Hundreds of years after the War of the World devastated humanity, only one nation is still thriving in North America: the Empire of the Nunavit, also known as the Empire of the North, where Canada once stood.

In the first book of this series, "The Noble Warrior," young Sire Armand de la Couture traveled south with his father by airship on a trading mission to a city-state called Potomick, which was once the capitol of the world's greatest empire, known as Amerka.

There, among the ruins of buildings and museums, he came upon a sacred site, a temple of a bearded, brooding man, sitting on a throne, looking out upon a rectangular pond. The man is known as Father Abram, and centuries ago, the stories say, he once freed the slaves. He is now worshipped and offerings are left at his feet, for the oppressed people of Potomick pray that a new Father Abram will arise and free the slaves once again.

Armand soon returned to the safety and comfort of his Empire, but he then took a critical look at his Empire's society, where indentured servants work for families to work off debts decades old, and Armand began to ask questions.

Now, in "The Noble Prisoner," Armand has caught the attention of his Empire's security forces. Beaten, interrogated and tortured --- and also abandoned by his family --- he is deported west to the Imperial Oil Sands Authority, where condemned prisoners work as slaves to extract needed oil from the ground for the benefit of the Empire. There, as a pampered prince who has never known cold, hunger and fear, Armand is forced to survive both the elements and assassins.

In this stunning second work of a three-novel series, award-winning winner author Brendan DuBois sets a new world among the ashes of the old, where the humanity-long struggle between freedom and slavery takes place in the ancient lands once known as Canada and America...

Coming soon, the sequel to "The Noble Prisoner".... "The Noble Prince: Book Three of the Empire of the North."

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www.jeroentenberge.com.

"I read everything Brendan DuBois writes. Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, it doesn't matter. He's one of the best." --- " -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo award-winning author

Hundreds of years after the War of the World devastated humanity, only one nation is still thriving in North America: the Empire of the Nunavit, also known as the Empire of the North, where Canada once stood.

From this Empire, young Sire Armand de la Couture travels south with his father by airship on a trading mission to a city-state called Potomick, which was once the capitol of the world's greatest empire, known as Amerka.

There, among the ruins of buildings and museums, he comes upon a sacred site, a temple of a bearded, brooding man, sitting on a throne, looking out upon a rectangular pond. The man is known as Father Abram, and centuries ago, the stories say, he once freed the slaves. He is now worshipped and offerings are left at his feet, for the oppressed people of Potomick pray that a new Father Abram will arise and free the slaves once again.

Armand soon returns to the safety and comfort of his Empire, but takes a critical look at his Empire's society, where indentured servants work for families to work off debts decades old, and Armand begins to ask questions. But soon Armand catches the attention of his Empire's security forces, and he is forced to make a terrible decision: to betray his noble family and the Empire that has raised him, or to fight for those who have no voice, who are slaves in name and in deed, struggling to survive in the Empire of the North.

In this stunning debut work of a three-novel series, award-winning winner author Brendan DuBois sets a new world among the ashes of the old, where the humanity-long struggle between freedom and slavery takes place in the ancient lands once known as Canada and America...

And coming soon, the sequel to "The Noble Warrior".... "The Noble Prisoner: Book Two of the Empire of the North."

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www.jeroentenberge.com.

"I read everything Brendan DuBois writes. Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, it doesn't matter. He's one of the best." --- " -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo award-winning author

For nearly three decades, the fate of 2,000 American servicemen, missing in action in Vietnam, has remained a mystery. Now, with the ring of a doorbell, the mystery of some is about to be solved.

Smalltown newspaper editor, Jason Harper, answers his door in the middle of the night to see an older man, shabbily dressed, with gray hair and a beard. And in a split second, Jason's life turns upside down. The man claims to be Jason's older brother, Roy, shot down over North Vietnam in 1972.

Jason's joy at reuniting with his brother is quickly tempered as ruthless killers begin pursuing his family and friends, and as his faith in the man's claims threatens to tear his family apart. Author Brendan DuBois pulls readers along for a harrowing ride on a deadly mission to reveal the truth.

In this special Kindle and Nook edition, author Brendan DuBois has expanded the original edition of his novel, and also includes an Author's Afterword.

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www.jeroentenberge.com.

