Bøger af Michael McBride

Impress your friends with mind-blowing knowledge from a book that's even more fun than the facts inside Over the course of a raucous night, a cast of hilarious characters explore and debate history, space, psychology, and what it means to be human. The reader has a front row seat at the party, from the early small talk--where they discuss light and fun ideas ("Did you know that astronauts have Velcro on the inside of their helmets to scratch their noses?")--to the end of the night, when conversations get deeper. ("Who were the Sea Peoples and did they cause the Bronze Age collapse?") Each character at the party serves a purpose. There's a travel blogger who shares fun facts from around the world--the reader can even see her photos! An archaeologist from a prestigious Boston university is attending the party; he'll chime in and add context on ancient civilizations. A sharp-witted friend from Long Island is less intellectual--but he loves cracking jokes and only understands history through sports metaphors! Through these characters and others, How to Sound Smart at Parties avoids the traditional problem that fun fact books have: they're hard to read for more than a few pages at a time. Instead, this book can be read cover-to-cover. By presenting ideas in the form of dialogue and narrative, the reader stays engaged and learns without even realizing it. Characters ask the big questions: what constitutes a conspiracy theory? How do our biases inform what we share? Are there any more hors d'oeuvres? Between bites of cheese and bytes of information, the reader picks up facts that they can share with their real-life friends. But most importantly: they have fun. Because How to Sound Smart at Parties is a party. And, just like any great party, you'll never want it to end.

Top 10 Suspense Horror Bestseller! The butchered remains of Jasmine Rivers are discovered in the cellar of an abandoned farmhouse on the desolate eastern plains of Colorado, the fourth mutilated body found in the last two months. The FBI is still searching for the missing parts of the previous three. Hundreds of miles away in Arizona, eleven corpses are exhumed from the Sonoran Desert. They've been mummified and bundled in traditional Inca style. But the Inca lived in South America, and these bodies aren't centuries old. Seemingly unrelated victims that share a common cause of death: exsanguination. Special Agent Paxton Carver follows the trail of blood, which leads him to the continuation of genetic experimentation that began during World War II and a designer retrovirus capable of altering human chromosomes. Can he track down the virus and prevent further exposure before the real bloodletting begins?

A small town in the hills of Southern Indiana is the hometown of Michael Johnson. Michael "MJ" Johnson is the town marshal who wants to simplify his life as he approaches the age of forty. He decides to leave law enforcement, and just weeks before his official retirement date, a murder takes his life down a complicated series of paths that eventually leads him to the life he didn't know he was looking for.His best friend from high school, Barry Kaiser, who is now the mayor of West Baden and instrumental in getting him the marshal position, becomes the prime suspect in the murder. Complicating things even more is his present relationship with Barry's younger sister, Monica.His town marshal replacement, Kathy, works closely with him during the investigation, resulting in the two of them becoming involved with each other, and through his relationship with her, he finds what was missing in his life. He then realizes that leaving the force was merely an exit from his present life and would still have left him empty.He is retired from the force and now having what he believes to be a life he could never have. However, doubts about his conclusion to the murder haunted his serenity. He secretly began following up on a lead that hadn't occurred to him during the initial investigation. What he uncovers is far more than he bargained for, and the murder he thought he had put behind him now comes back to threaten not only his life but also the life of his wife and unborn child.He discovers a world behind the murder he knew existed but finds inconceivable that it could exist in the small-town atmosphere he grew up in and believed he understood.

When Marks father died there was a void.... But by chance Mark receives what he believes is a message from beyond the grave. 'So it begins...' And perhaps there is 'hope' after all! This is a story for all of those who have lost someone. Maybe, just maybe, all is not lost...

