Features pairings by twenty-three best-selling suspense writers, including John Sandford, F. Paul Wilson, and R. L. Stine, who in short high-action stories pit their most popular characters against one another.

Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.

It started with a kidnapping. A shadowy organization known only as the Vespers snatched seven members of the Cahill family and demanded a series of bizarre ransoms from around the world. Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister Amy began a global treasure hunt, determined to bring back whatever Vesper One needed, so long as it kept the hostages safe. But when they deliver the last ransom, Amy and Dan discover Vesper One's terrifying endgame....

Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...

La primera vez fue en el campo de juego. Un gran atleta imponente, el era la primera persona natal de Burlington en convertirse en profesional. Pero su carrera termino antes de que tuviera la oportunidad de comenzar. En su primer juego, una violenta colision casco a casco lo dejo fuera de la cancha para siempre y lo dejo con un efecto secundario poco probable: que nunca se le olvida nada. La segunda vez fue en casa, dos decadas mas tarde. Decker,...

Nicholas Creel, director de una gran multinacional de la industria armamentística, se cree con suficiente poder como para manipular la realidad en su beneficio. Pero no cuenta con la tenacidad de Shaw, un hombre de tortuoso pasado cuyo único objetivo es acabar con él; ni con Katie James, una periodista caída en desgracia que hará todo lo posible por volver a alcanzar la cumbre. The world's largest defense contractor manipulates international...

"Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window at the lavish homes of the uberwealthy, dreaming about joining their ranks. In the evenings, he listens to the fiscal news on his phone, already preparing for the next grueling...

Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.