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Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman
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Edward Joseph Gorman Jr.
(November 2, 1941 – October 14, 2016)
Full Series List in Order
Cavalry Man
The Killing Machine (Sep-2005)Powder Keg (Aug-2006)
Doom Weapon (Aug-2007)
A Dev Conrad Mystery
1 - Blindside (Jan-2012)2 - Flashpoint (Aug-2013)
A Jack Dwyer Mystery
1 - Rough Cut (Jul-1985)2 - New, Improved Murder (Nov-1986)
3 - Murder Straight Up (Jul-1986)
4 - Murder in the Wings (Dec-1986)
5 - The Autumn Dead (Dec-1987)
5.5 - The Reason Why (Oct-1992)
6 - A Cry of Shadows (Jul-1990)
Leo Guild
1 - Guild (1987)2 - Death Ground (1988)
3 - Blood Game (1989)
Psychological Profile Investigator Robert Payne
1 - Blood Moon (Jun-1994)2 - Hawk Moon (May-1996)
Robert Payne
Harlot's Moon (Mar-1998)Voodoo Moon (Aug-2000)
A Sam McCain Mystery
1 - The Day the Music Died (Jan-1999)2 - Wake Up Little Susie (Jan-2000)
3 - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Jan-2001)
4 - Save The Last Dance For Me (Feb-2002)
5 - Everybody's Somebody's Fool (Dec-2002)
6 - Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas: The Santa Claus Murders (Nov-2003)
7 - Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Feb-2004)
8 - Fools Rush In (Mar-2007)
9 - Ticket to Ride (Dec-2009)
10 - Bad Moon Rising (Oct-2011)
Tobin
1 - Murder on the Aisle (Jul-1987)2 - Several Deaths Later (Jan-1988)
Walsh
1 - The Night Remembers (Feb-1991)Book List in Order: 159 titles
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Murder Straight Up
- Jul-1986
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Jack Dwyer, ex-cop turned part-time actor working as a security guard at the Channel 3 station, is pitted against both the world of television journalism and a criminal underworld when anchorman David Curtis is poisoned...
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New, Improved Murder
- Nov-1986
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Jack Dwyer comes to the aid of his former love, Jane Branigan, after she is found in a state of shock holding a recently fired gun near the body of her current lover, advertising executive Stephen Elliot...
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Murder in the Wings
- Dec-1986
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Jack Dwyers, ex-cop turned amateur actor, is delighted when his agent lands him a role in a local production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. The real drama starts, however, when Michael Reeves -- the play's angry, bullying director -- is found mur...
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Murder on the Aisle
- Jul-1987
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Tobin, the co-host of a movie review program, finds himself in trouble after his partner is found murdered moments after an on-camera argument, and it is learned that he was having an affair with his partner's wife...
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The Autumn Dead
- Dec-1987
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The Autumn Dead
Jack Dwyer used to be a cop. Now he's a rent-a-cop and part-time actor. Dwyer isn't complaining--not much anyway--he's got a great girlfriend; he's older, a little heavier, but what the hell, that's life. Then the w...
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Several Deaths Later
- Jan-1988
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The popular game show Celebrity Circle is something of a graveyard for show-biz mediocrities, so Tobin, the five-foot-five movie critic with the fiery hair and the equally fiery temper, is less than thrilled to accept a guest stint as the show films ...
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Death Ground
- 1988
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When bounty hunter Leo Guild fails to protect an old nemesis from assassination, he takes up a search for the killer and finds a fear-struck town run by the outlaw, Kriker, and filled with horrors that reawakened his own past...
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Blood Game
- 1989
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Leo Guild wanted work--riding shotgun on the last stagecoach lines was coming to an end, and he needed money fast. When offered a simple job of finding a missing prizefighter, how could he refuse? Although Guild hates boxing, thinking it nothing ... -
Night of the Shadows
- Jan-1990
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When legendary gunslinger Stephen Fuller arrives in the town of Cedar Rapids, Anna Toland, the matron of the town jail, must make sure that he stays out of trouble, but when a man is murdered, Stephen stands accused of the crime, and Anna, believing ...
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The Night Remembers
- Feb-1991
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Ed Gorman wrote this 1991 gem as a tribute to Bill Pronzini's Nameless series. Now Pronzini provides a foreword to this much-deserved reprint of a classic modern noir about past crimes and their punishment....
