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The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

A gripping, murder mystery, organized crime and vigilante justice thriller introducing Joe Beck - a brutal ex-cop turned outlaw private detective. When Joe Beck visits Texas for the funeral of an old friend, he gets caught up with an escort named Sapphire and taken at gunpoint by a group of men he’s never seen before. Under orders of a man known only as 'the chairman,' the men drive them out to a desolate stretch of desert land where a hand-dug grave, a harrowing demise, and a gut-wrenching discovery awaits. As horrors come to light in the dark of the Texan night, Joe Beck survives the ...

A ruthless outlaw private eye on an unrelenting quest to help someone who’s in deep, deep trouble in this Kindle crime action, mystery and suspense vigilante justice thriller. Outlaw private eye Joe Beck is in blazing hot Arizona, driving Route 66. Through the window, he notices what looks to be a woman lying in the shrubs by the side of the road and, instinctively, he senses something is wrong. He stops and gets out of the car. The woman is badly beaten, virtually naked, and barely responsive. Her condition is grave and her death is imminent. With her last breath, she utters a few words ...

An outlaw private eye meets a woman who has a horribly-blackened eye and offers to do something about it. Unlicensed outlaw private eye Joe Beck stops off at bar in Trinidad, Colorado. Inside, he meets a woman named Brandi, a brunette bombshell who's working behind the bar. She's slim, tanned and attractive. She has it all. Except, her left eye is horribly blackened, something she admits to having been caused by the hand of an abusive ex-boyfriend. Beck offers to deal with the guy, no questions asked in a move that sees him sucked into the dealings of a couple of crooked cops and a local ...

The 4th gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. A prominent adult entertainment producer is gunned down outside his Palm Beach mansion. But evidence is thin and leads are short…the case soon goes cold. The millionaire’s grieving daughter is desperate to find out who killed her father. She hires disgraced former Marine Axel Briggs to investigate and find out who it was. His investigation leads him into danger as he is confronted with drugs and a biker gang ...

An unlicensed outlaw private eye hunts a wanted man for the bounty on his head in this Kindle crime action, mystery and suspense vigilante justice thriller. Unlicensed outlaw private eye Joe Beck is in a snowy Detroit, Michigan, hot on the trail of a murderous drug dealer wanted by the U.S. Marshals. He witnesses an unrelated murder on a deserted main street and deals with it in the way he does best. But his actions don't go unnoticed. A woman witnesses what he does. A pressing problem weighing heavily on her mind and seeing him as the only viable solution, she approaches him on the street ...

The 5th gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. Freelance journalist Sophie Hart disappears while pursuing a lead into a possible underground fight club in Tampa, Florida, that’s being run by a crime boss, Darius Kane, and links human trafficking to some of society’s elite. With Sophie Hart unaccounted for and an exclusive already secured, disgraced former Marine Axel Briggs is hired to find her and expose what’s happened. To rescue Sophie and expose ...

The 3rd gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. A power outage plunges Miami into complete darkness, causing chaos to range across Vice City. Protesting, rioting, looting. The streets are a war zone and awash with crime. People are out to fight, to survive or seeking illicit gains. Disgraced former Marine Axel Briggs is hired by a nightclub owner to protect his business from looters. But things soon take a thrilling turn for the worse as Axel uncovers a much ...

The 6th gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. An elderly couple are scammed out of $100k. It was everything they had. Their daughter wants justice and for her parents to get their money back. But police aren't so sure as what happened was immoral, not criminal. Enter Axel Briggs. The couple’s daughter enlists the disgraced former Marine to identify the people responsible and recover her parents’ missing money. Axel sets off to follow the trail and his ...

The 2nd gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. A retired U.S. Marine is found dead on a yacht off the South Florida coast. He tripped, police said. He was drunk, they also said. It was an accident, they confirmed. His daughter isn't so sure. She suspects foul play and she seeks the truth. She hires disgraced former Marine Axel Briggs to find it. Axel heads to Tampa Bay and delves into the circumstances surrounding Wade Donovan’s demise. The trail soon leads ...

A gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. In Miami, Florida, a hurricane is coming. A damn big one. Disgraced former U.S. Marine Axel Briggs is back stateside, barely a dime to his name. Taking odd jobs and investigative work to get by, he's in Miami to meet Emily Reyes - a woman in frantic need of someone who can help her find her nephew before it’s too late. As the ‘storm of the century’ bears down on the panhandle and with a state-wide evacuation in full force, Axel takes on what might seem like a ...

A ruthless outlaw private eye sets off on an unrelenting quest to recover a stolen baby. Blood will be shed. Recovering from the events in Las Vegas, Nevada, brutal ex-cop Joe Beck is in Daytona Beach, Florida. He's resting up and laying low, sitting in an open-air bar on the city's main street. A woman walks by with a baby in her arms and a black van screeches in beside her to a halt. In broad daylight, the unthinkable happens. A masked man emerges from the van and rips the baby from her mother's arms. He bundles the child into the back before the van speeds off. It all goes down right ...

The 7th gripping, fast-paced crime action thriller novella in the Axel Briggs crime action thriller series from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. Working in a bar in Fort Lauderdale, disgraced former Marine Axel Briggs overhears two men discussing a drug trafficking operation involving a warehouse in North Miami. He decides to look into it ahead of alerting the local police but when he's out there things don't go as planned. His curious investigation turns deadly and he gets tangled up in the shady dealings of South Florida’s shadows, facing one hell of a ...

The 1st gripping, fast-paced Axel Briggs crime action Christmas mystery thriller novella from the author of the best-selling vigilante justice Joe Beck series. It's December 23rd, the day before Christmas Eve, and the man hired by an eccentric millionaire named Martin Foster to play Santa Clause and give out gifts to sick kids at an event in a Miami children's home on Christmas Eve is missing. Foster hasn’t heard from him since the day before and Santa has all the children’s gifts. This has the potential to be a real heart-bruising festive disaster. Where is the guy who’s meant to ...