The dust swirled around my worn boots, a miniature desert storm kicked up by the frantic thump of my own heart. The air hung thick and heavy, the scent of dry earth and something else… something metallic and sickeningly sweet, clinging to the back of my throat. It was the smell of blood. Old blood. New blood. The kind that stains the soul as deeply as it stains the earth. I’d been clean for six months, six agonizing months of sweat-soaked nights and gnawing cravings, a testament to a willpower I never knew I possessed. Six months of staring at the cracked pavement, avoiding the shadowed corners where my past lurked like a hungry ghost. But tonight, the ghost had found me.
John Rourke is a private detective with contacts and a license to practice from New York to Arizona. He has the resources he needs across the country to find the information he needs to crack the toughest cases. Ex-cops, ex-Cons, snitches, stoolies, drug addicts, criminals, drug dealers and any kind of scum of the earth you can imagine or care to name. He knows the seedy side of life and to some people that makes him indispensable…
Book three:
The silence was broken by the distant screech of a hawk, its cry sharp and piercing against the vast silence of the desert. It was a lonely sound, a perfect metaphor for the state of my own soul. I was tired, bone-deep tired. Sleep was a luxury I couldn’t afford, nightmares a constant companion. The faces of the victims, the ones I’d found along Rieser’s trail, haunted my dreams. Each one a testament to the brutal efficiency of a man who knew how to erase his tracks… #BookWorm #Readers #KindleUnlimited #WWWatson #Crime #Noir #Mystery #PrivateEye
Private Investigations 2: A John Rourke detective Story (Private Investigations: John Rourke Private Detective Stories) Kindle Edition Book 2 of 3: Private Investigations: John Rourke Private Detective Storiesby W. W. Watson(Author)Format: Kindle Edition J Book 2 of 3: Private Investigations: John Rourke Private Detective Stories John Rourke is a private detective with contacts and a license to practice from New York to Arizona. He has the resources he needs across the country to find the information he needs to crack the toughest cases. Ex-cops, ex-Cons, snitches, stoolies, drug addicts, criminals, drug dealers and any kind of scum of the earth you can imagine or care to name. He knows the seedy side of life and to some people that makes him indispensable…
Book two:
My apartment, usually a sanctuary of quiet solitude, became a temporary forensic lab. The dining table transformed into a command center, littered with maps, photographs, financial records, and transcripts of intercepted phone calls. The air hung heavy with the scent of stale coffee and the lingering aroma of cheap takeout containers. Days bled into nights as I painstakingly organized the evidence, meticulously documenting every detail, creating a comprehensive narrative that would stand up to the scrutiny of the legal system… #BookWorm #Readers #KindleUnlimited #WWWatson #Crime #Noir #Mystery #PrivateEye
Fig Street (Glennville Book 1) The year is 1969: In the city of Glennville the streets, even in the poorest of neighborhoods are safe for children to play. But the city has its secrets, and those secrets have their dangers. #Horror #Crime #Fantasy #DellSweet #Series
The great go cart Race (Glennville Book 2) The summer of 1969 in Glennville New York: Bobby Weston and Moon Calloway worked on the go-cart they had been planning to race down Sinton Park hill. #YouthFiction #Readers #Adventure #Glennville #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon
The end of Summer (Glennville Book 3) The summer of 1969 was winding down. The warm air held a smell Bobby Weston couldn’t quite identify but nevertheless acquainted with going back to school. #YouthFiction #Readers #Adventure #Glennville #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon
Glennville (Glennville book 13) A look at the town of Glennville. Bobby, Moon and Lois are the central points of this book, but they will also introduce you to their parents, the Sherif Kyle Stevens and some of the other town locals that make Glennville, Glennville. They are trying to spend the summer enjoying the beauty of the upstate New York town, camping, adventures, all the things three eleven year old kids could do for a summer in 1969. But Glennville is no ordinary town and there is always something else going on… #ApocalypticFiction #Dystopian #apocalypse #Horror #Drama #Kindle #Glennville #DellSweet #Amazon
The Clan hurriedly escaped through the treacherous night. Overwhelmed by pain and exhaustion they felt defeated in the face of catastrophe #Prehistoric #HistoricalFiction #WGSweet #Paleolithic #Neanderthal #Denisovans
Crime Time 1 Crime Time is a collection of nine crime stories from author Dell Sweet. From short stories to near novel length… #Crime #Fiction #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon
Crime Time 2 Kindle edition by Sweet, Dell, Dell, Geo, Block, Paul. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks Crime Time 2 contains two complete crime novels in one book. #Crime #Fiction #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon #ForYou #Drama #Thriller #Series Livie: A trip to the weed man goes horribly wrong for a young woman who is skating through life.
