Thrillers - Available Now and/or Coming in the Fall!

Anubis
Eric C. Anderson
Available NOW
Dunn Books

ANUBIS by Eric C. Anderson: As if the slaughter of thousands of U.S. citizens in Baghdad wasn’t enough – now the Caliphate has a new plan in the highly anticipated second installment of Eric C. Anderson’s New Caliphate Trilogy, ANUBIS (Dunn Books; June 5, 2018). ANUBIS picks up where Osiris left off, on an incendiary mission of soldiers, spies, statesmen and sellouts, all thrown together to either save the world – or see it destroyed.

Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant More and U.S. Army Special Forces Major Faheem are once more thrust to the front as the world braces for a hurricane of terror.
With the enigmatic U.S. president dead, his hated political opponent about to be inaugurated, and ISIS attacking on multiple fronts, will America and her allies surrender to terrorists and withdraw from the Middle East? There’s only one way for More and Faheem to staunch the crisis—calling upon a cyber-warrior. The clock is ticking as rivers of blood run through the capitals of Europe, Africa and North America.
Available June 2018.

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Button Man
Andrew Gross
Minotaur Books
September 18, 2018

The youngest of three brothers, Morris Raab has grown up rough and tumble on the streets of New York's Lower East Side, teeming with both opportunity and the lure of crime.
Poor, but driven, (and never one who shied away from using his fists), Morris drops out of school at twelve and finds work as a cutting room apprentice in the city’s bustling garment trade. A tireless worker who absorbs everything, by twenty-one he is running the shop and by twenty-six, has opened his own firm with his older brother Sol. But not his wayward brother Harold, an affable lad who’s been scarred by a family tragedy, and who falls under the spell of a gang of neighborhood pals who have turned to crime.

As Morris and Sol’s firm grows, it comes head to head with corrupt garment unions which have been taken over by the most feared gangster in town, who ruthlessly uses them to line his pockets and increase his power, and who Harold’s cronies now work for as “button men,” hired mob gunmen.

Fighting both the throes of the Depression and the vice-like grip of the unions who have left several of Morris’s friends with broken bones or worse, Morris goes head to head with Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the city's most ruthless crime boss, someone he has gone up against since their youth, and from whom he has earned both respect, and ultimately, his wrath.

Set between 1905-1935, and a rags-to-riches tale like Dickens’s Great Expectations merged with The Godfather, Button Man traces the rise of a Jewish immigrant family in the dawn of the women’s garment business collapse under the hammer of organized crime. It draws in the real life crime figures of Lepke, Dutch Schultz, and Albert Anastasia of the feared Murder, Incorporated, as well as Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey, just as single-minded to shut them down, pitting brother against brother–both tragic, and yet like the story of so many of that generation who brought themselves up from nothing, inspirational.

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Open Your Eyes
Paula Daly

Haven’t we all wanted to pretend everything’s perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she’ll always let her husband, Leon―a bestselling thriller author―fight their battles. She’d prefer to focus on the good things in life: precious days with her two young children, a steady and loving marriage, their mischievously playful cat Bonita, and her fulfilling job as a creative writing teacher. In Jane’s eyes, life is altogether sweeter than any individual bump in the road.

But when Leon suffers a brutal attack in the driveway of their home, in front of their children, Jane has to finally face reality. Who would commit such a hateful offense in broad daylight? Leon has imagined his fair share of crime on the page, and now this unthinkable violence has landed on the Campbell family doorstep. With her husband in a coma, Jane must open her eyes to the problems in her life, as well as the secrets that have been kept from her. Although she might not like what she sees, if she’s committed to discovering who hurt her husband―and why―Jane needs to take matters into her own hands.

A surprising and gripping thriller of literary ambition and envy, from acclaimed novelist Paula Daly, Open Your Eyes exposes an ordinary suburban family to a shocking act of revenge that irreparably changes their lives.

Grove Press
Grove Atlantic
October 9, 2018

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In The Galway Silence
Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen has been called “hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility” (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence.

After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life, a freshly bought apartment, and little sign of trouble on the horizon. Once again, trouble comes to him, this time in the form of a wealthy Frenchman who wants Jack to investigate the double-murder of his twin sons. Jack is meanwhile roped into looking after his girlfriend’s nine-year-old son, and is in for a shock with the appearance of a character out of his past. The plot is one big chess game and all of the pieces seem to be moving at the behest of one dangerously mysterious player: a vigilante called “Silence,” because he’s the last thing his victims will ever hear.

This is Ken Bruen at his most darkly humorous, his most lovably bleak, as he shows us the meaning behind a proverb of his own design―“the Irish can abide almost anything save silence.”

The Mysterious Press
Grove Atlantic
November 6, 2018