John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two rival crime families. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances between them, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, he takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to remain the last man standing.

Murder for hire plots, conspiracy to commit murder, and contract killings may seem like something that only happens in the Mafia, but Oregon has had more than its fair share of these cases. Within the pages of this book are some of the most egregious murder for hire plots that have occurred in Oregon in the past fifty years, including: a woman who killed the hitman her husband hired to kill her; the execution-style murder of two adults and two young...

Lucas is a solitary assassin hired to kill a young woman, Ella. When he can't bring himself to pull the trigger the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.

At sixty-five, Hornclaw, an assassin who kills with ruthless efficiency, is ready to cash out on her share of the company, but when a slip-up results in an unexpected connection, Hornclaw's final chapter in her career may also mark a bloody end to her life.

Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound

White desert: Page Murdock is a Western cop. He is a U.S. Marshall based in Montana, hot on the trail of a vicious gang heading into the far north of Canada in the dead of winter. Port hazard: Pursued by hired assassins, Page Murdock seeks refuge among in San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where his search for the mysterious individual who wants him dead leads him into Chinatown and into an alliance with an enigmatic vice lord from an alien culture.

Detective Emmett Young is determined to rid Philadelphia of a psychotic serial killer when he discovers he has a painful terminal illness. An ex-cop convinces Young that putting out a contract on himself is the best way to go. Now the race is on to stop the body count before his time is up

"What is a truly fearless man capable of? They're about to find out... Ben Koenig used to head the US Marshal's elite Special Operations Group. His team hunted the bad guys -- the really bad guys, and he could find anyone. Then one day Koenig himself disappeared. Koenig has been on the run for six years. Now suddenly his face is on every television screen in the country and his cover is blown. A woman has gone missing, and her father will do anything...