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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller - with a mind-blowing twist. There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . . The Interstate here only goes in one direction: Away. But it's the only place where ex-LAPD detective Beth McDade, after a staggering fall from grace, could get another badge . . . and a shot at redemption. Over a century ago, and just a few miles further into the bleak landscape, a desperate stranger ended up in Calico, a struggling mining town, also hoping for a second chance. His fate, all those years ago, and hers today are linked when Beth investigates an old skeleton dug up in a shallow, sandy grave . . . and also tries to identify a vagrant run-over by a distracted motorhome driver during a lightning storm. Every disturbing clue she finds, every shocking discovery she makes, force Beth to confront her own troubled past . . . and a past that's not her own . . . until it all smashes together in a revelation that could change the world.

From Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, The Walk, and Lost Hills, comes **all four** of his acclaimed JURY SERIES novels...collected into one mega-sized, pulse-pounding, thrill-ride that will leave you breathless!JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTYThe complete saga of Brett Macklin, a one-man judge, jury, and executioner, fighting a war on terror on the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Over 160,000 words/550 pages of non-stop action, wildly erotic sex, and wicked humor in a new edition for 2020.."As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of BooksThe series, published in 1985, under the title 357 Vigilante was written by "Ian Ludlow"... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was a UCLA student, under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue (The DaVinci Legacy, The Queensgate Reckoning, Daughter of God etc). Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and The Glade co-create the hit Hallmark Mystery movie series Mystery 101 and write many more novels, including fifteen best-selling "Monk" mysteries, five internationally bestselling "Fox & O'Hare" novels co-authored with Janet Evanovich, and in a nod to THE JURY SERIES, the "Ian Ludlow Thriller" trilogy: True Fiction, Killer Thriller, and Fake Truth.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author LEE GOLDBERG, author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries.... and co-author of the Fox & O'Hare novels with Janet Evanovich... comes the third, kick-ass book in the action-packed JURY SERIES, the novels that launched his career in the 1980s. THE CLOCK IS TICKING...AND THE HANDS ARE DRIPPING BLOOD A sadist with a hunger for victims is talking the streets of Los Angeles--leaving a trail of destruction which threatens to engulf the city in racial violence. And he's calling himself...Mr. Jury. Now vigilante Brett Macklin, the real Mr. Jury, is hitting the killing ground with just seventy hours to hunt down the deadly impostor and clear his name. All he has to do is take on an army of fanatical white supremacists, stop a news-hungry reporter from digging too deep into his past, and save a tough black cop from being buried alive. Time and luck are running out. "As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books (Originally published as the third book in the ".357 Vigilante" series under the pen name Ian Ludlow) Other books in the series: JUDGMENT ADJOURNED GUILTY ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar & two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller True Fiction, fifteen Monk mysteries and the first five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, The Pursuit ) co-written with Janet Evanovich, and the #1 Amazon bestselling Eve Ronin novels (Lost Hills, Bone Canyon, Gated Prey, Movieland). He's also written and/or produced scores of TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, and The Glades and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark Mystery Movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing and production of episodic television series. He is also the cofounder of the publishing company Brash Books.

JUDGMENT is the classic action/adventure novel that was a runaway paperback sensation in the 1980s...and that skyrocked the career of Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, Lost Hills, fifteen Adrian Monk novels, and the first five, globally bestselling Fox & O'Hare novels with Janet Evanovich. Brett Macklin was a freewheeling son of sunny California, a collector of vintage cars and a connoisseur of beautiful women. But when his father is murdered by a street gang, Macklin becomes something else--a deadly weapon against crime, a relentless vigilante who won't stop until he's wiped out the killers who have turned Los Angeles into a war zone. "As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books (Originally published as the first book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.) Other books in the series: ADJOURNED, PAYBACK, and GUILTY ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar & two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller True Fiction, three Eve Ronin novels (Lost Hills, Bone Canyon and Gated Prey), fifteen Monk mysteries and the first five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, The Pursuit ) co-written with Janet Evanovich. He's also written and/or produced scores of TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, and The Glades and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark Mystery Movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing and production of episodic television series. He is also the cofounder of the publishing company Brash Books.

