Ashes (A Project Eden Thriller)
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“This is the most important part. Whatever you have been doing to survive, continue to do so. The virus is still out there and contractible. Until you have been vaccinated, you must avoid contact with it at all costs. If you need to travel to one of the survival stations, wear protective clothing and stop for no one.
“While we at the UN have also been hit, we are still here. Our only goal now is to save everyone we can. As soon as the vaccine is ready, we will get it to you. After that, we will rise above the ashes of this horrible tragedy and ensure that this is not the end of the human race.”
The Project Eden Series Continues
Eden Rising
Coming 2013
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am constantly amazed by the response to the Project Eden series, and am very thankful to all the readers who have let me know how much they enjoy it! Thank you, thank you.
A couple mentions for the extra help on this one. First, Christine Buckhout, wine expert extraordinaire. Thank you for the info and the friendship. And with gratitude I can never fully express, my huge thanks to my editor and friend, Elyse Dinh-McCrillis. I wish I had more words to describe my appreciation for your help.
And, of course, to my kids—Ronan, Fiona, and Keira. Continue to be awesome.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brett Battles is the Barry Award-winning author of fifteen novels, including the Jonathan Quinn series, the Logan Harper series, and the Project Eden series. You can learn more at his website: brettbattles.com
THE JONATHAN QUINN SERIES
The Collected
A cleaner’s tasks are simple: get rid of the body so that it will never be found, and make the scene of the kill look like nothing happened.
Rule Number One: Don’t get caught.
With Jonathan Quinn’s career in question, his apprentice Nate has successfully taken on the role of full-fledged cleaner, using Quinn’s name to keep the business working seamlessly in case his boss decides to return.
But Nate’s latest job is not what it seems, and he finds himself on the wrong side of a trap.
With Nate suddenly missing, Quinn and his partner Orlando set out to find him, and learn the reasons for Nate’s disappearance are more atrocious than they anticipated.
The Destroyed
Mila Voss is dead.
That’s what the team hired to terminate her had reported, and that’s how her file had been marked.
Dead. Six years now.
So why did she suddenly show up on a hotel’s security camera in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania? Those who’d paid for her elimination are more than a little curious.
One person should know what happened—Jonathan Quinn, one of the best cleaners in the business, the man who’d been tasked with the disposal of her body.
Only Quinn isn’t exactly easy to get ahold of these days, and he may not be willing to share the answer.
Becoming Quinn
Every Identity Has an Origin, This Is Jonathan Quinn’s
Most careers begin with an interview and a handshake. Others require…something more.
Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of the best cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he’s a twenty-two-year-old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change.
In a burning barn a body is found—and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it’s something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden—others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.
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“A pure delight.”—Jeffery Deaver,
author of Edge and the Lincoln Rhyme novels,
on the first Quinn novel, The Cleaner
“Quinn is one part James Bond, one part Jason Bourne.”
—Nashville Book Worm
The Logan Harper Thrillers
Little Girl Gone & Every Precious Thing
Little Girl Gone
Logan Harper isn't looking for redemption. He just wants to live in peace and forget his troubled past. But one morning his quiet life is upended when he interrupts the attempted murder of his father's best friend, Tooney. The next thing he knows, Logan is on his way to Los Angeles, searching for Tooney's missing granddaughter and uncovering a sinister plot connected not only to Tooney's past, but also to the boardrooms of corporate America. As the odds stack up against him, Logan must fall back on old skills from the life he'd rather forget. He's made a promise, and the only way to fulfill it is to bring the girl home alive.
Every Precious Thing
It was supposed to be a fun weekend, a celebration of a marriage and growing family. Alan Lindley couldn't have been happier...until his wife Sara disappeared. Asked by a mutual friend to help look for her, Logan Harper is sure he'd discover a wife who simply wanted out of the marriage. What he finds instead is a woman who didn't exist, a diabolical plan, and people who would do anything to keep it a secret, including taking the life of the person most important to him. What would you do for those precious to you?
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"The best word I can use to describe his writing is addictive."
—James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author
The Pull of Gravity
From Brett Battles comes a different kind of novel, one Edgar Award-nominated author Tim Hallinan calls "a mesmerizing thriller of the heart." It's a story of love, tragedy, and those searching for redemption.
Jay Bradley thought he could leave the Philippines behind. But though he's started a new life with a woman he loves, he's still tormented by questions from his past.
He returns to Angeles City, where he once worked as a papasan watching over bargirls. On the surface, he's there to sell his stake in a bar on the notorious Fields Avenue. In reality, he's come back to find Isabel, one of his old dancers, and the only person who can answer his questions and quiet his demons.
Because death is seldom an ending, and often haunts those left behind.
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ASHES Copyright © 2012 by Brett Battles
Cover art copyright © 2012 by Jeroen ten Berge
ASHES is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
For more information about the author, please visit www.brettbattles.com.
Table of Contents
Praise for the Project Eden Thrillers
ALSO BY BRETT BATTLES
What Came Before
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust…
December 24th
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December 25th
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December 26th
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The Project Eden Series Continues
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THE JONATHAN QUINN SERIES
The Logan Harper Thrillers
The Pull of Gravity
ASHES Copyright © 20
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