Mike Ryan

Jack Carter's got a problem. He left his old life, and his old crew, behind to start a family. But now, several years later, they've come calling again. The leader of the crew, Dominic Cirella, wants to pull off an armored car job right under the noses of the cops who are tailing them. Will Jack sacrifice his new peaceful life for a potential big score? Will they be able to pull it off? Or will they all go down in a hail of gunfire? Visit Mike's website to find out more about him and his books at www.mikeryanbooks.com

Frustrated that his organization is crumbling while he's in prison, Mallette starts getting desperate. Willing to do anything to get the former detective out of his life, and further drive him into a hole he can never recover from, Mallette orders the kidnapping of the kids of Jacobs' brother. Fearful that the kids might end up like the rest of his family, Jacobs frantically searches the city to find them before they end up in the cemetery. With time growing short, and Jacobs knowing that his enemy is willing to do the unthinkable, Jacobs enlists the help of unlikely allies in order to find them before it's too late. Will Jacobs find them before Mallette's men do the horrific act? Or will Jacobs get there too late and cause his pain and suffering to go to even lower proportions. Visit Mike's website at www.mikeryanbooks.com.

As Jacobs becomes more at ease with his nickname, and starts using his abilities to help others, he finds he is still not done with Mallette's bunch. Or at least what they used to be known as. Lawrence Wiggins, Mallette's lawyer, is found dead, leading the imprisoned crime boss to getting a new attorney appointed from New York. Only this one comes with caveats. Roger Alexander is not only Mallette's new lawyer, but he's also taking over his organization. But in order to completely take over, he needs Mallette, and the rest of his men, eliminated. He calls for a truce with Jacobs, speaking to him at the cemetery, and offers up the rest of Mallette's men for him on a silver platter. But something isn't right. Is Alexander really just serving up the rest of Mallette's men, or is he luring Jacobs into a trap to try and get rid of The Eliminator once and for all? Visit Mike's website to find out more about him and his books at www.mikeryanbooks.com

There's a contract out on Brett Jacobs. He knows it has something to do with Mallette, but he keeps hearing the name of Harper. There are multiple teams of hitmen scouring the city streets for him, all looking for a chance at a big payday. Even Gunner now has a contract out on him. It will all culminate in a final, bloody mess inside a warehouse. Will Jacobs and Gunner make it out alive? Or will one of them succumb to the contract that was placed upon their heads? Visite Mike's website to find out more about him and his books at www.mikeryanbooks.com

Even while Rich Mallette is in prison, he's still calling the shots. Brett Jacobs may have taken out a dozen of his men, but he's not ready to throw in the towel just yet. He's still got a few things up his sleeve for the former detective, one of which is another heinous act aimed to destroy what's left of Jacobs' soul. While Jacobs battles more of Mallette's Maulers, he also learns the identity of the second man who was with Frazier when his family was killed. As he searches for the killer, he finds and takes in a dog named Gunner, who he starts training to be by his side throughout the ordeal. All of which will culminate in Jacobs and Mallette finally meeting face to face for the first time since Mallette ordered the hit on Jacobs' family. Visit Mike's website at www.mikeryanbooks.com to find out more about Mike and his books.

Detective Brett Jacobs is a good cop. He's honest, hardworking, and intent on bringing down a major criminal organization. But he's soon going to have his limits tested. After he finishes an undercover assignment, resulting in the arrest of a major crime boss, he'll find out just how dirty the bad guys play. His world comes crashing down after an unspeakable tragedy, leaving Jacobs virtually despondent and wondering about his role in the unthinkable act. Jacobs soon realizes that in order to beat a low-life criminal organization like this, he has to fight fire with fire. Will he really throw his badge away and become a one man wrecking crew? Or will he try to get retribution within the confines of the law? One thing's for certain, the men he's going up against have severely underestimated the lengths that he'll go to. And he'll stop at nothing in order to extract his revenge. Visit Mike's website at www.mikeryanbooks.com

All great empires eventually fall...and not many are saved by a handful of undisciplined soldiers. In the Hyades Star Cluster, it's Humania's turn to face its greatest crisis, and the Troublemakers are those very soldiers, tasked to investigate fallen carboncrete production on a distant world. However, what they discover is much worse Hated by humans and orcs alike, the Troublemakers fight for survival while facing challenges of every kind. From jail breaks to ship battles, drinking to gambling, this raucous, ragtag team of specialists fights enemies, conventional perception of special forces, and themselves as they return to the very place that haunts their very souls. Gods help them

Throughout the Hyades Star Cluster and beyond is a vicious species known as Orcs. Much bulkier and stronger than men, the Orcs' reputation as bloodthirsty killers and the fear that they strike into their victims' hearts hasn't been understated. For all of their treachery that has been documented by humans, few have been recognized as having any more intelligence than dogs. None have been credited with having the slightest bits of compassion. However, an Orc with such qualities does exist. Follow Nuttybomb, a backward, adolescent Orc as he overcomes numerous struggles to lead his isolated world against an overwhelming force of barbaric Orcs. Follow his struggles through uncharacteristic acts of humor, love, and intelligence while he catapults his maligned species into a new era, all amidst war and the dead rising. Follow him on a Path to the Gods Part of Hyades Wars, book 1 in the Orcs series

