The body looked like all the others: a female bound at the wrists and ankles, blood-oozing welts criss-crossing her buttocks, crushed larynx; most of all, her palate was pierced with that wickedly shaped fishing hook for controlling her while she endured the unspeakable. Yet, one thing distinguished her from the other corpses: she was thawing in Gus Bolderjack's favorite chair. Bolderjack, a psychotherapist, had been an exceptional profiler who couldn't stay out of the action. He'd bait serial killers into stalking him, and then snare them by hook or by crook. Labeled hero by some and psycho shrink by others, one thing was clear: his methods worked. Then, after losing a feud with U. S. Attorney Carrie Sullivan-Bledsoe over a murderer's plea bargain he departed the field to join his lover in her high-end Sun Valley resort clinic, tending to the emotional needs of the rich and richer. That works for a while until Sullivan-Bledsoe, now a state attorney general, loses her son to a kidnapper at nearly the same time a powerful tabloid publisher's niece disappears. Bolderjack gets sucked into the fray, where he finds himself in a universe ruled by political ambition and intriguing, double-dealing characters, including those he's trying to help. The further he pushes into the web the more venom he encounters and the more he has to face his own shortcomings. To top it off he becomes the target of two gruesome serial killers sharing goals and a lust for vengeance, and the only way to save himself is to punch through the politics and get the killers before they get him.

It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. The world's largest super-volcano located underneath the United States' Yellowstone National Park is set to blow. (Actual report from The UK's Daily Mail) *A scientist on a suicide mission... *A Faustian bargain with a mysterious life form... *A brain damaged boy is biologically re-engineered... *A ghostly shaman bearing visions of disaster... *A rash of murderous behavior in two small towns... *A cavern concealing clandestine maneuvers... *A vast, deep reservoir of fiery molten rock threatening the heart of North America... When biological psychologist Tom Havyn sets out to kill himself at his recently inherited ranch near the small berg of Glensford, Idaho, he unwittingly puts humanity on a trajectory to disaster. Blaming himself for his son Travis's massive brain trauma, Havyn makes a Faustian bargain with an exotic stranger who possesses the technology to repair and even enhance the damaged tissue. Moreover, the new traits could be passed on, making Travis the key to a breathtaking leap in human evolution. Soon, Havyn finds himself acting as a Judas goat for an antigovernment paramilitary organization. His newfound ability to predict disaster turns him into a modern day messiah who draws thousands of followers into a trap set by the paramilitary group with plans to use them as carriers for a highly infectious designer virus. Simultaneously, the group adulterates the U.S. food supply. Converging events, including earthquakes, random killings, and food shortages create a nationwide panic of monumental proportions. Lost in the maelstrom is the fact that an extinction level event looms in the background. The vast, deep reservoir of fiery, molten rock that feeds cyclical cataclysmic eruptions at Yellowstone is nearing the level of the last supervolcano, which occurred 600,000 years ago. Only this time, one man has his finger on the volcano's hair trigger. In the bargain to save his son, Havyn is central to unleashing hell on civilization, to scorch much of the earth clean and make room for a new sort of human race represented by his biologically re-engineered son. Armageddon Yellowstone: Hell Unleashed is a gripping story of human emotion and behavior under the cloud of annihilation.(