate the double homicide of a pair of married lawyers up in Saratoga Springs during the thoroughbred racing season, he finds himself in the middle of a killing spree that just might get him and his sidekick, Fat Elvis, killed too.

It's been thirty years since the terrifying abduction of twin sisters Rebecca and Molly Underhill by a deranged man. Fearful of retribution against their family, the girls kept the incident secret. Rebecca, alone since Molly died of cancer, suddenly begins getting strange and anonymous text messages—the first with just her name. Is Molly trying to communicate with her? And it couldn't be their attacker from so many years ago. Surely, he'd still be in jail or dead by now—wouldn't he?

P.I. Jack "Keeper" Marconi understands the criminal mind. And he knows what it takes to break a man. His own life came apart the day a black Buick broadsided his car—and his wife died horrifically in the seat beside him. Years later, on the eve of his second marriage, Marconi catches a split-second glimpse of the driver who killed his wife. Suddenly hurtled back into the past, he is determined to take one last shot at hunting him down. That is, until he is offered a job he can't refuse: to bust a beautiful woman out of a hellish Mexican prison.

Sculptor and single mom Rose Conley is haunted by her tragic past and anxious about her uncertain future. She needs to get away from it all. On sabbatical from the college where she teaches art, she and her daughter rent a house for three months in the Adirondack lakeside community of Paradox.

No matter how you spin it - from a self-driving car that abducts its passengers, to a newly released ex-con who is being hunted by father/daughter hoods for the 300 grand he owes them, to a suburban couple startled awake in the middle of the night after two Antifa hoods break into their home intent on doing some real damage - these stories are relentless. Gear up for an adrenaline-fueled ride to the dark side and back, where the bad guy isn't always bad and the good guys will stab you in the back.