Bøger af R G Ryan

On the trail of his most hated enemy, Jake Moriarity is deep in the Amargosa Desert. He is cut off from the FBI team that inserted him, severely wounded, running on empty and apparently hallucinating, because he just shot Paul Morgan in the head with a 12-gauge and then watched him get up and walk away. Paul Morgan, the man single-handedly responsible for causing Jake's niece Cassie, to become addicted to heroin and then setting her up as his main girl in a Seattle escort service. Paul Morgan, who has now kidnapped Cassie and is threatening to kill her while forcing Jake to watch. Paul Morgan, whose life Jake should have ended when he had the chance, but didn't-a decision that has now come back to haunt him, cruelly. In the Amargosa, life is hard-it's kill or be killed. Only, Paul Morgan refuses to die.

After forty years of serving saints and sinners, a disillusioned Father Jack Mahoney has retired. Now he has time for family and hanging out with his pal, Jake Moriarity in Ocean Beach. But, a random encounter with a dying woman reveals a widening rift between the natural and supernatural worlds that will consume all he loves unless he can cobble together the tattered threads of his faith, summon the ancient power he once embraced, and stand in the gap between the living and the dead.

Bartholomew Bennet hadn't planned on living on the streets of the Burnside Triangle, addicted to heroin and pimping himself out. Far from it. A newly minted MBA in hand and a job with one of Portland, Oregon's most promising tech start-ups, Bart had arrived with hopes and plans for the future.And then, it all fell apart. The once bright, engaging twenty-two-year-old hipster was now a skinny, desperate, dying drug addict who would do anything for twenty bucks. And the saddest part of all? No one would be there when he died...not his mother, or his grandfather...Father Jack Mahoney.A thousand miles away in San Diego, Father Jack turns to his good friend, Jake Moriarity to find his grandson. What begins as a favor for a friend becomes a life and death dance with a master of the game as Jake stumbles headlong into a web of intrigue involving prominent members of Portland's wealthy elite, the judicial system, and the Russian mob.At the center of that web Jake finds Bart hopelessly ensnared, but he's not alone. Adolescent and pre-adolescent girls-some kidnapped, some sold by families, but all trafficked for sex-are also there, hidden in plain sight in the City of Roses.With action that is both taut and terrifying, this fast-paced thriller follows Jake Moriarity on a journey through the dystopian darkness of Portland's underworld where he comes face to face with a foe as formidable as Jake is fearless.

Simone Ducharme is poised to be the next big thing in the world of jazz. In fact, according to industry insiders, it's almost a sure thing. Twenty-four, exotically beautiful and blessed with the kind of voice that seems to come along only once in a generation. But to stand where she now stood, in the live room of a legendary Hollywood recording studio-a studio that had been home to some of the most famous recording artists in history-required more than looks and talent. She also had an understanding of the music industry in general and the Jazz genre in particular that transcended her age and experience. In short, Simone was the whole package.Her producer, Lonnie Falcon-also jazz great Aaron Perry's producer-is confident her debut album will surpass one million units in sales and be the crowning jewel on his already illustrious career. But while polishing up her vocals on the album's final track, she simply vanishes while on a five-minute break from recording. But is her disappearance voluntary, or has she been abducted? Falcon only knows one man who can make that determination-Jake Moriarity.When Jake agrees to take on Simone's case, he has no idea that his search will uncover a secret past, a vengeful former enemy and lead him through long forgotten, subterranean ruins into a violent encounter with Yves Barreau...an honest to goodness dead man walking and the toughest man Jake has ever faced."Finding Wonderland" takes the reader on a fast-paced journey from the pristine recording studios of Hollywood to the gritty sands of Ocean Beach in San Diego where Jake is running out of time in a place that time has forgotten.

Eighteen-year-old runaway, Vanessa Phillips, knows a secret...and the secret knows her-knows where she sleeps and where she eats on the streets of Pacific Beach in San Diego, California.Crooked Las Vegas politician Harry Olivetti is willing to kill in order to protect this secret, and his two hired assassins are closing in leaving Vanessa nowhere left to run.To a city by the sea-where the world flocks for sun, sand and surf-comes legendary FBI missing persons consultant, Jake Moriarity...a lost soul in a desperate search to find this lost girl. Moriarity can save her, but first, he has to find her. And the only thing he has to go on is like a watercolor painting that has been left out in the rain with all the colors running together.