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WOLF'S BLUFF

Wolf's BluffLeisure Books
ISBN-10: 0843963484
ISBN-13: 978-0843963489
$7.99

Homicide cop — and werewolf — Nick Lupo has battled other werewolves before, killers who unlike Nick have no problem hunting human prey. So when a new series of savage animal attacks terrifies the area, Nick already has a suspect in mind. And he knows that if he's right it'll be up to him to destroy her. But even as he begins his surveillance, someone else is out there, watching them both. Someone with a very deadly plan. Someone who knows just what it takes to kill a werewolf.


"In Wolf's Bluff Gagliani once more proves that werewolves are scary as hell. The book is fast, vicious and thoroughly satisfying."
— Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Wolfman

"Wolf's Bluff is arguably the best novel in Gagliani's werewolf series. It's creepy, sexy, fast-paced and brimming with humanity."
— Gary A. Braunbeck, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Far Dark Fields

"Wolf's Bluff will keep you biting your nails right up to its blood-drenched final. Gagliani sets a relentless pace from the first page and never lets up."
— John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The 13th

 

SAVAGE NIGHTS

Savage Nights Kindle Edition (Tarkus Press)
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Tormented Vietnam veteran Rick Brant is forced to use his inconsistent and unreliable psychic ability when his beloved 19-year old niece, Kit, is kidnapped from a busy mall. Realizing that Kit has been snatched for auction by an international sexual slavery ring, Brant reconnects with his Vietnam buddies, some of them ex-cops, to help him pry her from the clutches of the ruthless Goran ("the Serb") and his gang. Her ultimate destination may be a modern harem, a brothel, a dungeon, or one of the Serb's kinky slavery clubs. Or worse. As the horror of Kit's captivity increases daily, Brant becomes rescuer, avenging angel - and executioner. In his quest, he may find redemption for his own past sins. SAVAGE NIGHTS is a tough, pulls-no-punches, noir thriller that's not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!

Includes bonus material: excerpts from horror thrillers by W.D. Gagliani, John Everson, and Scott Nicholson, and a complete crime short story by David Benton and W.D. Gagliani.

 

Thrillers: The 100 Must-Reads

Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner

Thrillers: 100 Must ReadsOceanview Publishing
Hardcover, 408 pages
ISBN-10: 1933515562
ISBN-13: 978-1933515564

The most riveting reads in history meet today's biggest thriller writers... Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads examines 100 seminal works of suspense through essays contributed by such esteemed modern thriller writers as: David Baldacci, Steve Berry, Sandra Brown, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, Heather Graham, John Lescroart, Gayle Lynds, Katherine Neville, Michael Palmer, James Rollins, R. L. Stine, and many more.

Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads features 100 works — from Beowulf to The Bourne Identity, Dracula to Deliverance, Heart of Darkness to The Hunt for Red October — deemed must-reads by the International Thriller Writers organization.

Much more than an anthology, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads goes deep inside the most notable thrillers published over the centuries. Through lively, spirited, and thoughtful essays that examine each work's significance, impact, and influence, Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads provides both historical and personal perspective on those spellbinding works that have kept readers on the edge of their seats for centuries.

