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As he plunged his attacker’s blade deep into the man’s abdomen, Father Michael Thomas thought he understood the difference between murder and justifiable homicide. After Church officials learn what happened in that dark back-alley amid the slums of Bogota, they urgently whisked Michael away to an isolated compound in rural Wyoming. Alongside a handful of trainees, he lives under an assumed name, learns the skills of a moral investigator and clandestine operative, and faces the ethical dilemma repeatedly placed before him: When is a deliberate death a righteous act?

Gavin Reese interviews authors and experts to help all writers compose more authentic cops, crimes, and criminals in their stories. During his law enforcement career, Gavin comforted the dying, talked dozens out of suicide, and saved domestic abuse victims from their assailants. He’s taken child rapists, murderers, and human traffickers into police custody, and enjoyed the distinct honor of protecting visiting foreign royalty and national American political figures from both sides of the aisle. He's worked in Patrol, Training, SWAT, Special Investigations, Narcotics, & Dignitary Protection. ...

Father Michael Thomas vowed to risk his own life to offer final absolution to the greatest evils that walk among us. He swore to protect our safety and dignity, with the understanding that he would serve as a last resort after all other reconciliation methods had failed. With his clandestine training program and first assignment complete, Michael receives orders to investigate a member of Austria’s high society. Meanwhile, betrayal within their own ranks threatens to expose the organization to the world and destroy their efforts to cleanse evil from the Earth.

Dry Creek Patrol Officer Alex Landon is about to be promoted to Narcotics Detective. With only a few weekend graveyard shifts left in his Patrol tenure, he learns DCPD’s narcotics unit and the DEA believe the source of a high-grade methamphetamine is operating in Dry Creek. Alex has already seen how the cost of powerful addictions are measured in lives lost: victims addicted and overdosed, conspirators and rivals killed, informants murdered.

Enjoy three best-selling hard boiled crime novels starring Detective Alex Landon by Gavin Reese. This collection includes Room Number Three, The Debt Collectors, and The Misery Merchant.

With the help and encouragement of her teachers and mentors, 16-year-old Princess Peralta has almost succeeded in redefining herself from "aspiring drop-out" to "college-bound honors student". When she's reported absent from Dry Creek High School without explanation, school resource officer Javier Ramirez knows something's wrong. After he learns no one's seen Princess for 48 hours, he immediately teams up with Detective Alex Landon to investigate. What they soon uncover leads them on a desperate interstate search to rescue Princess, who they're convinced has been kidnapped.

A frantic 911 call from a farmer sends firefighters and patrol officers to a hayfield to investigate a late-model Mustang coupe fully engulfed in flames. As the flames recede, the discovery of two burned corpses inside the coupe's trunk shifts the investigation and priorities for everyone involved. While Landon and his team work to learn the motive and find those responsible for the murders, he can't shake a haunting suspicion that forces inside the Dry Creek Police Department are working against him.

While following leads to identify and arrest an international drug trafficker, Detective Alex Landon is called to lead a mass murder investigation after the unholy marriage of a drug trafficking cartel and the Taliban has a less-than-amicable beginning. A lone witness claims to have heard two last words that strike fear in heart of everyone involved: "Allah Akbar!" Investigators frantically search the Phoenix Valley for a team of unidentified foreign terrorists but fear making the investigation public would risk mass hysteria and vigilante violence.

A sadistic child killer awaits in Room Number Three. One year ago, Detective Alex Landon began investigating the unexplained disappearance of ten-year-old Kevin Stevenson. Now, he could finally sit across from the predator he believed responsible. The catch? Landon has no evidence to hold his suspect, who clearly knows investigators can't stop him from leaving whenever he chooses to do so.

For the past few months, Detective Alex Landon had seen retired US Army Captain Jonathan McDougal as both a sympathetic suspect and a less-than-cooperative informant. But, when a local hate group acquires explosives and the circumstantial evidence indicates McDougal's potential involvement, their relationship sours and grows distrustful.

Arizona drug task force detectives and SWAT teams begin using coordinated, small-unit military tactics to combat human trafficking and narcoterrorism, and quickly make several multimillion dollar seizures. When the Mexican drug cartels retaliate by viciously targeting the officers and their families, how can the cops protect the community while fighting to defend themselves? Homicide detectives identify the lone suspect in a heinous double murder as the victims' son, a recently paroled meth-addict, adamantly professes his innocence and blames an unidentified killer.