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As Mercer works the case, Julie Haller learns the results of recent tort reform efforts, including a $250,000 limit in medical malpractice cases. She and her husband realize that a quarter-million dollar price tag on a beloved eight-year-old girl is simply inconceivable. They have no interest in the money, focusing instead on their responsibility to honor their daughter by seeking justice for her death.

The murders of a lobbyist in Austin, a state senator on a remote country road, and an insurance executive in New York seem unrelated until Jennifer’s doctor is kidnapped. Mercer makes the disturbing connection between the victims and his case, and discovers how far some people will go when the usual avenues of justice are too sharply curtailed.

COMING OCTOBER 2010

The Silk Worm by David Rosenstein

CIA agent, Richard Gibson, is sent to Hong Kong where he is to meet with a known informant to assess the possibility that a major assault of cyber terrorism, the next terrorism, is about to be unleashed on the free world by brilliant Chinese graduate student, Lee Yong, in an attempt to remove the evil influence of western values imposed upon his country by the capitalist countries of the world.

Richard assembles a team of America’s top computer experts to try and thwart the attack. Within days of Richard’s team starting to work out possible scenarios, the first attack of the Silk Worm hits an airport control tower in northern Taiwan, which results in the crash of two airliners and the death of over three hundred and fifty passengers. The American Ambassador in China is instructed by the President of the United States to lobby the Chinese government in an attempt to allow this team to setup shop in Hong Kong to lead and work with Chinese agents in an effort to kill the attacking computer program and capture its creator. Richard and his group of field agents hit the streets of Hong Kong with telemetry coordinates in hand to search for the physical locations of the ones responsible for the attack and soon discover that they are the ones being hunted.

COMING NOVEMBER 2010

The Oracle: The Succession War by Richard Wayne

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What price would you be willing to pay for an instrument of absolute power? Would you be willing to betray your friends and family, to even kill your own father? Or would you be willing to commit even more heinous acts of mass murder, including genocide?

Guided by the spirit of a dark and powerful villain, the demented Count Belicki, various vibrantly articulated characters discover that they must sacrifice something they treasure more than life itself in order to acquire the transcendent power of the mysterious Oracle. Driven by an insatiable ambition, these individuals seek unlimited power, for if they are strong enough to bend the Oracle to their own will; it is capable of translating mere thoughts into stark reality.

But these mere humans are not the only ones who seek to control the Oracle. For the battle for omnipotence also occurs within the Oracle itself.

COMING DECEMBER 2010

Stay God by Nik Korpon

Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn’t really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend’s murder, a scarlet woman glides into his life, offering the solution to all of his problems. His carefully constructed existence soon shatters like crystal teardrops and he must determine which ghosts won’t stay buried—and which ones are trying to kill him—if he wants to learn why Mary has disappeared.