"From the author of the Lewis Cole mysteries: a hair-raising thriller about Vietnam MIAs who, it turns out, were never more than semi-missing... the story grabs, and the pages turn, testimony to the power of the narrative." -- Kirkus

"The nagging doubt that our government has never really done everything in its power to discover the final fate of hundreds of Vietnam War MIAs explodes into a dark and totally credible cloud of fear and anger in Brendan DuBois' powerful and heartbreaking new thriller." -- The Chicago Tribune

"DuBois, whose Resurrection Day (1999) had JFK's Bay of Pigs debacle actually starting WWIII, sets up another frighteningly plausible scenario in his latest smart and heartbreaking thriller. Suppose a group of Vietnam MIAs had been secretly shipped to the Soviet Union, where intelligence agents grilled them constantly for almost 30 years? What would've happened to these men when the U.S.S.R. fell apart?" -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"Everyone remembers exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them."

In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of the nuclear war. The crisis was averted, but what would have happened if war had broken out? In "Resurrection Day," award-winning author Brendan DuBois brings this horrific concept to life...

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child: "'Resurrection Day' is the best 'what if' novel in years --- more clever and resonant than Robert Harris's 'Fatherland' --- and all the more scary because disaster was minutes away from happening for real. A book you'll read three times and keep on your shelves forever."

New York Times bestselling author William Martin: "What if the Russians had not blinked in October 1962? Brendan DuBois gives us the answer in this smart, suspenseful thriller, a frighteningly believable piece of alternative history. You'll be shocked on every page by a world so familiar in its details that the terrible changes seem commonplace. Brendan DuBois is a fine writer, at the top of his game."

Edgar-award winning author S.J. Rozan: "A convincing and terrifying look at an alternative history that could easily have been ours. DuBois's careful research and dark imagination weave together a story that you won't be able to put down --- and that you will be grateful is only fiction."

Winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Alternative History Novel of the Year, this book was originally published in 1999 by Putnam. It's now available exclusively on the Kindle and Nook platforms, with a new author's afterword. I'm thrilled to have this opportunity to share this thriller to a new generation of readers.

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www.jeroentenberge.com.

"In his first novel outside of his acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris's 'Fatherland.' DuBois postulates an America that has been politically devastated by a nuclear exchange arising from the Cuban missile crisis... Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred)

"Like the best alternate-history fiction (Robert Harris' 'Fatherland' or the novels of Harry Turtledove), DuBois' tale is a feast for the mind, a what-if story that's so plausible it reads, at times, like nonfiction. In every way, this is a first-rate novel and one that is sure to appeal to a wide variety of readers." -- Booklist (starred)

"DuBois has done an extraordinary job of envisioning a world that might have been.." -- Rocky Mountain News

Days after 9/11, the White House set up a top secret counter-terrorism organization that consists of several groups, called Tiger Teams. Each Tiger Team has a representative from a different agency: the CIA, the National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Special Operations, Centers from Disease Control, and so on.

Each team has a Presidential mandate to do whatever it takes to prevent a terrorist attack upon the United States, meaning each team has an unlimited budget and minimal oversight, to give them freedom of movement and action. Their authority extends over the breadth of the U.S. government, and their orders ensures instant response when something is requested by a Tiger Team member.

In Tiger Team Seven, one of its members is New York City Police Detective Brian Doyle, an unhappy member of the team who resents the fact that he was "volunteered" by the NYPD to take part in this agency's work. However, his skills as a street cop and tough inquisitor makes him a unique asset to Tiger Team Seven.

As FINAL WINTER begins, Tiger Team Seven has determined that within four weeks, a major, coordinated terrorist attack will take place against numerous metropolitan centers in the United States, resulting in the deaths of millions of citizens and the collapse of American society. Their mission is to do whatever it takes to prevent such an attack from occurring, even if it means secretly and illegally immunizing the American population.

But as work frantically begins to halt this deadly attack, there is a traitor at work within Tiger Team Seven...

This novel was originally published in 2008 by Five Star Press, and now it's available exclusively on the Kindle and Nook platforms. I'm thrilled to have this opportunity to share this thriller to a new generation of readers.

The cover art is done by the extraordinarily talented Jeroen ten Berge of New Zealand. Please visit his website at www.jeroentenberge.com.

