Morrell, David

Vietnam veteran John Rambo, struggling to find his place in U.S. society, wages a one-man war against the police and the National Guard after being arrested by a Kentucky sheriff.

It's 1855 and train travel has become normal, changing geography, altering society, and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances. But it also brings danger and England's first death by train was recorded on the first day of railway operations in 1830. In 1855 England's first train murder paralyzes London when a gentleman is stabbed to death in a safely locked first-class passenger compartment. Thomas De Quincey and his quick-witted daughter, Emily, discover the homicide. Once again a blend of fact and fiction recalls Victorian London in a realistic way as the De Quinceys set about solving the crime.

It's London, 1855, and the Crimean War is raging. Thomas De Quincey confronts a killer who is targeting members of high society and evidence indicates the killer's ultimate victim will be Queen Victoria. De Quincey, and his daughter Emily, as well as Scotland Yard detectives Ryan and Becker, race to protect the queen. Along the way they discover long-buried secrets that impact the murders.

The story of best-selling author David Morrell's fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, who for six months fought bravely against a rare form of bone cancer.

Successful architect Brad Denning, having lived for three decades with guilt for his part in the kidnapping of his younger brother, is wary when a stranger shows up claiming to be the long-lost Petey, but finally comes to accept the man only to have him run off with Brad's wife and son.

Journalist Matt Pittman is pulled back from the brink of suicide when he agrees to write obituaries as a favor to his old friend and editor at the "New York Chronicle," but his research for the obituary of the influential Jonathan Millgate, a man not yet dead, draws him into an international conspiracy that may cost him his life anyway.

Painter Chase Malone is commissioned to paint Sienna, the beautiful wife of a powerful international arms dealer who had his last three wives murdered right after their portraits were completed.

Novelist David Morrell shares insights and advice about writing, revising, and selling novels, examining the basics of the writing craft, from structure and character to dialogue and description.

Frank Balenger is a New York Times reporter doing a Sunday magazine profile on urban explorers, better known as creepers. It's an illegal activity but a very popular one, in which adventure seekers invade crumbling old structures in search of thrills and perhaps a glimpse of the past. Frank joins a team of four as they prepare to enter the long-shuttered and mysterious Paragon Hotel. They surreptitiously enter as darkness envelops the city, planning to emerge before dawn none the worse for wear. At least that's the plan. Initially they encounter the expected assortment of crumbling furniture, magazines, and rats, but soon they realize they are not alone, and their counterparts are not friendly people. It turns out that Frank's group has a hidden agenda involving treasure, and their rivals are after the same loot. Throw in an even more unfriendly kidnapper and his captor, and you have a nightmare in the making.