The explosive debut of John Crane! (This edition of Rope on Fire also includes the bonus John Crane short story, I Hate to Die.) John Crane is a highly trained secret agent whose agency suddenly vanished. He’s all dressed up with nowhere to spy. Josh Sulenski is an Internet prodigy with some serious James Bond fantasies and more money than 37 countries. Together, they’re out to save the world…in style. John Crane bursts onto the espionage scene in Rope on Fire. On only his second mission for the top secret Hurricane Group, the U.S. Government suddenly shuts Hurricane down, leaving Crane an agent without an agency. Adrift in Key West, he's approached by Internet billionaire Josh Sulenski, who asks him to find out why one of his charitable projects is under attack deep in Puerto Rico's rain forest. Crane finds himself battling corrupt police officers and drug smugglers with no authority and no backup. For the first time, he's on his own. Branislav Skala is an aging gangster whose ruthlessness and ambition helped him claw his way up from the gutters of communist Czechslovakia to rule a criminal empire. Skala thinks he’s reached the top of the heap and is ready to retire to his palatial country estate—until he discovers a whole new game of transnational power blocs, capital networks, and vicious battles among competing factions. Skala wants a seat at this new table, and he has a plan to get one. It’s a plan that puts him squarely in John Crane’s sights. When their destinies collide, Branislav Skala will learn that this new game doesn’t follow the same rules he’s used to. And John Crane will find a broken laptop with the power to change his life forever. So join John Crane for freewheeling adventure in a world of glamour, intrigue, and action. Because spy stories are supposed to be fun!

If you keep hitting the devil, don’t be surprised when he hits back… In Baja California to help a friend’s daughter, John Crane finds himself crossing swords with a sadistic American trust fund heir and the drug cartel that’s taken him under its wing. But he soon uncovers something even more dangerous using them both for cover. Meanwhile, Josh Sulenski’s kindness to a former mentor reveals a dark conspiracy with disturbing connections to Crane’s mission. Suddenly the stakes are higher than ever before, and the danger strikes far too close to home. As Crane fights for his life against a cunning and ruthless enemy, Josh assembles a team of specialists to support him. But an unforeseen confrontation forces Josh to look closely at who he can really trust in a battle of shifting loyalties and betrayals where one mistake could cost him everything. Wrecker expands John Crane’s world with new allies, new enemies, and a mysterious blue-haired woman who could be either - and might just be more than he can handle. Includes a sneak preview of the forthcoming John Crane novel, Shot Clock.

The fate of the world depends on who’s still standing when the clock runs out. The world's elites gather at a remote luxury hotel deep in the Canadian Rockies to plot the course of the planet. Agent John Crane is tasked to monitor who shows up and who's talking to whom. But someone else has a very different agenda, and the conference is a carefully laid trap. When it’s sprung, the hotel becomes a killing ground. Cut off from the outside world, Crane finds himself leading a group of survivors that includes his nerdy billionaire boss, the enigmatic and deadly woman he loves, and one badly wounded old man whose death could bring about the end of the world. Isolated, ill-equipped, and hunted by heavily armed mercenaries, their only hope is to keep moving, keep fighting, keep one step ahead of their enemies. Can John Crane keep this mismatched team alive until help arrives and head off disaster, or is the world doomed to tumble into chaos and war? John Crane returns in Shot Clock, his most dangerous adventure yet.

John Crane returns in Bird Dogs, tracking a new enemy, uncovering new secrets, finding romance and danger in the rich playgrounds and grinding slums of Buenos Aires. Crane's target has many names: the false one on his passport, the ones used to seduce vulnerable heiresses, the ID number from his time in Federal prison for blackmail and extortion. But the one that matters is “Tamarind,” a code name that ties him to a whole network of other code names – names John Crane would very much like to connect to their true identities. So Crane follows Tamarind to Buenos Aires in hopes the former gigolo will lead him to bigger game. But Crane soon learns Tamarind has many secrets, and that he hasn’t given up his old trade. More important, Crane discovers he isn’t the only one watching Tamarind. This edition of Bird Dogs includes the bonus short story, Pendulums.