But on a Honolulu beach he encounters an old enemy - Alexis Bendor. The Gaijin wants to expand to America and makes a secret visit to Hawaii for talks. A young prostitute saved his life in the war and he’s never forgotten her. Now he’s the Gaijin, in control of Japan’s largest Yakuza mob. A first-rate suspense thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats."ĭuring World War Two, Englishman Rupert de Jongh betrayed his country and became a top intelligence agent for Japan. "Marc Olden is as good a crime writer as we have, and in Fear's Justice he outdoes himself to produce a tense, dramatic novel.this is a powerful, gripping tale of cops and crime.
Together they discover the asking price for justice – Fear’s justice – may be their lives. Fear and Carlyle Taylor are drawn into a terrifying web of dirty money, political and police corruption, and murder-for-hire. Fear uncovers a frame-up, and is soon stalked by The Exchange Students, a secret organization of killer cops from New York and Washington.įear’s only ally is his worst nightmare: Carlyle Taylor, African American, female and an ambitious journalist determined to get Fear thrown off the force. A homeless black man is charged with the crime. His world is shattered when his lover, a policewoman, is murdered. Fear’s a good cop but has little use for foreigners, minorities, civil rights advocates, and the politically correct. It’s Russian, Chinese, Nigerian, Armenian, and Columbian. Organized crime hasn’t been just Italian for a long time. This fast-paced tale of historical supernatural suspense, which Booklist hailed as "unfailingly readable and terrifically well-written," provides "one cliffhanging chapter after another" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Detective Feargal (Fear) Meager works with New York’s Organized Crime Bureau. Now, writer and fighter must stand together to save humanity from a darkness beyond even Poe's tortured imagination. A bare-knuckle fighter named Pierce James Figg arrives with a letter of introduction from Charles Dickens, begging for Poe's help chasing down the power-mad devil worshiper. In the shadows of New York City, Poe drowns his talent in rotgut gin, trying to forget the death of his beloved wife.
To combat his dark designs, mankind's hopes rest on a troubled author named Edgar Allan Poe. Jonathan is the most powerful psychic on earth, and in service of his god, Lucifer, he will tear civilization apart. The throne has been lost for millennia, but now one man seeks to find it and harness its secrets to unleash hell upon the world. It is said that beneath Solomon's glorious throne, books that gave the fabled king control over life, death, and demonic power were buried. A half-mad, alcoholic Edgar Allan Poe aims to defeat an occultist's terrifying plot in this "intelligent, suspenseful" thriller set in 1840s New York ( Booklist ).
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