Celebrated crime novelists Gregg Hurwitz (The Kill Clause,?The Crime Writer), Duane Swierczynski (The Blonde, Severance Package) and Victor Gischler (Gun Monkeys, Pistol Poets) take on the scourge of the underworld in five tales of death, depravity, revenge, blackmail and the evil that lurks in the hearts of men! They descend on the little Mexican town of Tierra Rota under cover of night, abducting its women and returning them days later like broken dolls.

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, an extraterrestrial craft prompts a top-secret investigation by the US military, one which could prove the key to humanity's survival - or its ultimate destruction. 

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When his mystic powers fail, The Shadow travels the globe on a bloody search for answers.  He attempts to reconnect with his spiritual masters in Nepal, but is sidetracked by an opium smuggling operation.  Afterwards, he travels to the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War in pursuit of arms dealers and a would-be dictator.