It’s one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive.
Marty has been expecting this day all his life. In his car are a pair of sturdy walking shoes and a backpack of food, water, and supplies. He knows there is only one thing he can do … that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley.
Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be … if he can survive The Walk.
Four espionage thrillers by three masters of the genre in one action-packed volume: LIONS AT NIGHT * A TALENT FOR KILLING * CRY OF THE FLESH * BRUTE MADNESS
Three unforgettable novels by noir master Ledru Baker Jr. in one volume: AND BE MY LOVE, THE CHEATERS and BRUTE MADNESS.
A greedy grave robber travels to Cairo in search of rare artifacts he can sell to museums. A chance meeting with a colorful old Egyptologist and his beautiful daughter leads him on a quest to unearth the cursed tomb of Queen Hetepheres and her legendary fortune in jewels. But what he finds is pure horror.
JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTY
Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start… which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy residents, asks Harvey to follow his beautiful wife Lauren.