Alex King: 9 books

**They came. We conquered. And then our world began to end. Again.** You may think you’ve heard Marion Thomas Nelson’s story before, but you’ve only heard one version. This is how it happens the second time. In this America, Marion’s life is turning a dark corner. His...

This is how the world ends the first time … It’s Christmas Eve and Marion Thomas Nelson’s year is--finally--looking up. The United States won an impromptu skirmish with an unexpected foe, and now he and his wife are on their way to pick up their kids from Grandma’s house, where they’ve...

An ancient evil. An all too contemporary crime. In the tiny, bucolic town of Greenleaf, Claire Vaughn, beloved high school counselor, is ready to end her immortal life. As the last school day before summer vacation comes to a close, Claire walks into Room 217 with a loaded gun. Ten meticulously...

There's no offer for her to refuse ... Kat Makris was a little girl when her father spun wild and outrageous bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a lawless creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods. Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, a couch...

Allie Callas has a normal-ish job: she's the owner and sole employee of Finders Keepers, a service dedicated to the time-consuming task of finding (and finding out) things on the tiny Greek island of Merope. The fact that she's been seeing the dead ever since she can remember is incidental. It's nothing...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

The Anthony-nominated collection of crime stories without guns—the collection we didn't want to be necessary—is back for Volume 2. Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in hand to call for a sensible and reasoned debate about guns in America....

State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...

Seven Days of Friday opens with Days of the Week underwear and closes with a forty-year-old secret that refuses to stay submerged. Thirty-four-year-old Vivi Tyler is living her nightmare: gay husband, self-harming teenager, melodramatic mother. They're picking apart her sanity, one stitch at...