Bøker av Jason Krumbine

When Nax left his home planet he had no intention of ever returning and he certainly didn't anticipate being dragged back to face charges of High Treason.Under Natuzzi law, the charge of High Treason carries only one possible punishment: Death.While the Natuzzi are considered a valued member of the United Planetary Alliance, they are also considered to be notoriously xenophobic. They prefer to keep non-Natuzzis off their planet and out of their affairs.Under the guise of maintaining diplomatic relations, Nax is abandoned by the UPA Fleet Admiralty. As far as they are concerned, if Nax has broken Natuzzi law, then the Natuzzi can have their pound of flesh and any attempt made to interfere with the Natuzzi legal process would be considered an act of war.Captain Gavin Mitchell, however, doesn't see it that way. He'll do whatever it takes to protect a member of his crew. Even if it means starting a war that no one will win.

The Veneer Empire is collapsing.A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire seceded from the UPA and entered into a secret alliance with the Unity.Today, the seeds of the empire's collapse have taken root and are blossoming into a chaotic darkness that threatens to destabilize the entire region.The Veneer home world has suddenly gone silent. An entire planet with billions of inhabitants and there is nothing but silence.Without the guidance and leadership from the home world, the structure of the empire is crumbling. Supply chains are failing. Criminal elements are running wild. The entire sector is up for grabs and anyone who can make a power play is making it.In an effort to stabilize the region, the UPA has dispatched an envoy headed up by the Defiance. Their mission is humanitarian. They're to offer aid and begin the process of reestablishing communication between the Alliance and the Veneer Empire.But before long, that mission turns to survival for the crew of the Defiance.Survival against the darkness from without, and from within.

The streets of Manhattan are filled with endless possibilities. Every day, every minute, every second, people are hurriedly passing each other, almost oblivious to each other's existence, lost in the ever maddening crowds. But each one of these people has a destiny, a date with True Love, they just don't know it. Meet Emma Valentine. At first glance, she doesn't appear to be very special. In fact, she seems almost ordinary. Downright average. A city girl, she's lived in Manhattan all her life. Her apartment makes a shoebox look positively spacious. She barely ekes out a living as a barista at the Grind House. She has the bestest of best friends and, together, of course, they watch too much reality TV. Also, Emma Valentine happens to be the daughter of Cupid. In Emma's family, helping people find True Love is a long held tradition. Her grandfather did it. Her father does it and now it's Emma's turn.

Devon Christian is a man of many secrets, some of them so secret even he doesn't know them, and apparently one of those secrets is his wife.When a sexy lady with a devil-may-care attitude by the name of Daisy Christian shows up on their doorstep claiming to be Devon's long lost wife, Alex and Devon are immediately suspicious. Not only does Daisy appear to be almost twice as crazy as Devon, but at the same time, Alex and Devon find themselves under attack by a mysterious assailant who's very determined to see them pushing up daisies.The timing, as they say, is a mite suspicious.Under a hail of bullets and explosions Alex and Devon must find out who's eager for them to join the choir invisible and unravel the mystery of whether or not Daisy is in fact Devon's true love or just another femme fatale out to help these two investigators get better at taking dirt naps. But more importantly, if she really is Devon's old ball and chain, then where has she been all this time?

In this action packed follow up to Fruitbasket from Hell, private investigator Alex Cheradon is faced with a nail biting case. Reeling from the public relations nightmare that accompanied accidentally tackling a senator's daughter, Alex is approached by a man with a lethal case of amnesia. He wants to hire Alex to find out who he is, and since he just happens to have a winning lotto ticket that's worth 10 million dollars, money's no object. But as Alex starts to look into the man's past he finds more questions than answers and a whole lot of people out to kill him. The clock is officially ticking. The crazies are coming out of the woodwork. And it's down to Alex to save the day...

The citizens of Clayton City have a problem. From beneath their beds, from deep in the corners of their darkest closets, things are stirring. Monstrous things. In the twin cities of Clayton and Callahan, Alex Cheradon and Devon Christian are two somewhat famous-ish private investigators. They've saved the twin cities a couple of times, stopped a werewolf apocalypse or two and are the best of friends, despite that short period of time when Devon went crazy and tried to kill Alex. But it's all water under the proverbial bridge now.Times are tough and cheating spouses and missing kids don't always pay the bills. Of course, thanks to a mysterious, mystical gem embedded in his chest, Devon can go weeks, sometimes even months without eating. Unfortunately for Alex, though, all he has is a sharp wit and an awesome collection of hilariously ironic T-Rex t-shirts, neither of which do much to satisfy the grumbling in his stomach.When Judy Brathweight darkens their doorstep with concerns about what's making some creepily hungry noises under her child's bed, Alex and Devon are in no position to turn her away.Monster hunting may not be their specialty, but at least it'll put food on the table. Unless, of course, Alex and Devon end up as food on someone else's table first.

Alex has had a string of bad luck lately, culminating in the absolute destruction of his home and office by his sanity-challenged ex-partner, Devon Christian. Fortunately, things are starting to look up now that Jonathon Bragan, the most powerful mobster in Clayton City, has taken Alex under his wing.Wait...what?There's no such thing as a free handout from a power hungry mob boss. But before Alex can untangle the multitude of strings that are attached to Bragan's offer, there's the matter of Devon Christian.After all, Devon didn't blow back into town just to blow up Alex's life. No, this time, Devon's got his sights set on blowing up the whole world.