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Dark Crimes
- Aug-1991
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Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Max Allen Collins, Robert Bloch, and others...
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Invitation to Murder
- Nov-1991
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Challenge to write a story based on the premise of a young woman found murdered in her apartment, eighteen top mystery and suspense writers--including Bill Pronzini and Loren Estleman--contributed to this unique collection. Reprint....
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Prisoners and Other Stories
- Jul-1992
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With the best of these stories, Ed Gorman not only transcends the genre of crime fiction, he takes it on an entirely new direction.--REFLECTIONSPRISONERS & OTHER STORIESIn a recent interview, Ed Gorman said that his work is essentially about Outsider...
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The Reason Why
- Oct-1992
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Women become the protagonists in an anthology of fourteen mystery stories by Sara Paretsky, Barbara Michaels, Nancy Pickard, Loren D. Estleman, John D. MacDonald, and Bill Pronzini, among others. Reprint....
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Dark Crimes 2
- Jan-1993
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Offers works by a variety of the best suspense authors and encompasses the breadth of modern suspense fiction, especially its darker and more ominous side, in works by Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Bill Pronzini, John Lutz, Rex Miller, and John D. Ma...
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The Sharpshooter
- Dec-1993
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THE SHARPSHOOTERWhen the powerful and blood-hungry Jeremiah Belden went gunning for revenge against Evelyn, the beautiful woman he blamed for his son's death, only Mitch Coldwell stood in his way.But the trouble was that Mitch had demons in his life....
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Blood Moon
- Jun-1994
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This is the first of the Robert Payne series, written in 1994. Payne is an ex-FBI profiler who gets offered $10,000 in an unmarked envelope to find the killer of a young girl. If only it were that easy. A Ramble House book...
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Gunslinger and Nine Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West
- Mar-1995
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Ed Gorman's western stories are anything but ordinary. They often take place in lonely, tragic, mythical landscapes.
Editors Bill Pronzini and Martin H. Greenberg have selected nine of Ed Gorman's best short stories as they appeared in a variety o...
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The Marilyn Tapes
- Dec-1995
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In the wake of Marilyn Monroe's 1962 death, everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to the Mob tries to find missing tapes that have captured every scandalous moment the beautiful star shared with the Kennedy brothers. Reprint. K. PW. ...
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Moonchasers and Other Stories
- Dec-1995
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When two teenage boys befriend and escaped bank robber--because the robber reminds the boys of their idol, Robert Mitchum--the boys set in motion a chilling chain of events that will teach them about trust, brutality, and courage.
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Cage of Night
- Aug-1996
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This is Jim Thompson meets Stephen King. (Mysteries and More)In the deep woods, a well. In the well, a Voice. . . . The Voice speaks of lust, and blood, and murder to any who listen. Under the spell of Cindy Brasher, almost any young man will listen....
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Runner In The Dark
- Oct-1996
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Due to debate the efficacy of the death penalty on television on the night that killer Roy Gerard is destined to be executed, beautiful district attorney Jessica Dennis is unaware that Roy's brother, David, has a bizarre scheme to seize control of a ...
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Cold Blue Midnight
- Nov-1996
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Six years after her ex-husband Peter Tapley had been executed for unspeakable crimes against young women, Jill desperately tries to put the past behind her, but someone still holds her responsible for her ex-husband's diabolical actions and is waitin...
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The Fatal Frontier
- Jan-1997
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Four stories detailing the wild and untamed western frontier include Elmore Leonard's tale of revenge in "The Boy Who Smiled," as well as other action-packed tales by John Jakes, Marcia Muller, Loren D. Estleman, Bill Crider, Bill Pronzini, and Brian...
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Love Kills
- Mar-1997
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The rage of jilted lovers and their acts of hate are captured in this suspenseful collection of chilling tales, including works by Lawrence Block, Donald Westlake, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, John Lutz, Joe Gores, and Ruth Rendell. Ori...
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Dark Trail
- May-1997
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When his estranged wife Sarah, leaves him for gunfighter Frank Evans, Leo does not believe that he will ever see her again, but when Frank is offered ten thousand dollars for a gunfight, Sarah begs Leo to bring him back alive, and Leo must make a dif...
