Seth Walker Novels
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Growing up as a Navy brat with a unique brain condition, Seth Walker always felt like an outsider, even when successfully climbing the corporate ladder in his first career as an electrical engineer. Once he became a federal air marshal, Walker flew alone, nothing to trust beyond his own ingenuity and the Sig Sauer 229 on his hip. Now relegated to a new role as an airborne investigator after his covert status was compromised, he must map out an uncertain future even as his cases force him to confront the dark reasons he abandoned his former life.
Takeoff
Seth Walker Book 1
A cakewalk. That’s what air marshal Seth Walker’s boss calls Seth’s first assignment back on the job.
In his new role as “investigator/liaison to law enforcement,” Seth will simply retrieve teen singing sensation (and renowned diva) Max Magic from the FBI at JFK, baby-sit her on a cross-country hop, and return her to the Bureau at LAX. It’s precisely the kind of routine flight Seth’s taken hundreds, if not thousands, of times. And routine is good: still reeling from a case that nearly killed him, Seth’s not sure he’s ready for much more.
Other than the pop princess’s salty attitude, the trip goes smoothly. Until an SUV full of strangely tattooed gunmen pulls up at the curb and unleashes a barrage of machine-gun fire, decimating the FBI detail and sending Seth and Max running for their lives.
When a second attack strikes their hiding place that night, a wounded Seth realizes that Max and he have been betrayed and must TAKE OFF.
But how do you safeguard a star who’s recognized by millions yet unwilling to protect herself? Unable to trust his federal colleagues, Seth must keep Max moving while working to identify the mysterious enemy targeting them. As they race to remain one step ahead of their pursuers, the key to it all—and biggest danger to them both—might just be the dark secrets Max herself is keeping.
Praise for Takeoff
—Alan Russell, bestselling author of Burning Man
—James W. Hall, Shamus and Edgar® Award–winning author
—Chad Zunker, Kindle bestselling author of The Tracker
—Raymond Benson, bestselling author of In the Hush of the Night
False Horizon
Seth Walker Book 2
A commuter flight has fallen from clear skies over West Virginia, its wing sheared off at twenty thousand feet. Air marshal Seth Walker is called to the mountains of Appalachia to investigate. But what he stumbles into is a ground war as unpredictable and combustible as a mason jar full of nitroglycerin.
Before he can even start searching for what might have downed the plane, Walker finds himself caught in the confounding—and deadly—cross fire between drone-deploying ecoterrorists, unstable frackers, ruthless drug smugglers, and armed miners pushed to the breaking point.
The escalating mystery takes a personal turn as Seth gets closer to the truth about the money, power, and politics motivating everyone involved—including those Seth believed he could trust. Can he dodge the danger lurking in every hill and holler long enough to discover what may be the biggest threat of all?
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Praise for False Horizon
—Publishers Weekly (read more)
—The Real Book Spy (read more)
—Simon Gervais, Bestselling Author of the Pierce Hunt Series
—Bryan Gruley, Bestselling Author of Bleak Harbor
—New York Journal of Books
—Paul’s Picks (read more)
Departure
Seth Walker Book 3
The Amazon Charts bestselling series continues as air marshal Seth Walker hunts a potential terrorist who could hold the key to the darkest chapter of his own past.
When an electrical engineer from one of America’s premier tech companies disappears inside the San Francisco International Airport before an overseas flight, air marshal Seth Walker is called in to investigate. With the clock ticking down and questions multiplying at every turn, Walker can’t afford to fail: the lives of all two hundred thousand passengers inside SFO may hang in the balance.
As he races through crowded concourses, desperately searching for clues, Walker can sense this is no routine missing-persons case. But as he digs ever deeper into the young man’s background, the tangle of contradictions he finds is confounding. Is the engineer the victim of a crime…or the perpetrator of one?
As the case forces Walker to confront his own demons and the reason he fled his former life in industry, finding this man may mean exposing his own darkest secret.
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Praise for DEPARTURE
—Steve Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Ryan Decker series
—Matthew FitzSimmons, Wall Street Journal bestselling author
—Danielle Girard, USA Today bestselling author
—J. Todd Scott, author of the Texas Border series
—Ellison Cooper, author of Buried