Bøger af Mike Monahan

Hart Island is haunted by the spirits of the dead. It is used as a potter's field for indigenous peoples. Each grave is dug by the convicts on nearby Rikers Island. Underneath its sandy shores lie bones and death.It also holds a secret.Centuries ago, Captain Kidd himself hid his treasure on Hart Island. When a group of Rikers convicts stumbles on the first clue to its location, they find themselves in a dangerous race for the gold. The prison guards aren't exempt from the lure of the fortune, and as these disparate groups start competing for the gold, even more death, danger, and mayhem will come to the cursed island.At the center of the chaos is Mick "Micko" O'Shaughnessy, a New York City detective charged with the case of a vanload of dead prisoners. These are only the first casualties in the battle for Kidd's cache. Micko will need to study Kidd's own history to find a way to survive the conflict ahead. If the treasure is unearthed, will it be worth all the blood spilled?Mike Monahan's adventure blends historical intrigue with present-day action to create a pulse-pounding thriller about the true price of greed.

In this thrilling sequel to Barracuda, we find many of the same characters reunited in Bikini Atoll. Barracuda II: The Return finds NYPD detective Mick O'Shaughnessy working in the South Bronx Detective Squad with his partner and close friend, Gus Lopez. "Micko" is unexpectedly called to the office of the Chief of Detectives, where he learns that he is being called back to Bikini Atoll to serve as a liaison between FBI agent Buddy Burger and the local government officials. Several years prior, Micko had been on vacation in the South Pacific atoll when he accidentally stumbled upon a money laundering operation. He turned the investigation over to Burger, but he had continued to help solve the intricate case, which involved Russian mafia and Japanese yakuza. This time around, Buddy must work with the DEA in investigating a large heroin-smuggling operation that he suspects is passing through the atoll en route to the United States. Micko's police experience and familiarity with Bikini Atoll will be very helpful, and citing the new interagency compliance directive, Micko arranges for Gus to join him, as well. Afghani opium is being transported through the Khyber Pass into the hands of a sinister man in Bangkok known as the Chinaman. He hides the drugs aboard a transport plane belonging to the civilian contractor company DKL, which stops at the US airbase on Guam for refueling. There, it is secreted aboard a small mail-delivery plane destined for Eneu Airport, located on one of the islands of the Bikini Atoll chain. But before landing, the drugs are dropped into the ocean at the designated coordinates and picked up by a speedboat. The heroin is purified on Shark Alley Island, then carried on DKL jets to Hawaii, LAX, and finally to Eugene, Oregon, the home of the DKL Corporation. The operation had been going smoothly until Buddy Burger had become suspicious and put out radar buoys. The smugglers were forced to change tactics. The new plan? Deliver one final drop of two hundred kilos before walking away from the operation, which entangles a large cast of unsavory characters that includes ex-cons and expatriates in China and Bikini Atoll, along with servicemen at the airbase in Guam and DKL employees. Also returned to Bikini Atoll are Dr. Collins and his protégé, James Donaghey, who have come to continue their research on the effects of seventy years of radioactivity on the region's marine life. Accompanying the scientists this time is James's fiancée, the buxom blond Ambrosia Anderson. Then there are the mutant barracuda. At the opening of the book, we learn of a new breed of these creatures that have hatched in the unnatural tidal surges. Without the mother barracuda to teach the new generation how to hunt and feed, they will have to stick together to survive. The three youngsters remain hidden inside the USS Saratoga, an aircraft carrier that was sunk in the lagoon by an atomic bomb test, until they grow to full size. They become all the more menacing when they learn to communicate with each other by changing the colors of their scales. When a large Japanese consortium takes over the atoll's dive operations for a ceremonial homage to historic shipwrecks, Japanese scuba divers ignore police warnings dive into a world of peril. These and plotlines and more bring exciting, nonstop action and an explosive conclusion. Yet who knows what dangers remain hidden at the bottom of the lagoon!