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Black River Falls
- Jun-1997
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Nineteen-year-old Ben Tyler vows to protect Alison, a beautiful young woman, from threats of murder, until he stumbles upon a dark secret that could destroy everyone and everything he cares about. Original."...
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American Pulp
- Sep-1997
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Collects the best American crime stories ever published, culled from the pulp magazines of the thirties, forties, and fifties and featuring such titles as "Dime Detective," "Black Mask," and "The Shadow." Original....
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Senatorial Privilege
- Oct-1997
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When a teenage girl is brutally murdered, revered Iowa Senator David Cummings sees to it that a local youth is convicted of the crime, and only District Attorney Amy McGuire can uncover a deadly scandal. Reprint....
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Harlot's Moon
- Mar-1998
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A Catholic priest has been found half-naked and dead in a seedy motel room, with his tongue cut out. Ex-FBI profiler Robert Payne has been called in to investigate by his childhood friend Steve Gray, now a monsignor. With a fund-r...
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Once Upon a Crime
- Jun-1998
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A terrifying collection of fairy tales with a wicked twist features the work of such best-selling mystery writers as Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess, John Lutz, and others, in stories that explore the themes of envy, jealousy, greed, spite, revenge, and de...
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Speaking of Murder
- Jul-1998
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Provides a unique look into the minds of some of today's most popular storytellers, from Stephen King to Mary Higgins Clark, in which they candidly reveal their ideas, characters, early days as writers, and much more. Original....
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The Big Book of Noir
- Oct-1998
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A compendium of articles and interviews about film noir and its spin-offs--novels, TV and radio shows, and comic books--pays homage to the leading actors and writers of the genre and includes an essay by Stephen King. Original. 20,000 first printing....
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Trouble Man
- Oct-1998
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Despite having put his past as a gunfighter far behind him, Ray Coyle, now a sharpshooter in a traveling Wild West show, resolves to smoke out a killer, when word reaches him that his son has been shot. Original....
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Daughter of Darkness
- Dec-1998
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An emotionally unstable young woman may have killed a man during an evening she cannot remember, and a would-be horror writer determined to prove her innocence must challenge her most trusted friend, who is also her worst enemy, for the truth. Origin...
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The Day the Music Died
- Jan-1999
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The morning of February 4, 1959, brought bad news for Sam McCain, rock and roll fan: His musical idol, Buddy Holly, had perished in a plane crash. But the day also brought bad news that hit closer to home in Sam's small Iowa town: A local couple was ...
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Ride into Yesterday
- Feb-1999
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When Stephen Payne rides into Favor to investigate the death of his younger brother, Art, he figures he'll have his work cut out for him. The rumor spreading through town is that Art had robbed a stagecoach and then hanged himself. Art had a history ...
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Shadow Games
- May-1999
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An unfortunate incident with a teenage girl lands celebrity Cobey Daniels in a mental facility, and now released, he is determined to start his life over, but someone will not let him forget the past and is waiting in the shadows to introduce Cobey t...
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Famous Blue Raincoat
- Sep-1999
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Gorman's stories have an amazing breadth of style and plot -- pure detection, private eye stories, and straight crime tales. The Judge Whitney stories are filled with the sights and sounds of small-town America around 1958. The Closing Circle is a de...
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The Poker Club
- Oct-1999
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This huge book contains the original short story upon which THE POKER CLUB was based ("Out There in the Darkness"), the complete novel which was first published in 1999, and the screenplay by Rich Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech. Ed Gorman provides the...
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Storm Riders
- Nov-1999
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While en route to offer an amnesty deal to Billy Pecos--the most wanted man in the country--U.S. Marshal Earle Conlon witnesses a murder that will make Billy's exoneration, and ending the range war he is embroiled in, difficult at best. Original....
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Graves' Retreat
- Dec-1999
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Just when Les Graves finally earns a chance at a respectable life in Cedar Rapids, his brother T. Z. shows up in town with plans to rob the bank where Les works, and loyalty to his brother lands Les in jail. Reprint....
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Sleuths of the Century
- Jan-2000
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Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, Matt Scudder and Easy Rawlins, Spenser and Dalgliesh - they stand among the most popular of twentieth-century heroes. And now the award-winning mystery novelist Ed Gorman and novelis...
