New Releases by Chuck HOGAN

With a brilliantly plotted new crime novel set in small-town Massachusetts, Chuck Hogan, prizewinning author of Prince of Thieves, delivers a page-turning, knockout thriller that demonstrates why he is the unrivaled master of gritty suspense. The crack of a handgun shatters the silence of a warm summer night...A notorious local felon and former child magician vanishes, seemingly without a trace...A corrupt police force applies a stranglehold to a failing town...An ailing old man hatches a last-ditch plan to save the police department he once headed, and the community he still loves...An outsider arrives, bearing a simple recipe for death that could destroy them all... Buried deep in the rural backcountry of New England, the town of Black Falls isn''t dying so much as quietly fading away. No supermarket. No traffic lights. No ATM. No hope. Donald Maddox, a man with no law enforcement background -- indeed, no background at all -- has returned to his hometown after fifteen years to find himself employed as an auxiliary patrolman on a local police force known to inspire more fear than trust in its citizenry. When a brutal murder shatters the isolation of this forgotten place, triggering the arrival of state police homicide detectives and a town-wide manhunt, both the local cops and Maddox appear to have something to hide. As the tightly wound mystery that is Maddox''s past begins to unravel, he becomes ensnared in a deadly conspiracy that ultimately threatens his life, as well as the lives of those nearest him. From its opening pages until its haunting final image, The Killing Moon displays the author''s trademark gift for soul-deep characterization, crisp pacing, and unflinching realism. This is Chuck Hogan''s richest, most satisfying thriller yet.

From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller. Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn''t plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines a life away from his gritty, dangerous work—a life centered around Claire. But before that can happen, Doug and his crew learn that there may be a way to rob Boston''s venerable baseball stadium, Fenway Park. Risky yet utterly irresistible, it would be the perfect heist to end his criminal career and begin a new life. But, as it turns out, pursuing Claire may be the most dangerous act of all. Racing to an explosive climax, Prince of Thieves is a brash tale of robbery in all its forms—and an unforgettable odyssey of crime, love, ambition, and dreams.

THE END OF THE WORLD WILL COME FROM WITHIN It first appears in Africa--hideous and unstoppable--an all-consuming terror unlike anything the world has ever seen. Two years later, it resurfaces to feed on the residents of a small New England town. Within days, only a handful survive--including one young woman whose blood is the serum of life--miraculously pared to bear witness to the plague''s terrible wrath. Not even he dreaded Ebola possesses the apocalyptic power of this loathsome scrounge that devastates the flesh and the soul. Two brilliant scientists--now bitter rivals--contained it once using the most extreme methods. But thee virus that has reemerged is a thousand times stronger. . .and it is changing Noone is safe from the contagion that devours but is never sated, from the pestilence that walks like a man. Woe to the Earth. The Zero hour has come.

Special Agent John Banish is embroiled in a deadly battle of wits with Glenn Ables, a cunning, twisted fugitive, during a standoff confrontation between law enforcement and the criminal, barricaded with his family in a secluded Montana cabin

FIVE DAYS TO GOLFING EXCELLENCE is about playing golf, but the author, Chuck Hogan, does not stop at teaching you how to make a correct golf swing. In fact, learning the golf swing is only one step in a learning progression that leads you to the true enjoyment of the game of golf. The book has been divided in to five sections, arranged as a five-day self-study course on golf. Day one is devoted to learning how to relax & feel good about the game of golf. Here the reader will learn to make golf a sequential learning process & how to enjoy playing the game on the golf course. Day two deals with the ins & outs of swing mechanics & the role that swing technique plays in learning the game. On the third day the golfer learns what images are & how to benefit from being able to use them. The reader then learns on the fourth day how to apply imaging techniques to create the appropriate mental constructs necessary to play good golf. The fifth day, the actual nuts & bolts of putting everything together in a useable, unified whole are presented. Critical to this entire 5-day learning experience is a new way of processing information about the golf shot & the shotmaker. In this book the reader will learn how to combine mental mechanic skills & an understanding & execution of physical skills that ensure both better performance & more enjoyment of the game of golf.

This proven, tour-tested program will show you how to dramatically improve your golf game and your enjoyment of the sport.