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In "Lady Lawyer: Small Town Justice," Lindsey Jones is a force to be reckoned with in her small Oklahoma town. As a defense lawyer, she takes on tough cases and fights tirelessly for her clients, but her personal life is crumbling around her. Her marriage is falling apart, and she's so busy helping other women with their problems that she doesn't realize her best friend is struggling in silence. When Lindsey takes on her most difficult case yet, defending an innocent man facing a life sentence, it becomes clear that justice is not always easy to come by. Will Lindsey be able to save her client and find the strength to save her own life as well? Full of gripping courtroom drama and heart-wrenching personal struggles, "Lady Lawyer: Small Town Justice" is a must-read for anyone who loves legal thrillers with heart.

Joe DeMarco likes to call himself a troubleshooter. It sounds better than “bagman” or “fixer.” With more than a decade of troubleshooting under his belt on behalf of John Mahoney, the Speaker of the House, DeMarco has seen his fair share of dangerous situations.When Andie Moore, a 23-year-old working in the DOJ’s Inspector General’s Office, is murdered in cold blood in Florida’s Everglades, it falls on DeMarco to get to the bottom of things. Paired with Emma, an enigmatic, retired ex-spy with seemingly endless connections in the military and intelligence communities, they venture south to the scene of Andie’s murder: Alligator Alley.DeMarco and Emma waste no time in identifying a two suspects—a pair of crooked, near-retirement FBI agents named McIntyre and McGruder. But as they keep digging, it becomes clear that these FBI agents weren’t acting alone, and that this goes much deeper than just the murder of an innocent 23-year old woman.

Hard Power--the follow-up to the electric Hard Exit--is a riveting new thriller from bestselling author J. B. Turner.When Amy Chang, partner of NSA hacker Trevelle Williams--a friend of Jon Reznick--is found dead on a Manhattan subway, everyone says it was a suicide. But Trevelle knows that someone had been watching Amy's every move, and he isn't about to let them slip away.Trevelle calls on Jon Reznick to help him uncover what happened to Amy and protect Amy's brother, Kevin Chang, a Hong Kong student-activist living in New York. Before long, two government organizations are hunting them, forcing the trio to go on the run. Will Reznick be able to pull himself out of another mess, or have things finally gone too far?As his pursuers close in, Reznick reaches out to Martha Meyerstein, FBI assistant director, for help--but with so many political forces at play, people are not always who they seem to be. With friends' lives on the line, Reznick will have to summon all his black-ops skills, tradecraft, and killer instincts to keep both Trevelle and Kevin alive...but he might have to sacrifice his own life to do it.

Joe Blaine is an average young man, but after a series of catastrophic events unfolds in his life, his world becomes forever changed. Launched into a perilous journey he never would have chosen-but one he sorely needs-Joe learns the true value of struggle in a time when everyone would deem it pointless. In Joe's world, gone are the days of a typical coming-of-age story, as society obscures truth and abuses its people. Instead, Joe is forced through adversity to take an honest look at himself and reconcile all his actions and inactions with the Man he sees staring back at him. As a result, Joe discovers that what seems like mere chance or inevitability is in reality the intersection of the deliberate actions of others and the guiding hand of Providence.Fast-paced, action-packed, and thought-provoking, The Man in the Mirror takes the reader on an adventure along with Joe as he not only learns the truth about his society but also takes control of his own life. Antelope Hill Publishing is proud to present Mark Time's first novel, The Man in the Mirror, a bold contribution to the world of dissident fiction.

"In the wake of a trial loss and personal upheaval, defense attorney Sam Johnstone is drawn back into the legal fray by an accused drug dealer involved in a fatal fentanyl case. The dealer's tantalizing offer? Pivotal information that could exonerate the son of Sam's former partner in exchange for representation. As Sam ventures deeper into this moral minefield, he uncovers suppressed testimony that could incriminate a former client... and threaten his own career."--Amazon.