"DuBois, known primarily for his Lewis Cole detective series, offers up a stand-alone thriller built around the threat of a massive anthrax terrorist attack . . . DuBois's execution is inventive, with plot twists good enough to keep readers whipping through the pages." -- Publisher's Weekly

Award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has gathered ten of his short stories that revolve around mysteries involving the military and the men and women who serve. Included in this mysterious collection are: "Death of a Gemini": An F-14 pilot flying missions over Afghanistan after 9/11 is haunted by the memory --- and possible ghost --- of his dead brother, killed during the World Trade Center attacks. "Mission Failure": In 1962, a U.S. Navy submarine on an espionage mission up a river in the Soviet Union makes an unexpected discovery that may change the history of the country. "The Men on the Wall": A top secret special ops unit is on a dangerous mission in the United States, racing against time to prevent an almost unimaginable disaster from taking place. But will they have to make the ultimate sacrifice? Plus seven other tales of military heroism and sacrifice as well as:

-- Author forward and afterward

"To say that Brendan DuBois writes thrillers is equivalent to saying that Faberge was pretty good at decorating eggs.'" -- Crippen & Landru publishers

"...Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time.'" -- mystery editor and author Ed Gormanr

For the first time ever, award-winning mystery author Brendan DuBois has assembled the six prize-winning short stories featuring retired black ops expert Owen Taylor.

Four of these stories first appeared in "Playboy" magazine, with the initial story, "The Dark Snow," being nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and later appearing in numerous anthologies, including "The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century."

-- Author forward and afterward

"If you judge the best best stories by their impact and by how long they scratch at your memory, the one that's truly worth the price of admission (less than 4 cents a page!) [The Dark Snow] was written by an artist I had not read before: Brendan DuBois. It is the tale of a man who retires to bucolic New Hampshire, where he is harassed by persistent and increasingly malevolent neighbors. We underrate the pleasure and sheer fun some people get by hurting others. DuBois makes it clear, as he makes clear how difficult it is to cope with forms of harassment hard to pin down and scarcely illegal. Isolated, the flawed hero flounders, but he won't run away and learns to cope by toying with illegality as his tormentors do. A common murderer in the end but an uncommon planner, the hero handles his predicament successfully and to this reader's immense satisfaction.." -- Eugen Weber, "The Los Angeles Times"

"...the best pure suspense story of the past decade, Brendan DuBois's 'The Dark Snow.'" -- Otto Penzler, mystery editor, author and raconteur

"...Brendan DuBois is one of the two or three finest short story writers of my time.'" -- mystery editor and author Ed Gormanr

In Deadly Cove, the seventh novel in the Lewis Cole mystery series, magazine columnist and former Department of Defense research analyst Lewis Cole is covering an anti-nuclear protest when gunfire breaks out, injuring his journalist friend and killing a charismatic activist.

Not content to let the professionals investigate this shooting, Cole begins to dig into the background of the murdered activist, as well as the anti-nuclear protesters who are gathering by the thousands on the New Hampshire seacoast, promising violent action in order to take over a nuclear power plant and halt its power production.

But someone is also gunning after Cole, obstructing his investigation and making attempts on his life, as his inquiries bring him to question construction union members who favor nuclear power and the protesters who oppose it.

In a time of economic uncertainty, when Cole's own future is threatened, he presses ahead to solve this murder while also trying to protect the women who are closest to him.

"Protests at the Falconer nuclear power station on New Hampshire's coast form the backdrop for DuBois's suspenseful, satisfying seventh mystery featuring magazine reporter Lewis Cole, who once 'worked as a research analyst for an obscure section of the Department of Defense' (after 2006's Primary Storm). When someone shoots local peace activist Bronson Toles dead at one of the demonstrations Cole is covering, Cole looks into the backgrounds of Curt Chesak, leader of the violent Nuclear Freedom Front, as well as the head of the pro-nuclear New England Trade Union Council and Toles's family. As the demonstrations continue in the emotional aftermath of Toles's murder, Cole arranges to interview the elusive Chesak at his secret compound, a meeting that puts both Cole and his best friend, Det. Sgt. Diane Woods, in peril. Well-drawn and sympathetic characters add to the story's authenticity. The cliffhanger ending will leave series fans anxious for the follow-up." -- Publisher's Weekly

