Michael Slade: 15 books

HEADHUNTER Reimagined is an all-new telling of Michael Slade’s first Special X thriller (published in 1984) about the psycho-hunters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver. The psycho’s victims are everywhere - floating in the Fraser...

​​THE MEPHISTO TRILOGY pits the Mounties of Special X against a psychotic archenemy in this trio of dark thrillers by criminal lawyer Michael Slade. In BURNT BONES, Mephisto’s madness fixates on the mystery behind Stonehenge and the legendary Highland Hoard of ancient raiders on Hadrian’s...

In the closing days of World War II, Hitler summons SS-General Ernst 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 Allies forces Streicher to abandon his underground Mittelwerk...

GHOSTS OF WORLD WAR II haunt the psycho-hunting Mounties of Special X and New York lawyer-detective Wyatt Rook today. To uncover the motives of modern serial killers in these three dark thrillers by criminal lawyer Michael Slade, they must delve into diabolical fact-based conspiracies hatched in the...

It starts when a priceless Egyptian mummy is stolen in England during a heist that incinerates eight security guards. Scotland Yard thinks the hijackers’ motive is the fortune in jewels hidden under the mummy’s fetid wrappings. But the cops are wrong. Next, the mutilated bodies...

Blood will have blood. “Red” Hett was an airman at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked in 1941. Four years later, he flew in the Enola Gay when it dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. War criminal Genjo Tokuda was wounded and captured on Okinawa as kamikaze planes crashed...

The game begins in Seattle. On Halloween night, a woman opens her door to a trick-or-treater in a Munch's Scream mask. Later, she's found hanged with one leg missing. Then, in Vancouver, another woman is found strung up in a noose with both legs missing. What binds these murders together...

From deep within the high-security ward of a mental hospital, the Ripper plots revenge against Inspector Zinc Chandler. When Chandler responds to a bizarre murder at a hotel in Vancouver – a Hollywood producer suspended upside down like the Hanged Man card in a tarot deck, with a crown of nails...

Meet Wyatt Rook: lawyer, historian, detective. A World War II bomber has been unearthed half a century after vanishing on a secret mission over Nazi Germany. Liz Hannah, the pilot's granddaughter, hires Rook to investigate. Rook's inquiries lead him into a shadowy world of religious...

Relentless PSYCHOS stalk Mountie Inspector Zinc Chandler in this pair of dark thrillers by criminal lawyer Michael Slade. In HANGMAN, a games-playing avenger is lynching terrified jurors who years ago sent a wrongly convicted child killer to the gallows. What ties the killings together is a “Hangman”...

A cold-blooded killer is bushwhacking athletes preparing for the Winter Olympics. Next, an Arctic whiteout and a madman’s hit squad of ruthless mercenaries cut the Winter Games’ mountain off from the rest of the world. Bent on a grisly vendetta, the faceless psycho Mephisto sets...

Chief Superintendent Robert DeClercq has faced a horde of psychos in his time. But never one as coldly diabolical as Mephisto. Mephisto sends his challenge to the Special X psycho-hunters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from cyberspace. Somewhere out there lurks a hellish mastermind,...

Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands,...

This SpringerBrief offers a state of the art analysis of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications and its role in marketing. The book begins with an overview of traditional word-of-mouth (WOM) and its evolution to eWOM. It discusses the differences between traditional and online WOM. The book...