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DIRE SALVATION keeps some of the characters from Neff's previous HARD CACHE and introduces fascinating new ones. The story is set in Washington State's Central Cascade mountains and is driven by a murder, a new designer drug and personal legacies from Native American hstory.
div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">span style="color: black"> i>Dire Salvation/i>/b> (Bennett & Hastings Publishing, May 2012), Charles B. Neff’s captivating fifth thriller, is the story of a complex murder investigation that propels local law enforcement officers to search for the source of a sophisticated new drug. Set in /span>the Cascade Mountains of Central Washington state, the pace of Dire Salvation is swift, as accelerating action over five days builds suspense at every turn./div>
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A murky family legacy, tribal tights and a troubled marriage swirl around a suspicious death in Washington's Cascade Mountains.
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HARD CACHE is Charles B. Neff's fourth thriller, Joining Hidden Impact, Patriot Schemes and Peace Corpse.
Each book is freestanding and may be read without having read the others. However, characters do move from book to book, producing not sequels but overlap in the stories of a few main characers.
HARD CACHE races readers through a tight spate of events that force people to examine their commitments – past, present and future - in the light insistent reality.
Neither marriage nor murder is on Magnus Torval’s agenda when he and his fiancé, Mariela, travel to the Cascade mountain town of Swiftwater, Washington for a reunion with their friends, but the recently retired police officer soon finds himself swept up in the rip tides of both.
Mariela’s spontaneous wedding plans and Magnus’ discovery of a fresh corpse make for an unholy combination that threatens to drown their happiness and jail a beloved pastor whose fellow-believers fled religious persecution in Russia. Along with a local policeman and a young Ukrainian woman, Magnus and Mariela are drawn into events that lead to upheaval for many and terror for some, exposing buried connections to art theft, organized crime and brutality during the Russian-Afghan War.
Tributaries of memory and action, celebration and revenge, past and present, converge in a climactic confrontation deep in the mountains.
HARD CACHE,is published by Bennett & Hastings Publishing,with a oublication date of September 2010. HARD CACHE is available through AuthorsDen, Amazon.Com, Imgram, Partners West and www.booksbyneff.com
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In summer 2004, Jim Nordberg revisits the village in Nicaragua where he lived in the 1970s, and nothing is as he expected. Kris Behr, once a friend and now a possible nemesis, wants Jim's help in finding a diary that survived an old plane crash. It reveals the secret, and possibly illegal, activities of wealthy Nicaraguans, the CIA, and unknown others, any of whom may kill to get their hands on the diary. Caught in the middle, Jim finds Luci Fuentes, whose own past is linked to the unfolding events. As the race turns violent, they find strength -- and much more -- in each other.
The forward door of our Atlantic Airlines flight swung out and humidity leaked in off the tropical runway. Managua, Nicaragua, same old oven. At the top of the mobile stairs, my whole body began to sweat. Overhead a big sign grabbed my attention: The Augusto Sandino International Airport. Now that was a change. In 1972, my last time here, the Somosas, father and sons, were nearing the end of their three and a half decades as dictators of Nicaragua; and Sandino, hero of the rebel Sandinistas, didn’t have his name on anything. I stepped down to the shimmering tarred apron, and mid-after | |  | | Patriot Schemes
Four individuals in as many locations discover pieces of a conspiracy in progress; they meet, share information, and work together to avert the plot.
A small, cunning group, the Apostles, has hatched a plan to penetrate America's government with a secretly-trained cadre. Four individuals who initially don't know each other -- a governor, a foundation executive, a congressional aide and a former corporate whistle-blower -- get wind of separate parts of the plan. In Texas, Wisconsin, New York, Virginia and Washington DC, each gradually learns what the others know. Together the four work frantically against an impending, irreversible deadline. In the process of learning that people they thought they knew aren't who they seemed to be, they a | |  | | Peace Corpse
It’s summer in Stockholm where international youth gather to plan peace, while opponents in their midst threaten them with disruptions and with murder. Ghada Shafi from Palestine, Binyamin Dayan from Israel, and Mariela Fuentes, a child of the violence that wracked Nicaragua, have assumed leadership roles at the Youth for Peace meetings. Negotiations that cross language barriers and cultural differences are difficult enough; but when a participant from Syria dies mysteriously, the meeting is engulfed in distrust and fear. Magnus Torval, a Swedish detective who is also a famous international power lifter, investigates the mysterious death and other events that threaten the YFP participants. He must work closely with Mariela, as the two of them confront not only difficult developments in the volatile Swedish immigrant community, but also their own past disappointments and mutual attraction. With each passing day, Mariela, Magnus, Ghada and Binyamin see the stakes of failure get larger. They are running out of time to find out who is behind the rapidly growing danger.
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Four young strangers to each other in Seattle are thrown together as each uncovers a part of a potentially dangerous logging project. Soon they are working together just to stay alive.
span style="font-size: medium;">As winter rains erase a mild Seattle fall, a normal-looking logging project reveals the danger lurking within it. Key Flanerty sees strangers in the shadows, reminders that there are those who could be hunting down an old tape recording. Crash Davies tries to help, but complicates the situation with his curiosity. Gary Seasons and Laura Dickens work on environmental issues for state agencies, and soon are investigating a proposal that looks suspiciously like a previous disaster. Behind it all, a ruthless money man pulls the strings.&n |
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The Underground River
by Richard Cederberg
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 Forced to put the schooner Heimdall into dry-dock for repairs and modifications, the crew chooses to holiday in Southern Utah so they can rendezvous with the Professor, a brilliant confidant from Rabat. What he shares at the summit stuns the crew and |
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