A Nicholas Colt Thriller
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Nicholas Colt: world-class guitarist with a crippled hand, private investigator with a revoked license. His cash-under-the-table “security consultant” jobs are few and far between, but his crumbling self-confidence finally gets a boost when a young woman with deep pockets comes to him for help.
Wanda Taylor has a terminal illness, and she wants to find her biological father before she dies. Unfortunately, Colt soon discovers that the father in question was shot dead two years earlier in Key West. With his client determined to see that justice is served, Colt heads down there with more questions than answers.
And, with a serial killer known as The Zombie — a brutal psychopath who saws off the tops of his victims’ heads, scoops out their brains, and reassembles their skulls with Krazy Glue — on the loose, it’s no wonder some of the locals have redubbed the island Key Death.
Wanda Taylor has a terminal illness, and she wants to find her biological father before she dies. Unfortunately, Colt soon discovers that the father in question was shot dead two years earlier in Key West. With his client determined to see that justice is served, Colt heads down there with more questions than answers.
And, with a serial killer known as The Zombie — a brutal psychopath who saws off the tops of his victims’ heads, scoops out their brains, and reassembles their skulls with Krazy Glue — on the loose, it’s no wonder some of the locals have redubbed the island Key Death.
Nicholas Colt’s life is on the right track. Gone for good are the dangerous days of being a private investigator — until a double homicide and an ex-girlfriend’s missing brother come calling. It seems the Harvest Angels, the white supremacist militia that Colt shut down three years ago, are back in business.
Or are they?
Colt travels to Tennessee and soon thinks he has the answer: typical copycat case. But when he walks into a bloodbath back home, Colt realizes nothing is typical and nothing is solved. And now it’s personal. While relentlessly hunting down those responsible, Colt finds the truth — but before he can alert the authorities, he is abducted, drugged, and brainwashed. Now, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Colt must fight to remember who he is.
Or are they?
Colt travels to Tennessee and soon thinks he has the answer: typical copycat case. But when he walks into a bloodbath back home, Colt realizes nothing is typical and nothing is solved. And now it’s personal. While relentlessly hunting down those responsible, Colt finds the truth — but before he can alert the authorities, he is abducted, drugged, and brainwashed. Now, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Colt must fight to remember who he is.
When an affluent young accountant receives a threatening letter — a mandate to come and play an ultraviolent video game called Snuff Tag 9 — he hires rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt to find answers. Colt assumes the letter is a scam, but a four-hundred-pound psychopath known only as Freeze quickly proves him wrong.
Freeze, it seems, is populating his version of the game with real people.
Kidnapped and outfitted with a device that will stop his heart if he refuses to compete, Colt suddenly finds himself one of nine players in an outrageous game of attrition. One of nine pawns captured and manipulated for the perverse entertainment of a sadistic billionaire.
And the only way for Colt to survive is to kill the other eight.
Freeze, it seems, is populating his version of the game with real people.
Kidnapped and outfitted with a device that will stop his heart if he refuses to compete, Colt suddenly finds himself one of nine players in an outrageous game of attrition. One of nine pawns captured and manipulated for the perverse entertainment of a sadistic billionaire.
And the only way for Colt to survive is to kill the other eight.
After last year’s harrowing experience with a gruesome serial killer in Key West, rock-star-turned-PI Nicholas Colt has decided to hang up his investigator hat and settle into a nice quiet life of teaching guitar and spending time with his family. Or so he thinks…Unfortunately, everything changes when an undercover Department of Defense investigator named Diana Dawkins comes crashing into his life. Diana tells Colt he has been recruited into The Circle, a super-secret organization—a mystery even to the CIA and the Secret Service—charged with protecting the country from terrorists at any cost. The only evidence of his involvement is a tiny spot—a “blood tattoo” on his left foot, invisible to the naked eye—that marks all members of The Circle. Diana needs Colt’s help, and she’s willing to pay him well for it.Suddenly, Colt finds himself a key player in an elaborate effort to defend the president of the United States against an assassination attempt. His hush-hush missions for Diana and The Circle are becoming increasingly surreal—and deadly. Colt realizes he could lose everything, even the wife he loves. Will he be able to stop the terrorists in time? And at what cost?