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"No Where to run. No where to hide!" From New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author Vincent Zandri comes the explosive sequel to Max Gator. When former maximum-security inmates turned survival mercenaries, Harry Steele and Blood, are recruited by the U.S. government, their mission is to track down a dangerous terrorist who has escaped from Alligator Alcatraz, a prison carved into the heart of Florida’s unforgiving Everglades. But nothing in the swamp is what it seems. Steele and Blood face venomous insects, razor-toothed gators, and a labyrinth of jungle hell. Worse, ...

At 38, Ava “Spike” Harrison has been a major player in the local construction industry. She’s also had to rebuild her family business from the bottom up thanks to bad luck and bad fines. So it’s easy to see why OSHA, breathing down her neck on her latest job at Albany’s PS 20, has the contractor on edge. She’s used to putting out fires, but this is about to be a full-on explosion - 300 students at risk for exposure to deadly asbestos, and the asbestos removal contractor, Jimmy Farrell, is nowhere to be found.

When two men from very different Albany neighborhoods die identical gruesome deaths from drinking their own tap water, the APD become entirely baffled. They're also worried that they're about to have a public panic on their hands. Therefore, they call in PI Steve Jobz to handle the deadly situation, both under the radar and as fast as he can.

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.

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.

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 USED CAR SALESMAN CONNECTED TO THE MOB OFFERS DICK MOONLIGHT AN OFFER HE CAN'T REFUSE, THE PI WITH A PIECE OF BULLET IN HIS BRAIN WONDERS IF HE'LL LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY! In this novelette, the too often unemployed private detective is hired by an anonymous client ('John Smith') to bring down a Mafia wise guy who's using a used car lot as a front for illegal gambling activity. At least, that's what Moonlight is led to believe. According to the job description, he is to answer a want ad for a salesman position at the same used car lot and thereby secretly infiltrate the illegal ...

"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 two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring - if not Hollywood-style - escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor's mansion.

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.

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.

The serial killer takes on many guises. But what happens when you unknowingly take him as your most trusted and loyal husband? Pathological is proof that even though you think you know your spouse inside and out, you might not really know him at all. This is the first of many Digital Shorts from Vincent Zandri.

"True Stories" is one of Vincent Zandri's most anthologized short stories. Based on the true story of Zandri having tackled and apprehended a car thief who was rampaging through his upstate New York neighborhood, this literary thriller begins with a 'seed of truth' around which grow invented circumstances - the result being a clever mesh of truth and creation.

Jude Parish is afraid. The former violent crimes cop turned best-selling true crime author has a fear-filled demon lodged inside of him. A demon so real he can only imagine a slimy reptilian beast with scaly skin, black eyes, and razor-sharp fangs having taken up residence inside the place where his once confident and fearless soul resided.

One hospital. One gunwoman. One livestreamed nightmare Dick Moonlight can’t walk away from. The Thriller and Shamus Award–Winning Series Continues—Live, Loaded, and Exploding in Real Time. When hard-boiled private investigator Dick Moonlight agrees to be the post-op ride home for his sometime sidekick Roland Hills—aka Fat Elvis, he expects boredom, bad coffee, and a long wait. What he gets instead is a hospital turned war zone. Inside the Albany Surgical Center, a stunningly beautiful inmate—temporarily transferred for a routine medical procedure—guns down her law-enforcement ...

DIDN'T YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU NOT TO PICK UP HITCHHIKERS? On a rainy morning, PI Dick Moonlight decides to pick up soaked-to-the-bone hitchhiker--an attractive young lady who not only has a deadly story to tell, but leads Moonlight on a chase that could cost him his life. From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes yet another short thriller that you can devour in one sitting. For fans of Robert B. Parker, Michael Connelly, JR Rain, Joe Lansdale and more. Scroll up and grab this thriller now. Non-stop action. - I Love a Mystery ***** Vincent ...

IT'S MARCH 2020. CAN COVID-19 TRULY BE THE DEATH OF DICK MOONLIGHT? PI Dick Moonlight only wants to grab a quick beer and maybe a conversation with a good-looking lady. But now that the COVID-19 pandemic has shut down the world, he's got nowhere to go to have a couple drinks and wish his troubles away. So instead, he ends up at the supermarket to grab a few supplies, including toilet paper. But there is only one package of what's become "paper gold" left, and that's where the trouble begins. It turns out that two twin Russian brothers who are also Russian gangsters, also want that same ...

LOVE STINKS! BUT LOVE CAN ALSO KILL! When Moonlight and his sort of loyal sidekick, 1977 Fat Elvis, come upon a pretty young lady while fishing off of Moonlight's riverside deck, Elvis decides to serenade her with a song and dance. But when he trips and falls into the river it quickly becomes apparent the Faux King can't swim. That sets in motion a rescue by both Moonlight and the girl that will end up landing the head-case PI and Fat Elvis in hot water. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes yet another unputdownable ...

DON'T MESS WITH BINGO NIGHT!!!! When two losers working for a floral supply outfit get it into their heads that they can rob the creepy old home for the elderly which is located directly across the street from their place of employment on Bingo Night, it sounds like an easy score. Too easy. Because what they don't realize is that just because people are old, doesn't mean they still don't have some fight left in them. In fact, in the case of Bingo Night, these elderly people have more than fight in them. They are barbarians. Originally published in Pulp Metal Magazine in two parts, Bingo ...