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A missing girl. A silent town. Something in the air that makes people stop asking questions. Cole Mercer doesn’t take jobs for money. He takes them because someone has to. When a bar owner’s daughter disappears without a trace—no calls, no sightings, no noise—Mercer follows the only lead he has: east. What he finds in Gayle, North Carolina, isn’t a town hiding secrets. It’s a town that’s forgotten how to care. The air smells wrong. People repeat themselves. Conversations reset mid-sentence. No one questions the work. No one questions the disappearances. And no one remembers ...

The message wasn’t meant for him. But it found him anyway. A cat. A note. A girl no one is looking for. Mercer starts asking questions. The town stays quiet. The deeper he digs, the more things stop making sense— And someone wants it to stay that way.

A midnight explosion rips through a dying mining town—and the company says it’s under control. Cole Mercer knows better. Passing through on his way out, Mercer is pulled in when a desperate woman shows him a message from her brother, sent after the blast… from deep inside the mine. That message shouldn’t exist. And neither should the silence that follows. No rescue crews. No answers. Just locked gates, armed guards, and a story that doesn’t hold up. When Mercer starts asking questions, the company moves fast to shut him down. But by then, he’s already seen enough to know the ...

He finishes the job. No matter who’s watching. Cole Mercer takes a missing-person case in a quiet coastal town. No struggle. No witnesses. Just a clean disappearance—and signs of professionals. Then they start watching him. The methods are familiar. Too familiar. They point back to a buried operation Mercer was never meant to remember—one where an elite team vanished and Mercer was sent in alone. Now the same kind of operators are active again. Only this time, they’re ready for him. As Mercer closes in, he realizes the truth: this isn’t just an abduction. It’s a system—one ...

Dead Signal A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer planned to spend one quiet night in Washington, D.C. Instead, he walks into a citywide lockdown. What begins as a routine bomb scare inside a federal office building spirals into something far worse—a confirmed nuclear threat buried beneath the capital. Bridges close. Metro shuts down. Armed checkpoints seal the perimeter. And somewhere under the streets, a device is counting down. While federal agencies scramble and panic spreads, Mercer sees what others miss: a subcontractor that doesn’t exist, a service van that leaves too soon, and ...

A quiet town. A long-buried secret. A man who doesn’t walk away. Cole Mercer wasn’t looking for trouble when he stopped in a forgotten Arkansas town—but trouble was already waiting. A decades-old disappearance, a grieving father no one listens to, and a community that has learned to keep its head down. When Mercer starts asking questions, the town closes ranks. Then the violence begins. Five men try to silence him. Only one walks away. Now Mercer knows the truth isn’t gone—it’s been protected. And someone is willing to kill to keep it that way. With time running out and the past...

Cole Mercer doesn’t stay anywhere long. Drifting through a quiet Indiana town, he finds something rare—a place that feels steady. A job. A home. A woman who makes him consider staying. Then trouble finds its way in. When Mercer begins to notice something wrong beneath the surface of the town, he starts asking questions. Careful ones. Quiet ones. The answers point to something darker than he expected. A criminal operation hiding in plain sight. People being used. And a line that shouldn’t have been crossed. Mercer doesn’t make speeches. He doesn’t warn twice. He deals with problems...

Cole Mercer was walking the Appalachian Trail. Two thousand miles of mountains. Silence. Solitude. Then he stops a robbery in a small mountain town. Two men go to jail. That should have been the end of it. But the men belong to a family that runs the surrounding hills. And they don’t like outsiders causing trouble. Now Mercer is being hunted through the mountains. They think the woods belong to them. They think Mercer will run. They’re wrong.

"Guns, Guts, & Glory Days" Who says you can’t save the world on a budget? Meet Team Vortex, the last superhero team that Los Angeles didn’t exactly ask for—but might still need. Once revered and now mostly ignored, these heroes have swapped fame and fortune for a cramped apartment, day jobs, and just enough hope to keep fighting. Leading the charge is America Man, a red-white-and-blue powerhouse with twin Desert Eagles and a love for corny one-liners. His on-again, off-again girlfriend America Girl handles all things tech from her model-day-job to the team’s in-ear comms, keeping ...

Cole Mercer doesn’t stay anywhere long. A former Army investigator turned traveling problem-solver, Mercer keeps to himself. Small towns. Short jobs. No attachments. Until he meets a quiet woman in a harbor coffee shop. Hana Sato isn’t what she seems. She’s living under a new name, in a town chosen for its silence. When a stranger slips Mercer a note ordering her immediate extraction, the truth surfaces fast—Hana is the daughter of a powerful Yakuza boss turned federal witness. And someone has found her. Within hours, her federal handler is dead. Armed men are moving into town. ...

