Bøger af Darrell Maloney

Dave and Sarah Anna Speer had been preparing for Armageddon for years. They thought they'd covered all the bases, and had planned for everything. It never occurred to them that the single thing they had no control over was the timing. Sarah was on an airplane with her young daughters when solar storms bombarded the earth with electromagnetic pulses. Everything powered by electricity or batteries was instantly shorted out and would never work again. Dave was suddenly alone. He was also unsure whether his family was dead or alive. He assumed that the airplane stopped working and plunged from the sky. But it was scheduled to land in Kansas City at almost the exact time everything stopped working. Had they landed in time? Was it possible they survived? This is the story of a man facing Armageddon alone. It chronicles the things he does to survive in a newly vicious world. It also includes Dave's desperate and poignant diary entries to his wife. Just in case she did survive, and somehow makes it back to him to find he didn't make it himself. In this sequel, Dave's saga continues. He struggles to survive the worst winter on record, stuck in a house with a dead man, sitting frozen solid on his kitchen floor. He is haunted by the unknown: whether his family is still alive, and where they might be. He also has serious doubts about his mental health, and suspects he might be going insane. Dave is desperate to find answers to his questions, and to find his family and bring them home. To that end, he starts making plans for a thousand mile journey into the unknown. To the place his family was headed at the time of the blackout. But first, he has to survive an Unkind Winter... From the author of last year's best sellers "Final Dawn" and "Countdown to Armageddon" comes a new tale of one man's journey through hell... alone.

In 2013 the author asked the citizens of Lubbock for their personal ghost stories. He expected a handful at best. Instead, he got dozens. It turns out there are a lot of Lubbockites who have witnessed ghosts or spirits on the streets of Lubbock, in its schools or in its old buildings. These are their stories, in their own words. Darrell Maloney was born and raised in Lubbock. Many of his novels are set there. His best selling book, "The Secession of Texas," depicts Lubbock as a resounding success story for the new nation of Texas. All of Mr. Maloney's works are available on Amazon.com or from Barnes and Noble Booksellers in the United States, Europe, India and Asia.

Three steps forward and one step back. Those words, more than anything, described Dave Speer's personal journey of late. Eighteen months have now passed since a worldwide blackout has brought humanity to its knees. Most haven't survived. Those most vulnerable were the first to go. The weak followed closely behind. It seemed that to make it, one needed to be at least one of three things: very strong, very lucky or very well prepared. It helped to have a mission: something to accomplish of tremendous importance. Dave was indeed very strong. The United States Marine Corps had made sure of that. As a prepper he was much more ready than most. Lucky? Hardly. But he was used to making his own luck. In this installment we follow Dave as he leaves the chaos of Albuquerque behind him and strikes west toward California. He's getting closer now to finding his kidnapped daughter. He can feel her presence in the air. But not so fast. Things haven't been easy on him since this journey began. He couldn't allow himself to think they'd be easy for him at the end. Every time he thought things were going his way he'd been sucker punched. And things weren't about to change now.

Red never had it easy. After she lost her mom to cancer at a very young age, she was raised by her father to be tough. He meant well, he really did. But since she lacked female role models, she grew up a diamond in the rough. Tougher than most men and headstrong to boot, she was socially awkward and shunned by many women. But she attracted men anyway. They couldn't help themselves. She was beautiful and genuine. She stood up for the oppressed, and took no guff from anyone. Many men were intimidated by her, but not Russell. Russell saw Red for what she really was... an unpolished gem and an amazing woman. He was man enough to tame her. For a while, anyway. The world went black, as solar storms sent powerful electromagnetic pulses to knock out anything which ran on electricity. But that was only the beginning. Russell and Red's young son, Rusty, were killed when their home mysteriously exploded. Red retreated to the deep woods to find solace, as she'd done periodically since she was a child. The forest had a way of wrapping its arms around her and comforting her. And helping her to regain her bearings. Each time in the past, Red had returned from her self-imposed exiles to find the world a much easier place to deal with. But not this time. This time she returned to find her father dead as well. Murdered by a band of greedy thugs for reasons she couldn't fathom. She didn't understand why he had to die as well. But she intended to find out. In this installment Red learns that the man who carried out the murders has absconded. Tracking him in a world where few machines exist wouldn't be easy. But again, nothing had ever been easy for Red. Difficult tasks didn't deter her, so she set off on a three hundred mile journey to find Jesse Luna. To find out for sure who hired him, and who else was involved. She intended to take him into custody and see him tried for murder. But a very big part of her wanted him to resist. So she could administer her own brand of justice instead.

From the author of last year's blockbuster, "Maribel," comes the latest chapter in the lives of Dawn and Charlie Bennett. Dawn and Charlie seemingly have everything. Now retired from politics, they have the freedom to pursue their dreams and their passions. For Dawn, that dream is running a grand hotel in Maribel, the newest and best resort city in the world. For Charlie, it is relaxing and living a more laid back lifestyle. But sometimes things are the brightest before disaster strikes. Charlie is diagnosed with brain cancer, and it doesn't look good. Dawn's beloved grandmother comes to her in a vision. She says, "Don't worry, my child. Charlie will beat this. He is on a mission from God, and he must fulfill that mission before he departs this earth." Dawn is elated. Charlie is skeptical. And the doctors are amazed when Charlie's tumor vanishes. "There isn't even a trace of it," the doctors say. "It's like it was never there." The couple is still baffled, until strange things start happening, seemingly in a planned sequence, that explain Charlie's destiny and Grandmother's prediction. Join Dawn and Charlie on their journey of love, trust, and of higher things that shape us all, but that sometimes we don't understand.

As the story winds down, the plot continues to twist and turn. Robbie, once an outstanding police officer and now teetering on the edge of insanity, moves forward with his plans to assassinate his friend John. But things don't go according to plan. Sara moves forward with her own plans, to locate the mother she once thought was complicit in the horrific abuse she'd suffered as a child. Now aware that her mother was instead a victim herself, Sara strikes out with her friend Tom to find her and bring her back. On the way they encounter a little girl named Millicent who wins Sara's heart, a Texas Ranger named Randy who quotes Shakespeare, and a brutal man who has Tom beaten to within an inch of his life. And all the while, ninety three million miles away, the storms are brewing again on the face of the sun...