Justin Scott Books In Order

HardScape

Benjamin Abbott returns to his hometown to save his family?s recession battered real estate business, never dreaming that things are about the heat up in picturesque Newbury, Connecticut. Broke and looking for some excitement, Ben takes a job videotaping the adulterous goings on in a bedroom in Jack and Rita Long?s ?castle.? But he doesn?t bargain on becoming embroiled in the murder of Rita Long?s friend. A second murder closer to home propels Ben to embark on a new career as a neophyte detective and leads him to encounter answers that will put him in mortal danger.

Stonedust

Ben Abbott is back in Stonedust, a complex, richly plotted, and enthralling mystery that tests this witty, literate realtor and fledgling detective as never before. The Fisks’ weekend party, a ‘sleep over’ for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’ body turns up in an isolated covered bridge. For Reg may have paid the party a fleeting visit before dying in a way everyone swears was impossible. Ben, who used to play backyard baseball with Reg and all the party guests, must take up the matter with a hometown cast of friends, foes, and family including his ninety year old Aunt Connie, the rising politician and his sometime lover Vicky McLachlan, the comely and ambitious State Police Detective Marian Boyce, and a pair of deadly housebreakers. Soon everybody’s getting much more in the way of kicks than they bargained for.

FrostLine

HardScape and StoneDust, the first Ben Abbott novels, established Ben as one of the most engaging and canny investigators to have appeared in a long time. Britain’s Literary Review terms the Abbotts Smooth, sardonic, impeccably argued, immaculately written while author Lawrence Block says: FrostLine is the best book in a series that started strong and keeps getting better.

When Newbury s newest resident, ex diplomat Harry King, the close confidant of Kissinger and reputed to have been heavily involved in the Vietnam War, summons real estate agent Ben Abbott to his new McMansion, Ben dreams of big dollar signs. The commission from selling the Fox Trot estate would be huge. But King doesn t want Ben s selling expertise, he wants him to act as a mediator between him and his troublesome neighbour, surly Vietnam vet Ronnie Butler. A strip of Butler s land cuts straight into King s estate like a knife, acting as a red flag for two neighbors who are as ornery and quarrelsome as a pair of rival bulls. In fact, the testoserone is flowing heavier than the waters in the stream King is damming up for a picturesque lake.

Before Ben can mediate, an explosion rocks a lavish party on the Fox Trot lawn. The blast blows up the dam and Butler s ex con son, Dickie, along with it. Butler, an army trained sapper, is arrested for setting the dynamite. Ben, whose childhood friend Dickie had tried his patience and loyalty many times before, refuses to accept Butler s guilt. Besides, too many things don t add up. Could it be the work of terrorists? Of one of the many groups holding a grudge against King? Or just someone with his own axe to grind? With the Feds on the scene, caught in state and local law enforcement jockeying, Ben negotiates an unpopular course through the usual minefield of his various loyalties to friends, family and lovers, of whom there are plenty…
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McMansion

Even the cozy New England town of Newbury, onnecticut, is not immune to the relentless spread of McMansions carpeting the countryside. Ben Abbott, realtor and private detective, is so incensed that he refuses to sell them. That Ben is not the only citizen of Newbury who is provoked by over sized, ugly, wasteful houses becomes apparent when the corpse of Billy Tiller, Newbury’s greediest developer, is discovered underneath his bulldozer.

The young and troubled eco activist Jeff Kimball, who is arrested while sitting at the controls of the bulldozer, protests his innocence. Connecticut’s state’s attorney sees the opportunity to prosecute an open and shut TV murder trial that will vault him into the U.S. Senate. While Ira Levy, the small town criminal defense lawyer hired by Jeff’s hip hop mogul father, longs to impress movers and shakers in New York City.

Ben Abbott, deep in debt to Attorney Levy for an expensive horse he gave to 12 year old Alison, is forced to pay off the debt by trying to prove Jeff Kimball innocent of a crime that State Police Major Crime Squad Lieutenant Marian Boyce styles ‘perpetrator on bulldozer on victim.’

