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Authors: Brett Battles
Tags: #mystery, #cleaner, #spy, #love story, #conspiracy, #suspense, #thriller
Finally, my thanks and love to the three people who make doing this even more worthwhile than I could have ever thought possible—my kids: Ronan, Fiona, and Keira. The future is yours, and I can’t wait to see what you do with it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brett Battles is the Barry Award-winning author of over a dozen novels, including the Jonathan Quinn series, the Logan Harper series, and the Project Eden series. You can learn more at his website:
brettbattles.com
Becoming Quinn
Every Identity Has an Origin
This Is Jonathan Quinn’s
Most careers begin with an interview and a handshake. Others require…something more.
Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of the best cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he’s a twenty-two-year-old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change.
In a burning barn a body is found—and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it’s something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden—others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.
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Becoming Quinn
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“A pure delight.”—
Jeffery Deaver
,
author of
Edge
and the Lincoln Rhyme novels,
on the first Quinn novel,
The Cleaner
“Quinn is one part James Bond, one part Jason Bourne.”
—
Nashville Book Worm
The Project Eden Thrillers
Sick
Daniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She’s had them before. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare. But the nightmare is his. It’s real. And it's just beginning.
Something is burning Ash's daughter alive. Something horrible that is spreading beyond the walls of their home and taking no prisoners. Soon, Ash’s world threatens to come apart at the seams as a team of armed men in biohazard suits bursts into his house. But these aren’t the good guys. They haven’t come to save Ash’s family. They’ve come to make the problem go away.
But Ash refuses to disappear. He wants only one thing: to find those responsible. Because humanity is on the brink of extinction. And man is pulling the trigger.
Exit 9
Before, it was just a test, a little demonstration to see if the virus worked. It did, and so much better than its creators could have ever hoped. But the testing phase is over. It’s time for Project Eden to take the next step.
If Project members have their way, humanity is about to get a reboot. It’s up to Daniel Ash and the others in the outnumbered resistance to keep the Project from severely downsizing mankind. But can their small force succeed in the face of a plan decades in the making? The human race had better hope so, because if Ash and his friends don’t succeed…
Pale Horse
A simple push of a button and the world will never be the same.
Martina Gable returns home from college to spend Christmas break with her family, but the relaxing vacation she expects is not even close to what she'll get.
Sanjay, a young man in Mumbai who knows more than he should about Project Eden’s plan, will do whatever he can to keep Kusum, the girl he loves, alive and safe.
A boy named Brandon Ash runs for his life in the hills of Montana, wanting only to see his family again.
But first there is Daniel, the boy’s father, who watches Olivia Silva’s finger hover over the enter key that will decide the fate of humanity.
Do you think you’re safe?
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“You think Battles was badass before? He just cranked it up to 500 joules. CLEAR!”
—
PopCultureNerd.com
on
Sick
“
Sick
is Brett Battles at his best.”
—
Tim Hallinan
, author of the Edgar-nominated
The Queen of Patpong
The Logan Harper Thrillers
Little Girl Gone
&
Every Precious Thing
Little Girl Gone
Logan Harper isn't looking for redemption. He just wants to live in peace and forget his troubled past. But one morning his quiet life is upended when he interrupts the attempted murder of his father's best friend, Tooney. The next thing he knows, Logan is on his way to Los Angeles, searching for Tooney's missing granddaughter and uncovering a sinister plot connected not only to Tooney's past, but also to the boardrooms of corporate America. As the odds stack up against him, Logan must fall back on old skills from the life he'd rather forget. He's made a promise, and the only way to fulfill it is to bring the girl home alive.
Every Precious Thing
It was supposed to be a fun weekend, a celebration of a marriage and growing family. Alan Lindley couldn't have been happier...until his wife Sara disappeared. Asked by a mutual friend to help look for her, Logan Harper is sure he'd discover a wife who simply wanted out of the marriage. What he finds instead is a woman who didn't exist, a diabolical plan, and people who would do anything to keep it a secret, including taking the life of the person most important to him. What would you do for those precious to you?
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Little Girl Gone
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Every Precious Thing
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"
The best word I can use to describe his writing is addictive
."
—
James Rollins
, New York Times
bestselling author
The Pull of Gravity
From Brett Battles comes a different kind of novel, one Edgar Award-nominated author Tim Hallinan calls "a mesmerizing thriller of the heart." It's a story of love, tragedy, and those searching for redemption.
Jay Bradley thought he could leave the Philippines behind. But though he's started a new life with a woman he loves, he's still tormented by questions from his past.
He returns to Angeles City, where he once worked as a papasan watching over bargirls. On the surface, he's there to sell his stake in a bar on the notorious Fields Avenue. In reality, he's come back to find Isabel, one of his old dancers, and the only person who can answer his questions and quiet his demons.
Because death is seldom an ending, and often haunts those left behind.
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Table of Contents
PRAISE FOR THE JONATHAN QUINN SERIES
THE COLLECTED Copyright © 2012 by Brett Battles
This one’s for Cami and Tori and all the living you still have in front of you!