Stories by @bloodshot05

Drowning

6 minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes & the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors, but the plane sinks to the bottom with 12 souls trapped inside. More than 200 ft. below the surface, engineer Will Kent & his 11-year-old daughter Shannon are fighting for their lives. Their only chance of survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent, Shannon’s mother & Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife, who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter & rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff. There's not much time. There's even less air.

Dark of Night

When esteemed historian Elizabeth Lawrence is found in her car, killed by a cobra’s bite, only a brilliant professor of semiotics, Dr. Evan Wilding, can see the signs around her death. As he helps detective Addie Bisset decipher the scene, the puzzles left behind offer Evan chilling passage into the mind of a killer. Evan’s investigation merges with that of an Israeli agent, who claims Elizabeth was close to acquiring an invaluable artifact. She was also drawing the attention of unsavory treasure hunters, forgers, & thieves. In a race where there can be only one winner, the final victim might be Evan.

Rising Tiger

An unprecedented, potentially nation-ending threat has materialized on the world stage. Though the United States has long been aware of the growing risk, administration after administration has passed the buck, fearful of engaging this enemy head-on. The clock, however, has now run out & doing nothing is no longer an option. With the stakes higher than they have ever been, it is time to unleash Scot Harvath. Thrust into a completely unfamiliar culture, with few he can trust, the attempts on his life begin piling up. Someone, somewhere, knows far too much.

At First Light

On the banks of the Calumet River, a body has been found posed next to mysterious glyphs, with wounds from a ritualistic slaying. Detective Addie Bisset knows only 1 man who can decipher the message left by the killer: her friend Dr. Evan Wilding. A brilliant forensic semiotician, Evan decodes the etchings as Viking Age runes. They suggest righteous punishment. Bu for what sins? Only 1 thing is clear from the disturbing runic riddles: there are more victims to come. As Evan races to determine the identity of the killer, he & Addie uncover the killer’s motive. This startling discovery puts Evan’s life in mortal danger.

Gone to Darkness

Sydney Parnell is now the youngest homicide detective in Denver’s Major Crimes Unit. In the past, gut instinct has served her & her K9 partner well. But it’s not a trait Len Bandoni, her old nemesis turned reluctant mentor, admires. Not until Sydney’s instincts lead to their 1st case: a man tortured & beaten to death, then left in a refrigerated train car with cryptic messages carved into his body. The victim is a well-liked member of an elite club called the Superior Gentlemen. At 1st glance, the club appears harmless. But beneath its refined surface swim darker currents.

Ambush

Railway cop & former Marine Sydney Parnell is on the hunt. So is a killer she knows only as the Alpha. They’re in a race to find Malik, an eleven-year-old Iraqi boy with secrets to guard. Sydney wants to help him. The Alpha wants him dead. From the alleys of Mexico City to the streets of Denver, Sydney & her K9 partner, Clyde, use their wits to chase down the ruthless killer. But when their path collides with his, Sydney realizes just how far-reaching the Alpha’s past is. And how far he’s willing to go to save his secrets.

Dead Stop

It’s been 5 months since Sydney Parnell & her K9 partner Clyde, survived a confrontation with a gang of thugs. Sydney fears she isn’t ready for work, but when a woman is murdered on the train tracks & a child is kidnapped, she leads the hunt for the killer. While police & the FBI go down blind alleys, Sydney focuses on a cryptic clue, 1 that will send her down a path of greed, violence, & long-ago love. With Denver beset by a series of thunderstorms, Sydney, must wade through a dark history that stretches back 30 years, to rescue a child & catch a killer with a long memory.

Blood on the Tracks

A young woman is found brutally murdered, & the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, can't shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this apparent crime of passion. In the depths of an icy winter, Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde, descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders. There, they uncover a wide-reaching conspiracy & a series of shocking crimes. Crimes that threaten everything Parnell holds dear.

The Dark Hours

Working a graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. As reports start to roll in, Ballard is called to a scene where an auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet. It doesn't take long for Ballard to determine that the bullet could not have fallen from the sky. Ballard’s investigation leads her to look into another unsolved murder, a case at 1 time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. Ballard is also on the hunt for a team of serial rapists, known only as the Midnight Men.

The Dark Room

Ex–crime reporter Leonard Blaylock spends his days, developing forgotten & discarded rolls of film. Then Leonard finds something no one would ever want to see captured on film; the murder of a young woman. But that’s impossible, because the woman is already dead. Leonard was there when it happened 5 years earlier. He has never been able to shake his guilt from that terrible night. It cost Leonard everything: his career, his fiancée, his future. But if the woman didn’t really die, then what actually happened?

Oath of Loyalty

President Anthony Cook is convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, so a truce is called between the 2 men: Rapp agrees to leave the country & stay in plain sight for as long as Cook is in the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile détente holds until Cook’s security adviser convinces him that Rapp has no intention of honoring their agreement. So they leak the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gould. As Rapp races to neutralize the enemies he discovers a new assassin, known only as Legion, is after Claudia.

Enemy at the Gates

Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he’s encountered before. Cunning & autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America’s institutions & is distrustful of the influence Rapp & CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. When Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agency’s database for sensitive information on Nicholas Ward, the world’s 1st trillionaire, she convinces Rapp to take a job protecting him. In doing so, he finds himself walking an impossible tightrope: Keep the man alive, but also use him as bait.

The Lightning Rod

While working on a body before his funeral, mortician "Zig" Zigarowski discovers something he was never meant to see. That telling detail leads him to Dover Air Force Base, where he uncovers Mint's involvement in a top-secret military unit & his connection to military artist & Sergeant First Class Nola Brown. 2 years ago, Nola saved Zig's life, so he knows better than most that she's as volatile & dangerous as a bolt of lightning.

The Devil's Sea

Dirk Pitt & his best friend, Al Giordino, are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait. Only someone else is after it, too; a rogue Chinese military team that makes their own earthshattering discovery, hijacking a ship capable of stirring the waters of the deep into a veritable Devil’s Sea.

Girl, Forgotten

1982. Emily Vaughn goes to her high school prom. But by the end of the night, she will be dead. Nearly 40 years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea's real focus isn't the judge, it's Emily Vaughn. Nobody was ever convicted, her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on, so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened.

Falling

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

Total Power

When Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, he reveals that he was on his way to meet a man who claims to have the ability to bring down America's power grid. Rapp is determined to eliminate this shadowy figure, but the CIA's trap fails. The agency is still trying to determine what went wrong when ISIS operatives help this cyber terrorist do what he said he could - plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months. Perhaps even years.

Better off Dead

On a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading into the nearby border town, next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. He might have got mixed up with some dangerous people. Their leader has burrowed his influence deep into the town. There are people in this hostile, empty place who would rather die than reveal their secrets. But then, if Reacher is coming after you, you might be better off dead.

The Saboteurs

Detective Isaac Bell thwarts an assassination attempt of a United States Senator. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger & more dangerous agenda; one involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal. While the Senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see the its completion.

Black Ice

Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Scot Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi, a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined & pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure.