Terry F Torrey
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Find the briefcase. Save the company. Win the girl. Before sunrise. Young taxi driver Horatio "Race" Rivera wants nothing more than to drive the history taxi for quirky company Taxi Adventure-and to sweep the owner's daughter off her feet. But when an impaired fare leaves a briefcase behind in his taxi, and it goes missing from the company's lost-and-found locker, his simple dreams get turned upside down. Now, with the company's corporate investors...
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After hours. Underground. Trapped. With real zombies. Humble garbageman Vance Campbell doesn't care very much for comic books, superheros, or pop culture in general, but his wife does, so he has volunteered to work at the local convention to get tickets for her and their daughter. But when a freak earthquake literally shakes things up, the festive weekend takes a turn for the worse. Now, Vance finds himself trapped by a broken elevator on the mezzanine...
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If paper books were outlawed, would you be an outlaw? Historian Walter Barr loves everything about paper books-except that they have been outlawed, confiscated, and destroyed. So when he stumbles across a dark cafe where the denizens revel in spoken-word poetry and the illicit trade of paper books, Walter feels a rush of exhilaration-like he has finally found a home. Now, with his fearful wife trying to stop him, Walter joins a scrappy crew of paper-book...
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Victor Storm isn't looking for trouble. Victor Storm wanted to leave violent retribution overseas when he left the Special Forces. But when he sees violence and death everywhere he looks, from a dive bar in East St. Louis to the case files of his philosophy class, he starts to realize it surrounds him. Now, Victor finds himself focused on a local punk leaving a trail of destruction and a hospice nurse leaving a trail of bodies, and he realizes that...
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48 short stories to chill and burn Brace yourself. A new batch of deviously original stories from Terry F. Torrey is blowing in, with strange characters and surprising plots. Scratch your head at the tales in Strange Days, where the "Storm Trees" react to a summer squall, everyone goes crazy for "The Red Balloon", and a regular guy gets railroaded into "Suspicious Behavior". Feel a chill at the stories in Nervous Nights, where a motorcyclist is trapped...
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In 1991, Jack falls in love with a beauty. Twenty-nine-year-old Jack Trexlor doesn't realize that his life has gone off the rails: tending bar at a topless club, getting too close to the dancers, and getting involved in drugs. He thinks he's living the good life. But when a mysterious stranger stops into the club on a hot September evening, Jack's world gets suddenly turned upside down. Now, Jack works desperately to put together one last big deal...
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In 1980, Jack does not go crazy. Eighteen-year-old Jack Trexlor wants a life of art, and although he knows he'll face his father's wrath to pursue it, he's prepared himself to pay that price. But when his girlfriend tells him a devastating story, he swears to get justice for her-and prove to her that he can. Now, with the help of his girlfriend's sister, Jack does everything he can to make things right for his girlfriend, and as things grow progressively...
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One hundred percent ready for zombies. Oops. Last year, humble garbageman Vance Campbell had enough of Comicon to last a lifetime, so this year, he wants to visit only briefly, to see his friends, attend the awards luncheon, and make his wife and daughter happy. But when people start collapsing unconscious around them, and when only he and Allison seem able to recognize the danger, he reluctantly agrees to help find out what's going on. Now, with...
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In 1985, Jack finds adventure in the desert. Twenty-three-year-old Jack Trexlor, fresh out of the crazy house, tends bar by night, paints by day, and dreams of something bigger. And when an old friends pops back into his life and introduces him to a mysterious stranger and an outlandish game, Jack finds himself intrigued by the adrenaline rush. Now, on a weekend fishing trip to the desert, Jack and his friends stumble across a pair of poachers out...
10) Bad Apples
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Innocent victims plagued by a thug, and a vigilante with a target on his back Victor Storm has finally stopped looking for trouble, and he feels ready to leave violence behind at last. But when he finds himself being stalked, and his class profiles a brutal cop killing with impunity, he knows he must act. Now, Victor has become enmeshed in his most dangerous snare yet, trying to shake the bounty off himself while facing down a trained killer who would...
11) First Lies
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16 stories of darkness and promise In the beginning, as in many beginnings, there were deals with the Devil, attacks by unlikely demons, ghost dogs, strange things in a cemetery, long walks home, true love and true hate and true ambivalence. Hack Hammond fought "Indestructum" for his girlfriend and the world. Denis Grey took "A Walk Down Main Street" sometime after Clinton Irving vowed there would be "No More Lonely Knights". Angela found quite a...
12) Winter Kills
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Here comes Victor Storm. Here comes trouble. Victor Storm tried to leave his violent past behind when he retired from the special forces and returned home to St. Louis. But when a desperate criminal inflicts unspeakable violence on his family, he gets pulled back into dark thoughts-and dark actions, cruising dive bars, looking for trouble. Now, with society's mechanism of justice breaking down, Victor feels compelled to intervene on the side of righteousness,...
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Freshman Jesse Creed has settled into campus life at a quiet college in upstate New York. But on the cold morning his girlfriend is murdered, the police come knocking at his door, and everything changes. Now, Jesse must track down the killer, because the authorities are only focused on him and his friends. The problem is, one of them might have done it, and one of them might be next. Fans of clean cozy mysteries will enjoy Paper Cuts.
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A nameless everyman thumbs a ride on a dark highway, running from feelings that he has wasted his his youth, his life. But where is he running to? Now, as he sets out to retrace the past that brought him to his present, his journey threatens to give him answers he won't like to the questions swirling inside him. If you like dramas where characters search for meaning and redemption in the fleeting rush of life, and find hope, you'll love Long Way Home....
15) Swamp Monster
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Roid rage, PTSD, and snake's nest of lies Victor Storm doesn't want to kill people anymore, but he can't stop looking for trouble. And when he finds a girl who reminds him of his daughter being menaced by a jerk, and when his class profiles a pedophile with political connections, Victor again can't turn away. Now, Victor wants to find a way to handle both situations without killing anybody. But he's killed before, and he will if he has to. If you...