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A 14-year-old girl is kidnapped. She's found dead a few days later, wearing a spotless wedding dress and make-up, her long blonde hair arranged around her shoulders. Investigators soon realize that she is yet another victim of a serial killer who is on the loose in San Diego; a killer who has police working overtime. Clues are hard to come by, even when the total number of dead girls reaches six - and each murder has the same M.O.

A partner in a logging and sawmill operation in Oregon is murdered. His son and friend try to figure out who killed him. Then, the friend's father is killed in a staged accident on the mill pond. In a race against time, the two double their efforts before another person is killed. They find clues to prove the two men were indeed murdered, not accidentally killed. But who did it? A trap is set up to catch the killer.

Frozen assets: Preacher Mann is too much for the FBI and the CIA. He has dual citizenship and friends in diplomatic circles and he's too powerful for the regular legal channels. He's come a long way: from a pimp in Harlem he's worked his way to the top – of the rackets. He's into international dope, espionage – and now, in his orgy palace off the Florida coast he's onto a new wrinkle!

It started with the smuggling of Mexican "wetbacks" for slave labor in the U.S. They were brought to an island in Lake Texoma, north of Dallas, to work on a top-secret operation directed by H.H. Christiansen...and were forbidden to leave. But it wasn't until twenty-five Mexicans died in a mysterious tank truck fire that the Penetrator was called in. That's when this simple smuggling assignment turned into a national security threat.

The terrorist tactics of the Fuezas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional Puerto Riquena were being stepped up. The bombings would increase each day, culminating in the big blast, Operation Luz. Racing against the clock, Mark Hardin stalks the streets of Spanish Harlem - his quarry, El Chico, ruthless leader of the fanatic F.A.L.N. Each step brings him closer to the creations of this time table of death and destruction.

The information was limited. An "event" was going to take place at the Rocky Mountain Nuclear Generating Plant within three days. The attack would be coming from a terrorist group trying to get uranium to build an atomic bomb. Mark Hardin doesn't know why they have chosen this site or when they are going to strike but if there is going to be a hit, he will certainly be on hand to prevent it.

The Penetrator was hunting for Johnny Utah, but the tables turned and Utah was offering him a sporting chance. The rules were simple: Mark Hardin was to be given an hour's head start in the Canadian wilderness. He will be naked, unarmed and without rations. His hunters, among them Johnny Utah and a German sharpshooter, will have M-16 rifles, pistols, hunting knives, and bows with wide-tipped hunting arrows...and a dozen other hunters! If Mark loses, he dies - but if he wins will they let him live?

Mark Hardin tears into the underbelly of Boston's drug racket...and the all-powerful Rossi Family, the deadliest bunch in the Mafia syndicate. No one knows who the Penetrator is or where he lives, expect for two men. But the police blotters of cities across the nation and even as far away as Japan contain evidence of Mark Hardin's handiwork - the death of corrupt hogs at the public table, deaths of men who killed, maimed, and caused suffering among the innocent.

Five senior citizens are dead. They were conned out of their life's savings on phony land deals and made trouble complaining. The mob is also distributing wholesale weaponry, ammunition, and drugs to any thief or psycho with money. Tony Rossi of La Costra Nostra asks his old friend, Mark Hardin, to smash the Florida operation. And Mark is forced to help the Mafia against their non-Sicilian opponents because of their threat to innocent people....

The 23 May Liberation Front finances their terrorism by the sale of drugs in Canada and the U.S. Heroin, cocaine, hashish--the usual. Now they have their hands on a new synthetic called Ziff-a drug with an unusual side effect. It does radical and permanent damage to the genetic makeup of the user, thus effecting generations yet unborn.

Right off, Mark Hardin smelled a rat. Someone was stealing animals...a lot of animals. It wasn't an escalation of the "petnapping" of several years past. No ransom asked, but thousands of dogs and cats were missing, primarily along the densely populated Eastern Seaboard. Sheer volume alone dictated that there was some planning behind the thefts. Somewhere, these small animals were being disposed of. And there had to be a profit in it for somebody.

Ed seemed normal, owner of a furniture store, pillar of the community, in a small Oregon town of Forest Glenn. His mother is a bit strange. Underneath he is a psychopathic killer. He kills five people in town because they are over-achievers. Police go crazy trying to track him down. No common clues, no clues at all until a break in the case unveils the horrible truth!

Suddenly, Oregon is under attack. Six hundred acres of land are burned to the ground. An entire lake is poisoned, killing all the fish and surrounding wildlife. A clue is left that the destruction of the dams will be the next and final blow. The same person is claiming credit for all the disasters. But who is he and why is he out to destroy the entire state?

Norbert Briscoe, financial wizard, friend of presidents, and toast of the jet set, is alive and well and living in exile in Costa Rica. The proceeds of his swindles, thefts, and international money manipulation made him a wanted man in the U.S. But now he is putting together his biggest deal - one that will guarantee his own safety, grant him a complete pardon, and allow him to retain his huge fortune. He's going to buy the Panama Canal!

In hot, sunny Mexico, Mark Hardin, the Penetrator, finds himself pitted against the power-mad Latin known as El Baron. And mad is the word for him...he's concocted a plot to kidnap important citizens of various countries and hold them hostage. The ransom: an entire Mexican territory. As El Baron's plan goes into action, important people begin to disappear. One of them is a friend of Mark's mentor, Professor Haskins, and the Penetrator decides to move in.

Jaminson D. Hutch, archaeology professor, is "somewhere" in the Bahamas. He is in search of the fabled Spanish treasure on board the Nuestra Senora de la Concepion, which was sunk in 1641. It is believed there is a gold horde of more than 40 tons below the deck - worth 35 million dollars! Join the Penetrator as he combs the Caribbean - on land and sea - fighting modern day pirates - in order to rescue the professor and the buried treasure.

When an American dies under suspicious circumstances in Berlin, the Specialists are called in to investigate. The victim was trying to track down a missing fortune that belonged to his Jewish grandfather during World War II. It was part of a secret stash extorted by a corrupt Nazi unit offering escape to Jews bound for concentration camps. Except the Nazis kept the loot and sent most of their prisoners to their deaths. After the war, both the Nazis and the fortune disappeared.

Mark Hardin is known to his enemies as The Penetrator. He penetrates in several ways: by fighting his way in, by easing in...or by dropping in via parachute. Mark Hardin is dropped through the air, scanning the desert for David Red Eagle's smoke signal, his mind flashed back to similar jumps in Vietnam.