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Wake Up Little Susie
- Jan-2000
- / Private Investigator
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In September 1957, the Edsel made its long-awaited debut in Black River Falls, Iowa. The local Ford dealership was hosting a baton-twirling celebration to welcome the car of the future. But the future can't be taken for granted--a fact made all too c...
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Voodoo Moon
- Aug-2000
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Smalltown Iowa becomes the site of a grisly string of voodoo related murders, and it's up to psychological profiler Robert Payne, in a new case, to uncover the identity of the killer and the secrets hidden in a seemingly quiet town....
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What Dead Man Say
- Nov-2000
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After his young daughter is killed during a bank robbery, Septemus Ryan is out of his mind with grief. Her voice haunts him from the grave, urging him to seek justice above the law.In August 1898, James Hogan cel...
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The Dark Fantastic
- Jan-2001
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ED GORMAN Bestselling Author of Shadow Games “Gorman’s writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet. He’s one of the best.” -- Dean Koontz Seventeen stories. Seventeen slices of terror. Seventeen trips into the shadows. Whether i...
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
- Jan-2001
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It is September 21, 1959. The world's number-one Communist, Nikita Khrushchev, has landed in Iowa during the height of the McCarthy era, and in Black River Falls, someone has resorted to painting the town murderously Red. A high-profile writer with c...
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Ghost Town
- Apr-2001
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Bryce Lamont gets his share of the money that made his partners in crime rich and landed him in jail when he finds them in Wyatt, Wisconsin, but he also finds himself fighting off a malaria outbreak and tracking down outlaws who murdered the woman he...
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Desperadoes
- Jun-2001
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LOUIS L'AMOUR LOREN D. ESTLEMAN BILL PRONZINI BILL GULICK...and other top Western writers presenta cross-section of stories of men in trouble. Some of them are victims; some are pretty bad people... (Ed Gorman)...
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Pulp Masters
- Jul-2001
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Six masters of pulp fiction at its most powerful and suspenseful best -- John MacDonald, James M. Cain, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Mickey Spillane, and Harrington Whittington -- distinguish this new anthology compiled by the award-winning edito...
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Murder Most Feline: Cunning Tales of Cats and Crime
- Aug-2001
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When Law Meets Paw . . .
The result is this delightful anthology of seventeen courtroom tales by top-notch mystery writers. Cats and mysteries go hand-in-hand, no doubt. After all, what other animal is as mysterious as the common -- yet never ordin...
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What the Dead Men Say
- Dec-2001
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In August 1898, Septemus Ryan is beside himself with grief after his young daughter is killed during a bank robbery. So when his sixteen-year-old nephew, James Hogan, celebrates his birthday by accompanying Uncle Septemus on a trip, it soon becom... -
Save The Last Dance For Me
- Feb-2002
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SNAKE IN THE GRASS W hen presidential candidate Richard Nixon decides to make Black River Falls, Iowa, a campaign stop during the summer of 1960, the county's most powerful judge, Esme Ann Whitney, wants the town to gleam like polished silver. So...
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Guns of the West
- Aug-2002
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Louis L'Amour and others masters take aim at the legends behind the guns.
Includes new and classic tales by Louis L'Amour, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Gary Lovisi, James Reasoner, Judy Alter, Bill Crider, R.C. House, Wendi Lee and Mary Kay Lan... -
The Blue and the Gray Undercover
- Oct-2002
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A unique and groundbreaking collection of original spy stories based on real events and people during the Civil War.Battles were won with bullets and sabers on the battlefields of the War Between the States, for sure. But often, the outcome of those ...
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3: Third Annual Collection
- Oct-2002
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More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best susp...
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Everybody's Somebody's Fool
- Dec-2002
- / Private Investigator
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LADY KILLER When a beautiful corpse is found in a gazebo during a class reunion party, lawyer Sam McCain hopes to avoid involving himself in the ensuing complexities. However, the victim is the troubled daughter of a prominent family, and when loc...
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Relentless
- Jan-2003
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Wanted for Murder: The Marshal's Wife Marshal Lane Morgan is an honorable man who isn't about to let anyone dodge the law--not even the son of Paul Webley, the most crooked figure in Skylar, Colorado. Lane is all set to testify against Webley...
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Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas: The Santa Claus Murders
- Nov-2003
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Iowa lawyer turned private eye Sam McCain stumbles over a dead Santa at a Black River Falls Christmas party. Sam knows the real tragedy is that the victim will hardly be mourned. Sam begins to look for answers and finds deception, blackmail and . . ....