"Ex-Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole is caught in a fatal crossfire between rabid anti-nuke activists and the corporate and union stalwarts behind New Hampshire's Falconer Unit 2. In an eerie prefiguration of last month's headlines, a calamitous nuclear accident, this one deep inside Russia, has flushed out hundreds of protestors against the construction of a nuclear reactor. Bronson Toles, the aging countercultural hero who runs the Stone Chapel, a pioneering music venue, is joined by Curt Chesak, coordinator for the Nuclear Freedom Front. Or not quite joined, since Chesak is so wary of publicity that he never appears in public and is never seen without a mask except by his most trusted followers. Denise Pichette-Volk, the hard-charging new managing editor at Shoreline, insists that Lewis (Primary Storm, 2006, etc.) supplement the monthly features he writes to justify a salary that the Defense Department paid for years ago as the price of his silence about an ugly secret with daily hard-news stories about the demonstrations. On top of not liking the pressure of acting like a real reporter, Lewis feels stuck in the middle between idealistic young protestors like UNH student Haleigh Miller and his old friend Diane Woods, of the Tyler Police Department. At length, there's a murder less important in itself than for its devastating effects on Paula Quinn, Lewis's ex-lover and colleague at the Tyler Chronicle. And there's a good deal more violence and soul-searching. As usual, DuBois works hard to give every possible attitude toward nuclear plants a sympathetic hearing, and he's honest enough to acknowledge that solving the mystery does nothing to solve the problems he raises so compellingly." -- Kirkus

For the first time for American readers, SIX DAYS is now available to read via Kindle on Amazon.com. Only published before in the United Kingdom, the complete novel is now available to be downloaded.

"It should be the happiest days for former special forces agent Drew Connor. Out walking in new Hampshire's White Mountains with his girlfriend Sheila Cass, he has butterflies in his stomach and an engagement ring in his pocket. Then a thunderstorm hits, and they take shelter in what Sheila thinks is a relay station for a state utility. But when Drew enters the building, he realizes they have stepped into something far more sinister...[Read More]

If you'd like to read the prologue of SIX DAYS, click here.

"The whole shebang is as American as apple pie and handguns in the classroom. Of course there's an almighty conflagration at the climax, but DuBois shapes a tight sentence and the plot crackles along." -- Sunday Age newspaper

"A well-paced, exciting "what-if" thriller." -- Irish Independent newspaper

"...DuBois injects such pace into his writing that the story rips breathlessly along." -- Birmingham (UK) Post

Days after 9/11, the White House set up a top secret counter-terrorism organization that consists of several groups, called Tiger Teams. Each Tiger Team has a representative from a different agency: the CIA, the National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Special Operations, Centers from Disease Control, and so on.

Each team has a Presidential mandate to do whatever it takes to prevent a terrorist attack upon the United States, meaning each team has an unlimited budget and minimal oversight, to give them freedom of movement and action. Their authority extends over the breadth of the U.S. government, and their orders ensures instant response when something is requested by a Tiger Team member.

In Tiger Team Seven, one of its members is New York City Police Detective Brian Doyle, an unhappy member of the team who resents the fact that he was "volunteered" by the NYPD to take part in this agency's work. However, his skills as a street cop and tough inquisitor makes him a unique asset to Tiger Team Seven.

As FINAL WINTER begins, Tiger Team Seven has determined that within four weeks, a major, coordinated terrorist attack will take place against numerous metropolitan centers in the United States, resulting in the deaths of millions of citizens and the collapse of American society. Their mission is to do whatever it takes to prevent such an attack from occurring, even if it means secretly and illegally immunizing the American population.

But as work frantically begins to halt this deadly attack, there is a traitor at work within Tiger Team Seven...

"DuBois, known primarily for his Lewis Cole detective series, offers up a stand-alone thriller built around the threat of a massive anthrax terrorist attack . . . DuBois's execution is inventive, with plot twists good enough to keep readers whipping through the pages." -- Publisher's Weekly

For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war- torn regions of the world, from Rwanda to Serbia, Congo to East Timor. Now it's America's turn.

Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada, and seeking adventure, volunteers to become a records-keeper for a UN war- crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. Months earlier, a crippling terrorist attack against the United States resulted in its cities emptied, its countryside set afire, and its government shaken to its knees.

In the aftermath of this attack, a virtual civil war broke out, until UN peacekeepers arrived to establish an uneasy peace. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of an atrocious war, he quickly realizes that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner or rest area.

Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in his team, trying not only to conceal evidence of this war crime, but working to betray and kill them all...

