Böcker av Chad Zunker

Propelled on a cross-country chase, devoted parents become desperate fugitives in a heart-racing novel of suspense by the author of Family Money and All He Has Left.Thirteen years ago, Cole and Lisa Shipley were fostering an infant with hopes of adopting her. Overnight everything was turned upside down, when the child's mother bled to death on their front doorstep. Her last words: He's coming here...for her! Save her. Afraid, bewildered, and with a baby in their arms, they fled. The longer they hid, the guiltier they looked.Now in a small Colorado town under assumed identities, they've been seemingly safe. But when a tip exposes them and Cole is framed for another murder, they take it on the run again, barreling across the western US--this time with a confused and resistant teenage girl awakening to a terrifying new reality. In the rearview is the relentless FBI agent who has never given up the hunt. And he's not the only one.Every frightening mile brings a family closer to the truth about that fateful night thirteen years ago. And to a killer who's determined to finish what he started.

Power, money, and dark family secrets are a killer combination in a propulsive novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Family Money.After Jake Slater's wife dies in a tragic hit-and-run, all he has left is his daughter, Piper--nearly lost, too, in a brutal custody battle with his wealthy in-laws. A year later, Jake reluctantly agrees to a reunion with the estranged family for Piper's thirteenth birthday. Then a single gunshot rings out, and a new nightmare begins.Piper is kidnapped, and her cousin Caitlin is murdered. Caitlin's cryptic dying words: Piper knows the truth. Jake is the only witness to the murder--and the only suspect. For an innocent man trapped in a world conspiring to crush him, the only way to clear his name and find Piper is to do it on the run.Crucified by the media, pursued by the FBI, and hunted by an assassin, Jake can feel his desperation escalating with every tick of the clock. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he risks uncovering family betrayals so sinister they're worth killing for.

"Alex Mahan is married to his high school sweetheart, Taylor. They have two daughters and a beautiful home, and Alex's startup business is about to explode thanks to private funding from his father-in-law, Joe. All is perfect--until Joe is abducted and murdered during a family trip in Mexico. Alex's world is about to be turned upside down. He can't bear to tell his grieving wife why. The man they've both idolized has been keeping secrets. As Alex digs deeper into Joe's shadowy life, the most shocking surprises are yet to come. Deadly ones, too, because every lie that Alex uncovers in Joe's dark past puts his family in more danger"--

Attorney David Adams is the last hope for an adolescent runaway being targeted by an assassin and sought by the FBI in a breath-catching novel by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An Unequal Defense.Having abandoned corporate law, David Adams is now the voice of justice for the city of Austin's vulnerable outcasts. His new client is Parker Barnes, a trembling twelve-year-old runaway and foster-care poster boy arrested for petty theft. Dealt a rough hand in life, he reminds David of his own childhood. This should be a simple, if heartbreakingly familiar, case. Until the FBI muscles in.Parker is also a suspect in the murder of a federal witness. No matter how desperate Parker's denial, David fears there's so much more to the kid's hard-luck story than he's letting on. Especially when a hit man sends the boy running to the only safe place he knows: the streets.With both the feds and a killer on Parker's trail, the hunt is on. Teaming up with a pro bono investigator and utilizing his reliable band of street-savvy friends, David must find Parker first if he's to save the boy from an undeserved fate. And maybe even save himself.

"A client with delusions of a deadly conspiracy draws attorney David Adams into a darkness where only the paranoid know how to get out alive. Former up-and-coming hotshot attorney David Adams left his glamorous corporate law firm to fight for the disenfranchised. With a caseload of petty offenses, a meager office in a crumbling building, and little in the way of compensation, David needs a real case. When he agrees to represent Rebel, David recognizes this will be the biggest challenge of his young legal career. The mentally unstable homeless man has been accused of murder, and the evidence of his guilt seems overwhelming. But it's the victim who shakes David's world: a county prosecutor who just happens to be an old law school friend. Rebel's murky defense: a paranoid insistence on a CIA plot to silence the derelict. Aided only by a legal team of misfit street friends and a fellow counselor lured into this dark web, David will risk everything to defend his client ... who may not be nearly as crazy as he seems."--Provided by publisher