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Texas Rangers
- 2004
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Some of the greatest Western fiction writers, including Louis L'Amour and Robert J. Randisi, come together in this exciting collection of short fiction that vividly recreates the untamed frontier where the Texas Rangers dedicated their lives to keepi...
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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
- Feb-2004
- / Private Investigator
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The Cuban Missile Crisis has America living in fear, but life must go on for the citizens of Black River Falls, Iowa -- except, sadly, for beautiful Karen Hastings, found strangled in the bomb shelter of gubernatorial candidate Ross Murdoch. Murdo...
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The Long Ride Back
- May-2004
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For nearly two decades Ed Gorman has consistently provided some of the finest Western fiction around. His ability to create living, breathing characters and his unerring talent for suspense and drama have resulted in stories and novels that no fan of...
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Crystal's Big Night
- 2005
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They're cute... they're cuddly... they're on the case. We all know that the most innocent-looking pets can commit a lot of unexpected mischief. But they can also have a talent for sniffing out two-legged troublemakers of a more dangerous kind. ...
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Texas Tart
- Feb-2005
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The West hath no fury like a woman scorned…On the outside, Cross Peak, Texas, is a clean and friendly city -- so friendly, in fact, that Skye Fargo is literally welcomed with open arms by the local ladies. But one sweet little thing wants something...
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Different Kinds Of Dead And Other Tales
- Jul-2005
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A mysterious and beautiful girl who teaches arrogant young men about true love, a lonely traveling salesman who learns that his passenger is death, children who can absorb the psychic pain of their parents, a desperately pursued serial killer who hid...
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Law Of The Flying U
- Jul-2005
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B. M. Bower used only her initials to sign these Western stories that have vast appeal because of her sense of humor, the strong ties of loyalty and family among her characters, as well as the authentic quality of her cowboy characters. In the title ...
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The Killing Machine
- Sep-2005
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When Noah Ford became an investigator for the Army, his loyalty was unbreakable. But when his family becomes involved in one of his investigations, justice may have to be forsaken for revenge. A military investigator and federal agent, Noah Ford i...
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The Adventure of the Missing Detective
- Dec-2005
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From traditional mystery stories with devious doings and a plot full of clues to terse thrillers with edge-of-the-seat climaxes to the nail-biting tale of psychological suspense, no field of popular fiction can match contemporary crime writing in div...
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Shoot First
- Jan-2006
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When Abner is accused of murdering his uncle, a prominent lumber baron, Sheriff Reed Matthews, believing his prisoner to be innocent, must find the real killer among Butte City's wealthiest entrepreneurs, all of whom have a deadly secret to hide. Ori...
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The Widow of Slane
- Jul-2006
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The novella has always held a hallowed place in literature, and nowhere is that more true than in the mystery field. Its length often allows a more in-depth examination of the fictional characters and crimes portrayed, while maintaining a wonderful s...
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Fast Track
- Aug-2006
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Ordered to protect a valuable thoroughbred entering a horse race offering the biggest purse in history, Secret Service Agent Dev Mallory must save his partner's life when she is kidnapped by a high-stakes player who is determined to beat the odds. Or...
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Powder Keg
- Aug-2006
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It only takes one spark . . . A new "Robin Hood" is riding the range -- a hero bank robber who's handing over the spoils to poor farmers and needy townsfolk. But the bandit's using powerful explosives in his endeavors -- and military investigator...
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Fools Rush In
- Mar-2007
- / Private Investigator
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MURDER...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL Summer 1963. In suburban Black River Falls, Iowa, there's more than just politics behind a troubled judge's decision to have private investigator Sam McCain probe a blackmail scheme involving a powerful senator's daughte...
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Doom Weapon
- Aug-2007
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When hard-living, hard-drinking federal agent Arnold Grieves came to Junction City, he saw a town overflowing with vice--the kind of place where an unscrupulous lawman could feed his twisted hungers and make a serious killing. Now the old Grieves is ...
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Wolf Woman Bay and Nine More of the Finest Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year
- Oct-2007
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An annual collection of a traditional mystery series features the works of such names as Joyce Carol Oates, Ed McBain, and Carole Nelson Douglas, in a volume of novellas that represents top-selected works reflecting the state of the mystery genre. Or...