"With exceptional restraint and the accretion of small and telling details, DuBois, already acclaimed for his 2003 thriller BETRAYED, leaps to the forefront of speculations on the future of the war on terror with this quietly devastating cautionary tale. His callow but sympathetic hero, Canadian journalist Samuel Simpson has joined a United Nations unit attempting to father evidence against those responsible for a devastating terror attack and document war crimes in the ensuring civil strife. In a twist Rod Serling would have been proud of, DuBois reveals that Simpons's beleaguered team, dodging gunfire in a shattered landscape, is assigned to the United States, which has fallen into anarchy after a dirty bomb destroyed lower Manhattan and other attacks seriously damaged electrical systems across the country. The balance between action and introspection is superb, and DuBois is confident enough of his readership and his premise to avoid a pat, upbeat unending. Those seeking a thoughtful look at a plausible aftermath of further attacks on America will find much to ponder. ." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"A UN team charged with documenting war crimes dodges warring local militas -- and every bullet is fired in upstate New York in DuBois's riveting day-after-tomorrow thriller... "Red rules!" is the battle cry in the countryside around Albany in the days after a suitcase nuke is detonated in lower Manhattan. Seeing a country driven to its knees by terrorist attacks, deprived of two centuries of civilized comforts and divided by civil war, the UN dispatches squads to keep the fragile armistice among battling factions and arrest the perpertrators of war crimes and document atrocities. Samuel Simpson has left his job as a features writer at the Toronto Star to serve with half a dozen comrades from around the world whose mission is to find SIte A, the mass graveyard where a militia buried hundred of civilians they massacred. DuBois does such a razor-sharp job of detailing the surreal perils of the war-torn American landscape that the plot -- Samuel's suspicions that one of his mates may be a traitor, his separation from the rest of them and his adventures on his own, and even the quest for Site A before an impending renegotiation of the armistice offers amnesty to the zealots responsible for the slaughter -- inevitably comes off a series of anticlimaxes. The nightmarish can't-happen-here premise perfectly suits DuBois's dark imagination. Don't hold your breath waiting for the movie.." -- Kirkus

For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war- torn regions of the world, from Rwanda to Serbia, Congo to East Timor. Now it's America's turn.

Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada, and seeking adventure, volunteers to become a records-keeper for a UN war- crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. Months earlier, a crippling terrorist attack against the United States resulted in its cities emptied, its countryside set afire, and its government shaken to its knees.

In the aftermath of this attack, a virtual civil war broke out, until UN peacekeepers arrived to establish an uneasy peace. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of an atrocious war, he quickly realizes that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner or rest area.

Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in his team, trying not only to conceal evidence of this war crime, but working to betray and kill them all...

None as of yet.

Every four years, the spotlight of the world turns to the tiny state of New Hampshire, as the voters in its primary help choose the next president of the United States. Usually, Lewis Cole, a magazine columnist and ex-Department of Defense research analyst, tries to stay out of the spotlight. However, when he attends a political rally for the front-running senator, gunfire breaks out, and Lewis becomes the initial suspect in the attempted assassination.

With the Secret Service shadowing his every move, with his budding romance with a campaign volunteer in jeopardy, and with the threat of continued violence against him and the candidate, Lewis desperately tries to find out who set him up for the attempted killing, and who is still stalking him.

Lewis is operating in the glare of the news media and among aggressive campaign rivals as he also tries to keep secret a decades-old connection with the leading presidential candidate, a secret that could have shattering consequences if revealed.

Drawing on his own shadowy government background and with the assistance of his friend Felix Tinios, a man with a foot on each side of the law, Lewis dives into the unsavory world of presidential politics, where secrets are traded for favors, where votes are cast and sometimes discarded, and where a trail of bodies and broken promises can lead to the White House.

"In DuBois's stirring sixth Lewis Cole mystery (after 2004's Buried Dreams), the former Department of Defense employee, now a magazine writer in the small resort town of Tyler Beach, N.H., is preparing to quietly ride out the madness of a presidential primary. But when Cole is arrested for shooting at one of the leading candidates, he finds himself embroiled in a chilling and personally dangerous investigation. With his usual coolness and clarity of thought and action, he deals with the accusations, a dead body on his doorstep and politics at their worst. The snowy, cold New Hampshire winter forms the perfect backdrop to the twisting, surprising plot. By the end, readers will smile at the triumph of justice for even the most average of citizens." -- Publisher's Weekly

Days after 9/11, the White House set up a top secret counter-terrorism organization that consists of several groups, called Tiger Teams. Each Tiger Team has a representative from a different agency: the CIA, the National Security Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Special Operations, Centers from Disease Control, and so on.