On the south coast of Japan, everything is in a state of chaos. First, the earthquake hit. Then, the ensuing tsunami-a tragedy that took countless innocent lives. Now, to make matters worse, the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant is spilling radioactive water out to sea. Desperate to stop this ecological disaster in the making, Japan's top scientists have called upon Dr. Tim Collins and Professor James Donaghey for help. But poisonous water isn't the only threat facing this battered region. Priceless antiquities, irreplaceable pieces of Japan's history, have been stolen from area museums-and the hardened gangsters known as the Yakuza are likely responsible. When FBI agent Buddy Burger is called in to aid local law enforcement in tracking down the thieves, there's only one guy he can think of to help him get the job done: NYPD detective Mick O'Shaughnessy. In the thrilling conclusion to the Barracuda trilogy, Micko is reunited with old pals as they work on solving these growing catastrophes-and preventing one surviving barracuda, far from the safety of Bikini Atoll, from carrying out her final act of revenge.

Search Engine Optimization: Secrets For 2011 is a book giving up to date information and 100% coverage of all the elements of Search Engine Optimization. Mike Monahan who consults with the best including SEO guru Sean Odom outlines the secrets professionals use themselves and charge thousands of dollars to provide to their customers. These strategies will help anyone optimize their website and dominate the world's leading search engines. The Internet is now the telephone book. So as a business you have to do the equivelent of a full page ad by being at the top of all the major search engines for your keywords. Your website has to stand out in the center of 80+ million other sites. This is the most up-to-date tell-all guide for anyone trying to reach the highly coveted #1 ranking on Google, Bing, Yahoo and any of the other major search engines. Whether you're a search engine optimization expert or new to web site rankings, the techniques revealed in this book will give you everything you need. This is the only guide you need to place your website at the top of the major search engines in 2011!

Recovering from a gunshot wound he'd received while in the line of duty, NYPD Detective Mick O'Shaughnessy is in need of some relaxing time away from the big city. A vacation in the peaceful, scenic Bikini Atoll, a scuba diver's paradise, could be the panacea to heal his wounded leg as well as his shattered nerves. Then again, maybe it isn't. The Majestic Resort Hotel, unfortunately, does not turn out to be the bastion of tranquility Mick had hoped to enjoy. Immediately upon arrival, Micko inadvertently finds himself dropped in the middle of an international money laundering operation, a territorial feud between the island natives and the resort developers, and an impending mob war between the Russian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. If that weren't nerve-wracking enough, the many years of nuclear testing that had taken place in Bikini Atoll after World War II have had an unusual effect on the sea life in the lagoon-and the freakishly large mutant barracuda who dwells there perceives all scuba-diving tourists as lunch meat. Barracuda is a fast-paced story in which international intrigue, environmental catastrophe, and the sense of cultural pride collide. Even on vacation, Mick O'Shaughnessy is a detective at heart, and he refuses to fly away from the chaos in this island paradise until all questions are answered and feelings of safety and justice take over the atoll. The historical significance of the location and the underwater depictions in Barracuda are well researched, with the story incorporating the history of Bikini Atoll in the years after World War II, authentic scuba-diving knowledge, and proper police procedure into its plot, characters, and scenic detail. Barracuda will be enjoyed by readers who appreciate the aquatic action of Jaws, the mob intrigue of The Godfather, and the police procedural sense of The Onion Field.

A serial killer is on the loose and hiding in the abandoned tunnels and catacombs beneath New York's iconic Penn Station. Women are not safe waiting for trains on dark platforms late at night. It's Christmas week and several women have been reported missing. Local newspapers have dubbed the felon, The Phantom. NYPD Detective Mick O'Shaughnessy has been tasked with hunting down the Phantom. Micko must go undercover as a vagrant and infiltrate the complex societies of homeless communities living underground. The spider web of long forgotten train stations and track tunnels run ten stories underground, stretching west from the Hudson River, and east to the East River, from the southern tip of Manhattan north to the Bronx. Danger lurks in every maze of passages, dilapidated aqueduct systems, power rooms, and ancient coves. The Metropolitan Transit Authority subway trains use an electric third rail that carries 600 volts of paralyzing death. Automated train tracks switch directions without warning. Micko must search the live rails as well as the abandoned subway and freight stations far below the surface of the bustling Manhattan streets. He must encounter the homeless, the depraved psychopaths, and criminals in hiding, the Mole People, runaways, crack addicts, and a host of subhuman Skells. Working alone, undercover, Micko must rely on help from the Mole People to find the Phantom. The Phantom of Penn Station will take the reader on a historical tour of the underbelly of New York City and the dangers that lie below.