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DO WEREWOLVES EXIST? DICK MOONLIGHT KNOWS FIRSTHAND. AND IT AIN'T PRETTY! Some things are not as they appear. Especially if you're Dick Moonlight--a P.I. with a piece of .22 caliber hollow-point bullet hopelessly lodged inside his brain, making his sudden death at any given time a real possibility. When he's hired to look into some mysterious carcass mutilations taking place amongst the pines at the historic Albany Rural Cemetery, Moonlight encounters a dark nightmare worse than death. From New York Times and USA bestselling Thriller Award and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri, ...

"SOMETIMES BEING BEHIND BARS IS BETTER THAN BREAKING OUT!" When two murderous cop killing cons doing life sentences at New York's Dannemora Maximum Security Prison decide to make dramatic, almost Hollywood style prison break, Jack Marconi, a private investigator and former prison warden, is called in to locate the two killers. But during the course of their investigation in Upstate New York's thick woodlands, what Marconi and his trusted sidekick, Blood, discover going on inside in the basement depths of the maximum security prison, is nothing less than shocking and deadly. For fans of ...

He went looking for a way out. Rome handed him a way down. Dick Moonlight has had enough. Enough of the concrete jungle. Enough of bad memories. Enough of the woman he loved and lost. So when a job opens up in Rome, Italy, working as a house detective at a five-star hotel, Moonlight packs his bags and hopes distance will do what whiskey never could—quiet the noise in his head. It doesn’t. Instead, an Italian beauty with trouble in her eyes pulls Moonlight into a mess that starts with sex and ends with blood. Before he knows it, he’s tangled in a drug-smuggling operation that runs ...

"True Stories" is one of Vincent Zandri's most anthologized short stories. Based on the true story of Zandri having tackled and apprehended a car thief who was rampaging through his upstate New York neighborhood, this literary thriller begins with a 'seed of truth' around which grow invented circumstances - the result being a clever mesh of truth and creation.

Jude Parish is afraid. The former violent crimes cop turned best-selling true crime author has a fear-filled demon lodged inside of him. A demon so real he can only imagine a slimy reptilian beast with scaly skin, black eyes, and razor-sharp fangs having taken up residence inside the place where his once confident and fearless soul resided.

A dead lawyer, a missing teacher, and a P.I. too broken to quit. Moonlight Gets Schooled by Vincent Zandri drops hard‑boiled grit into Albany's dark underbelly. When a desperate lawyer blows his brains out in private investigator Dick Moonlight's loft, the ex‑cop turned headcase detective gets dragged into a deadly maze of missing wives, corrupt schools, cartel killers, and forbidden lust. From blood‑spattered classrooms to bullet‑riddled alleys, Moonlight is forced to face his demons—and a femme fatale whose secrets could destroy him. If you crave old‑school noir with modern ...

When Dick Moonlight PI is instructed by Homicide Detective Nick Miller at the Albany Police Department to investigate the double homicide of a pair of married lawyers up in Saratoga Springs during the thoroughbred racing season, he finds himself in the middle of a killing spree that just might get him and his sidekick, Fat Elvis, killed too.

"No Where to run. No where to hide!" From New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author Vincent Zandri comes the explosive sequel to Max Gator. When former maximum-security inmates turned survival mercenaries, Harry Steele and Blood, are recruited by the U.S. government, their mission is to track down a dangerous terrorist who has escaped from Alligator Alcatraz, a prison carved into the heart of Florida’s unforgiving Everglades. But nothing in the swamp is what it seems. Steele and Blood face venomous insects, razor-toothed gators, and a labyrinth of jungle hell. Worse, ...

WHEN A USED CAR SALESMAN CONNECTED TO THE MOB OFFERS DICK MOONLIGHT AN OFFER HE CAN'T REFUSE, THE PI WITH A PIECE OF BULLET IN HIS BRAIN WONDERS IF HE'LL LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAY! In this novelette, the too often unemployed private detective is hired by an anonymous client ('John Smith') to bring down a Mafia wise guy who's using a used car lot as a front for illegal gambling activity. At least, that's what Moonlight is led to believe. According to the job description, he is to answer a want ad for a salesman position at the same used car lot and thereby secretly infiltrate the illegal ...

Why Get Rich Slowly When You Can Cheat and Get Rich Quick? The dimwitted characters from the classic Zandri short story, Bingo Night, return in a tale about getting rich quick, which is what Tony and Stan are all about even if their efforts get them in some serious hot water. In this new episode, the meatheads decide to cross the southern border with all the illegal aliens to collect all that free cash and all those free government goodies. Only, things don't go quite as expected when the law decides to give chase and start shooting. From New York Times and USA Today Thriller and Shamus ...

What's More Possible? To Outrun a Deadly Past? Or to Outrun a Massive Detonation? A Pulse-Pounding Thriller from PWA Shamus Award–Winning Author Vincent Zandri Ike Singer is the best there is—a demolitions expert who knows how to bring down anything from a bridge to a skyscraper with surgical precision. But when one mistake costs innocent lives, he loses everything: his family, his reputation, and his will to live. Now, years later, Ike is pulled back into the world he swore off when a mysterious organization hires him for one last job—an assignment that could prevent a terrorist ...

