Baldacci, David

A collection of stories by 23 best-selling suspense writers, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

The president of the United States finally has the opportunity to take down a global menace and he calls on the team of assassins Will Robie and Jessica Reel to take care of it, but some in the government don't trust them and would prefer to see them dead after their assignment is completed.

Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell take on a sinister case when they are called in by Sean's old friend and mentor, Ted Bergin, to help him work on the case of Edgar Roy, an alleged serial killer who faces almost certain conviction, but Bergin is found murdered before their first meeting and Sean and Michelle are left to determine whether Roy is really a killer.

Operative A Shaw teams up with British vigilante Regina Campion to track down Evan Waller, who is plotting to sell nuclear weapons to Islamic fundamentalists, and as they try to stop Waller, Shaw and Regina find themselves falling for one another, which only makes their mission more dangerous as Waller makes Regina his next target.

Vega investigates why Quentin Herms was chased into the dangerous Quag and discovers dangerous secrets about her home village of Wormwood.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

Perception manager Dick Pender is asked by arms dealer Nicolas Creel to create a lie that will convince the world it is on the brink of war, and sets in motion a chain of events that will link three strangers and bring the world to the edge of destruction.