It's Thriller Time! · 3 Complete Thrillers

For the first time, all three of the author’s sleuths – private eyes Jake Scarne and Alton Rhode, and C.I.A. agent/assassin Cole Sudden – are featured in separate thrillers in one volume.

Praise for MADMAN’S THIRST, in which Scarne hunts the killer of a young girl only to uncover a massive financial conspiracy:

"Suspense, gritty scenes, clever banter, the visceral rendering of Staten Island and a dogged private eye combine to make MADMAN'S THIRST and Jake Scarne a strong contribution to the tough guy tradition." -- FLORIDA WEEKLY

Praise for LAURA LEE, in which Rhode tries to clear a woman of a murder charge only to discover that there is much more at stake:

“Attention mystery readers: Tired of one-dimensional characters, hare-brained plots, generic settings? Your deliverance is at hand. Lawrence De Maria has written another Alton Rhode mystery. LAURA LEE is an immensely satisfying story that will disappoint you when you reach the last page, only because there are no more pages to be read.” – ROBERT E. HUBER (former chief speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani)

Praise for HURRICANE FATS, in which Sudden runs afoul of both a deranged mobster and Mother Nature:

“Slick as a whistle suspense, with a cast of familiar demons (vicious mobsters and their torpid minions, Ponzi scheming financiers) together with unexpected heroes and a plot with enough twists and turns to dizzy a race car driver.” – ANDREW DAYTON (Washington Independent Review of Books)

Praise for Lawrence De Maria’s books:

“Good news for anyone who prefers the pages of a rapid-read thriller to the market reports of the newspaper's business section. While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” – THE NAPLES DAILY NEWS