Crime Control

In her personal life, FBI agent Andra Bailey works hard to control her sociopathic tendencies. But on the job, her cold logic comes in handy. Now two world-renowned scientists have disappeared, and the bureau assigns Bailey to find them and hunt down the kidnapper. The agent soon suspects that a rare-metal shortage may be the link between the disappearances and that the motive is far more dangerous than she imagined.

After Dr. Russo’s death, Agent Spencer and Elijah get access to some of his private files and discover that Project Orthia had three stages in total: Orthia, Elijah, and Vrykolakas. They go on to discover the destructive potential of project Vrykolakas and prepare to adapt it to their needs. Will be they able to execute their plans or not?... This is Book 4 of "Project Orthia" - the first Series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

Carly is a damn good cop. When there's a sting, she's the brave woman who walks into the heart of the danger. This time, she's after virtuoso criminal Eva, who runs a racketeering and protection network through her army of hypnotized female love-slaves. Can Carly resist becoming Eva's next conquest? As her eyelids droop and her will weakens, Carly may find herself succumbing to this succubus. But Eva may also find that Carly is more than she appears...

Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops - former members of the Gun Control Unit - outlaw bikies and honest police trying to clean the stables quietly. Two more murders raise the stakes, and relationships are stretched to the breaking point.

Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was at the height of her life, and then, one morning, she was gone. Near Rochester—a region which has spawned such serial killers as Arthur Shawcross and the 'Double Initial' killer—Stephanie's disappearance was just another news item. But Rachel had more reason than most to be haunted by this particular story of a missing white woman.

Book Description Shadows Over Saint Paloma: A Dark Psychological Thriller of Secrets, Control, and Betrayal, A Domestic Psychological Suspense of Love, Lies, Revenge, and Murder On the secluded island of Saint Paloma, beauty hides dark secrets, and what appears serene is often filled with shadows. Tanya Richards is found dead in the eerie Whispering Pines, her life cut short in a chilling twist of control and betrayal. As her sister Natalie embarks on a desperate quest for answers, she peels away the layers of lies that masked her sister’s life—unearthing a darkness that permeates the ...

There's no spy like Nicole King. She infiltrates, she dominates, and she moves up the ladder toward the ultimate prize: the Spymistress. But with so many submissive, suggestible women just begging her to hypnotize them, will Nicole's libido distract her? And when she finally meets the Spymistress, will her own deep desire to surrender turn her into the ultimate double agent?

Guns from America reach more than 130 countries, and inundate Mexico, with over 200,000 guns every year crossing the border and arming the drug cartels. In this groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, master of reportage Ioan Grillo delves into the enormous black market for firearms in the Americas. Along the way, Grillo lays bare the many ways that guns slip through the legal cracks and into the hands of criminals, fuelling violence among Mexico’s powerful cartels and beyond.

If you want to keep a secret, put it on Facebook! What would you do if you found out that the man you married had a secret life that culminated in the ultimate betrayal? Yve Gibney tells the real-life story from their love-at-first-sight chance encounter while working as expats in Nigeria to the gradual realization that her husband of 19 years, Maurice Gibney, was actually full of deceit, manipulation, and coercive control and that their marriage had been a lie from the moment they had met.

As Hypnotica dodges through a suddenly hostile city, she flags and gets sloppy. It's the perfect opportunity for a predator to take advantage, and this time, Hypnotica may be captured by her own devices! Unless, of course, someone arrives with a very sexy rescue...

Vanessa is a con artist extraordinaire. Smart burglars bring her along on their best jobs. She's clever, ruthless, and sexy enough to distract anyone unfortunate enough to become a target for her team. But when that team decides to rob the Coven, they unwittingly send Vanessa into the power of two sensual witches determined to bring out the little thief's suppressed lesbianism! Will Vanessa trade in a life of crime for a life of submission?

Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, D.C. Only a seven-year-old daughter, Kelly, has survived: and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn't even know which of them is the target.

This has to be the most interesting and provocative book on prisons for many a decade. Not only is it a fascinating account of why firm prison control is needed, and how it works, but it is a history, of sorts, of how Warden Ragen controlled the Stateville-Joliet prison back in the 1960's. In fact, the original manuscript of this book was written by Kantrowitz when he was the resident sociologist in that prison. But he could never get it published because it was, for that time (the era of "treatment and corrections") politically incorrect to advocate firm discipline and control in a prison....

The city of Queensport belongs to Hypnotica. Using her powers of hypnosis, she vanquishes millionaires and steals their things...while having some fun with their guards, of course. Even the city's hypno-defender, Mesmera, is unable to stand against Hypnotica for long - partially because she's so eager to submit to the pleasure of her company! All's well until something unexpected happens to the city. Now Hypnotica's going to have to deal with a new kind of problem: too much success!

At secondary school in 1980s Dublin, a narrator recounts the story of his friend, Benny Breen who is terrorized by the vice principal known as Spitz. Over five years, about the halls and classrooms, Benny is made to trail the tyrant with unfettered power. He's subjected to humiliation and put-downs. When at last Benny reveals the true extent of the happenings, his confidante is so disturbed, he concludes there remains available but one option to end it. The pals hatch an astonishing plan so that Benny can live again, free from the torment he's suffered. A sensational, disturbing, yet ...

Finn is contacted by a federal agent who asks for his assistance in a delicate case. A piece of equipment disappears from a government-funded secret lab. The nature of the experimental equipment is so secretive that not even the agent knows what exactly it contains... This is Book 2 of "Orthia" - the second series of the "Orthia Labs" saga.

For Nikki Goeser it was a day like any other...with one exception. Her husband, Ben, had only 16 hours to live. On that fateful day in Tennessee, the man she loved would be murdered by a demented and evil coward who was stalking her. In compliance with state law, Nikki had left her legal firearm locked in the car. With the help of legislatively created pistol free zones, one evil man gunned down Nikki’s husband as she was forced to look on, alone, defenseless, and disarmed by an ill-conceived law designed to protect her.

A Long Silence Eleanor Whitmore thought she was investing for her care in the final years when she funded , Willowbrook, a high-end elder care facility. Little did she realize the trap she was getting into when she entered Willowbrook for long term care. Her stay was brief and when she did pass away, no one noticed or questioned it. Years passed in silence—until Linda Thompson showed up. Linda Thompson, the facility’s new administrator, notices that something is odd. The books are cooked, the numbers don’t lie, and someone’s been siphoning funds for years. She hires Jet Rider, a ...

Nicole has been captured by the sexiest, most entrancing spy she's ever met. Her hypnotic conditioning wiped from her mind, she is finally free to enjoy perfect obedience to a powerful Mistress...but how long can that last? When the tables turn and trouble catches up with them, Nicole's new Mistress will fall under the Spymistress's deadly hypnotic power herself. And unlike Nicole, she doesn't have any defenses...

Hypno-Spy Nicole is falling down, so far down that she may never escape again. As she follows the escaping Spymistress through a window high above Las Vegas, Nicole flashes back to her first sexual encounter. A romantic loft in New York. A high school sweetheart. An unconventional cure for a fear of heights... In the end, who will fall prey to whom?