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New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today''s hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection is now split into four e-book volumes, packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem! First Thrills: Volume 2 contains stories six original stories by: Stephen Coonts Heather Graham Wendy Corsi Staub Kelli Stanley Grant McKenzie Ken Bruen At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith''s Deep Black: Death Wave continues the bestselling technothriller series. Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black. Off the coast of Africa lie the beautiful Canary Islands, a resort destination of millionaires. Underneath this idyllic paradise is one of the most volatile fault lines in the world. There, an alliance between radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government is planning to unleash an act of unimaginable geological terrorism that could devastate the U.S. East Coast, striking it with waves up to a thousand feet high. They plan to set off nuclear devices to precipitate a gigantic landslide that will send a death-dealing tsunami across the Atlantic. In the Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan twelve nuclear warheads, stolen by the Russian Mafia, are about to be smuggled out of the country and delivered into the hands of the conspirators. Charlie and Ilya go on an intercept mission, but before they can retrieve them, the weapons vanish. Meanwhile, in a hotel in New Jersey, a bestselling author is assassinated to prevent the release of his stranger-than-fiction story about an Islamic plot to change the course of history. Lia, Charlie''s girlfriend, is sent to Berlin to infiltrate the empire of a ruthless Chinese billionaire whose machinations have come to the attention of the NSA. She risks immediate execution if her true identity is revealed. Their paths all converge in the Canary Islands. Unless the Deep Black team intervenes, the islands could be the epicenter of an apocalypse, with millions of lives---and the entire world order---at stake.

Stephen Coonts returns with a brand new thriller and a whole new kind of hero... Tommy Carmellini was the best burglar in the business. He was so good that most of his victims took weeks to find out they''d been robbed. But even the best slip up and they got him in the end. But then Tommy was given a choice. Go to prison or work for the CIA. State penitentiary or Langley? No choice at all. Carmellini is sent to guard a remote farmhouse where a star KGB defector is being debriefed. But when he gets there, a ruthless team of commandos are slaughtering everyone in sight...

The world''s greatest threat lies just beneath the surface—seventh in the Deep Black technothriller series from the New York Times–bestselling author. In the Arctic, two American intelligence operatives are kidnapped while investigating Russian submarines—a constant, covert presence beneath the ice caps. In Washington, ex-Marine Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three trace the abduction back to the Russian mafiya, who have their sights set on the massive reserves of oil that lie thousands of feet below the ocean''s floor. While Dean is sent to the Arctic to rescue the hostages, the beautiful Lia DeFrancesca penetrates a heavily guarded dacha on the shores of the Black Sea. Here she learns the explosive truth about Russia and its Arctic oil—one that could cost Dean and his Deep Black team their lives . . . and drive the world''s superpowers to the brink of war. Praise for Stephen Coonts "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense . . . a natural storyteller." —The New York Times Book Review "The master of the techno-thriller." — Publishers Weekly

A covert team of military specialists must prevent an Al Qaeda terrorist attack in this thriller from a New York Times –bestselling author. The world''s most effective anti-terrorist force has the tools to monitor every move the enemy makes. They''ve planted a listening device inside a terrorist''s skull, and activated a video spy drone disguised as a bird. But knowing is only half the battle . . . Multi-lingual, nerves-of-steel agents Charlie Dean, Lia DeFrancesca, and Tommy Karr prowl the winding streets of Istanbul to the crowded airports of America to stop terrorists in their tracks. Hooked into a real-time, high-tech system, this army of three goes head-to-head with the most dangerous people in the world. Al Qaeda is launching a series of devastating attacks against the West—and the ultimate strike is aimed at the heart of the USA! In a war where both sides operate in deep disguise, Deep Black must fight a world where betrayal, trust, faith, and doubt collide . . . "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense. . . a natural storyteller." ― New York Times Book Review Stephen Coonts'' Deep Black series, cowritten with Jim DeFelice Deep Black (#1) Deep Black: Biowar (#2) Deep Black: Dark Zone (#3) Deep Black: Payback (#4) Deep Black: Jihad (#5) Deep Black: Conspiracy (#6) Deep Black: Arctic Gold (#7) Deep Black: Sea of Terror (#8) Deep Black: Death Wave (#9)

The mission seems routine: go to London, meet someone in a park, obtain a list of computers that are being used secretly by terrorists to pass messages. But just as Deep Black operatives Charlie Dean and Tommy Karr are about to meet their contact, a sniper guns the stranger down.A Deep Black investigation begins. Former Delta Force trooper Lia DeFrancesca gets called in to help and the three operatives start cracking some leads. But the investigation doesn''t kick in to high gear until the murder is found to be connected to a devastating terrorist plot to set off a nuclear warhead in the Chunnel. The explosion will create an earthquake and thus a tsunami that will wipe out the coasts of France and England, killing hundreds of thousands . . .

Mogadishu, Somalia. A luxury cruise liner has been captured by Somali pirates, with 860 lives at the mercy of the ruthless hijackers. Jake Grafton, head of Middle Eastern covert Ops for the CIA, has contacted his uniquely talented operative Tommy Carmellini, requesting his presence. Grafton''s veins of ice and nerves of steel make him Washington''s go-to man in a crisis, while Carmellini has the skillset Grafton needs when he knows he won''t be playing by the book. With the pirates holding firm to their demands, together they must launch an offensive explosive enough to blow their enemy firmly out of the water...

A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general''s devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author''s acclaimed technothriller series. Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it''s all in a day''s work for the men and women of Deep Black. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general''s second plot. The military madman''s ruse—a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue . . . and control. When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, it''s only just beginning . . .

A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.

A beautiful woman is being blackmailed, an illegal break-in occurs, and a massacre at a government safe house puts CIA agent Tommy Carmellini on the trail of a dark conspiracy.

Naval pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he''s assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as never before.

Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five and celibate. She’s juggling her job, her part in the “Save Our High Street” campaign, getting her pottery career started and dodging her friends’ matchmaking efforts. A relationship would only complicate things.

NSA operative Charlie Dean must find a missing nuclear warhead before a terrorist group detonates it on the ocean floor in a plot to shift the earth''s surface and cause world-wide disaster. The terrorists call it "God''s revenge."