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"Right up there with the best of the zombie stories."--Readers' Favorite on Bryan Cassiday's "Sanctuary in Steel" "Zombie Boxed Set #2" contains the complete and unabridged novels "Sanctuary in Steel" and "Kill Ratio," books 3 and 4, respectively, in Bryan Cassiday's Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse series. In "Sanctuary in Steel" Chad Halverson, black ops agent for the National Clandestine Service, holes up in Alcatraz Prison to elude the zombies that have taken over the mainland. However, the leader of Alcatraz Island may be even more dangerous than the zombies. In "Kill Ratio" Halverson ...

MEGA 7-BOOK OMNIBUS BOX SET Thrill to the nonstop zombie action and nerve-shredding suspense! For the first time ever, the uncut editions of the seven books of Zombie Apocalypse: The Chad Halverson Series are together, including Horde, the winner of both the Independent Press Award for Best Horror Novel 2022 and the American Fiction Award for Best Horror Novel 2021. The end of the world has begun. The undead rule. The US government is a shambles. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson knows how to play dirty. He knows how to win. He also knows some of the government's darkest secrets, and the ...

For the first time anywhere, Bryan Cassiday's complete unabridged editions of "Zombie Maelstrom" and "Zombie Necropolis, " books 1 and 2, respectively, in the Chad Halverson zombie apocalypse series, are together under one cover. Two complete books at one low price. In "Zombie Maelstrom" National Clandestine Service black ops agent Chad Halverson crash-lands in Los Angeles to find a world he doesn't recognize. In "Zombie Necropolis" Halverson flees Los Angeles to the ocean, trying to escape the plague-infected zombie hordes that are running amok spreading death and destruction across the ...

"Blood Moon" by Bryan Cassiday is a collection of his short stories from the dark side; including, thriller, horror, suspense, mystery, and noir tales. "Blood Moon" features the vampire thriller "I Kill for Your Blood," in which the CIA suspect one of their agents is a vampire. Other stories involve a CIA hit man who believes he's being stalked by his doppelganger, a corporation of contract killers, a serial-killer senator, ad-lib bank robbers, a batty bag lady, and a town gone mad.

Hard-hitting crime stories from the edge of madness and terror where murderers, serial killers, and sociopaths skulk along the streets of Los Angeles by day and night. The skies may be sunny, but the streets of the city are cold as ice and teeming with dissolution that spreads across the entire country like a miasma of evil reaching all the way to the Florida Keys. Corruption drips from the seats of power and infects everyone below. In the land of the dollar, money is not only king it’s the only way to insulate yourself from the raw brutality of the city jungle. Sometimes even money ...

Zombie apocalypse. What does the government know? What aren't they telling the people? CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson knows how to play dirty. He knows how to win. He also knows some of the government's darkest secrets, and the government is out to get him. Halverson struggles to survive during a zombie apocalypse and find out what precipitated the annihilation of mankind as we know it. Is the government responsible for the plague or is the cause something more sinister? For the first time anywhere, the Zombie Apocalypse omnibus boxed set includes the complete and unabridged editions of...

"This is the apocalypse. What's fair got to do with anything?" said President Uriah. Secretary of State Dean Uriah has declared himself president after President Mims’s assassination at Mount Weather. Uriah arrests CIA black ops agent Halverson and Marta Costello for the assassination even though they claim they are innocent. They break out of the brig and head for the Raven Rock nuclear bunker in Pennsylvania to find out if the speaker of the house is alive, for he is constitutionally next in line of succession, not Uriah. Halverson believes Uriah has illegally proclaimed himself ...

A serial killer seeking revenge against his former partner. A young woman having a nervous breakdown. A cop under pressure to make a bust. The Me Too movement up in arms. A city on the verge of a riot. All of them swept up in a Riptide of Fear.

Did the S&M just go too far or was it murder? Guilt-ridden PI Ethan Carr is hired by Constance Barnes, a troubled history professor at USC who claims she is being stalked by someone who is sending her cut-up photos of herself. When fellow professor Melanie Kowalski, who also received cut-up photos of herself, is murdered in brutal fashion suggesting S&M, Carr suspects Barnes is being stalked by a serial killer. However, Barnes has psychological issues and is being treated by a psychiatrist who says she could be imagining persecution due to paranoia. Nothing is ever as it seems in this taut ...

