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Odd Thomas’s singular journey is approaching its unforgettable conclusion in SAINT ODD. But before Odd’s destiny is revealed, this exclusive eBook short story looks back to where it all began for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, two souls who are destined to be together forever.Odd Thomas, a 16 year old fry-cook with a gift for seeing the recently deceased, and his girlfriend Stormy Llewellyn (and in the backseat, the spirit of Elvis Presley) are on their way to the annual carnival when a man with a machete embedded in his neck hurls himself into their borrowed car, with all the nimble grace of the lingering dead.Someone, somewhere close by is in imminent danger. Odd and Stormy must postpone their visit to the fair and its fortune-telling machine in order to avert a brutal crime…

With the current president on the run for war crimes, an emergency election is called in Cameroon. But will the two candidates live long enough to see election day? Assigned to protection duty, Mack Bolan soon learns the politicians aren't the only ones in danger. There's a traitor in their midst who won't stop until Bolan and his team are dead.Ambushed at every turn and a constant target for snipers, Bolan knows that flushing out the enemy won't be easy–especially when everyone is a suspect. With millions of lives and the fate of Cameroon's government at stake, he's determined to stop the fight before more blood is shed.With no one to trust, the Executioner knows there's only one way to beat the killers at their game: destroy them before they destroy you.

Ready to respond to any threat against America, her allies or world stability, Stony Man is a strictly off-the-books operation whose orders come straight from the Oval Office.Now it's a war situation for Stony Man, and the countdown has begun for a plot aimed at full-blown destabilization of the Middle East–and pure terror unleashed in the heart of the West.The enemy: Iraq's former ruling regime and loyal fedayeen soldiers. Their mandate to reclaim control in Iraq is to inflict as much devastation as they can on specified Western targets and create total anarchy in the Middle East. They've got the means, money and power in high places–and to prove it, they just blew up a town in Texas. All that stands between freedom and the unthinkable is a group of diehard warriors who specialize in pulling off the impossible.

American and Russian intelligence agencies have picked up chatter on a French cyberterrorist group that first came to prominence as masters of small-scale carnage before being driven underground. Newly reorganized, they are better funded, possess more firepower and have set their sights on bigger targets.Mack Bolan teams up with a beautiful Russian agent in a violent pursuit where every second counts. The trail leads from Paris to the U.S. in a breakneck race to stop a sophisticated cyberassault on Yankee Stadium. It is the strike that could ultimately wipe out the world's information systems. All that stands between global anarchy and chaos is a warrior driven by a relentless quest for justice.