It looks that way, says Ben Abbott. But in what order did they really stack up?

Mausoleum

When Newbury Connecticut’s three hundred year old village cemetery is invaded by a gaudy, half-million dollar Mausoleum, Ben Abbott is not happy.

Newcomer Brian Groses’s tall, wide, mirror-polished eruption of eternal ego sticks out in the peaceful burying ground like a McMansion in an apple orchard. Ben’s fellow drinkers at the bar have nicknamed the monstrosity, ‘McTomb.’ But no one expected to find Brian’s body locked in his Mausoleum, fifty years ahead of schedule.

Then Homeland Security Immigration Criminal Enforcement agents descend on Newbury hunting for Charlie Cubrero, an illegal immigrant farm hand-and supposed gang leader-who bought a gun after he was stiffed for fifty bucks by Brian Grose.

Ben Abbott doesn’t buy it. Half the town was in the graveyard celebrating Newbury’s tercentennial when Brian was shot and most of them were mad at him. Besides, Ben admires the hard working Charlie. And he fears that the news that the illegal worked for the Village Cemetery Association will destroy the venerable society already torn asunder by suing and counter-suing anti-Mausoleum traditionalists and pro-Mausoleum insurgents.

The Chase (By:Clive Cussler)

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.

April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty four years before. But it is not the engine or its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next…

1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who cold bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and then vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of the ‘Butcher Bandit,’ the U.S. government brings in the best man they can find a tall, lean, no nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers coast to coast.

But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what is quickly becoming clear to him is the sharpest criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the bandit’s identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, Bell repeatedly draws near only to grasp at thin air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon it will take all of Isaac Bell’s skills not merely to prevail…
but to survive.

Filled with intricate plotting, dazzling signature set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, this is the work of a master writing at the height of his powers.

The Wrecker (With: Clive Cussler)

In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early twentieth century America pursuing thieves and killers…
and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down and out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the ‘privileged few’? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk it could be the future of the entire country. Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, The Wrecker is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.

The Spy (With: Clive Cussler)

In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by his sense of justice, travels early twentieth century America pursuing thieves and killers…
and sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Cascades express line and, desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down and out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. The Wrecker traverses the vast spaces of the American West as if he had wings, striking wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he a striker? An anarchist? A revolutionary determined to displace the ‘privileged few’? A criminal mastermind engineering some as yet unexplained scheme? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done that, in fact, the Wrecker is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If Bell doesn’t stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at risk it could be the future of the entire country. Filled with intricate plotting and dazzling set pieces, The Wrecker is one of the most entertaining thrillers in years.

The Race (With: Clive Cussler)

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him. But he may already be too late…
and the future of the world may just hang in the balance. AUTHOR BIOS: Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Kingdom, The Race, and Devil’s Gate. He lives in Arizona. To learn more about Clive Cussler, please visit www. cusslerbooks. com. Justin Scott’s twenty six novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbott detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of The Wrecker, The Spy, and The Race. He lives in Connecticut.

The Thief (With: Clive Cussler)

On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him. But he may already be too late…
and the future of the world may just hang in the balance. AUTHOR BIOS: Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Kingdom, The Race, and Devil’s Gate. He lives in Arizona. To learn more about Clive Cussler, please visit www. cusslerbooks. com. Justin Scott’s twenty six novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbott detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of The Wrecker, The Spy, and The Race. He lives in Connecticut.