Table of Contents

  1. Homer’s The Iliad and the Odyssey (7th Century B.C.)  — William Bernhardt
  2. Beowulf (between 700 and 1000 A.D.) —  Andrew Klavan
  3. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1605–1606­) —  A.J. Hartley
  4. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719­–1722)  —  David Liss
  5. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) — Gary Braver 
  6. James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans (1826) — Rick Wilber
  7. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) — Katherine Neville
  8. Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo (1845) — Francine Mathews
  9. Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860) — Douglas Preston
  10. Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874) — D. P. Lyle
  11. H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885)  — Norman L. Rubenstein
  12. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) — Sarah Langan
  13. Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) — Michael Palmer
  14. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) — Carole Nelson Douglas
  15. H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) — Steven M. Wilson
  16. Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1901) — Tom Grace
  17. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) — Laura Benedict
  18. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902) — H. Terrell Griffin
  19. Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands (1903) — Christine Kling
  20. Jack London’s The Sea Wolf (1904) — Jim Fusilli
  21. Baroness Emma Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)  — Lisa Black
  22. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes (1912) —  Craig Reed
  23. Marie Belloc Lowndes’s The Lodger (1913)  — James A. Moore
  24. John Buchan’s The Thirty—Nine Steps (1915)  — Janet Berliner
  25. E. Phillips Oppenheim’s The Great Impersonation (1920)  — Justin Scott
  26. Richard Connell’s "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924) — Katherine Ramsland
  27. W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden or The British Agent (1928) — Melodie Johnson Howe
  28. P. G. Wodehouse’s Summer Lightning (1929) — R.L. Stine
  29. Edgar Wallace’s King Kong (1933) — Kathleen Sharp
  30. Lester Dent’s Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1933) — Mark T. Sullivan
  31. James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) — Joe R. Lansdale
  32. Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) — Allison Brennan
  33. Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (1939) — David Morrell
  34. Eric Ambler’s A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939) — Ali Karim
  35. Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male (1939) — David Morrell
  36. Helen Macinnes’s Above Suspicion (1941) — Gayle Lynds
  37. Cornell Woolrich’s "Rear Window" (1942) — Thomas F. Monteleone
  38. Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943) — M. J. Rose
  39. Kenneth Fearing’s The Big Clock (1946)  — Lincoln Child
  40. Graham Greene’s The Third Man (1950) — Rob Palmer
  41. Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train (1950)  — David Baldacci
  42. Mickey Spillane’s One Lonely Night (1951) — Max Allan Collins
  43. Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952) — Scott Nicholson
  44. Ernest K. Gann’s The High and the Mighty (1953)  — Ward Larsen
  45. Jack Finney’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1955)  — James Rollins
  46. Hammond Innes’s The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)  — Matt Lynn
  47. Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love (1957) — Raymond Benson
  48. Alistair MacLean’s The Guns of Navarone (1957)  — Larry Gandle
  49. Richard Condon’s The Manchurian Candidate (1959) — Robert S. Levinson
  50. Len Deighton’s The Ipcress File (1962) — Jeffery Deaver
  51. Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey’s Seven Days in May (1962) — James Grady
  52. Lionel Davidson’s The Rose of Tibet (1962) — Milton C. Toby
  53. Richard Stark’s (Donald E. Westlake’s) The Hunter aka Point Blank (1962) — Duane Swierczynski
  54. John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) — Denise Hamilton
  55. Wilbur Smith’s When the Lion Feeds (1964) — W. D. Gagliani
  56. Evelyn Anthony’s The Rendezvous (1967) — Sandra Brown
  57. Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain (1969) — Josh Conviser
  58. James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970) — Terry Watkins
  59. Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal (1971) — F. Paul Wilson
  60. Brian Garfield’s Death Wish (1972) — John Lescroart
  61. David Morrell’s First Blood (1972) — Steve Berry
  62. Trevanian’s The Eiger Sanction (1972)  — Lee Goldberg
  63. Charles McCarry’s The Tears of Autumn (1974) — Hank Wagner
  64. Peter Benchley’s Jaws (1974) — P. J. Parrish
  65. William Goldman’s Marathon Man (1974) — Hank Wagner
  66. James Grady’s Six Days of the Condor (1974) — Mark Terry
  67. Jack Higgins’s The Eagle Has Landed (1975) — Zoë Sharp
  68. Joseph Wambaugh’s The Choirboys (1975) — James O. Born
  69. Clive Cussler’s Raise the Titanic! (1976) — Grant Blackwood
  70. Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil (1976)  — Daniel Kalla
  71. Robin Cook’s Coma (1977)  — C J Lyons
  72. Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle (1978)  — Tess Gerritsen
  73. Ross Thomas’s Chinaman’s Chance (1978) — David J. Montgomery
  74. John D. MacDonald’s The Green Ripper (1979) — J. A. Konrath
  75. Justin Scott’s The Shipkiller (1979) — Lawrence Light
  76. Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity (1980) — Linda L. Richards 
  77. Eric Van Lustbader’s The Ninja (1980) — J. D. Rhoades
  78. Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon (1981)  — Bev Vincent
  79. Jack Ketchum’s Off Season (1981) — Blake Crouch
  80. Thomas Perry’s The Butcher’s Boy (1982)  — Robert Liparulo
  81. Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October (1984)  — Chris Kuzneski
  82. F. Paul Wilson’s The Tomb (1984) — Heather Graham
  83. Andrew Vachss’s Flood (1985) — Barry Eisler
  84. Stephen King’s Misery (1987)  — Chris Mooney
  85. Nelson DeMille’s The Charm School (1988) — J. T. Ellison
  86. Dean Koontz’s Watchers (1988)  — Lee Thomas
  87. Katherine Neville’s The Eight (1988)  — Shirley Kennett
  88. Peter Straub’s Koko (1988)  — Hank Wagner
  89. John Grisham’s The Firm (1991)  — M. Diane Vogt
  90. R.L. Stine’s Silent Night (1991)  — Jon Land
  91. James Patterson’s Along Came a Spider (1992)  — Mary SanGiovanni
  92. Stephen Hunter’s Point of Impact (1993)  — Christopher Rice
  93. John Lescroart’s The 13th Juror (1994)  — Karna Small Bodman
  94. Sandra Brown’s The Witness (1995) — Deborah LeBlanc
  95. David Baldacci’s Absolute Power (1996)  — Rhodi Hawk
  96. Gayle Lynds’s Masquerade (1996) — Hank Phillippi Ryan
  97. Lee Child’s Killing Floor (1997)  — Marcus Sakey
  98. Jeffery Deaver’s The Bone Collector (1997)  — Jeffrey J. Mariotte
  99. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (2003)  — Steve Berry
 

Wolf's Gambit

Wolf's GambitSome people are afraid there’s a wild animal on the loose, savagely tearing its victims apart. Others, like Nick Lupo, know better. Lupo knows a werewolf attack when he sees one. He should, since he’s a werewolf himself, though he’s been able to control his urges and maintain his secret. He’s also a homicide cop, so it may be up to him to hunt down one of his own kind. It looks like there’s a new werewolf in town, a rogue out only for blood. But looks can be deceiving.

Wolf's Gambit, the sequel to the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novel Wolf's Trap, is coming September 2009 from Leisure Books (Dorchester Publishing).

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Wolf's Trap

A chill wind whips through the treetops.

Clouds race past the silver-white disk rising above the woods. Moonlight bathes the landscape in silver tints.

Somewhere in the woods, a creature howls. The sound is forlorn, tragic, full of sadness. But there's rage, too, rage at the moon and its influence.

Water laps at the pier supports up and down the chain of lakes. But people lock their doors and draw their shades. Whatever's out there, they don't want any part of it.

The wind ripples through the trees, bringing with it the smell of woodsmoke.

And fear.


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