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Sleeping Dogs
- Apr-2008
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As a seasoned political consultant, Dev Conrad approaches working on the reelection campaign of Illinois Senator Warren Nichols with trepidation. The senator's best friend and adviser has just committed suicide. And though Conrad agrees with Nichols'...
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The Midnight Room
- Jul-2009
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It started as a burglary. That would have been bad enough. But when the masked intruder forced Dr. Olson at gunpoint to open his safe, the doctor knew he was really in trouble. In the safe were two DVDs, private movies he had made of those girls he h...
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Cavalry Man
- Oct-2009
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It only takes one spark . . .
A new "Robin Hood" is riding the range -- a hero bank robber who's handing over the spoils to poor farmers and needy townsfolk. But the bandit's using powerful explosives in his endeavors -- and military investi...
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Ticket to Ride
- Dec-2009
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The turbulent sixties are roaring into small town Black River Falls, Iowa, bringing pop culture and bitter politics with them. Attorney and private investigator Sam McCain is part of the revolution, organizing an anti-war rally. It's a polarizing aff...
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Stranglehold
- Oct-2010
- / Mystery
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When political consultant Dev Conrad agreed to work with Congresswoman Susan Cooper, he didn t know that the worst threat her re-election campaign would face would come from ......
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Cast in Dark Waters
- Mar-2011
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Her name was Crimson... and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights.Cast in Dark Waters is an original dark adventure tale b...
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The End of it All
- Aug-2011
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Roger Daye, a stockbroker whose wife suddenly left him, has changed his appearance in hopes of changing his life for the better. His longing for Amy, a childhood flame, is rekindled when he sees her at a dance in his old hometown. However, his atte...
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Serpent's Kiss
- Sep-2011
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In a Quiet Midwestern city...A community is coming apart at the seams. He is a mild-mannered academic turned serial killer being hunted for crimes he doesn't recognize as his own. She is a TV anchorwoman losing the ratings game - and the only person ...
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Bad Moon Rising
- Oct-2011
- / Private Investigator
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While many folks in Black River Falls, Iowa, support the hippie farm commune on the outskirts of town, others want it gone. The controversy heats up when the daughter of the town's wealthy industrialist is found stabbed in the cooperative's barn. The...
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The Girl in the Attic
- Jun-2012
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Written with Patricia Lee Macomber At first, thirteen-year-old Jamie wasn't sure what had awakened her. Then she heard it again. A telephone ringing. Slowly, she crept up the attic stairs. She had to answer the phone. She had to listen to the voic...
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The Prodigal Gun
- Jul-2012
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Young Richard Gideon was acquitted of bank robbery but run out of town anyway. Seven years later, sporting a custom-tailored suit and plenty of cash, Gideon is back with a plan that should bag the real thief. And if the sheriff turns a deaf ear to ju...
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Dirty Coppers
- Aug-2012
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Sometime in the near future, a hell-hold of an America, where sometimes you can't tell the good buys from the bad guys.Mullican (he) and Neely (she) are urban cops who (usually) protect the innocent, but along the way also stuff their own pockets, an...
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Yesterday and the Day Before
- Oct-2012
- / General Fiction
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Elly and David Ward lost their daughter three-and-a-half years ago, and nothing reminds them more of this than seeing the children trick-or-treating on their street during Halloween night. She was twelve. Neither parent has dealt very well with th...
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The Babysitter
- Feb-2013
- / Horror
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Screaming and violent, little Jenny had never behaved as such -- until The Babysitter. As the teenager entered the house, the grandmother was aware of her striking, disturbing beauty -- a disturbing beauty that hides an ancient curse....
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Flashpoint
- Aug-2013
- / Mystery
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When his client becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, political consultant Dev Conrad’s campaign is thrown into chaos. Political Consultant Devlin Conrad had the feeling that his very married client Senator Robert Logan was a lot more inv...
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Now You See Her
- Feb-2014
- / Thriller
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A novel of gripping psychological suspense.A mother and daughter...a lonely stretch of road...a detour into terror. When their car breaks down, Amy Byrnes goes for help, leaving her teenage daughter Jane, who is on crutches, in the car. But Amy retur...
