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FBI agent Jack Rhodes and Doctor V.C. Coldwater team up to solve a murder involving treason, secret government research, and the Uzbekistani black market.
*****
Commander Jack Rhodes was kicked out of the Navy SEALs after a mission went wrong, but he continues to serve the public as an agent of the FBI. After a woman is murdered, he's forced to team up with the unconventional and flagrantly disrespectful Doctor V.C. Coldwater. What looks like a simple case turns out to extend deep into government research, nuclear fission, and the global criminal underworld. Jack's forced to rely on a woman he thought he'd despise, because in a case this complicated, she's the only person he can trust.
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- 1: Prologue: Kill Me Faster
- 2: A Series of Very Fortunate Events
- 3: To Defeat A Seal
- 4: Too Cheap To Buy Me Dinner
- 5: Want A New Husband? Kill the Old
- 6: Maybe You Should Have Frisked Me
- 7: Tie You Up In My Basement
- 8: It's Only Illegal If You Get Caught
- 9: A Deal With The Devil
- 10: Seduce Me With Your Paperwork
- 11: Liar, Liar, Skirt On Fire
- 12: Hot Air Balloon Pilot
- 13: Fist-A-Cuffs in the Kitchen
- 14: Geniuses are Idiots
- 15: Sisterhood of The Traveling Guns
- 16: Wake Up Call
- 17: MI6, Uranium, and Pancakes
- 18: Breaking, Entering, and Light Treason
- 19: Desperate Circumstances Call For Cliche Actions
- 20: Kissing A Corpse
- 21: Darkest Secrets
- 22: Not So Subtle Threats
- 23: Enter Conspiracy Theorist #1
- 24: Exit Conspiracy Theorist #1 Rapidly
- 25: Runaway Widow
- 26: Steak-Out Pt. 1
- 27: Steak-Out Pt.2
- 28: A Death Or Two
- 29: Mr. Emblem in the Parking Lot With The Knife
- 30: She Dead
- 31: Anatomical Parts and A Night Of Canoodling
- 32: Thigh Highs, Dead People, and a Whole Lot of Lying
- 33: Ring Shopping
- 34: There's A Reason You Shouldn't Go Alone
- 35: Maybe She Should Have Thought This Through
- 36: Like A Girl
- 37: The End. .?
- 38: Part Two: Drowning In Love
- 39: Cupid Coldwater
- 40: Peer Talk
- 41: Kisses Of Necessity
- 42: A Cop, A Doctor, and A Felon Walk Into A Bar. . .
- 43: Heroism is Overrated
- 44: Dead Men Tell Some Tales
- 45: Down The Rabbit Hole
- 46: Too Close For Comfort
- 47: To Discover The Stars of The Universe
- 48: Stars Aligned In Coincidence
- 49: Classified Means Classified
- 50: Murder Is Illegal But He Definitely Deserved It
- 51: Man With A Plan
- 52: Engineers Are The Worst
- 53: Electron Radiation Issuance Detector Anti-Neutrino Unit System
- 54: Imaging Cosmic And Rare Underground Signals
- 55: What's In A Name. Part One.
- 56: What's In A Name. Part Two.
- 57: Under The Cover Of Darkness
- 58: A Voluntary Kidnapping
- 59: Not That I'm Telling You How To Do Your Job
- 60: Alastair Ledgerwood: The Man, The Legend, The Competition
- 61: Human-Eating Anacondas, Ruthless Penguins, and Killer Whales
- 62: Crime Is Always More Fun With A Friend
- 63: Assassins Are The Worst
- 64: Assassins Are People Too
- 65: A Tiny, Tiny Scratch
- 66: We Don't Torture People, Even If They Deserve It
- 67: J. Wilcox
- 68: Plot. Twist.
- 69: Victrasumous Caelan Coldwater
- 70: When V.C. Does Something Stupid. . . Again
- 71: What Are You Going To Do? Shoot Me?
- 72: You Have A Brother?
- 73: Eridanus Flooding
- 74: With A Dying Star
- 75: The Grim Reaper Came To Collect
- 76: The End. . . For Real
- 77: Extended Epilogue: The Case Of The Misguided Mafia
- 78: Extended Epilogue: The Case Of The CAT-racter Witness
- 79: Extended Epilogue: The Case Of The Murderous Mortuary