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When an insurance company goes in the red policy holders start getting dead. Three insurance company executives cook up a scheme to slash expenditures by hiring a private military company (PMC), to eliminate costly terminally Ill policyholders. As the plan progresses the mercenaries want more, and the executives get more than they bargained for.The sadistic leader of the PMC has his own agenda and the price is steep. When the bill comes due the insurance executives try to renegotiate, but that doesn't sell.A US physician soldier once part of black ops missions is forced to confront his past. Years later the PMC leader needs his help, or else. A former lover he believed dead appears out of the blue with a warning. She reveals the shadowy world of international commerce, stolen treasures and wholesale death. The respectable physician haunted by his former involvement and new threats has his own bag of tricks and springs into action. Will it be enough to stop the Flesh Mechanics?

Everyone's got something to hide. In times of war extracting facts from an enemy couldn't be done fast enough. With the tap of a Taser-like device freezing a person solid and removing neural pathways gives real time access to deeply guarded thoughts. As with any new technology a new breed of criminal is born, stealing ideas, memories, and vivid imagery. The brain police crack down on the memory thieves who lay low taking with them the skills and knowledge they've ripped off. Jet Black is a demon tormented by a need to control. He collects bodies and removes thought paths, implanting diseases for kicks. For the right price he turns healthy people into walking time bombs with creeping cancers and explosive organs. Who's going to stop him? Milton Chase MD is sent to prison for a murder he didn't commit. He gets sprung to track down the bad guy and bust up his ring of terrorist thieves. Who's screwing who and what are their plans? A biochemist heir to the African Throne, a pair of Feds one a sexy femme fatale the other a jolly G-man with his own agenda, a crooked Cayman Banker, a twisted sadistic surgeon, a weasely pimp, or the good doctor himself? It could be anyone in A Den of Brigands...

"Heaven ain't all it's cut out to be," says Eustice Seeney, who'd already been to hell. After years of atoning he's turned his redneck roustabout life into a model for human redemption. When he dies again, he discovers that all life's memories begin to fade as eternal bliss kicks in . . . but something in the hereafter's been stirred, and heaven could be placed on indefinite hold. An outlier force vectors in on the human race, intent on reshuffling the cosmic deck. The existence of heaven and hell hang in the balance as Seeney is used as a wild card in a high stakes game of who'll rule the afterlife.

A botched surgery sends Eustice Seeney to the hereafter. Instead of floating toward the white light he takes an E-ticket ride through hell.

THE AMERICAN EDITION Satan is being outsourced. According to the Powers That Be, Hell isn't hellish enough, and Satan is given seven days to figure out how to bring back the fire and brimstone days of Hell's fury. The Devil takes on human form-a ramshackle, disease ridden body-and sets out on a road trip exploring new and novel miseries of the human condition to save his job. From L.A. to Miami, Satan, accompanied by Eustice Seeney, the only man who managed to escape Hell twice (and live to never shut up about it), some bent doctors, an average medium femme fatale with a Tarot tattoo, and an angelic escort service hit the road. Satan manages to finagle his way into one mess of life's affairs after another culminating in an explosive finale revealing who or what puts the lighting in our dreams, and begs the question of who would rid the world of the Devil they know?

Are all events predetermined by technologies we've created, or by some unknown power? If reality is what occurs after you stop believing in it, what happens when a few unwholesome folks stumble upon portals in the space-time continuum to change it? Greedy, politically motivated people gum up the works, altering the tapestry of time. Who eliminates the clots that divert time's tributaries? The Time Bureau of Investigation was established in 2070 so people with altered DNA can repair the damage done, assuring the flow of history.