Ted Bell, "The Powder Monkey" --Featuring Alex Hawke from the Hawke thriller series, which includes the novels Hawke, Pirate, Spy, and Assassin.

Lee Child, "James Penney's New Identity" -- Featuring Jack Reacher from the Reacher series, which includes the novels The Hard Way, Killing Floor, Persuader, and Without Fail.

James Grippando, "Operation Northwoods" -- Featuring Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck and his colorful sidekick, Theo Knight. Jack and Theo appear in five previous novels -- The Pardon, Beyond Suspicion, Last to Die, Hear No Evil, and Got the Look.

Gregg Hurwitz, "Dirty Weather" -- "Dirty Weather" features a prison escape, which continues a theme in Gregg's next Tim Rackley book, Last Shot.

J. A. Konrath, "Epitaph" -- Featuring Phineas Troutt, who appears in the Jack Daniels series, which includes the novels Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, and Rusty Nail.

David Liss, "The Double Dealer" -- Featuring Benjamin Weaver, the protagonist from the novels A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption.

Gayle Lynds, "The Hunt for Dmitri" -- Featuring Liz Sansborough and the Carnivore; both appear in the novels The Coil and Masquerade.

Chris Mooney, "Falling" -- Featuring Malcolm Fletcher, who appears in the novel Deviant Ways.

James Rollins, "Kowalski's in Love" -- Featuring Kowalski from the thriller Ice Hunt and the Sigma Force team from the novels Sandstorm, Map of Bones, and Black Order.

M. J. Rose and John Lescroart, "The Portal" -- Featuring Dr. Morgan Snow from Rose's Butterfield Institute series, which includes the novels The Halo Effect, The Delilah Complex, and The Venus Fix.

Brad Thor, "The Athens Solution" --Featuring the recurring covert, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath, who appears in the novels The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union, Blowback, and Takedown.

F. Paul Wilson, "Incident at Duane's" -- Featuring Repairman Jack, who appears in the novels Crisscross, Gateways, and The Haunted Air.