Each team has a Presidential mandate to do whatever it takes to prevent a terrorist attack upon the United States, meaning each team has an unlimited budget and minimal oversight, to give them freedom of movement and action. Their authority extends over the breadth of the U.S. government, and their orders ensures instant response when something is requested by a Tiger Team member.

In Tiger Team Seven, one of its members is New York City Police Detective Brian Doyle, an unhappy member of the team who resents the fact that he was "volunteered" by the NYPD to take part in this agency's work. However, his skills as a street cop and tough inquisitor makes him a unique asset to Tiger Team Seven.

As FINAL WINTER begins, Tiger Team Seven has determined that within four weeks, a major, coordinated terrorist attack will take place against numerous metropolitan centers in the United States, resulting in the deaths of millions of citizens and the collapse of American society. Their mission is to do whatever it takes to prevent such an attack from occurring, even if it means secretly and illegally immunizing the American population.

But as work frantically begins to halt this deadly attack, there is a traitor at work within Tiger Team Seven...

"FOR those familiar with Resurrection Day, Betrayed or Six Days, the author will need no introduction. For those new to Brendan DuBois - read the blurb on the cover: 'It only takes one traitor to bring America to the brink of annihilation.' Post 9/11 there has been a plethora of novels of this kind. This may be one of the better ones... There are many surprising moves and counter acts in this fast paced well written book. " -- Howick and Pakuranga (NZ) Times

Retired Department of Defense research analyst Lewis Cole loves his small New Hampshire town of Tyler Beach, and he shares this affection with his friend Jon Ericson, an eccentric retiree who's convinced Vikings had once lived in their town, more than a thousand years ago.

For years Ericson has searched for artifacts to prove Vikings had a settlement on the New Hampshire coastline, and when Lewis gets a phone message from Ericson that he's finally found this evidence, Lewis races over to congratulate him.

But when he reaches Ericson's house, however, there is no celebration: there is only a crime scene. In the minutes after the excited phone call, someone has brutally murdered Lewis' friend and stolen the artifacts. Who could have committed such a crime? Ericson's estranged brother, a convict who deals in stolen antiques? A disgruntled town resident, jealous of Ericson's quest? Or someone else who would easily kill to cover up such an archaeological discovery? These questions and others haunt Lewis, but Lewis is sure of one thing: he intends to avenge Ericson's death, recover the missing Viking artifacts, and honor his friend's memory, even if it means paying a stiff price -- exchanging his beachfront home for a prison cell.

"Journalist Lewis Cole digs up more than he bargains for when he investigates the death of an amateur archaeologist. Even Cole doesn't understand why he's so shaken by Jon Ericson's murder. Their acquaintance was brief --a handful of encounters over the course of a summer -- with most of the conversation taken up with Jon's theory that his Viking ancestors had migrated far enough south from Newfoundland to establish colonies on New Hampshire's abbreviated seacoast. But when he arrives at Ericson's one night, hoping finally to see the artifacts that prove the offbeat theory, Cole finds the house shrouded in crime scene tape and can't let the case alone... So much geography you'll want a road map, but briskly paced, with a neatly sprung ending." -- Kirkus

"Lewis Cole, a retired 'research analyst' for the U.S. Department of Defense, is trying to live a peaceful life in the small resort town of Tyler, New Hampshire. If only mysteries would stop landing on his doorstep. Take Jon Ericson, for example, a guy who wanders into town looking for evidence that Tyler Beach was once the site of a Viking settlement. Cole never heard of the guy until he showed up one day, but they become friends, and then, soon after Ericson tells Cole he has found the evidence he has been looking for, he turns up dead, leaving Cole another crime to solve. Cole has the broad shoulders a character needs to anchor a long-running series (we sense there are untapped depths to him), and this fifth entry will have readers hoping there are many more to follow.." -- Booklist

"This taut, homespun whodunit takes the reader on an exhilarating ride the length and breadth of New Hampshire, from the university at Durham to the office of a questionable 'First People' advocacy group in a rundown waterfront neighborhood, culminating in an unexpectedly chilling conclusion." -- Publisher's Weekly

For nearly three decades, the fate of 2,000 American servicemen, missing in action in Vietnam, has remained a mystery. Now, with the ring of a doorbell, the mystery of some is about to be solved.

Smalltown newspaper editor, Jason Harper, answers his door in the middle of the night to see an older man, shabbily dressed, with gray hair and a beard. And in a split second, Jason's life turns upside down. The man claims to be Jason's older brother, Roy, shot down over North Vietnam in 1972.