Crime Time 3 Jimmy began to formulate a plan, a multi-pronged strategy designed to chip away at the foundations of Murphy’s power. He couldn’t take down the king, but he could dismantle his army, one soldier at a time. It was a dangerous game, as he knew Murphy’s eyes and ears were everywhere. #Crime #Fiction #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon #ForYou #Drama #Thriller #SeriesSensation
Crime Time 4 He thought about Sarah Jenkins. He’d studied her profile, her habits, her supposed weaknesses. Jimmy’s primary objective had been to protect the White organization from external threats, and Sarah Jenkins had been categorized as such. Now, the greatest danger wasn’t her; it was the internal rot… #Crime #Fiction #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon #ForYou #Drama #Thriller #Series
Crime Time 5 The sun, a pale disc bleeding into the hazy sky, offered little warmth. Kelvin’s gaze was drawn to every passing vehicle, his mind a sieve sifting through the mundane for signs of danger. “Traffic that doesn’t look like it’s trying to blend in,” Liam countered, his gaze locked on the van’s reflection. “That guy’s just… watching us. I can feel it.” They took the next exit, a gravelly turn-off that led to a desolate stretch of highway lined with skeletal trees. The van, true to Liam’s word, followed. Kelvin pushed the sedan harder, the engine groaning in protest. He swerved onto a dirt road, dust billowing behind them, obscuring their trail. The van, momentarily lost in the haze, reappeared, its dark form a persistent stain on the horizon. #Crime #Fiction #DellSweet #Kindle #Amazon #ForYou #Drama #Thriller #Series
Private Investigations 1: A John Rourke detective Story (Private Investigations: John Rourke Private Detective Stories) Kindle Edition Book 1 of 3: Private Investigations: John Rourke Private Detective Stories by W. W. Watson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
John Rourke is a private detective with contacts and a license to practice from New York to Arizona. He has the resources he needs across the country to find the information he needs to crack the toughest cases. Ex-cops, ex-Cons, snitches, stoolies, drug addicts, criminals, drug dealers and any kind of scum of the earth you can imagine or care to name. He knows the seedy side of life and to some people that makes him indispensable...
Book one:
The chipped paint on my beat-up Ford Falcon was flaking like old skin. The smell of stale coffee clung to the interior like a cheap perfume, a constant, bitter reminder of the long hours ahead. Across the street, Paul Fields’ two-story colonial loomed, a picture of suburban perfection, a stark contrast to the cramped discomfort of my temporary office. The relentless hum of traffic on Hemlock Drive was a dull, throbbing ache in my skull, a soundtrack to this tedious ballet of surveillance. My gut churned, not from the coffee, but from the gnawing feeling that I was hemorrhaging money, bleeding my retainer dry on this seemingly pointless stakeout...
These are the single books in the America the Dead series. After a worldwide near extinction event the few remaining people struggle to stay alive. In an effort to help the human race survive the American military releases a virus that was tested on its soldiers and enabled them to survive severe combat conditions where food and water, as well a medical treatment could not be relied on. But the virus had a flaw that was concealed from the people who decided to release it. In the dead it created a new type of life. Life that began only after death had consumed the body. Life that was far from a normal life of any type. It left the recipients with a thirst for flesh and blood. A relentless drive to search it out. A hive mentality drove these needs and kept the undead searching out the living. Death was no longer an escape, and the tables were now turning. The undead were beginning to outnumber the living and may soon be all that inhabited the Earth…#Zombie #Apocalypse #ApocalypticFiction #DellSweet #Dystopian #Horror #Drama #Thriller #KU
Zero Zero As the clock ticks down for our planet and her inhabitants, powers that have lain dormant for centuries are loosed on the Earth. #ApocalypticFiction #Dystopian #apocalypse #Horror #Drama #Kindle #Glennville #DellSweet #Amazon
Maya Ramos, a miracle worker with grease-stained hands and eyes that saw the soul of an engine, kept these metal titans breathing, her workshop a sanctuary of organized chaos in the surrounding desolation.
Alex Chen, a man who had once patrolled the gleaming, albeit corrupt, streets of NYPD, now navigated this shattered world with a heavy heart and an even heavier conscience. The rot he’d fought in the old world had merely spread, festering into a continent-wide plague of desperation.
The landscape itself was a testament to the world’s unraveling. Once vibrant shores were now choked with plastic debris and the skeletal remains of ships, their hulls like beached leviathans. Inland, the arteries of commerce, the highways and byways, had become no-man’s-lands. They were arteries of peril, patrolled by opportunistic raiders and desperate scavengers. The air, thick with the perpetual haze of unchecked industry and the lingering dust of forgotten cataclysms, offered little respite. Each breath was a gamble, a taste of the world’s slow, suffocating demise. Resources were a constant source of conflict. Fuel was hoarded, water purified with desperate ingenuity, and food, when found, was a treasure to be defended with one’s life. Every settlement was a fortress, every journey a potential battlefield. #Dystopian #ApocalypticFiction #PostApocalyptic #Survival #ECPD #Series #Dystopian
