Robert Briganti is the Assassin.Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia.This time, armed with his hand-picked arsenal of superweapons, he meets his match in a super-cool woman with her own thirst for vengeance.But if she stands in Briganti's way, he has a tough choice to make.Walk away from his latest quest for justice ... or kill a woman whose emotional scars match his own?High-octane action-adventure in the grand tradition of Don Pendleton's THE EXECUTIONER!

"The Mafia made one hell of a mistake when they killed that man's wife and son."—Senator Thomas Cotton, Jr.Robert Briganti is the Assassin. Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia. With a handpicked arsenal of superweapons he stalks his enemy, kills without mercy and moves on to his next target. He knows the Mafia will get him sooner or later. He hopes it will be much later—there is always more killing to be done.

Jim Rainey had fought in five wars, but the civil war in Lebanon is – and was – the bloodiest, most fiercely waged conflict in Middle East history. Christian against Moslem – and all armed to the teeth with the most modern weapons available. Rainey was getting good money from the beleaguered government, which was trying to build order from chaos, but there were times when the killing got to him. Rainey goes where the fighting is, no matter what the odds.

Many years ago, fellow mercenary 'Wild Bill' Corcoran had rescued Rainey from a grisly death in the African bush. Now it's Rainey's chance to repay the debt.Corcoran is being held prisoner in a jail in Namibia, sentenced to death for working with Namibian freedom fighters, if Rainey can't break him out, Corcoran will hang.And Rainey's not about to let that happen!

Jim Rainey was approached by the elderly widow of an American brigadier general, who wanted him to find a valuable document hidden somewhere on a remote Philippine island. Though he distrusted the widow's motives, the price was right, so Rainey took the assignment. Bu he soon found himself dodging the bullets of Communist and non-communist rebels, President Marcos' secret police, and freelance gunmen hired by parties unknown. They all had one goal in common—kill Rainey!

Nick Lanzetta. Born Brooklyn, N.Y. 1933. Occupation: Mafia soldier. Specialty: murder. Expert with pistol, rifle, machine gun. Has been known to use an icepick, a length of piano wire, or his bare hands. Arrested 17 times, twice for first degree homicide. No convictions since juvenile convictions for auto theft. A graduate of the old South Brooklyn gang called The Rangers, Lanzetta was admitted to membership in the Mafia under the sponsorship of Joseph Daniello, caporegime in the notorious DiSalvo Family. Since then, according to FBI reports, he has committed at least 40 murders, earning a reputation as the most feared killer on the east coast. Now 37, he thinks it's time he moved up in the Organization.

Rainey had flown to Hawaii for some much-needed R and R. Instead, he landed right in the middle of a Beirut-type blowout. A terrorist group had sent an ambulance packed with high explosives hurtling into a children's hospital. Their aim: Hawaiian independence. The result: hundreds of dead and maimed children.The local police told Rainey to find the butchers or face the charges himself.So Rainey went to work.

Down in Old Mexico for a hunting expedition, Jim Sundance ran into an old friend, down-and-out lawyer Jorge Calderon, who was engaged in a lonely battle to save a poor Indian tribe from slavery - the "forgotten ones" - Los Olvidados. The half-breed gunfighter joined the fight against a bloodthirsty Mexican army colonel and ruthless landowner Lucas Bannerman, the mind behind the slave ring. Sundance knew how desperate and dangerous it was to try to fight the enemies of his people.

Robert Briganti is the Assassin. Ruthless, indifferent to his own survival, he lives only to destroy the Mafia. This time, armed again with a private arsenal of handpicked superweapons, he mercilessly stalks his enemies in Boston: a vengeance hit that backfires into a bloody double cross and a no-exit syndicate death trap that Briganti knows he has to enter—or die.High-octane action-adventure in the grand tradition of Don Pendleton's THE EXECUTIONER!

Professional soldier Jim Rainey went to Argentina because that's where the action was. Communist terrorists were forcing the Government to hire mercenaries—but only the toughest fighting men needed to apply. With six wars under his belt, Rainey signed on—at $2000 a month—as the leader of a special seek and destroy squad. His orders: take no prisoners.It was dirty, dangerous work ... but Rainey loved it.

The time: 1970. The place: ArizonaSomewhere on the Navaho Reservation a war was set to break out. A war that would plunge the Southwest—eventually the whole country—into bloody chaos. Modern-day Ghost Dance Raiders dressed in the ancient costumes of the peyote cult, and armed with automatic weapons, staged swift, murderous, commando raids against isolated towns.Berger was caught in the middle, on one side a sinister Indian radical leader, on the other a powerful neo-Fascist rancher with his own private army. Two beautiful girls threw themselves at Berger—and he wondered why. Berger was no ordinary reporter—he carried a gun—and he learned quickly that it wasn't nearly enough.

The powerful story of desperate men and their dramatic struggle for life in the world's most brutal and infamous penal colony. There is Boulanger, the Jolly Rapist, Mirandola, the towering Italian killer, perverted Radisson, one-eyed Giroux, sadistic Sergeant Ducharme. Above all, there is Gendron, the brawling ex-legionnaire they call The American.Hating their sadistic guards, angry at the fatal insanities of the prison, the men divide among themselves. When the Nazi war in Europe reaches their tiny corner of Hell in French Guinea, each man must make his choice to submit or revolt.In this hell-on-earth, the toughest men can suffer and endure. But even the toughest men can only take so much. And that is when they turn on their captors ...

A bloody power struggle was boiling up inside the Mafia, with the Boston and Montreal mobs fighting over the state of Maine, the last open territory in the Northeast. The Godfather heard both sides and decided Boston had first crack at the big takeover. But they had to make it fast or lose the whole bundle.The boys picked out a town, Chapmans Corners, not much of a town but to get it they were ready to use anything—bribery, blackmail, sex, murder. They came with money and guns, the ruthless force of Cosa Nostra behind them, and only one man even thought about stopping them.Greeley, the cynical, hard-drinking crooked cop, had done some dirty things in his life, but there were limits ... and Greeley had just reached his.

Rainey had met her in Nam. Nancy Williams was a doctor, an angel of mercy; he was a killer, a cold-eyed angel of death. Yet somehow they became lovers for a brief and stormy period. Now Rainey had learned of her death in Central America at the hands of the Nicaragua National Guard. Enraged, he invades the rebel stronghold, a one-man demonstration of concentrated firepower and white-hot hatred. This is one job Rainey will do for free.

It was one of Pete Shay's stranger cases. He'd set out to find the killer of a small-time hood, and the trail led straight to Fat Vinny, the meanest loanshark in New York. But then Fat Vinny himself hired Shay to continue his investigation in order to prove Vinny's innocence.Shay knew that Vinny had never been innocent of anything in his life, but a client was a client, and Shay needed the money. He'd be up to his shoulder-holster in blood and bullets before this case was finished!