Jason's joy at reuniting with his brother is quickly tempered as ruthless killers begin pursuing his family and friends, and as his faith in the man's claims threatens to tear his family apart. Author Brendan DuBois pulls readers along for a harrowing ride on a deadly mission to reveal the truth.

"From the author of the Lewis Cole mysteries: a hair-raising thriller about Vietnam MIAs who, it turns out, were never more than semi-missing... the story grabs, and the pages turn, testimony to the power of the narrative." -- Kirkus

"The nagging doubt that our government has never really done everything in its power to discover the final fate of hundreds of Vietnam War MIAs explodes into a dark and totally credible cloud of fear and anger in Brendan DuBois' powerful and heartbreaking new thriller." -- The Chicago Tribune

"DuBois, whose Resurrection Day (1999) had JFK's Bay of Pigs debacle actually starting WWIII, sets up another frighteningly plausible scenario in his latest smart and heartbreaking thriller. Suppose a group of Vietnam MIAs had been secretly shipped to the Soviet Union, where intelligence agents grilled them constantly for almost 30 years? What would've happened to these men when the U.S.S.R. fell apart?" -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

In his newest thriller since SIX DAYS, Brendan DuBois explores the darkest secret of the Vietnam War: the ultimate fate of nearly 2,000 American servicemen, reported missing in action. As BETRAYED begins, it's a typical night at home in Maine for small town newspaper editor Jason Harper, his wife and small boy. Life is good, life is content, until the doorbell rings. There, standing dirty and disheveled on their doorstep, is a man in his 50's, a man claiming to be Jason's older brother Roy, a man reported MIA in 1972, when his B-52 was shot down over Hanoi. The questions and the danger instantly begin: is this man really Jason's older brother? Where has he been held captive these past thirty years? Are there other MIAs, still alive, all these years later? And why have men been sent to kill Jason and his family, the very night this stranger shows up at their home?

This latest collection of short fiction from Brendan DuBois features ten short stories, including the Shamus Award-winning story, "The Necessary Brother". Along with the short stories is a forward by the author, plus a brief introduction to each story.

"Brendan DuBois has written various kinds of fiction, all of it good, some of it brilliant. Despite writing numerous fine novels, including the wonderfully evocative RESURRECTION DAY, which examined an alternate history where the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted into full-fledged war, he is best known for his short fiction, which always has one or two twists that you never see coming. Along with Clark Howard, he is, with good reason, the preeminent crime story author of his generation....With DuBois, the only sure thing is that whatever the circumstances, a story by him is always worth reading" -- Ed Gorman

To say that Brendan DuBois writes Thrillers is equivalent to saying that Faberge was pretty good at decorating eggs. Not exactly wrong but a vast understatement of their accomplishments. Brendan DuBois's stories are not only filled with conflict, tension, and mystery, but they also dig into the issues that dominate our times. Several of them, like the Edgar-nominated title story, are about people who served in the murky and amoral world of international intrigue and now want only tranquility in a New England town -- but their pasts come back. Others, like the Shamus-winning "The Road's End," combine detection with the tension of the hunt -- but who is the hunter and who the hunted? The stories are about revenge and betrayal, but above all they are about putting down roots and finding identity.

The Dark Snow and Other Mysteries includes a new introduction is by the author and a complete Brendan DuBois checklist.

"Shamus winner Brendan DuBois, the author of Killer Waves (Forecasts, May 20) and other novels in his Lewis Cole series, collects the Edgar-nominated title story and 10 other top-notch crime tales in The Dark Snow and Other Mysteries. An author foreword and checklist add further value." -- Publishers Weekly, Sept 16, 2002

In the fourth adventure featuring retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole, a man is found murdered near Cole's beachfront home. Soon, the Feds are investigating the death, and bring in a reluctant Cole to assist. The investigation leads from small town police departments to an old story about captured U-boats after World War II brought to a port up the coast. But Cole soons find out that the Feds are keeping deadly secrets from him about the man and his death, secrets that may have terrifying consequences for Cole and for thousands of others.