The Janson Directive (By:Robert Ludlum)

One of the world’s greatest men has been kidnapped. Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation has been captured by the forces led by the near mythical terrorist known as The Caliph. Holding Novak in a near impenetrable fortress, The Caliph has refused to negotiate for his release, planning instead to brutally execute Novak in a matter of days. Running out of time and hope, Novak’s people turn to a man with a long history of defeating impossible odds: Paul Janson. For decades, Janson was an operative and assassin whose skills and exploits made him a legend in the notorious U.S. covert agency Consular Operatations. No longer able to live with the brutality, bloodshed, and personal loss that marked his career, Janson has retired from the field and nothing could lure him back. Nothing except Peter Novak, a man who once saved Janson’s life when everyone else was powerless to help. With the considerable resources of The Liberty Foundation at his disposal, Janson hastily assembles a crack extraction team, setting in motion an ingenious rescue operation. But the operation goes horribly wrong and Janson is marked for death, the target of a ‘beyond salvage’ order issued from the highest level of the government. Now he is running for his life, pursued by Jessica Kincaid, a young agent of astonishing ability who as a student of Janson’s own lethal arsenal of tactics and techniques can anticipate and counter his every move. To survive, Janson must outrace a conspiracy that has gone beyond the control of its originators. To win, he must counter it with a conspiracy of his own. With mere days, perhaps only hours, remaining, and shadowed by a secret that links Janson’s violent life with that of the visionary peacemaker Peter Novak, Janson’s only hope is to uncover the nearly unimaginable truth behind these events a truth that has the power to foment wars, topple governments, and change the very course of history.

The Janson Command (As:Paul Garrison)

Paul Janson, a character first featured in Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novel The Janson Directive, has a new goal: save the world, one operative, one mission, one redemption at a time. Reformed from his days of covert operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. These former operatives then form a network of support for Janson when it comes to his other job Janson also takes on independent assignments. For a fee, he’ll use his skills to resolve international crises. But only those actions that he believes contribute to the greater good of all. Whether he’s rescuing an American doctor from Somalian pirates, attacking militant thugs intent on murdering a West African public servant agitating for human rights, or hunting the money lenders who capitalize on barbaric civil war, Janson stays honest with three simple rules: 1 No torture. 2 No civilian casualties. 3 No killing anyone who doesn’t try to kill them. Yet with his commitment to doing what is right while facing canny intelligence operatives, ruthless warlords, deep sea marauders, or brutal dictators Janson finds that his most difficult task is figuring out if he’s fighting for the good side.

Many Happy Returns

Who could be mad enough at Danny to want to kill him? For Danny, New york was a place where he couldn’t find an apartment and noticed a lot of funny business out of the corner of his eye. One week, he had nothing better to do than keep himself alive. A mystery novel written with imagination and a graceful style. It is fast funny and fun.

Fire and Ice (As:Paul Garrison)

For more than a decade, the world’s oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone and their young daughter Ronnie, who live aboard the sailing yacht Veronica, bringing medical care to remote islands. But their peaceful life is shattered when a medical distress call summons Sarah and Ronnie to a gargantuan commercial vessel lying still ominous in the equatorial Pacific. Michael, left behind to tend to an ailing islander, watches with growing horror as Veronica is hauled onto the deck of the hulking metal behemoth and is carried away. Stranded and alone a thousand miles from civilization with only a primitive canoe at his disposal and no navigational equipment except the stars Michael Stone must now do the impossible. He must find his kidnapped family and rescue them from the clutches of a madman. And, unbeknownst to him, Sarah and Ronnie’s are not the only lives at stake…
The debut of a remarkable new writer, Fire and Ice is an electrifying tale of suspense that races through the perilous waters to the worlds most exotic ports toward an unforgetable climax as unexpected as it is unrelentingly intense.

Red Sky at Morning (As:Paul Garrison)

It’s fleet week in New York City but there are hungrey sharks swimming among the welcomed guests…
As thousands of foreign ships clog the great city’s harbor, beneath the surface of the Hudson River a rogue armada of Chinese attack submarines is taking up position, ready to launch a blitzkrieg attack on the unprepared and unsuspecting populace. Tugboat captain Ken Hughes knows New York harbor as few other navigators do. Now, in the midst of chaos and terror on a familiar waterway that has suddenly turned hostile and deadlyhe finds himself on the front lines of the baffle to free a hostage Manhattan. Time is running out for a city under siege as Hughes, sailing enthusiast Kate Ross, and a courageous handful of desperate citizens race to prevent an explosive destiny that could paralyze a nation and reduce an island metropolis to rubble.

