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GENIT
Genetics Investigation
Team Thriller Series
What would happen if our government genetically altered different species of animals in order to enhance their size, strength, aggression? And what if they then trained those animals to use in covert attacks against our nation’s enemies? Not the creation of mutant aberrations, but the genetic manipulation of common animals to make bigger, faster, stronger, and meaner… much bigger, faster, stronger, and meaner. What if they further ‘enhanced’ these animals and turned them into biological weapons?
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Enter Jake Jessup, a sarcastic, alcoholic cop, and April Flowers, a spunky Food and Drug Administration Special Agent, an unlikely duo who join to do battle against the secret government entity behind these “animals of war.”
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This isn’t science fiction. The technology is in use today. Genetically altered animals are no longer the thing of someone’s imagination or bad dreams. But can we, will we, control it before they become living nightmares?
Simian Soldiers
A NIGHT TERROR back story
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Mother Nature Bites Back!
Hidden behind a cloak of secrecy, and in the name of national security, government operatives have been training, and in some cases creating, animals of war to use in covert attacks against our nation’s enemies. But living creatures have plans of their own, and sometimes the two-legged variety can be just as deadly.
Simian Soldiers is the exciting back story to NIGHT TERROR, available now on Amazon.
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Isolated on a remote river. Hunted by weaponized animals. Will anyone make it out alive?
It had been a rough five years for Memphis Police Officer Jake Jessup. Blaming himself for the death of two partners, a divorce, and almost losing his job, the three-day canoe and kayak trip in the Ozarks sounded like the perfect way to reconnect with family and friends, and to put old demons to rest. What he found instead was a new set of demons, only these were real… and deadly.
A float turns tragic for a group of boaters when a secret military project escapes into the Ozark Mountains of West Arkansas. But the people behind the project may turn out to be an even bigger threat than those with four-legs.
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They’re going to wish it was just a banjo player in the woods.
Watching six friends get slaughtered gives you nightmares.
Jake Jessup thought the nightmares were over, that the secret government program to weaponize animals was just a horrible memory, until a new breed of monsters shows up in Memphis, his hometown, and it was again time to fight.
After a raging mutant kills one cop and wounds another, Jake Jessup and April Flowers reunite to stop the monsters before they can kill again, and to confront the government organization that will go to any lengths to create the perfect biological weapon—and keep it a secret.
Any lengths at all...
Ready for a new kind of monster? Read PIT, because the murder rate in Memphis is about to go higher!
“Cujo on steroids!” says Larry Hoy, author of the “Hit World” thriller series.
Tanks with teeth. A half-ton of mutant muscle, bone, and attitude. It’s hungry, it’s pissed, and not even the Genetics Investigation Team can stop it.
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Welcome to Rutland, Louisiana, where killer baboons and mutant pit bulls are pleasant memories.
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Jake Jessup and April Flowers step back into the breach. After narrowly escaping an assassination attempt that claims the lives of two colleagues, they vow to once and for all shut down the secret government agency responsible. But will they be able to stop an organization willing to do anything to protect its secrets?
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TALL GRASS is the third book in the GENIT Thriller Series. Get it now—but stay away from the swamps.
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“The X-Files meets Jurassic Park,” says bestselling author Richard Powell.
Super-sizing apex predators is never a good idea, and weaponizing them is even worse.
Something in South Texas is leaving a bloody trail of human wreckage in its wake. Jake Jessup and April Flowers investigate and uncover the most dangerous mutant Section 17 has ever created. But four-hundred fifty-pound monsters are the least of their worries when the pair stumble onto a government conspiracy that could cost them their lives and shake the very foundation of the country.
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The Genetics Investigation Team becomes the prey while they stalk the ultimate mutant military predator in book four.
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Who do you trust when the hunters become the hunted?
A four-legged genetic nightmare. A covert military base in a Mississippi bayou. A rogue black ops unit. What could go wrong?
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The latest genetically engineered animal-soldier has hit the streets—literally. Jessup and Flowers confront it, but have they finally met their match? Will mutant 5.0 spell their doom? Or will it be the two-legged threats they never saw coming?
Death stalks the southern Mississippi delta when a monstrous hybrid, the most vicious creature Section 17 has ever developed, escapes. And this time, not even its masters are safe. Is it a tragic accident, government ineptitude, or something more sinister?
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Double and triple-crosses are the name of the game in BETA, book five of the Genetics Investigation Team Thrillers. Get it today.
Everything is bigger in Texas.
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The Genetics Investigation Team has been shut down. Section 17 and the Special Projects Animal Asset Division no longer exist. FDA Special Agent April Flowers and Memphis Police Department Sergeant Jake Jessup have gone their separate ways, each running from a troubled past, and each thinking they had seen the last of mutant apex predators. They were wrong. Very wrong.
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When a mysterious attack along the Texas border drags our intrepid pair back together, the line between predator and prey blurs. As they peel back layers of deceit, they discover, once again, that while monsters can wear human faces, the deadliest are those created by them.
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Secrets are meant to stay buried… until they claw themselves to the surface.
A genetic abomination with an insatiable hunger, razor-sharp teeth, and the perfect camouflage.
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Ecological disaster strikes the rolling hills of west central Kentucky after a corrupt landowner, blinded by greed and power, releases a monstrous menace upon an unsuspecting public. Can Jake Jessup and April Flowers stop the creatures before they cause a catastrophe of cataclysmic proportions?
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The Genetics Investigation Team dives in headlong against the deadliest mutant apex predator they’ve ever encountered, while in the background, powerful forces, determined to revive the Mutant Apex Predator program, spin a treacherous web of deceit and betrayal.
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Jaws meets Jurassic Park. Jump in, the water’s fine.
Fifteen miles off the southern coast of Haiti sits an island paradise with a deadly secret - a secret worth killing for.
Tired of chasing Big Foot sightings and alien abduction reports, conspiracy blogger Sidney Peterson is looking for something to resurrect his floundering career. So, when he gets a tip about a mysterious Caribbean island no one is allowed to set foot on, he can’t resist. But he and his cameraman soon learn you should be careful what you wish for. It might just come true.
Think Zombies are bad?
A GENIT Team Novelette
About the author
Russ Tilton knows how to kill people. More importantly, he knows how to hide the bodies. Fortunately, he prefers to do his killing with words.
He learned those skills as a US Marine, and during his thirty year career in law enforcement. He retired from the Memphis Police Department in 2020 as a detective sergeant where he worked everything from homicides to internal affairs to narcotics investigations.
This foray into the darker side of life is reflected in his stories. When he is not adding to his literary body-count, he enjoys, kayaking, scuba diving, hiking and drinking coffee, lots of coffee.
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