There's a new criminal element in town and they state their arrival by knocking off a few of Vincent's men. Recker and the team get drawn into the middle of it and start investigating to learn the identity of the mystery player. Recker and Haley get a tip about a high-level meeting of the new crew in an abandoned building, but all is not what it seems. Instead of a meeting, they run into Malloy, who's also there to investigate, and an otherwise empty building. It turns out to be an ambush, and only two of the three will escape uninjured. Will they find out who's responsible for the attack and bring them to their brand of justice? Or will the perpetrators slip out from under their fingers to cause more chaos and destruction?

Somebody is shooting police officers. After several killings, and no progress on finding the shooter by the police department, Recker is asked to lend a hand. One of Vincent's men inside the department, a homicide detective, reaches out to The Silencer, setting up a meeting through Vincent. As Recker, Haley, and Jones investigate the killings, they start to find more questions than answers, and realize that everything is not as cut and dried as it seems. Once the supposed killer is finally found, Recker thinks he may have been played. He's not so sure that it wasn't a plant and the man was framed. All of which leads him to question, if it's someone else behind the shootings, who has the power and motivation to pull it off? And why?

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After six months away in Detroit, Recker and Jones return their operation to Philadelphia. They're almost immediately thrown into trying to prevent a cop killing. They also come back to find things aren't quite the way they left them. One of the city's crime leaders tries to force Recker's hand, by using Mia as bait, in helping them take control of the city. Despite getting the cold shoulder from Mia initially upon his return, Recker works hard at freeing her from danger, taking her to the only place he knows she'll be safe. It leads to a violent conclusion, one that finds Recker working with the police by his side.

Recker and Jones go hunting to add a third member to the team. After an exhaustive search, Jones has finally found the perfect candidate. Former CIA Operative Chris Haley has been out of the game for a couple of years, but jumps at the chance to jump back into things as the new Silencer. As Recker and Haley start settling in with their new work dynamic, things don't go as smoothly as they have in the past. They get into a rough situation that leads to Recker getting put in handcuffs and taken away in a police car. Can Jones engineer Recker's release? Or will they once again become a two man team with only Jones and Haley?

Eric Lamb is a world renowned hit-man. He's the best there is. He's the number one go-to man when a job pops up. But Lamb is getting tired of his profession. The constant killings, some seemingly innocent, have finally taken their toll on him. And he's about to do something about it. After he's contracted to do a new job, he decides he's had enough. All in the hopes of saving a young girl he doesn't even know. And it will probably cost him his life.

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Cain finally relents to getting his head and seizures fixed, but his recovery time is cut short from eight weeks to one week when he learns his fellow agent, and friend, Eric Raines has gone missing. Will the rushed recovery period have dire consequences for the super assassin? Despite the concerns of those closest to him, Cain ignores the personal dangers to his health in his quest to find his friend and the last remaining remnants of the previous Specter regime, who are still on the run. His adventures take him to France, Germany, and back to Honduras, where it all started for him. Will his mission end where it all began?

Cain, still reeling from the attack on his girlfriend, gets even more suspicious of Project Specter when they send him to Russia to find Dmitri Kurylenko, a man he has already secretly killed. After another attempt on his life, he soon learns of the agency's involvement in keeping his memory from him and sets to meet with a man who seems to know everything. Unfortunately for Cain, Specter showed up first and framed Cain for murder. Now, on the run, he must protect those close to him, while also trying to prove his innocence. In his quest to take down Project Specter, Cain turns to the only man he can trust for help, Eric Raines, a man Specter wants almost as badly as Cain, and a man as equally bent on taking down Specter as he is.

In this follow-up to The Cain Conspiracy, Matthew Cain finds himself on the wrong side of a hit man. After he is sent on an assassination mission in Russia, The Specter Project learns of a man seeking revenge for Cain's actions. After Cain hears of the man's intentions, he sets out on a frenetic search to find the killer before he makes good on his plans to kill both Cain and his girlfriend. Along the way, Cain finds more questions than answers about the mysterious assassin, who seems to be a ghost. As Cain dives deeper into his quest, he starts to wonder about his role within the super secret agency and whether there are those above him who know more than what they appear.

After the circumstances of Agent 17's death, the CIA turns to a specialist to help track down the man they think is responsible--John Smith. Though Recker knows Centurion is coming, he doesn't change how he operates and winds up on police surveillance cameras. Feeling the walls closing in, Jones wants to pack up and move to a new city, though Recker has reservations about leaving. It all boils down to a final confrontation between Recker and his former employers--one he may not survive.