After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin's target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again...and again. Macklin's mission: locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy."Top-shelf 80's adventure fiction. The Mr. Jury books are probably about the most fun you can have doing so vicarious vigilanting. There's a reason Goldberg is still a successful author. There's plenty of smooth and fast action that builds to a nice high-energy "action-movie" finale, colorful characters, some Hollywood in-jokes, different ways to use ice cream and a lot of fun banter." Bloody Spicy Books Blog(Originally published as "Make Them Pay," the second book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.)

This is an ALL-NEW edition, completely revised and reformatted for 2011...From LEE GOLDBERG, bestselling author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries, comes the final, pulse-pounding book in the bloody, action-packed JURY SERIES.Brett Macklin faces his greatest adversary yet--a ruthless, professional hit woman, seductress and master of disguise who launches a campaign of terror and bloodshed against him, pushing the vigilante to the emotional and physical breaking point, unleashing a bloody killstorm on the L.A. streets."As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books

From Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Timesbestselling author, comes the darkest, most hard-boiled work of his career...This hand-grenade of pure noir features two, never-before-published crime stories about Ray Boyd, an ex-con traveling the open road in a used, black-and-white, Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Ray is the anti-Reacher. He doesn't help people in trouble. He helps himself.Fair warning, these two violent, sexually explicit stories -- Ray Boyd isn't Stupid and Occasional Risk -- mark a sharp departure from the police procedurals and fast-moving thrillers that Goldberg is known for, though they feature the same ingenious plotting, colorful characters, and outrageous wit of his best-loved work. They are, as he says in his lively introduction, a test run. If there is an enthusiastic response to the stories, he says that Ray Boyd will be back... In the meantime, Ray Boyd returns in "If I Were a Rich Man," a novella in the new collection Eight Very Bad Nights, edited by Tod Goldberg, now available in ebook and hardcover. Praise for Crown Vic "Diamond hard noir. No holds barred, no punches pulled. There's a whole lot of fun to be had. Clever stories that riff on the classics. Sharp, to-the-point, and briskly-written. More Ray Boyd please, Mr. Goldberg." CrimeTime FM "Crown Vic's stories are a marvelous mash-up of Dan J. Marlowe's early Earl Drake novels - The Name of the Game is Death, Endless Hour - and the erotic thrillers so popular in video stores during the 1990s. But Ray, even with all his failings, is a Lee Goldberg character: observant, witty, at times downright funny - for the reader at least - and a heck of a good escape for all of us drab work-a-day slobs." Gravetapping *****"A fun departure for Goldberg and a throwback to the thrilling and erotic men's adventure novels of the 1970s." Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine "And here I thought that Lee Goldberg was such a nice boy...I mean, the man wrote episodes of Diagnosis Murder! And its tie-ins! But in Crown Vic, Goldberg unleashes the beast with two violent, sexually explicit and previously unpublished stories that just reek of 1950s pulp paperbacks." The Thrilling DetectivePraise for Lee Goldberg's Books"Goldberg is a master of his craft." Library Journal"Thriller fiction at its absolute finest." Lee Child"Goldberg's thrillers are some of the wittiest around." CrimeReads"One of crime writing's true pros. Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake would've loved this wild heist." Ace Atkins"Goldberg is every bit the equal of Michael Connelly." Providence Journal"One of America's greatest crime and thriller writers." Garry Disher"A cut above the rest." Philadelphia Inquirer""Lee Goldberg puts the pro in police procedural." Meg Gardiner"A cop novel so good it makes much of the old guard read like they're going through the motions until they can retire." Booklist"A heroine for the ages." Michael Connelly"Goldberg proves again that he is a master storyteller." Mystery & Suspense Magazine"Goldberg walks a tightrope between suspense and humor and never slips." Linwood Barclay"Goldberg's fast-paced prose should put this one on the radar of every crime-fiction fan." National Public Radio

From Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, The Walk, and Lost Hills, comes **all four** of his acclaimed JURY SERIES novels...collected into one mega-sized, pulse-pounding, thrill-ride that will leave you breathless!JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTYThe complete saga of Brett Macklin, a one-man judge, jury, and executioner, fighting a war on terror on the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Over 160,000 words/550 pages of non-stop action, wildly erotic sex, and wicked humor in a new edition for 2020.."As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of BooksThe series, published in 1985, under the title 357 Vigilante was written by "Ian Ludlow"... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was a UCLA student, under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue (The DaVinci Legacy, The Queensgate Reckoning, Daughter of God etc). Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and The Glade co-create the hit Hallmark Mystery movie series Mystery 101 and write many more novels, including fifteen best-selling "Monk" mysteries, five internationally bestselling "Fox & O'Hare" novels co-authored with Janet Evanovich, and in a nod to THE JURY SERIES, the "Ian Ludlow Thriller" trilogy: True Fiction, Killer Thriller, and Fake Truth. A SAMPLING OF THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEE GOLDBERG: "A high-octane mystery that moves like a bullet-train!" Janet Evanovich"Can books be better than television? You bet they can -- when Lee Goldberg's writing them," Lee Child"Leaves you guessing right up until the heart-stopping ending," Lisa Gardner"Lee Goldberg can plot and write with the best of them," Mystery Scene Magazine"If great pacing with awesome characters is what keeps you up at night, then make a pot of coffee and open this book." Crimespree"Grabs you from page one with brilliant wit, sharply honed suspense, and a huge helping of pure originality." -Jeffery Deaver, "A delight from start to finish, a round-the-world, thrill-a-minute, laser-guided missile of a book." -Joseph Finder"An action-packed treasure filled with intrigue, engaging characters, and exciting, well-rendered locales. With Goldberg's hyper-clever plotting, dialogue, and wit on every page, readers are in for a blast with this one!" -Mark Greaney"Entertaining and ruefully funny," Honolulu Star Bulletin"Harrowing and funny..." -Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine "With books this good, who needs TV?" Chicago Sun Times"Lee is one of my favorite writers for so many reasons--plotting, character, or his incredible sense of humor. Suffice to say that Goldberg is one infinitely readable master of crime fiction, and King City is Lee at his best." -Craig Johnson"You'd be hard-pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments," Bookgasm

Aliens, Blade Runner, Dune, Mad Max, Return of the Jedi, the Star Trek series, Blue Thunder, Cocoon, Enemy Mine, Robocop, 2010, War Games... these are all movies that defined science fiction films in the 1980s. But what was it like making these movies? This collection of in-depth interviews with the actors, writers, producers and directors takes you behind the scenes with the people who made these movies happen, including David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlin, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mel Gibson, Harve Bennett, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea, Richard Marquand, John Badham, Ridley Scott, and Gale Ann Hurd. The interviews, many of which were originally published in Starlog Magazine, were conducted by Lee Goldberg, Randy Lofficier, Jean-Marc Lofficier, and William Rabkin, all of whom went on to great acclaim in various corners of the entertainment industry, including publishing, screenwriting and TV production.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg comes the second thrilling book in action-packed JURY SERIES, the novels that launched his career in the 1980s. After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands and make the guilty pay. This time, Macklin's target is Wesley Saputo, porn kingpin and murderer, who has slipped through the courts time after time, only to kidnap, rape and kill again...and again. Macklin's mission: locate and destroy Saputo before he finds another innocent life to destroy. (Originally published as "Make Them Pay," the second book in the ".357 Vigilante" series, under the pen name Ian Ludlow.) Other books in the series: JUDGMENT * PAYBACK * GUILTY ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar & two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller True Fiction, fifteen Monk mysteries and the first five internationally bestselling Fox & O'Hare books (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam, The Pursuit ) co-written with Janet Evanovich, and the #1 Amazon bestselling Eve Ronin novels (Lost Hills, Bone Canyon, Gated Prey, Movieland). He's also written and/or produced scores of TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, and The Glades and is the co-creator of the hit Hallmark Mystery Movie series Mystery 101. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing and production of episodic television series. He is also the cofounder of the publishing company Brash Books.

