A dark, brutally savage, noir classic, back in print for the first time in over 90 years...a stunning thriller that the Louisville Courier called unforgettable. "Lurid but entertaining...terrible things happen, one of them being about as gruesome an event as is to be found in recent fiction. Houser can be credited with talent as well as a taste for the horrible and the bizarre." New York Times

Soldier-of-fortune Daniel King, also a former male escort, is hired as a bodguard in the cut-throat world of Vietnam in 1954. To survive, King must outwit Mossard, the rich plantation owner who has hired him... and who constantly plays both sides of every conflict. But so do Mossard's wife Charlotte and his beautiful mistress Thi-Tuyet, who both lure King into their beds. King must walk on the razor's edge of death and betrayal in a world of non-stop greed and sudden violence...or die.
Lisa is living a quiet life in Vermont when she's asked by her Aunt, who lives in England, to help her move to Orion Hall ancient, ocean-front castle in Cyprus that's steeped in legend...and mysterious secrets. There Lisa meets Demetrius, the strong, dark, classically handsome young Greek...and Michael, an uninhibited archaeologist. Both men share with her stories about the haunted castle. At first, Lisa is enchanted and intrigued. But she soon realizes to her horror that someone is trying to destroy her...and that she's being stalked at night by a wailing, shrouded figure who may have risen from the dead.
Bill McLean is an unjustly disgraced CIA agent who desperately tries to clear his name by hunting down a rogue Russian spy in London. To pull it off, McLean must navigate a mine field of foreign agents, betrayals, conspiracies, lies, and murder.
Dana Hebert will do anything to stop his brother Claude from marrying Annalisa, a hauntingly beautiful and dangerous woman they've known since they were children, when the three of them first shared their murderous secret.
A New York reporter is targeted for death after he unexpectedly inherits a Maryland estate...which some believe is the final resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte, who may have secretly escaped from exile on St. Helena island in 1815.