Steven Raines (you know, the man who made billions making an operating system that out-Microsoft-ed Microsoft?) has hired Alex Cheradon (private investigator) to look for his missing daughter. Good news: it's a million dollar payday. Bad news: she may be a Satanist hell bent on bringing the Devil to Earth. The dead bodies are piling up. Vampires are crawling out of the woodwork. And there's something named Pookie that's lurking around the corner. Breathtakingly paced, the jokes and wisecracks fly fast as Alex races against the clock to save the day.

On the edge of UPA space a mysterious vessel has appeared.No one knows where it came from.It has no callsign or identifying marks.The vessel simply transmits a standard S.O.S. in a signal that hasn't been used in hundreds of years: Morse code.While still recovering from their losses on Carlock, the USS Defiance is dispatched to investigate. But when they arrive they discover that every single individual on the ship has already been dead for hundreds of years.As Captain Mitchell and his crew work to unravel the mystery of this ghost ship, they soon find themselves confronted by something far worse than a simple space mystery: What killed this crew so long ago is still very much onboard and still is very much alive.

They say flying is the safest way to travel. Clearly whoever said that has never traveled with a mad scientist in custody. After finding, and apprehending, his absentee father, Alex Cheradon and his team are ready for their flight back home to Clayton City. One six hour nonstop flight from Las Vegas and then everything's back to normal. Except that this isn't an ordinary flight. And Charles Cheradon isn't an ordinary scientist. Hence the 'mad' label. And Devon Christian...Well, obviously he's not normal. That just goes without saying. And Alex Cheradon has an excellent track record for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. This flight isn't going to be any different. Trapped on a flight that feels like it's going nowhere, Alex finds himself worrying about his crazy partner, having to go head-to head-with a terrorist and, worst of all, dealing with a deadbeat dad who just wants to have a heart-to-heart with his son.

Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He's a jaded local through and through. So nobody's more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of: He gets help.From Alex Cheradon?Wait a minute.Alex Cheradon? What's he doing in Vegas?

The Messer Building is located in the heart of downtown Callahan. It's a building of architectural wonder. It's visible from almost anywhere in the downtown area. And it's home to the Darketo Sanction, a top secret organization that's housing the largest collection of mad scientists anywhere in the country. Two weeks ago, the security system in the Messer Building tried to kill every single human onsite and nobody knows why. Since the geniuses in the Darketo Sanction can't figure it out, they've decided to outsource the mystery to Alex Cheradon. (Although, to be fair, it's a building filled with a bunch of mad scientists. This one shouldn't be too hard to figure out, right? Right?) Meanwhile, Devon Christian is on the edge of sanity. The voices in his head get louder every day. At some point, he's not going to be able to ignore those voices forever. And when he stops, there's only one person at the top of his hit list.

The Natuzzi have unleashed the unimaginable: a planet killer. And now they hold the galaxy in a grip of terror.All that stands between the Natuzzi and the rest of the Alliance is one ship: the USS Defiance.But Captain Mitchell is missing, and command of the Defiance has been turned over to their new first officer, Broderick Cooper.Assigned to the Defiance by the UPA President himself, Cooper's motives and allegiances are shrouded in mystery. As the crew of the Defiance struggle to learn whether or not they can trust their commander, there are other forces at work within the ship. Forces that have their own agendas. Forces from other planes of reality.The galaxy is on the edge of war.But there is another way.They can be Unified.

A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire was one of the strongest members of the UPA.And then the Unity attacked.In the devastating aftermath, the Veneer Empire withdrew from the UPA and hasn't been heard from since.Ambassador Caldwell Reynoso is the latest in a long line of dignitaries who spend their days waiting until the Veneer are ready to communicate again. While it is not a lifetime appointment, Ambassador Reynoso will not hold any other position before his untimely death.When an ambassador dies, the political ramifications can be complicated. When an ambassador is murdered, the ramifications can be disastrous.As the mystery of who murdered Ambassador Reynoso slowly unravels, Captain Mitchell and the crew of the Defiance find themselves sitting on a powder keg of galactic proportions. And unless they can stop it, when it goes off, it's going to take half the galaxy with it.

In his third book, Alex Cheradon, private investigator, wants nothing more than to lay low and ride out the repercussions from his previous time traveling mishaps. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend, Angie, has other ideas and drags him into his most bizarre case yet. Giggles, the town's most infamous midget, has run off with 10 million dollars. Vincent Jane, a nobody with nothing, is left holding the bill. If he doesn't get that 10 million back he'll be paying for it with his life. Alex and Angie are caught in the middle and headed for a showdown with their toughest opponent yet: the malevolent, malicious Midget Mafia.

One hundred years ago they came. We reached out to them with a hand of friendship and they returned the gesture by nearly destroying us all. After a single encounter with the mysterious alien race identified only as Species 4876, the United Planetary Alliance was nearly decimated. Stopping their lone vessel was almost a hollow victory in the aftermath of the haunting mystery that Species 4876 presented: Where had they come from? Why did they attack us? And most of all, what if they came back?But they never did.Today, the threat of Species 4876 is a distant memory, a nearly forgotten footnote in the history books.Or is it?On the outer rim, cut off from any backup, ignored by Fleet Admiralty and surrounded by a hostile empire and an interstellar crime syndicate, Captain Mitchell and his crew of the USS Defiance find themselves as the first, and possibly only, defense against an alien menace that the rest of the galaxy has all but forgotten about.