Bøger af Dean Wesley Smith

Poker: a high-stakes, deadly serious professional sport. Doc Hill knows all too well the risks involved with the sport. Or so he thinks. But when one of the greatest poker players of all time dies, the stakes rise even higher. Doc must solve an increasingly frightening series of murders-and win the biggest tournament of his career-before he finds himself forced to fold his cards for good. A fast-paced thriller that delves deep into the enticing world of high-stakes poker, Dead Money raises the risk of the political thriller to create an exciting new genre-political poker thriller. "Dean Wesley Smith does for poker what James Patterson does for serial killers." -Sheldon McArthur, former owner of Mysterious Books in Los Angeles "[An] exhilarating political poker thriller." -Midwest Book Review

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of Dust and Kisses with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students from the University of Oregon. When they emerged, they found almost everyone in the world dead. Survival became her only thought.Mathematician and galactic explorer Vardis Fisher dropped into orbit over a planet where almost all of the human life had been recently killed for no obvious reason. Suddenly, hundreds of other ships, all human, appear in orbit and start working to save the planet's remaining population.Together, Callie and Fisher work to discover the secrets of a galaxy that has been hidden in plain sight, even from the powerful humans who rescued millions. And in the process, they just might change everything.

Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships.Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures.And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine.Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song.A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of a moon, seems to have no entrance.With little time before millions die, Maria Boone and Roscoe Mundy must somehow take a small team into the massive ship to stop it.A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure and suspense and the humanity that can exist in a vast culture.

The fight with the genetically engineered aliens seems impossible. Benny and Gina, both Seeders, stand on the bridge of their massive mother ship knowing they needed miracles to win.They both know that if they work long enough and hard enough, miracles might happen. Centuries worth of work.A massive-scale Seeders Universe story that started in the novel Star Mist.

A dead alien ship appears close to human space. But in millions of years, no alien race managed to leave its own galaxy.The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alien race, in case they are a threat.Star Mist takes on the vast scale of the Seeders Universe and expands it even more.Galaxy-spanning science fiction at its very best.

From acclaimed Star Trek writer Dean Wesley Smith comes Rescue Two, the latest novel in the Seeders Universe-a space opera series that offers a vision of hope for humanity in dark times.In deep space, bubbles of void space form to keep a balance between matter, space, and time. Inside these bubbles, time barely exists. Five days for a ship trapped in a bubble might be equal to millions of years in real time.For seven million years, Seeders did not know these bubbles existed and ships kept just vanishing until Chairman Evan West discovered the Void Space Bubbles and learned how to free trapped ships.Now Chairman West, his wife Tammy, and the thirty-five-thousand crew of the Rescue Two must find and free the ancient Seeder ships.A galaxy-spanning rescue mission like no other before it.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to a not-so-distant future in his acclaimed Seeders Universe series.Mattie Silks must team up with the most unlikely of partners to save the sector from a ruthless dictator. But her problem with Red Simms stems from more than just his work with Innocence Incorporated. She can't keep her hands off him.And he can't seem to keep his hands off her either.With or without love, the two of them must save the galaxy.

USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeder's Universe series with a seventh novel, Star Fall.Seeders never do anything in a small way, including their sports. Matt and Carey, the chairmen of the Starburst ship Star Fall started a yearly relay race from the very front of their ship to the tail and back again. An extreme relay of over nine thousand kilometers run by ten-member teams.But before the race could start, a scout ship vanishes inside a shielded galaxy. Who could put a shield around an entire galaxy? And why?A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure, suspense, and the vast possibilities of space.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a fourth novel, The High Edge.Benny Slade lives in New York City. One moment the city around him (and everyone he knows) seems normal. The next moment, everyone dies.Working to survive among the dead (and plan for a future) feels impossible, but Benny doesn't give up easily. Especially when he meets the woman of his dreams, and she offers to help him and others survive.And then she offers him an even a bigger job, a job that could take him out into the stars.

The tenth anthology of all-original, never-before-published stories written by fans, for fans.

This new anthology for "Star Trek" fans features never-before published stories spanning the 23rd and 24th centuries, from the early days of Captain Archer and his crew, to the time of James T. Kirk and then on to the later generations of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway.

Torn from the universe by an insatiable cosmic vortex, Earth is trapped in the grotesque parody of reality called the Maelstrom -- along with thousands of other planets, millions of species, billions of warring creatures...all swirling toward ultimate destruction.ALIEN HORRORIt materializes off the Oregon coast in a burst of devastation and tsunamis: an island containing an alien city ... and perhaps the way for Earth to escape the Maelstrom. But the Union soldiers and civilian scientists sent to the strange ruins aren't the only ones who want the island's power. For the humans are soon confronted by unearthly monsters -- the walking-dead Pharons and morphing Sand. And these horrors intend to claim victims on their unholy journey through the Maelstrom, even as the entire island itself begins to disappear.

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott''s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But retired Reno detective Julia Rogers, new to the Cold Poker Gang, suggests they look at that case again for personal reasons.From that simple suggestion spins one of the strangest and most complicated murder mystery puzzles the gang has ever seen.Read the whole thrilling series:Kill GameCold CallCalling DeadBad BeatDead HandFreezeoutAce HighBurn CardHeads UpRing GameBottom Pair

Family time takes the stage with this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. From the gut-wrenching struggle to survive a broken family to the heartbreaking loss of a child to the all-encompassing power of familial love, Legacies takes readers on a roller-coaster of emotions. Spanning genre lines from literary to fantasy to paranormal romance, this volume proves why Adventures Fantastic says: "If you haven't checked out Fiction River yet, you should. There's something for everyone." Table of Contents"Prism of the Crab Gods" by Kelly Washington"Sisters" by Leah Cutter"Deathmobile" by Michele Lang"The F Factor" by Chrissy Wissler"Shaman" by Leslie Claire Walker"Legacy" by Irette Y. Patterson"My Real Cousin Ruby" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch"The Man Who Decided" by Dean Wesley Smith"The Farewell Gift" by Louise Marley

1991. The famous Las Vegas hotel The Landmark scheduled for destruction. A girl''s body found in one of the old rooms. Impossible to even tell her identity or what happened to her.Seventeen years later Cold Poker Gang members Pickett and Sarge take up the girl''s long-cold case. And layer by layer they uncover one of the most twisted crimes in the history of the famous sin city.A crime that still needs to be covered up with even more death.Ace High wins the award for the most twisted crime novel yet in the series of Cold Poker Gang novels. If you love great mystery books, grab this one.

Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room.Her missing person''s case went cold for fourteen years until retired Las Vegas detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson, members of the Cold Poker Gang, decided to investigate how a woman could vanish from a locked hotel room without a trace.Another twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery from the prolific mind of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. If you love puzzle mystery novels, grab a Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.