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Scream Queen And Other Tales of Menace
- Mar-2014
- / Horror
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14 stories by a master of dark suspense who does for the American Midwest what Stephen King has done for Maine. In the title story, a young man working in a video store is captivated when the actress he has lusted after in so many horror films arrive...
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Riders on the Storm
- Oct-2014
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1967: A brutal murder in the midst of an anti-Vietnam War group sparks an investigation by Sam McCain, in Ed Gorman’s most politically charged mystery yet. When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam’s ...
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The Dangerous Agent
- Jul-2015
- / Political Thriller
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An assassination attempt on a US congresswoman spells danger for Dev Conrad. Political consultant Dev Conrad is doing his best to help secure a re-election victory for congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw, who’s fighting a fierce battle with her far...
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Elimination
- Jul-2015
- / Thriller
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An assassination attempt on a US congresswoman spells danger for Dev Conrad. Political consultant Dev Conrad is doing his best to help secure a re-election victory for congresswoman Jessica Bradshaw, who's fighting a fierce battle with her far-ri...
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KOLCHAK the Night Stalker: Passages of the Macabre
- Feb-2016
- / General Fiction
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TV's first paranormal investigator returns!
This collection of BRAND NEW Kolchak short prose fiction stories is a real scream!
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Shadow Games and Other Sinister Stories of Show Business
- May-2016
- / Thriller
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"Shadow Games unflinchingly examines the dark side of humanity and reaches a finale that is both moving and terrifying."
-Ramsey Campbell
Cobey Daniels had it all. He was rich, he was young and he was the hottest star in the country. T... -
Kolchak: Dawn of the Demons
- Jan-2020
- / General Fiction
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Superstar author Ed Gorman (of Dean Koontz’s “Frankenstein”) pens this demonic tale! Grayscaled graphic novel!
The country is slipping away.
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Dark Whispers & Other Stories
DARK WHISPERS & Other StoriesEd Gorman was an American writer and short fiction anthologist who has published in almost every genre, but is best known for his work in the crime, mystery, western, and horror fields. This collections of eleven crime/my...
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The Forsaken
There was ANNA-the town's bad girl, mistreated and abused, who made the ultimate sacrifice to get her revenge …THE FORSAKENThe FORTUNE TELLER-whom the town ridiculed, but not for long …THE FORSAKENPATRICK-the handsome,...
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The Fugitive Stars
A research biochemist receives a package from a fellow scientist containing profiles on six people suffering from an unknown disease, plus tissue samples for study. Both scientists are found dead shortly thereafter, and all trace of the files and sam...
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A Little Orange Book of Ornery Stories
Ed Gorman enjoyed a prolific, award-winning career in a variety of genres—mystery, science fiction, thriller, and horror. He published more than 50 novels, 8 collections, 100+ short stories, and edited 12 anthologies. His presence in the Littl...
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Night of Shadows
Spur Award-Winning Author - ED GORMANA KILLER IN TOWN When notorious gunslinger Stephen Fuller came to Cedar Rapids, it became Anna Toland's job, as matron of the town jail to see to it that he didn't create any trouble in town before he left—...
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Run to Midnight
ONE MORNING KATE EVANS OPENED HER DOOR TO A DYING FRIEND …… AND INVITED TERROR INTO HER LIFE. His last breath held the secret of his murder. Just one word: "key." Kate thought she understood. It was the key to a safe deposit box...
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Toys in the Attic
Brian guessed he should have been grateful when Mr. Stockbridge pressed the tin soldier into his hand. It wasn't every child at Windhaven Orphanage who received a present from the formidable Raymond Stockbridge. But Brian wasn't happy at all. In fact...
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Westeryear
The appeal of the 23 pieces here goes beyond the genre. With authors ranging from Max Brand to Loren D. Estleman, the tales are stolid, eerie, funny, bleak and moving. If some are sentimental (O. Henry's ``The Lonesome Road,'' Bill Pronzini's ``All t...
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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Fifth Annual Collection: Fifth Annual Collection
Editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg have scoured the world to present the biggest and most consistently entertaining collection of crime and suspense stories from across the globe. Their first-rate picks are a diverse and exciting mix of storie...
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Zone Soldiers
TO BE DIFFERENT IS TO BE DEADTurned into two armed camps by the accidental release of a deadly virus, the United States has become: the Federation, where the Normals live; and the Zone, a forbidden territory housing the mutated members of humanity kn...
