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What if Judas is still alive, hidden away in the jungles of the Amazon, waiting for the Second Coming? As a massive object appears in space heading directly toward Earth, the Brotherhood heralds it as Wormwood, one of the signs the Rapture and it's just three days away. They have been preparing to implement the Great Commission as designated by Jesus - where everyone on the planet must hear the word of God before the end in order to be saved. They will use advanced technology to send that message....

While America sleeps, while homegrown terrorists are unwittingly manipulated by an unknown master, a hyper-weapon approaches San Francisco Bay. And only one man has any chance of stopping it. Trained to kill with any weapon - from his hands to a silenced pistol - the man called Lake has the green light to penetrate domestic militia cells and make his own calls, anywhere, any time.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Atlantis, Area 51, Green Beret and Nightstalker series comes a thrilling ride through history that has been called "Quantum Leap on steroids!" What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? Change events on the same date, 22 September, in six different years. The Time Patrol must send an agent back to each day, with just 24 hours for each to defeat the Shadow's plan to disrupt our timeline, creating a time tsunami and wiping our present out. Fall Equinox comes on 22 September. The time when day and night are in balance. 1862. ...

Diehard in the Rocky Mountains. COLORADO ROCKIES, DECEMBER 1978. WILL KANE CAME HERE SEEKING SHELTER. HE FOUND A WAR ZONE. Former Green Beret Will Kane fled New York City to escape the blood and darkness—the child trafficking ring, the executions, the nightmares that follow him from Vietnam. When his CIA mentor Plaikos reveals that Kane's ex-wife Taryn is alive and living in the isolated mountain town of Neufeld, Colorado, Kane heads west seeking answers about the son they lost nine years ago. But Kane drives straight into an ambush. A sheriff lies dead on the pass. An imposter in a ...

In 10,000 BC, the Shadow approaches and destroys the mighty empire of Atlantis, leaving not trace of it other than vague legend. Only a handful of survivors, priestesses and warriors survive, knowing they must pass their legacy down, so that the next time the Shadow comes, mankind will be better prepared. Now it has come back. But it wants the entire planet. Across parallel dimensions, the Shadow has consumed Earth after Earth, but one Earth has repeatedly stopped it: ours.

What does it take to change history and destroy our reality? The same date, October 31, six different years: Hallows Eve, when the line between the worlds of the living and the dead is the thinnest. The Time Patrol must send an agent back to each day, with just 24 hours for each to defeat the Shadow's plan to disrupt our time line, creating a time tsunami and wiping our present out.

Every disaster has seven warning signs. Learn to spot them before it's too late. From the sinking of the Titanic to the Challenger explosion, from Pearl Harbor to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill—disasters don't just happen. They build, step by catastrophic step. Former Green Beret and NY Times bestselling author Bob Mayer reveals the shocking truth: No disaster involving humans happens in isolation. Every tragedy requires a minimum of seven things to go wrong, and human error is always among them. That means disasters can be predicted, prevented, and survived—if you know what to look ...

“We cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of." Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. From the NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Atlantis, Nightstalker, Area 51 and Green Beret series. "Before there was just me now, there was a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember. People keep telling me I should remember, but maybe if you can't remember there is a reason." Thus begins Lara’s story as she escapes from an apparent mental institution. Who is she? What reality should she believe? And did she escape in reality or ...

First, his Medal-of-Honor winner father who died in Vietnam without ever meeting his son. And left him the legacy of an automatic appointment to the Military Academy at West Point which shaped the next thirty-five years of Chase's life. Then, the ghost of his mother, who died while he was at war in Afghanistan and wounded, causing him to resign his commission and return to the United States, a lost soul. Now working as a detective with Boulder PD he chases another death, this one the apparent rape/murder of Rachel Stevens....

Writing a novel and getting it published: That's your goal. And nothing will keep you from making it happen. Such a goal, of course, presents a number of challenges. Make sure you have the tools you need to overcome them and succeed. In The Novel Writer's Toolkit, New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer shares a veteran writer's hard-won advice with a style that's straight from the hip. He lays out the nuts and bolts of novel writing, along with guidelines for starting, finishing and revising your work.

