Prologue Books imprint: 453 books

In the small California town of Santa Marta, oil and water become an explosive mixture when the human elements of lust and greed are thrown into the crucible. When news of a major oil well discovery in its channel leaks out, the quiet town is rocked by murder and terrorism...and naked desires...

Devil in the flesh . . . Brian Kettering was six years old the day the horror began. That was the day he ran home alone from the church picnic in the park. The day the streets were strangely, utterly silent. The day he watched his father confront a hideous, voracious demon . . . and die. Now...

Sam Jordan never lets emotion interfere with his work. He is a precise and ruthless killing machine, dealing out death for hire. But his last job had ended wrong for Jordan, and now Sandy is sending him out again - without a break, yet - to take care of someone named Kemp. Hell, he even has to case...

How the Trigger-Finger of a Man Long Dead Sent Another Man To His Death In this gigantic mystery story, Mr. Keeler has employed atavism in his plot, a thing that has probably never before been attempted in mystery fiction. Starting in pirate days with the bitter enmity between Captain Kidd...

Poised, a panther glides silently through the low grass, her lithe muscles rippling beneath the silken fur of her flanks, moving with infinite, unimaginable beauty … Such was Nora, sensual as some proud untamed feline, attractive beyond belief. To see here was to become entranced, to be drawn,...

Hell was bustin’ loose in Texas! For months the range country had smoldered with hate. Ranches had been set afire, cows rustled, blood spilled. And no-one knew the identity of the night-raiding killers. No one knew because they had no faces...only grinning skull bones where human flesh should be....

So it’s come to this. Brock “the Rock” Callahan, former gridiron star turned private eye - peeping in bedroom windows. It’s a dirty job, and not the kind Brock would normally take on. If he had a choice. But an old teammate asked him for a favor: following a stray wife. And what begins...

Terrified, she rolled over on the sand and sat up, not even trying to cover her body. ''Tell you what,'' the strange man said. ''We’ll play a little game. You try to remember me and I’ll tell you when you’re getting warm.'' She watched him slowly unwrap an oilcloth package. ''You...

“It’ll be a powerful big chore for one man to clean out that nest of cutthroat rattlesnakes!” But Jim McNelty, Captain of the Rangers, was sure that if any man could rid Texas of the vicious Rimrock Raiders, it was his ace lieutenant, Walt Slade. Little did he know, when he gave his orders,...

On a distant planetary system, the post-civil-war cleanup has begun. But the Confederation empire’s government remains silent, without help or advice. It’s up to the men and women of the Last Legion to protect the fragile system against the intrigues of the alien Musth, bent on domination. As...

Marooned on a lost planet at the edge of Space. Their only companions? A howling army of screaming, crazed women. Captain Marrus Rond and his command staff were castaways, and the Starship Persephone was in the hands of the mutineers. Abandoned on an unknown planet, the ship’s deposed officers...

They showed me the bone fragments, and the charred diamond, and everything else - but I said to hell with their theory. Wilma was alive and I knew it. She had to be. The newspapers were yelling that I had murdered her!

A telephone rang - and Steve Griffin recognized the distant, terrified voice of his wife. ''He’s trying to run me down with a car. He’s trying to smash the life out of me, Steve.'' But who her pursuer was Maureen never lived to tell. What would drive an unknown man to kill Maureen, to smash...

M’chel Riss and the Star Risk team are enjoying a little well-deserved R&R . . . until funds get a bit low. Then it’s time to swing back into action. The next thing they know, they’re in the middle of the weirdest gig they’ve had yet: a staged bank robbery that involves putting the money back. Oh,...