Books
Books are listed in order of publication.
Zombie Maelstrom
Bryan Cassiday
Virulent pockets of plague, first reported in China, break out worldwide and spread with mind-boggling speed. CIA black ops agent Chad Halverson flies to Los Angeles to visit his brother after receiving a call that his brother has been hospitalized after a car accident. Halverson’s Boeing 737 crash-lands in an eerie Los Angeles shrouded with an impenetrable haze of smog. But that is only the tip of the iceberg of Halverson’s nightmare. Lurking in this mist are legions of plague-infected living dead who are driven by an all-consuming lust for human flesh. Halverson’s reunion with his brother must take second place to his own struggle to stay alive.
As civilization crumbles into chaos, it will take all the skills and wits Halverson and his fellow passengers possess for their hunted party to survive in a world overrun with hordes of flesh-craving zombies. Which will pose a bigger threat to Halverson and his ever-dwindling tiny band—their own bickering as they try to organize and defend themselves, their enemies the living dead, or the new “civilization” of men that is superseding the old?
Helter Skelter (August 2011)
Bryan Cassiday (publisher)
Evildoers run riot across the sun-drenched Southern California landscape in Helter Skelter. Zombies, vampires, and other wicked creatures wreak mayhem and carnage in these shocking horror short stories by Bryan Cassiday. Not all of these tales feature supernatural creatures. Some of the evil creatures are human—perhaps the most terrifying creature of all. These stories defy logic, yet they obey their own inexorable logic of fear.
The Anaconda Complex (April 2011)
Create Space
United States Senator John Stockwall is kidnaped on the doorstep of his house in McLean, Virginia. That’s just the beginning of a conspiracy hatched to shake America to its very foundations. The trail of the kidnapers leads Nick McQueen, who is a CIA hit man and a fugitive from the authorities, to a brutal murder on the casino-lined, neon playgrounds of Las Vegas. The al-Qaeda kidnapers plan to broadcast live on national TV a show stage-managed to humiliate and terrorize the American public. Publicized on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media on the Internet, the kidnapers’ final horrific act for their “Theater of Terrorism” aims to wreak havoc, kill thousands of Americans, and precipitate economic collapse in the United States.
The Kill Option (October 2010)
Create Space
In the explosive international thriller The Kill Option, the feuding McQueen brothers must band together to prevent the apocalypse of World War III. One brother, Nick, is a journalist who seeks the truth. The other, Barry, is a CIA hit man who leads a double life. The two brothers must come to terms long enough to thwart a Basque hit man who has been hired in Paris to trigger the war to end all wars. The brothers discover that the assassin is merely a pawn in a ruthless grab for power by a supranational cabal that wants a certain world leader killed at a summit in Pike National Forest in Colorado and has both brothers in its crosshairs as well.
Blood Moon: Thrillers and Tales of Terror (2009)
Create Space
Blood Moon is a collection of Bryan Cassiday’s short stories form the dark side; including, thriller, mystery, horror, suspense, and noir tales. Vampires, doppelgangers, serial killers, cannibals, and politicians are just a few of the malefactors haunting the pages of Blood Moon.
Fete of Death (2007)
Publish America
A California senator is brutally slain. But that is only the beginning of the increasingly macabre murders of members of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The CIA hire their termination specialist, Tyrone Quade, an ex-Weathermen infiltrator and current jailbird, to find the killer. Quade has to be pardoned from federal prison in Los Angeles where he is doing time for blowing up a passenger jet—a charge he denies. In his search for the killer, he becomes a target for Mafia henchmen and a Colombian cocaine cartel, among others, and starts to doubt his own innocence and even his sanity as his investigation keeps spiraling him back to his alleged bombing of the jet. To his consternation, Quade discovers a covert trail that leads him to the upper echelons of the United States government, where an unholy alliance will do anything to prevent him from uncovering the truth.
E-books
Fireball—and Other Stories (July 2011)
Kindle
Former SEAL Team Six member, now a black ops agent for the National Clandestine Service, John Cane is assigned to mete out justice to an illicit arms dealer. What seems to be a simple, straightforward assignment turns out to have tentacles that reach all the way to the White House as Cane uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to the Kennedy Administration in the espionage short story “Fireball.” As a special bonus, two spine-tingling horror short stories from Cassiday’s book Helter Skelter follow “Fireball.”
The Quiet Professional—and Other Stories (May 2011)
Kindle
Meet John Cane. He doesn’t know you, and you don’t know him. You don’t want to know him. Cane used to work for SEAL Team Six. Now he works for the National Clandestine Service, the black ops arm of the CIA. No op is too black for him. The black operations in these three stories take place in Hollywood, and, as everybody knows, nobody can be trusted in Hollywood.
The Internecine Conspiracy—a Short Story (2010)
Kindle
What do you do when your whole life is turned on its head? A man comes home from work one day to his house in Mission Viejo, California, to find an unthinkable conspiracy. Against impossible odds, he must prevent it. What is this man’s true identity? Why was he chosen to unravel the conspiracy?
Tijuana Sunset—a Quade Short Story (2010)
Kindle
The black sheep of the CIA Tyrone Quade is ordered to enter Mexico and free an ATF agent named Florio who is being held hostage by drug dealers. The three other CIA agents who were sent earlier to free Florio never returned. Quade has seventy-two hours before the drug cartel executes Florio. The operation might help polish Quade’s tarnished reputation—or it might help polish him off.