#1 Amazon Bestselling Author Arizona shares nearly four hundred miles of international border with Mexico, thirty-six of which are completely unfortified. On one side lies desperation; on the other, opportunity. Tens of thousands of undocumented aliens pass through these thirty-six miles every year, only to find one of the harshest and most inhospitable deserts on the planet waiting for them. Hundreds die walking, casualties of the merciless sun, their bodies never to be identified. Others simply set out across the red Sonoran sands and vanish into thin air, as though they never existed at all. Special Agent Lukas Walker is assigned to investigate a murder, the only evidence of which is a twenty-foot design painted on a rock formation in the victim's blood. He quickly learns that if the heat doesn't get you...The Coyote will. Includes a free bonus novella: The Calm Before the Swarm. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL McBRIDE "The Coyote is a significant book, and comes highly recommended." - Twilight Ridge "Hillerman fans will love it!" - Jeff Strand, Author of Pressure "McBride writes with a rare confidence, and his story will thrill you to your reptilian core!" - Tim Lebbon, author of Echo City and Fallen "Michael McBride literally stunned me with his enigmatic talent and kept me hanging on right up until the end." - Midwest Book Review "Get ready for a wild ride! With his latest thriller, McBride delivers on all fronts - suspense, action, intrigue, unexpected twists, and a villain who makes Hannibal Lector look like a Boy Scout. Toss in a sweltering Arizona desert and a cast of characters who each have a secret agenda, and you've got The Coyote - one of the best books you'll read this year." - JG Faherty, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Ghosts of Coronado Bay, Cemetery Club, and Carnival of Fear. "The Coyote is an engrossing thriller with a fascinating central character. Native-American FBI agent Lukas Walker has a wry, gritty voice that immediately compels readers to follow him on the dark trail of a serial killer. The mystery is intricate and involving, with surprising revelations at the character level, and many tense scenes as Walker digs deeper into the killer's lair. There are effective moments of horror throughout, as we expect from Michael McBride-author of such books as Bloodletting and Burial Ground-but The Coyote is first-and-foremost a detective thriller. This book is sure to earn McBride many new fans-and we'll all be demanding further adventures featuring Lukas Walker." - Norman Prentiss, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Invisible Fences and Four Legs in the Morning "Every time I read a new book from Michael McBride I come away more impressed. He seemingly moves effortlessly between genres, producing chilling horrors, incredibly imaginative science fiction and fantasy, and top notch crime stories. With his newest novel, The Coyote, McBride gives us an edge of your seat nail-biter that is part police procedural and a dark thriller that actually manages to thrill. I loved this book and had a hard time putting it down. I personally think it may be his best effort yet; and that's saying a lot. Trust me on this - The Coyote has bite! Highly recommended!" - Gord Rollo, Author of The Jigsaw Man and Valley Of The Scarecrow

A Safety Man loses his job after there is a fatality on a construction site. However, it isn't long before a missing labourer and talk of a murder start an unlikely hero on a mission to clear his name. Uncoiling the dark and dangerous underworld of Scotland capital city.... Michael McBride is the author of 'Hunt Hunted, Murder Murdered', 'Natures Way' and 'The Wordsmith', and won Global Short Story for 'Friendly Fire' in 2010. He spent 20 years in Safety Management roles, and wrote this book while giving the right people, the right information, at the right time - so that they could go home safely every day. Some days your job can be murder....

Necromancer is a modern day horror fantasy story about vengence, murder and a scientific approach to the supernatural. It contains humor, adult content, horror, gore, action, violence, and sexual situations.

#1 KINDLE BESTSELLING AUTHOR A young girl vanishes in broad daylight on her tenth birthday. Her father, FBI Special Agent Phil Preston of the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, devotes his life to finding her and discovers a pattern in a recent string of abductions. Dr. Les Grant leads a group of graduate students into the Wyoming wilderness in search of an unidentified Native American medicine wheel photographed by an anonymous hiker. Instead, they stumble upon a macabre tableau of suffering. Fremont County Sheriff Keith Dandridge finds himself right at the heart of the mystery when twenty-seven bodies are disinterred in the Wind River Range at the westernmost edge of his jurisdiction, with the promise of more to come. All the while, an unknown evil is summoning the men to its killing grounds, where the remains of the lost innocents are left to rot...and a fate far worse than death awaits them.

#1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR A team of scientists unlocks the secret of the next phase of human evolution in the most unstable geological region on the planet...at the bottom of the sea in the Pacific Ring of Fire. When a massive earthquake rocks Oceania, generating a tsunami that decimates the surrounding islands and sinks the research vessel, a rescue team is dispatched...only to find that the majority of the crew had been slaughtered prior to the ship's foundering. The survivors find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere on an island that's being ripped apart from the inside out, desperately trying to reach the lone settlement on the far side.But they aren't alone.Something is hunting them from the jungle, something borne of the fire at the Earth's core. And their only hope for escape rests in the hands of a man who would sooner let them all die than share the island's secrets. PRAISE FOR MICHAEL McBRIDE"A thrilling adventure! Fans of Michael Crichton will love it!" - Jeff Strand, Author of Pressure"McBride writes with a rare confidence, and his story will thrill you to your reptilian core!" - Tim Lebbon, author of Echo City and Fallen"Michael McBride literally stunned me with his enigmatic talent and kept me hanging on right up until the end." - Midwest Book Review"McBride just keeps getting better!" - Hellnotes

The Library of the Dead is an anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area's most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golden books (urns) shelved from floor to ceiling in a glowing labyrinth of nearly countless rooms. The stories within The Library of the Dead represent a few of those golden books, and when opened, reveal the stories of those inside.