Snatched

‘One of the boldest thriller writers working today’ TESS GERRITSEN ‘Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled’ MICHAEL CONNELLY __________________________________ FBI Special Agent Will Trent’s instinct is put to the test. On assignment at Atlanta's busy airport Will Trent is forced to make a split-second decision. But is it the right one? Multi-million copy, international bestselling thriller writer Karin Slaughter is known for her razor-sharp plotting and her ability to put the reader right at the heart of the crime. Snatched is Karin at her best in a compelling story that will grip you like a vice. An exclusive straight to digital short story from the No.1 bestseller. Includes the opening chapters of Criminal and a taster of Fallen.

In 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of Labatt, the first person in Canada to be kidnapped for high ransom.

Children have been disappearing from orphanages for years. It's only when Anna meets heartthrob Jamie at Gruble's Home for Singular Orphans that they discover an underlying connection, and begin to dig. However, digging for answers brings with it grave consequences, and the pair learn things they wish had remained unknown. Anna's search for a hopeful future is threatened by secrets, lies, and one person's very particular obsession.

Snatched is the electric tale, by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance. Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA. They induce Pilar, now a middle-aged woman, to infiltrate the Cali cartel as the head of a vast money laundering sting. Named "Operation Princess," the scheme leads to the seizure of tens of millions of dollars, along with some $500 million worth of cocaine and the exposure of hundreds of high-level traffickers, becoming one of the most daring and successful stings in DEA history. But Pilar plays her part too well. Her success as a money launderer gets her kidnapped and then ransomed by a band of guerrillas in South America--and the US government refuses to negotiate. It's left to her low-level handlers in the DEA to get her back, before it's too late and her kidnappers discover they have a federal agent in their clutches.

Snatched from the Grave, an exciting and provocative collection of 46 poems, traces the path taken by the protagonist to find real lifelong satisfaction and peace in a turbulent, perilous and ruthless world. The poems fire the imagination and generate thought around questions of existence and belief as they call on the reader to re-examine him/herself in order to live a meaningful life.

The aim of the story in this book is to bring out the examples of what happens when we drift away from obedience to God as well as our parents. It is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. Its a very high price to pay in life when our weaknesses become overwhelming to the point of disaster in our lives. You will see how the choices we make in life can really determine how we live. You will feel the heartbeat of mothers who want the best for their children. You will see how much we owe to the influence of godly parents, especially godly mothers. You will see through the eyes of mothers who, regardless of the age of her children, still have that bosom care in her heart. Your child will see how trouble is easy to get into but hard to get out of. If all our children would think of the consequences before their actions, it can make a big difference in the outcome of many situations. It is sad to say that parents are out living their children. The younger generation is to produce to carry on the next generations, the elderly cannot. We are at a breach of a fruitless world.

When Tim Tompkins dreamed of visiting other galaxies, he didn't think he would do it as a captive of an alien, and now he must try to survive and find his way back home.

Ashley Collier is a twenty-eight-year-old woman who co-owns a trucking company with her older brother. At the age of eighteen, stage one cancer invaded her ovaries, resulting in her inability to have children. She meets thirty-one-year-old Antonio Washington, who owns Bud Love, a dispensary in Los Angeles after a business meeting. The two are immediately attracted to one another, but Ashley's past has her fighting off her feelings. Antonio maneuvers his way into her life, and they agree to take things slow. Everything is going well until the topic of children is brought up, causing Ashley to second guess whether she should reveal her truth or not.