T. Jefferson Parker

"A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. hired to track that soldier down.A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him."--Dust jacket. Hired to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, Roland Ford realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. The mental institution he escaped from was treating him for schizophrenia and/or severe post-traumatic-stress syndrome. But Ford realizes...

Charlie Hood must determine if ATF undercover agent Sean "Oz" Ozburn--deep undercover supporting the "sicarios" of the Baja Cartel--has suffered a permanent break with his mission and his moral compass--or if he has his reasons for going "completely dark."

When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted. His investigation leads him to a secretive charter school, skinhead thugs, a cadre of American Nazis hidden in a desert compound, an arch-conservative celebrity...

Sheriff's deputy Charlie Hood is transferred to the supposedly quiet desert community of Antelope Valley, only the quietness is shattered one night during a routine call: someone guns down his partner, Terry Laws, in their patrol car. Hood is out to find the killer Wild West style.

Merci Rayborn, the Orange County, California, homicide investigator, and her son are living with her father, a retired cop, and she is dating Mike McNally, a fellow officer. When a young prostitute is found murdered and McNally emerges as the primary suspect, Merci must sift through the facts and balance where the truth leads her against where her heart is telling her to go.

Ex-cop Matt Stromsoe, working for a former colleague in his private security firm, has to protect a local television personality from a stalker. As he works on the case, he is led back to the man, now in prison, who killed his family.

Terry Naughton, head of Orange County's Crimes Against Youth Unit, is pitted against a brilliantly insane sex offender called Horridus, who kidnaps children from their beds, dresses them as angels, and releases them the next day with a piece of snakeskin tucked into the folds of their gowns. Knowing it is only a matter of time before the madman's crimes escalate, Naughton races to find him while struggling to confront his own dark and violent past....

Chuck Frye, a sometime journalist and semi-pro surfer, discovers betrayal and a trans-Pacific espionage network in Little Saigon, a teeming refugee community in Orange County, California.