Something is wrong in the valley. Cole Mercer came to the Canadian wilderness for a quiet elk hunt with an old Army friend. Instead, they find a crashed plane rotting in a swamp—and bricks of meth leaking into the mud. The grizzlies have been feeding on it. When Mercer’s friend is killed, the hunt becomes a fight for survival. Wounded and alone, Mercer must cross miles of wilderness to reach the only radio that can call for help. But the valley is filling with bears. And they’re not acting like bears anymore.

Big Guns, Hot Babes, and Space Nazis! What more could you ask for! Chad Thunder, and his best friend, Ralphie, a cigar smokin’ English Bulldog, are just two guys adventuring through the cosmos in their space travel converted Pontiac Trans Am. Their newest adventure leads them to Earth, where they accept an under-the-table job to escort Shana, a super hot genius engineer, across the galaxy for a giant pile of gold. But trouble in space is brewing... With the help of Scarlett, an A.I. Robot, the crew fends off Space Police, Nazis, and even Clone Assassins to get the job done. Along the way,...

Cole Mercer was only passing through San Francisco. When he steps in to stop a robbery inside a sprawling tent city, he expects to move on the next morning. But a quiet conversation overheard in a public library changes everything. A shipment. Eleven o’clock. Dock access. Something is moving through the city after dark. To find the truth, Mercer disappears into the camps—posing as a broken veteran living among the forgotten people of the streets. What he uncovers is far worse than he expected. And when the next shipment arrives, Mercer will be waiting. Tin City Harvest is a fast-paced ...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer came to Montana for a quiet hunt. Instead, he finds a man in a suit executed in a remote meadow—miles from the nearest road. The victim’s last word is “survey.” By nightfall, the body is gone. The blood has been burned from the grass. And the local sheriff is already calling it an accident. Mercer knows better. As he digs deeper into the backcountry, he uncovers a covert land grab tied to a massive rare earth deposit buried beneath protected wilderness. A powerful development firm has been buying up ranchland through shell companies—and silencing...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer wanted a quiet few days on the water. Instead, someone drills a hole in the boat he rented and cuts the radio. Hours offshore in the Gulf of Aden, Mercer is left to die. He survives on a crude raft drifting across open ocean—until a passing trawler pulls him from the water. It isn’t a rescue. The ship belongs to pirates. Chained below deck, Mercer studies the crew and waits for his moment. When he finally breaks free, he finds something worse than captivity—children locked in a steel compartment, terrified and silent. Mercer stops thinking about ...

Pine Hollow Silence A Cole Mercer Thriller Three girls vanish in two weeks. Pine Hollow calls them runaways. The sheriff says they’ll come back. Cole Mercer doesn’t believe it. Passing through rural Georgia, Mercer notices what others ignore—a tight pattern around logging roads, private timberland, and a powerful developer who owns more of the county than anyone wants to admit. When Mercer starts asking questions, his truck gets slashed, he’s warned off by law enforcement, and armed men begin guarding the woods. This isn’t a runaway case. It’s a controlled hunt. As Mercer closes...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer came to the Texas ranch for quiet work. Long days. Hard ground. No trouble. Then the phone rang. An old Army friend is trapped in Cancun. His wife and two kids were kidnapped during a vacation excursion. For weeks he’s been chasing ransom calls and dead ends. Mercer flies south to help. But when he arrives, his friend is already dead. The police call it suicide. Mercer doesn’t believe them. Now he’s alone in a city that runs on cartel money, corrupt officials, and men who make people disappear. The kidnappers have already moved the family into a ...

A Cole Mercer Thriller Cole Mercer came to Panama Beach to lay low. Bouncing at a beachfront nightclub during spring break should have been simple. Loud music. Drunk tourists. Easy money. Then a woman runs into a hotel room with three armed men chasing her. Six years ago her brother vanished during spring break. The police called it an accident. Mercer doesn’t. Soon he discovers a hidden network beneath the busiest strip in town—old service tunnels connecting the marina to the resorts above. And through those tunnels, a shipment moves every night. Not drugs. People. Tomorrow night ...

He was just passing through. When Cole Mercer’s vintage Indian motorcycle breaks down outside the dying desert town of Red Mesa, Arizona, he expects to lose a few quiet days waiting on parts. Instead, he witnesses something he can’t ignore: a sheriff’s deputy executing a wounded man after a staged crash on a lonely stretch of highway. The deputy sees him. Stranded without transportation and branded a fugitive by the very lawman hunting him, Mercer finds himself trapped in a town ruled by fear. The official story doesn’t match what he saw. A missing bank employee. Large cash deposits...