Bøger af Mark Atley

The past isn't something you can forget, walk away from, or ignore. It connects us all and has secrets, truths, and debts. But all debts have to be paid and secrets have a pesky way of coming out. Stuntman Charlie McQueen owes money to a gangster but just as time is running out to pay, Charlie receives an offer to return home to make a new movie playing his previous boss from his previous life but it also means facing his past and that is something that scares even a stuntman. Bookmaker Ernesto worked for another gangster, but now works for the new one and Charlie is a blight on his books. The gangster sends Ernesto with some help to encourage Charlie to pay back his debts. But the help is a hitman who loves movies named Angelo, and Ernesto isn't sure he wants the gangster's brand of help. Meanwhile, movie producer River has found a story to put her career on top, her own. River knows her family secret. The man who her mother claimed was her father was actually killed by her true biological father. River feels she grew up in a lie, but if everything goes as planned, she'll succeed in rubbing the lie in the faces closest to her. Zeke, River's biological father, River's mother, and the sheriff who investigated the unsolved murder of JB Tenniel, Art are consultants for River's movie that is being filmed at the Tenniel Ranch, 130,000 acres in the heart of Osage County, OK. And when everyone comes home to shoot the movie, so too does the past, leaving the characters asking, can people change who they are? A Bright Young Man is based on a real unsolved murder that occurred in Osage County, Oklahoma.

Five people travel to an all-inclusive resort for different reasons: Johnny escapes his bondsman, steals a trunk load of money from his bookie, and flees to Mexico to hide at his uncle's resort. Gage, Johnny's bondsman, travels to Mexico to get his daddy's handcuffs. Murdock, Johnny's bookie, finds himself in Mexico trying to get Johnny and his money. Samuel, an Olympic Athlete, facing possible sanctions for his behavior and contemplating going to the Olympics for the sixth time, goes to Mexico for a family vacation. And Jeanie, a reporter and Samuel's ex-girlfriend, travels to Mexico for an exclusive interview with Samuel and to attend his intervention

Although the cartel belongs to her brother, Onelia's in charge of the special front company in the U.S., but when programming supervisor George hacks their system, exposing the company to the FBI; she's forced to take matters into her own hands-except she has to find George first. So she hires Sal to find George, who accepts with hesitation-after all, what did the guy do to him?-but when his new secretary runs off with George, both Onelia and Sal learn where peoples' true motivations lie in a shifting world of violence and revenge.

Grief is a bitch When Tony Mora's partner Clyde dies saving his life during a botched DEA operation, the loss throws him in a tailspin. Not that things were going so well before that. Between the married (albeit unhappily) co-worker carrying his baby and his dead partner's widow putting the moves on him, Tony's romantic relationships are a complete disaster. Truth is, mid-level boss Franklin Hayes didn't intend to shoot Tony's partner. Business meetings can be tense, but they don't have to end in a bloodbath. Unless that was the plan. With Tony on his trail, Franklin discovers he's merely a pawn in the unraveling Siriano criminal organization, but he may be stuck in a power struggle well beyond his control. Brimming with action, the alternating POVs in "Too Late to Say Goodbye" explore the depths of friendship and ambition. The novel answers the question: How far are people really willing to go for revenge?

Real love, much like the justice system, is messy. Fresh out of jail, Russell Siriano, boss of the Siriano Organization, is kidnapped. He was supposed to be safe in U.S. Marshal Kelly Chambers's custody.