Beano X. Bates, a con man known as "King Con," is nearly beaten to death by a New Jersey crime boss and considers leaving his life as a grifter for good. But before he quits, he makes plans to perform one final scam that will ruin the boss and his Mob family forever.

Serial murderer Leonard Land, a seven-foot-tall, multipersonality, computer genius, is being pursued by U.S. Customs agent John Lockwood, forensic psychologist Karen Dawson, and master hacker Malavida Chacone, but when Land learns who has been cracking his programs, he turns the tables on the trio, making them his prey.

This Shane Scully Double Pack is two novels in one--Vertical Coffin plus The Tin Collectors, Stephen J. Cannell's first Shane Scully novel! A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau...

What would modern war be like if the front-line foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals with superhuman strength and speed, and just enough intelligence to understand commands and follow them blindly? This is exactly the weapon being-developed at a base in the desert by a top-secret government agency. Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, champion of lost legal causes...

Detective Shane Scully reports to a Hollywood mansion, the scene of a gruesome murder twenty-five years earlier, to find three dead prostitutes in what his colleagues believe is an open and shut case, but Scully has his doubts and soon uncovers a link between the killings and the mansion's bloody past.

Lita Mendez was a thorn in the LAPD's side. An aggressive police critic and gang activist, she'd filed countless complaints against the department. So when she's found dead in her home, Detective Scully and his partner Hitchens fear the worst: that there's a killer in their ranks.

Beverly Hills playboy Wheeler Cassidy and beautiful African-American detective Tanisha Williams embark on the adventure of their lives when they team up to investigate the death of Wheeler's brother, the only member of the family he ever really loved.

In the aftermath of his son's death, TV reporter Ryan Bolt agrees to film a documentary about a lesser-known presidential contender. The assignment could salvage his damaged life and career, but soon he uncovers the candidate' s mafia connections. Bolt doesn't know whom he truly serves, and by the time he finds out, it may already be too late- as the Mafia attempts to put a puppet leader in the White House. This political thriller...