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Holly Lin/Nova Bartkowski Thrillers
Series · 6 books · 2011-2018

Books in series

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#0.5

The Debt You Pay

2017

Government assassin Holly Lin teams up with Nova Bartkowski for the very first time in this thrilling prequel adventure.
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#1

No Shelter

2011

MEET HOLLY LIN. NANNY BY DAY. ASSASSIN BY NIGHT. Holly Lin is living two lives. To her friends and family, she's a pleasant, hardworking nanny. To her boss and colleagues, she's one of the best non-sanctioned government assassins in the world. But when a recent mission goes wrong causing one of her team members to die, she realizes she might no longer be cut out for the work—except the mission, as it turns out, is only half over, and to complete it will take her halfway across the world and bring her face to face with a ghost from her past. Things are about to get personal. And as Holly Lin's enemies are about to find out, she is not a nanny they want to piss off. Praise for NO SHELTER: "Excellent—memorable and something I’ll read more than once." —Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of An Untamed State "NO SHELTER is part mystery, part thriller suspense, and all kinds kick ass!" —The Man Eating Bookworm
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#2

Bullet Rain

2014

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS Nova is a free man. Having just walked away as a non-sanctioned hit man for the U.S. government, he's purchased a classic Mustang to drive across the country. But when his car breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, Nova ends up in the small town of Parrot Spur. There's something strange about Parrot Spur. Something ... off. Maybe it's the fact the town is full of ex-servicemen. Maybe it's the fact the abandoned mine might not be abandoned. Maybe it’s the fact the knockout brunette in the bar is clearly more than what she seems. In the end, none of it matters. What matters—and what Nova is soon going to learn—is that in the desert, the only thing that rains is bullets.
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#2.5

First Kill

A Holly Lin Novella

2016

In this new novella from USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, available exclusively as an eBook, a young Holly Lin comes face to face with danger for the first time. Oahu, Hawaii. Paradise to some, but to seventeen-year-old Holly Lin it's a place she'll never forget. A place where she's kidnapped by masked men. A place where she must find the strength to survive. A place that will take her one step closer to her first kill. Includes a thrilling preview of Robert Swartwood's highly anticipated Holly Lin novel, The Devil You Know!
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#3

The Devil You Know

2017

Holly Lin returns in the highly anticipated sequel to No Shelter from USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood. Javier Diaz is dead. Holly Lin knows this because she killed Javier and his men. Now, to protect her family, Holly must travel to Mexico to take out Javier's father before he learns about the death of his son. It should be a simple mission, but nothing is ever simple for Holly Lin. The plan is to take out everybody in the Diaz compound—until she encounters a woman and two children hiding inside. Suddenly, the night is only beginning. And by the end, Holly will come face to face with a new kind of evil—one that she will have no choice but to defeat.
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#4

Hollow Point

2018

From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes the latest in his bestselling Holly Lin thriller series. Holly Lin has a new life. A new identity. It's been almost a year since she walked away from being a non-sanctioned government assassin. She now lives in a small Texan town, spending her nights as a bartender, her days shelving books at the local library. But it all changes one night when she's approached by a woman covered in blood—a woman holding a baby. Within minutes, the baby has been placed in Holly's arms and the woman is dead, killed by two men. Soon Holly Lin will learn a hard truth: the world she walked away from hasn't forgotten her. And it will do whatever it takes to get her back.

Author

Robert Swartwood
Robert Swartwood
Author · 30 books
USA TODAY bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife, The Calling, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He created the term "hint fiction" and edited Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer.
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