A motley team of warriors on a secret mission organized by the president of the United States take on infected flesh eaters in a nuclear wasteland, risking their lives in a convoy of three specially armored black Chevy Suburbans to obtain a vaccine against the apocalyptic zombie plague that is wiping out the human race.

Nagged by guilt for shooting an innocent boy with a ricocheting bullet when he used to work as an LAPD cop, PI Ethan Carr is hired by a distraught amnesiac who wants to find out who he is. An assailant firebombs Carr's Mini Cooper, and in the trunk cops find a corpse--which is a dead ringer for the amnesiac.Several hours later the amnesiac is gunned down, and, to Carr's shock, another amnesiac, who is also a dead ringer, steps into Carr's office and wants to hire him to find out who he is.

Finding plague victims inside their compound, survivors of the zombie apocalypse suspect that the zombie plague has mutated and is being spread by spores emitted by infected flesh-eating ghouls. People infected by the spores could be asymptomatic carriers. Meanwhile, at the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, President Cole declares a national emergency under Section 201 of the National Emergencies Act and proclaims himself president for life as he hunkers down in the bunker with what little remains of the US government.

Virulent pockets of plague, first reported in China, break out worldwide and spread with mind-boggling speed. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson flies to Los Angeles to visit his brother after receiving a call that his brother has been hospitalized after a car accident. Halverson's Boeing 737 crash-lands in an eerie Los Angeles shrouded with an impenetrable haze of smog. But that is only the tip of the iceberg of Halverson's nightmare.

Evildoers run riot across the sun-drenched Southern California landscape in Helter Skelter. Zombies, vampires, and other wicked creatures wreak mayhem and carnage in these shocking horror short stories by Bryan Cassiday. Not all of these tales feature supernatural creatures. Some of the evil creatures are human - perhaps the most terrifying creature of all. These stories defy logic, yet they obey their own inexorable logic of fear.

A PI's routine investigation of infidelity among Hollywood elite uncovers a transnational conspiracy of terror aimed at his client's entire family. Power-broker Hollywood talent manager Lyndon Fox's wife, Deirdre, hires epileptic LA private detective Scott Brody after a previous private detective she assigned to keep tabs on her husband's suspected infidelity is killed in Cabo San Lucas when she and her husband vacation there. As Deirdre's world collapses around her, she must find out the truth about who is responsible before she loses everything—including her life.

Seeking sanctuary from the walking dead in Alcatraz prison, Halverson and his band discover that all is not as it seems on the island haven. In fact, they may have more to fear than the walking dead in the person of Alcatraz's reigning Chosen One, the charismatic proponent of law and order Jefferson Bascomb, who believes zombies have the right to a fair trial.

All zombies all the time. Included in The Bus Stops Here and Other Zombie Tales are five zombie short stories by Bryan Cassiday that are together for the first time in one anthology. "The Bus Stops Here" is a brand-new short story that has never before been published. The zombie action is nonstop and lethal. During a zombie apocalypse, everybody is caught up in a Hobbesian world where life is nasty, brutish, and short. Along with graphic zombie mayhem, these tales depict the lengths that individuals will go to to survive.

A distressed young woman falls under the spell of a homicidal maniac and becomes his partner in murder in this disturbing psychological thriller. Pondering suicide sitting on a Malibu dock one night after running away from home, doe-eyed young Mina Deerling meets smooth-talking Gage Catton, who is trying to load his wife’s body wrapped in a blanket onto his boat. When Catton finds out to his shock that his wife is still alive in the blanket, he talks the distraught Mina into helping him finish her off with his knife.

A woman wakes up in a pitch-black coffin hearing rats scampering on the lid. When she tries to scream, she realizes she is paralyzed and suffocating in "Scream, Cecelia, Scream." A Hollywood hooker is assaulted by a corrupt cop. Who can she turn to for help when even the police don't want to investigate her accusation in "The Strip"? An architect's bank closes his account because he is deceased in "Account Closed." These are just a few of the brutal crime stories set in Los Angeles, where the streets are hard, the sun is merciless, the atmosphere is bleak noir, and violent death is only a ...

Brunette bombshell Araceli hires Scott Brody, PI, to find her missing brother Damian, whose life is endangered in the neon-lit playground of Vegas. To save Damian, Brody must contend with mafia leg breakers, feds, a murderous deep state cabal, CIA spooks, and a sicario hit team. Everybody, it seems, wants a piece of Damian, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way.