Killer Waves "is jam-packed with secrets and shady characters, but the most compelling thing about it is Cole himself... Like Dan Barton's Biff Kincaid, or even Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch, Cole is someone we simply enjoy spending time with. Crime fiction is filled to the brim with first-person narrators; Lewis Cole has a voice to die for." -- Booklist

"It should be the happiest days for former special forces agent Drew Connor. Out walking in new Hampshire's White Mountains with his girlfriend Sheila Cass, he has butterflies in his stomach and an engagement ring in his pocket. Then a thunderstorm hits, and they take shelter in what Sheila thinks is a relay station for a state utility. But when Drew enters the building, he realizes they have stepped into something far more sinister...[Read More]

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"The whole shebang is as American as apple pie and handguns in the classroom. Of course there's an almight conflagration at the climax, but DuBois shapes a tight sentence and the plot crackles along." -- Sunday Age newspaper

"A well-paced, exciting "what-if" thriller." -- Irish Independent newspaper

"...DuBois injects such pace into his writing that the story rips breathlessly along." -- Birmingham (UK) Post

In October 1962, the world came as close as it ever has to a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union during the thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis began on January 1, 1959, when Fidel Castro took control of the island nation of Cuba, after ousting the corrupt government of Fulgencio Batista. In the months that followed, Castro''s government became closely aligned with the Soviet Union, and in these tense years of the Cold War, it became intolerable to many in the United States that a Soviet ally should be established in a country not more than 90 miles from America.

"Cohesively plotted and smoothly written, steadily exciting and rife with clever conceits, this is what-if thriller fiction at its finest." -- Publisher's Weekly, May 17, 1999

"DuBois' tale is a feast for the mind, a what-if story that's so plausible it reads, at times, like nonfiction. In every way, this is a first rate novel and one that is sure to appeal to a wide variety of readers." -- Booklist, April 15, 1999

"A clever premise and interesting characters make this one a page turner." -- The Boston Sunday Herald

"DuBois has done an extraordinary job of envisioning a world that might have been." -- Rocky Mountain News

It's in the middle of January, all of the tourists are gone, and among the empty and shuttered hotels and motels, an arsonist is at work. Lewis Cole -- who hates to see his community threatened -- begins to investigate these arsons, while at the same time, a close friend is beaten and brutally raped. Now, he is hunting for an arsonist and a rapist, both who have shattered the calmness of a New Hampshire winter.

SHATTERED SHELL "...was worth waiting for: DuBois tells a strong, poignant story, meanwhile creating an exceptionally vivid picture of a New England coastal town held in winter's grip... DuBois brings his characters to life gradually with a carefully chosen mixture of light and shadow -- giving even secondary players full credibility." -- Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"DuBois... plots respectably. And there are enough sides to his hero to hold your interest." -- Kirkus Reviews

"DuBois keeps readers guessing with a skillfully designed plot full of twists, and his vivid descriptions of the seashore in winter provide strong atmosphere and nicely complement the gloomy moral landscape. Recommend this too-little-known series to fans of crime New England style." -- Booklist

The sequel to DEAD SAND has Lewis Cole looking into the mystery surrounding an oil spill on the beaches of Tyler, and the headless and handless corpse of a diver, washing ashore in front of his house. Add in a puzzle involving three missing Winslow Homer paintings, and Lewis Cole soon finds himself in the fight of his life.

BLACK TIDE is "...one of the most sharply plotted mysteries of the season." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"DuBois' dry wit and laid-back writing style play nicely off the taut, action-packed plot. BLACK TIDE will appeal to a wide range of mystery fans." -- Booklist

"DuBois paints a vivid picture of Cole's life in controlled, seductive prose." -- Publisher's Weekly

"With plenty of rugged action and quick spook-type thinking, DuBois has constructed an absorbing tale of greed and utter ruthlessness." -- York County Coast Star

In the first book of the Lewis Cole series, the hanging death of a teenage waitress at the resort community of Tyler Beach sets Lewis on a trail involving corruption, deceit, and the cover-up of a forty-year old murder.

"Lewis Cole is an interesting new amateur detective with an honorable but secret past... The reader will be glad to meet Cole again." -- the Associated Press

"A fine mystery... DuBois has created a fascinating main character; good minor characters and an iconoclastic view of the New Hampshire seacoast." -- The Boston Globe

"Lewis Cole will remind hard-boiled hero fans of Robert B. Parker's Spenser: both sleuths are rugged, clever, ethical, erudite and lovable. A winner on all counts: plot, action, characters and suspense. Let's hope Lewis Cole will be making regular appearances from now on." -- Booklist

"DuBois's characters are amply fleshed out and his pacing is superb." -- Indianapolis Star