WHOEVER THOUGHT HIGH FASHION COULD BE SO DEADLY?! When Jack Marconi's on again/off again ex-fiancée and Girl Friday, Val Antonelli, shows up unannounced at his gym, Marconi feels his broken heart lift. But what he doesn't know yet is that she's not here to rekindle their love for one another. She's there because she desperately needs his help. Her partner in her new retail clothing business has been brutally murdered, and Val has become the primary suspect. From New York Times, USA Today, and No. 1 Overall Amazon Bestselling ITW Thriller and PWA Shamus Award Winning Author, Vincent Zandri,...

WHEN YOU'RE WANTED FOR A FIRST-DEGREE MURDER YOU DID NOT COMMIT, YOU'LL DO ANYTHING TO CLEAR YOUR NAME, EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU! When a candidate for New York State Governor who has presidential aspirations is about to be publicly accused of not only raping an innocent woman, but having a child with her, he goes to Keeper Marconi to shut her up. But Keeper has other things in store for the crooked politician that will eventually lead to cold-blooded murder. From New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author, Vincent Zandri. Nab Your Thrilling Copy Now! What the critics ...

Two Heads are Better than One. Expect When One of Them is Attached to a Psychopath! When PI Steve Jobz wakes up naked in a seedy New Hampshire roadside motel, all four of his limbs bound to the bed posts, he realizes rather quickly that he should not have gotten so drunk the night before. When a pleasant, rather heavy-set Mary Poppins-like British lady lets herself into his room and reminds him of the porn film they made the night before, he soon senses he's about to be blackmailed. The bullets and the lies fly in this new killer thriller by New York Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus ...

Money Can't Buy You Love, and it Sure as Hell Can't Save Your Life! When PI Jack Marconi is approached by a handsome, wealthy couple to find their daughter now that she's gone missing moments after being stood up at the altar during her lavish white wedding, the veteran gumshoe is feeling apprehensive about taking on the case. After all, the missing girl is probably just hanging with her friends and crying her eyes out. But when the father of the would-be bride is found killed inside his expensive Mercedes, suddenly Jack smells a rat. From NY Times bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award ...

"SAM SAVAGE IS A ONE MAN WRECKING CREW. DON'T FLY THE UNFRIENDLY SKIES WITHOUT HIM." IN THIS FIRST EPISODE OF THE NEW ACTION AND ROMANCE-FILLED PULP THRILLER SERIES: When an unassuming, attractive woman boards a plane for Italy, the last thing she’s thinking about is falling in love. Yet, that’s what happens when she meets the Sky Marshal, Sam Savage. Dressed in his worn leather coat, Levis jeans, and boots, he looks more like an adventurer than a lawman. But Sam Savage is also a prolific lover, as he proves to Mary when they both agree to toss caution to the wind and join the infamous ...

They say you can't go home again. But you can go back in time. However, it's a deadly thing to do! When a brokenhearted ad writer decides he can't take any more of his wife's open affair with a famous mystery author, he decides to escape with a road-trip. Little does he know, but the road he chooses doesn't lead to happiness. Instead, it leads to a time that existed long ago. From New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller Award winning author, Vincent Zandri, comes a thriller that's worthy of The Twilight Zone series. Scroll up and grab your thrilling copy now!

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author/adventurer Vincent Zandri recently made his way from Kathmandu to New Delhi by boat, train, tuck-tuck, bus, bicycle, rickshaw, 4X4, and on foot. He also spent some time exploring the Upper Ganges where he decided that taking a swim in the holiest river in the world would be one heck of a bucket-list item to check off. What he didn't realize at the time is that the little swim would nearly cost him his life. PRAISE FOR VINCENT ZANDRI NOVELS: "The action never wanes." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinal "Gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting." --...

WE ALL HAVE A STORY OR TWO IN US. MINE ARE PARTICULARLY F'D UP! Stories, adventures, misadventures, rants, raves, and general screwed up musings about what it's like to be a full-time New York Times bestselling genre fiction author and also a freelance journalist/writer. From why you should quit your job and become a full-time writer, to Tony Bourdain's suicide, to how to be a foreign correspondent, to why I don't miss marriage, to why it was mistake getting back with my ex-wife, it's all here in one easy-to-read volume. Anything is fair game here because it's all a part of the writer's ...

HE'S KILLED FOR ART'S SAKE. HE WAS EXECUTED FOR ART'S SAKE, BUT SOMEHOW SURVIVED. NOW HE MUST KILL AGAIN. BUT NOT FOR ART'S SAKE. INSTEAD HE WILL KILL ON BEHALF OF THE WOMAN WHO HAS ENSLAVED HIM. HIS MUSE, STELLA. Bestselling author and Handyman, Victor Casey, is out of prison. But not after having been declared clinically dead for almost a full minute when he was strapped to the executioner's table. Now that he's back with his muse, Stella, and her live-in lover and fellow Sex Club member, Megan Lawless, he is told he must kill one more time if he is to be free from his past. But there's ...