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Tanner and Soulless face off as they're each offered a contract to kill the other. However, the real threat comes from the person who is manipulating events from behind the scenes.

Notes is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to as the "Underground Man") who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy. The second part of the book is called "Apropos of the Wet Snow" and describes certain events that appear to be destroying and sometimes renewing the Underground Man.

It was all going so well for Peter Lee's drug empire. He had a hold on the producers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His receiver network was increasing and the distribution was now being handled by four of the biggest gangs in London. With business so good, he was starting to expand. He was becoming very, very rich. The only small annoyance had come from a little old lady who owned of all things a corner shop.

The TANNER Series, books one to three, with a special bonus - the first four chapters of book four, The First One to Die Loses.

1356 A.D. - It is warring times for England as the Black Prince sweeps his way through France, waging nasty warfare on the population. Masterminding this brutal strategy is the knight they call the Black Angel. Brandt de Russe, Duke of Exeter, is the brains behind the prince’s war machine, a mountain of a man who is as cunning as he is frightening. In battle, no man is his equal.

Tanner makes his way across the country to see an old friend, as he seeks answers about his past. Meanwhile, female assassin Alexa Lucia is searching for Tanner, but is she an ally or an enemy?

Tanner agrees to be an auxiliary cop during Stark’s Fall Festival. When serious trouble arises, it’s up to Deputy Cody Parker to deal out law and order. 

Through the wicked streets of Paris, the young wizards must find six statues representing each of the human virtues of respect, selflessness, tolerance, and the human flaws of indifference, arrogance, and deafness. Only after they successfully master them will they earn the clues that will show them how to fix Lyon's astrological clock. 

When a secret surfaces, it leads a determined trio of men to pursue Tanner. Not to kill him, but to capture him, so they can torture the assassin for answers relating to a lost fortune. 

After a devastating event takes place in Stark, Tanner accompanies Chief of Police Steve Mendez on a quest for revenge. 

Tanner and Joe Pullo are caught in the midst of a terrorist attack in New York City that turns out to be a prelude to a far more sinister plan. 

Tanner reunites with Henry Knight after Henry, now 15, needs his help. The stakes are high, and the authorities are involved. The police and the FBI have to play by the rules, Tanner doesn’t. And he plays in a whole other league....

Sara Blake offers Tanner a no-win proposition.

Tanner’s latest target, Augustus Greer, has been deemed impossible to kill after numerous attempts on the man’s life ended in death for the assassins out to fulfill the contract. When he’s at last offered the opportunity to kill Greer, Tanner accepts, despite knowing that doing so places his life on the line. Can Tanner succeed where so many others have failed? If so, he’ll need to employ unusual tactics. In the end, Tanner will either have met his match or leave no doubt that he is the ultimate assassin and the best who’s ever lived.

A fragile truce hides a deadly deceit. A century ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. After decades of bitter war, a truce was struck. The aliens disappeared. Humanity stood down. But the captain of the aging battleship Walker Pierce will never forget. He has spent the last months in disputed space, against the wishes of his superiors and many of his weary crew, looking for proof of alien treachery and afraid of what he might find. Because this time, if the aliens attack, humanity won't be so lucky. 

Captain Tamas is an ambitious young officer in the Adran army. As a commoner, he is one of very few without noble blood to hold a rank. When he challenges the son of a duke over an insult, the subsequent duel lands him in hot water with the nobility and the royal cabal of Privileged sorcerers. Tamas is soon drawn into a conflict that goes to the very highest office in the land, and his only ally is the most unlikely of people; a young noblewoman named Erika, who needs Tamas to teach her how to wield her powers as a powder mage.

From what we have relearned in recent history about the way magnetism, gravity, centrifugal and centripetal force, as well as the many other forces one giant body exerts upon another, we know the medievalists had it right all along. When the moon gets too close and too bright, it makes us crazy. In that spirit, editor Lancelot Schaubert rounded up sci-fi and fantasy writers Anne Greenwood Brown, Juliet Marillier, LJ Cohen, Anthony G. Cirilla, FC Shultz, and Emily Munro to write about cosmic influence. 

Tanner is lured into a game of life and death with a security expert who uses himself as a target in order to outwit assassins and improve his company’s effectiveness. 

From Remington Kane, author of the Taken! series: Flesh and Blood, A Tanner Novel, Book 35. Henry's father kidnaps him, and it's up to Tanner to get the boy back. 

Tanner helps his mentor, as Spenser is contacted by a niece he’s never known, and a family secret comes to light.