President of the United States Nicholas Simmons viewed the adoring crowd from the televised monitor overlooking the standing room only crowd at the New York Armory, sitting in the midst of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a ten-minute walk from the George Washington Bridge.It was a payback campaign stop for local congresswoman Juanita Sanchez, who helped pass the President's tax-cut legislation amidst vociferous and politically damaging opposition.Secret Service Agent Zachary Thompson was supervising the Presidential protective division and, with an earpiece in place, sporting a black suit that did not hide the linebacker physique, again surveilled the surrounding crowd. His six-foot-four, 230-pound frame stood five feet to the right of the President and behind the bulletproof glass that encompassed the stage.Suddenly, Special Agent Thompson fell to one knee with his SIG Sauer P229 in hand, pointed directly at the President, and squeezed off one shot. The impact was immediate and with a spurt of blood, President Nicholas Simmons fell to the ground...

He's alive! Back from dead? Still in grief with her pseudo family in hiding at the safehouse in Southern France, Ruby Draker is stunned as she monitors the security system and a photograph appears on the screen. The photograph shows the presumed-dead Robert Draker in a wheelchair at the Portland, Maine, physio clinic. Perhaps ex-spies never die. The Draker family immediately jumps into action and flies to the US to save Robert. But they no sooner land than they realize that not only is Robert harder to find than they'd anticipated, Felix, their deceased arch enemy, has left a legacy involving the Mafia and nuclear material. Even after death, Felix is haunting them with murder and mystery. Now the Drakers have to choose: save their beloved family member, or defend national security.It never ends. There are shadows that seem to follow the Drakers wherever they go.

A gripping, heart-pounding action thrill ride......Agent Red (Fatal Justice) Book 4¿¿Teagan Stone is out of options and quickly running out of time. She must find the creator of America's most sought-after device to save America from a potential attack. But devious Russian forces with deep pockets are impenetrable.The seasoned spy will stop at nothing to find the creator, bring his kidnappers to justice, and prevent a bombing-even if it means she has to risk her life.She refuses to let evildoers take innocent lives. Not on her watch.Agent Red (Fatal Enemy) Book 5¿¿¿Enemies come in all forms, and Teagan Stone is ready for battle, not thinking of the consequences for going to war with her ultimate rival. Can she turn back the clock or will this lead her to nally leave The Firm before it destroys her from within?Agent Red (Fatal Death) Book 6¿¿¿¿¿Teagan Stone has walked a fine line between life and death. This time, she's come across an enemy that doesn't care if she's the most trained killer or not. They only want one thing, and that's to see Agent Red brought to her knees. In a race against time, she will have to make the ultimate decision. Will she be able to save someone close to her or put the country she gave the oath to protect before her happiness?

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America’s violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country, and the worldIt is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that’s held power for over a decade. Efforts to cement its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president has control of the media, but he is beginning to lose control of the streets. Many fear he’ll stop at nothing to remain in the White House. Suddenly, he collapses in the middle of an address to the nation. After an initial flurry of misinformation, the administration reluctantly announces his death. A cover-up ensues, conspiracy theories abound, and the country descends into a new type of civil war.A handful of elite actors from the worlds of computer science, intelligence, and business have a fairly good idea what happened. All signs point to a profound breakthrough in AI, of which the remote assassination of an American president is hardly the most game-changing ramification. The trail leads to an outpost in the Amazon rainforest, the last known whereabouts of the tech visionary who predicted this breakthrough. As some of the world’s great powers, old and new, state and nonstate alike, struggle to outmaneuver one another in this new Great Game of scientific discovery, the outcome becomes entangled with the fate of American democracy.Combining a deep understanding of AI, biotech, and the possibility of a coming Singularity, along with their signature geopolitical sophistication, Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis have once again written a visionary work. 2054 is a novel that reads like a thriller even as it demands that we consider the trajectory of our society and its potentially calamitous destination.