In the 1980s, long before Lee Goldberg became a #1 New York Times bestselling author and successful TV writer/producer, he paid his UCLA tuition and rent by working as a freelance journalist covering the entertainment industry. His first, big interviews was with one of his idols, screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who wrote most of the James Bond movies. That lengthy, controversial, and award-winning interview, first published in the UCLA Daily Bruin and later reprinted in Starlog Magazine, was the beginning of Lee's extensive 007 coverage. Over the next few years, his Bond-related interviews for Starlog and other publications included actors Barry Nelson (the first man to play James Bond in TV's Casino Royale), George Lazenby (the one-time Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service), Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton, screenwriters Tom Mankiewicz, Michael Wilson and Lorenzo Semple Jr., and directors John Glen and Peter Hunt. Those interviews and more, quoted for decades in reference books about the Bond films, are now collected for the first time, in their original form, in this entertaining, and unique volume.This book, the first in a series of Goldberg's collected Hollywood journalism, isn't an exhaustive, detailed examination of the Bond films. Instead it's an intriguing snapshot of filmmaking in the 1980s, a revealing look at the creation of the Bond films...and perhaps also offers a glimpse into Goldberg's formative years as a writer, and how the lessons learned from his interviews may have shaped his own career as an acclaimed novelist and screenwriter.

#1 New York Times Bestselling author"As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up" Kirkus, Starred Review Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who learned everything he knows about being a private eye from books and TV ... and who is about to discover that the differences between fact and fiction can be fatal. (Formerly published as "The Man with the Iron On Badge") CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR "WATCH ME DIE" "Approaching the level of Lawrence Block is no mean feat, but Goldberg succeeds with this engaging PI novel." Publishers Weekly "A wonderfully fresh voice in the mystery genre, Goldberg will delight fans of Janet Evanovich and Robert Crais," - Rick Riordan, author of "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" "Lee Goldberg bravely marches into territory already staked out by some fierce competition--Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, the early Harlan Coben--and comes out virtually unscathed." The Chicago Tribune "Goldberg has a knack for combining just the right amount of humor and realism with his obvious love for the PI genre and his own smart ass sensibilities. [...]A terrific read. Goldberg is the real deal and should be on everyone's must read list." Crimespree Magazine"A quick, fun read with a satisfying and unexpected ending. Harvey Mapes is a hero I hope we see in a sequel." -- Phillip Margolin, author of "Gone But Not Forgotten"

Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Randy Disher is perfectly happy living with Monk's old assistant Sharona and working as the new police chief of Summit, New Jersey. But when the city's leadership is arrested for fraud, he suddenly finds himself appointed acting mayor and overwhelmed by the dual responsibilities-especially when the town is hit by a wave of robberies. In desperation, Disher calls on Adrian Monk to put things in order. As deputized officers, Monk and his assistant Natalie are ready to make Summit the cleanest city on earth-until the burglaries escalate to arson and murder. Now it's time to get down and dirty, before someone puts Officer Monk out of commission for good.

With help from Monk's agoraphobic brother, his loyal assistant Natalie tackles her own investigation while Adrian Monk tracks a second-hand couch that seems tied to a series of murders. Following a bloody trail, Natalie and Monk soon end up face-to-face with the most ruthless killer they've ever encountered.

Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place....The future is looking bright for Adrian Monk. Natalie is working as a cop in Summit, his brother is a week away from getting married, and Monk has a new assistant-and even a girlfriend.All this change doesn't keep him from work, though. He's investigating a string of accidental deaths and suicides that he believes are actually murders. But when Monk's suspect is killed, he must face the fact that he might be wrong. Have stability and happiness robbed Monk of his mojo? Meanwhile, Monk's imprisoned arch nemesis, the morbidly obese criminal mastermind Dale the Whale, is being transferred from prison to San Francisco General Hospital for an operation. When Dale escapes and all signs point to Captain Stottlemeyer as his accomplice, Monk will have to reboot his detective skills to clear the captain's name-and prove that he's still the one and only Monk.

Captain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Adrian Monk to solve his most baffling cases, but when the captain is faced with budget cuts, Monk's fees are one of the expenses he trims. Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating; he resorts to calling in tips under assumed names, infuriating the captain. But when Stottlemeyer is arrested for murder, he turns to the only detective who can prove his innocence. That is, if Monk can overcome some potentially crippling obstacles along the way!