NEW MICHAEL SLADE TITLES

Departing from Special X, Canada's Master of the Macabre conjures up a Christian's worst nightmare come true. From Golgotha to the Crusades, the Inquisition, witch hunts, Satanism, and the Reichskonkordat, lawyer/historian Wyatt Rook and Liz Hannah must solve a series of whodunits, locked-room murders in an airborne bomber and a submerged U-boat, as well as biblical mysteries to unravel the Judas puzzle: the Achilles heel of the New Testament. Blocking them at every turn is the shadowy organization known as the Legionary of Christ.

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VENGEANCE IS HIS...

Genjo Tokuda - a Hiroshima survivor and head of the yakuza crime syndicate - is lured to Vancouver for the Pacific War Vets Convention. The keynote speaker will be one of the crewmen from the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing Tokuda's entire family.

Tokuda plans to satisfy the bushido oath he made to his ancestors years ago at the ruins of their Hiroshima shrine. First he'll kill the crewman's family; then he'll kill the American airman in a fittingly gruesome way. That crewman is the grandfather of Corporal Jackie Hett of the RCMP's Special X squad. Special X will have to stop a killer before he hits too close to home.

With Kamikaze, his newest thriller, Michael Slade melds his mastery of the macabre with real-life historical events - with rivettingly suspenseful results.

In the closing days of World War II, Hitler summons SS General Ernest Streicher to his Berlin bunker to discuss the Third Reich's only hope to win the war - the Wonder Weapons controlled by Himmler's dreaded SS. When an overnight raid by the Aliies forces Streicher to abandon his factory assembling V-2 rockets, it sets in motion a monstrous conspiracy that still lies hidden today.

In present-day Vancouver, the RCMP's Special X squad is on the hunt for a pair of Nazi-inspired killers. A Nazi swastika is carved into each victim's forehead. When Special X turns to the FBI for links to the swastika signature in the United States, the black world of the Pentagon picks up the cllue and ties it to the long-kept secret of what crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.

Moving between wartime Germany and the manhunt in Vancouver, Swastika revolves around a deadly four-sided cat and mouse game embroiling the Mounties, Pentagon hit men, and the Nazi psychopaths.