Buried at Sea (As:Paul Garrison)

Hired on as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker, Jim Leighton’s dream of adventure came true when he set sail for Rio de Janeiro onboard the luxury yacht Hustle. But in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Jim’s enigmatic employer, Will Spark, makes a startling announcement: they are being pursued by someone who wants them dead. With no previous sailing experience far from the sanctuaryof land in the company of a stranger who is possibly delusional and certainly dangerous Jim is suddenly trapped in a harrowing race for survival across the vast waters of the globe. And his options are rapidly being reduced to two: sail or die.

Sea Hunter (As:Paul Garrison)

With his electrifying, lightning paced thrillers Fire and Ice, Red Sky at Morning, and Buried at Sea, Paul Garrison firmly established himself as the premier author of contemporary high seas adventures. And now he plunges us into perilous waters once again with a spellbinding tale of danger, unnatural phenomena, and technology gone mad.A charter captain in the British Virgin Islands, David Hope is a man severely shaken by personal loss and looking for nothing more than one last client to round out the season. At first it seems Sally Moffitt is his salvation. Beautiful and reckless, a filmmaker specializing in the mysteries of the deep, she meets David in a Tortola bar. And before long they are riding the placid Caribbean waters aboard David’s catamaran, Oona, carrying a cache of ‘liberated’ film equipment. They aren’t alone. There is something swimming beneath the surface, sleek and frightening an inexplicable perversion of the natural order never before caught on film…
until now. No sooner is Sally’s precious footage shot and secured than they are hailed by a huge, elaborately fitted research vessel a towering high tech windjammer under the command of one William Tree. Though charmed by the amiable, obese, and wildly eccentric Tree a scion of one of America’s wealthiest and most powerful families David and Sally are not ready to trust him with their discovery, for the big man knows more than he is letting on. And he would brush them aside as easily as he would an annoying insect in his singleminded pursuit of a dark and brilliant vision that is slowly coming to light one that the whole world will recognize…
and fear. But David and Sally have something Tree desperately needs, and they intend to keep it hidden until catastrophe strikes. A nightmare uncontained and all too real is rising up from the depths, setting the two adventurers off on a breakneck hunt for answers to the greatest and most devastating mystery the seas have ever nurtured a mystery that is now, ruthlessly and relentlessly, hunting them…
. Crackling with tension and alive with the salt spray tinged authenticity that is Garrison’s trademark, Sea Hunter is a magnificent voyage of uncharted waters, as deep and mysterious as the ocean itself.

The Ripple Effect (As:Paul Garrison)

Aiden Page wanted only to escape. The CFO of a bank deep in debt and under investigation by the Department of Justice, Aiden saw his chance and took it, leaving behind his family, his creditors, and his persecutors by convincing them of his death. He succeeds in his deception until one night when, tortured by guilt and loneliness, he places a call to his teenage daughter, Morgan. He only utters a single word, but like a solitary ripple spreading across the water, it is enough to convince Morgan that her father is still alive. Determined to be reunited with her father and confident that she knows where he might be going, Morgan sets out on an ambitious and dangerous journey to a small Pacific island. With little money, no driver’s license, and no passport, Morgan attempts to reach her destination by sailboat, prepared to fight through hostile waters, and hostile men, if it means finding her father. But Morgan isn’t the only one searching for Aiden. The same people who engineered his company’s collapse know that he is the only man who can uncover a conspiracy that could destroy far more than one bank or a single life. The group is unconstrained by morality, undeterred by mercy, and it will do anything in its power, including using Morgan as a pawn, if it ensures that Aiden Page remains a corpse. Now Aiden must solve the mystery behind his exile if he hopes to save not just his own life but his daughter’s as well. Before his race is over, he will discover that thousands of lives may depend upon the actions of a dead man.