Six Time Patrol agents are sent to the same day, February 14, in six different years to keep our history and our time line from being destroyed. The mission, as always for the Time Patrol, seems straightforward: keep history intact, no matter the cost.

They swore oaths, both personal and professional. They were fighting for country, for a way of life and for family. Classmates carried more than rifles and sabers into battle. They had friendships, memories, children and wives. They had innocence lost, promises broken and glory found. Duty, Honor, Country is history told both epic and personal so we can understand what happened, but more importantly feel the heart-wrenching clash of duty, honor, country and loyalty.

From the #1 science fiction bestselling author of Area 51, Atlantis, Time Patrol and Nightstalkers. It is now 30 days until Grace’s Deathday That is the fate on the red card Grace was dealt at age six on Dealing Day. A burner. Her twin sister, Millay, was dealt a white card. A People. No Deathday. For twenty years, the sisters have lived different lives. In different places. Then there’s the wild card, Ryker, a burner, who has no memories of his own past. In what was left of the world after the Chaos, mankind surrendered control to Dealer, a powerful computer that has kept society ...

The most frightening weapon ever invented can be unleashed by a single person. And now, they have chosen her. On the border between Croatia and Bosnia, a killer practices his art on UN Peacekeeping troops, leaving handless bodies on display on crosses. In a trailer near Fort Bragg, a hitman targets a computer genius who has uncovered information more explosive than he could ever guess. And in an ancient, abandoned castle in Germany, a teenage girl is plunged into living hell-one that will take her into the heart of a murderous Middle Eastern plot.

NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 1978. SOME DEBTS CAN ONLY BE PAID IN BLOOD. Former Green Beret Will Kane has just executed the architect of New York City's roads and bridges, and architect of something far darker. Minos orchestrated a labyrinth beneath the Bronx where the elite hunted human prey for sport. Kane shut it down, rescued two young survivors, and gave Minos the death he deserved: drowned in a swimming pool, pulled under and held there. But Kane's problems are just beginning. Six hunters participated in Minos's games, all captured on film committing murder. Five are dead. One remains and ...

Horace Chase arrives on Hilton Head Island to pay his last respects at the Intracoastal Waterway where his late mother's ashes were spread and to inspect the home his mother left him in her will. What could possibly go wrong? Chase and his team need to remember a basic tenet from their days in covert operations: Nothing is ever as it appears

Former covert operative Horace Chase has just discovered he has a son; a son who fled the Military Institute of South Carolina a year and a half ago after being accused of murder. The victim is the grandson of the most powerful woman in Charleston, South Carolina, who has sworn vengeance. Chase teams up with another former covert operative Dave Riley and one of Riley's old CIA friends, Kate Westland to find his son and uncover the truth. Barely into their investigation they become caught up in a land development deal for Daufuskie Island worth hundreds of millions.

The 4th of July 1826. As Thomas Jefferson lies dying, he gives his part of his Jefferson Cipher to Edgar Allen Poe, with instructions to take the disks to West Point. In Massachusetts, John Adams entrusts his part of the Cipher to Colonel Thayer, the superintendent of the Military Academy. As Thayer rides away, Adams utters his final words: "Thomas Jefferson survives."

When ancient enemies awaken, only those who can fight on the virtual plane stand between humanity and chaos. Sergeant Major Jimmy Dalton thought his most dangerous mission was behind him. After destroying a rogue Russian Psychic Warrior who threatened the world with nuclear annihilation, the veteran Special Forces soldier seeks solace scattering his wife's ashes in the Colorado mountains. But when Marie's spirit touches his mind with a warning—treachery—Dalton realizes the war is far from over. The Bright Gate Project created warriors who can leave their bodies behind and fight on the ...

NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 1978. SOME HUNTERS NEVER COME BACK FROM THE DARKNESS. Former Green Beret Will Kane finds a mutilated corpse in the East River during his morning run. The dead man is a Ranger, a brother in arms, torn apart and caked in filth. When the cops dismiss him as just another jumper from Hell Gate Bridge, Kane knows better. The wounds tell a different story—one that leads underground. Beneath the streets of the Bronx, a nightmare is unfolding. A young woman named Julia is trapped in an endless maze of forgotten tunnels, hunted by a man in red who calls himself Virgil. He ...