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Chris Lowry is an author and adventurer with over 80 books published on Amazon.com

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May 23, 20264 hr 14 min

Boomer Bust

🌴 Retirement can be murder.🐊 Especially in Florida.## 🎧 BOOMER BUST — Complete Florida Mystery Audiobook🌴 Retirement can be murder.🐊 Especially in Florida.Danny “Gumbo” Malone thought life in Cedar Key couldn’t get any weirder. Then Maude Tippleton—a walking explosion of rhinestones, leopard print, and senior-citizen rage—storms into The Rusty Pelican claiming somebody is murdering wealthy widows inside local retirement communities.Most people would ignore her.Gumbo knows better.Now he and his partner Ellie are diving headfirst into a bizarre Gulf Coast conspiracy involving stolen inheritances, experimental anti-aging drugs, shady retirement home operators, suspicious “natural causes,” and a social director whose smile looks medically enhanced.And that’s before the vigilante grandmothers show up.💰 Stolen fortunes🐊 Florida swamp chaos🎯 Senior citizen vigilantes🦜 A detective parrot🌴 Retirement community conspiracies😂 Laugh-out-loud Florida weirdness💊 Experimental drug schemes🏖 Coastal noir comedy mysteryAs bodies pile up around shuffleboard courts and bingo halls, Gumbo uncovers a criminal operation buried beneath early bird buffets, golf carts, and pastel polyester. The deeper he digs, the stranger things get—and in Cedar Key, strange is basically a municipal slogan.Featuring:🔥 The “Hot Flashes” — a crew of senior citizen vigilantes🐊 Old Scarback — the meanest gator in Florida🍹 Backwater bars, marina chaos, and nonstop Gulf Coast madness😂 Fast-paced mystery twists and hilarious eccentric charactersPacked with dark humor, colorful suspects, tropical atmosphere, and outrageous Florida energy, **BOOMER BUST** is perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, Christopher Moore, Janet Evanovich, and anyone who enjoys weird Florida crime fiction with a comedic edge.If you love:✔ Funny mystery audiobooks✔ Florida noir comedy✔ Humorous detective stories✔ Quirky private investigator thrillers✔ Coastal conspiracy mysteries✔ Swamp noir adventures✔ Character-driven crime fiction✔ Small-town Florida chaos…then this audiobook belongs in your playlist.Because in Florida…even the retirement communities are dangerous. 🌴🐊---🔔 Subscribe for more COMPLETE mystery and thriller audiobooks🎧 Perfect for road trips, workouts, beach days, and late-night listening sessions#FloridaMystery #MysteryAudiobook #FunnyMystery #CrimeComedy #FloridaNoir #HumorousMystery #Audiobook #PrivateInvestigator #WeirdFlorida #CedarKey #ComedyThriller

May 22, 20263 hr 36 min

A mission that should have stayed buried beneath the Arctic ice.

FOG OF WARA Cole Walker Action ThrillerA frozen wasteland.A stolen weapon.A mission that should have stayed buried beneath the Arctic ice.When rogue CIA operative Cole Walker survives a deadly ambush over the Arctic Circle, he discovers the crash was no accident. Someone wants a Soviet-era seismic weapon erased from history before the world learns it exists.But the deeper Cole digs, the worse the truth becomes.Mercenaries. Intelligence agencies. Corporate war profiteers. Russian operators with kill orders.Everybody wants control of BLACK ICE — an experimental resonance device capable of triggering catastrophic earthquakes beneath the Arctic shelf.And somebody already turned it on.Hunted across collapsing ice fields and abandoned submarine bases, Cole teams with a wounded Russian scientist and a sharp-tongued sniper who trusts nobody. Together they race to stop Viktor Saranov — a legendary Russian operative willing to sacrifice entire nations to reshape the balance of global power.The Arctic becomes a war zone.Submarines vanish beneath fractured ice.Helicopters fall from the sky.And deep beneath the frozen sea, a dying reactor threatens to unleash a disaster that could change the planet forever.For Cole Walker, survival stopped being the mission a long time ago.Now it’s about making sure the wrong people don’t survive with him.FOG OF WAR is a fast-paced action thriller packed with covert operations, black ops warfare, brutal close-quarters combat, and nonstop suspense perfect for fans of Without Remorse, The Gray Man, and Night Soldier.

May 21, 20264 hr 33 min

Iron Divide a complete full length audiobook thriller

🔥 IRON DIVIDE | Full Length Modern Western Thriller Audiobook 🎧❄️SEVEN HEAVILY ARMED MERCENARIES TOOK OVER AN ISOLATED MOUNTAIN DEPOT.They thought the storm was the deadliest thing on the mountain.Then Mercer Sample started fighting back.Mercer Sample wanted shelter from the bomb cyclone tearing through the Rockies. Instead, he walks straight into a brutal armed takeover at the remote Summit Transit Center.The man behind it is Silas Miller — a cold-blooded heist mastermind leading a tactical mercenary crew hauling millions in stolen gold bullion. Their mission: hijack an incoming federal vault convoy, eliminate every witness, and disappear before sunrise.Nobody leaves alive.After Miller’s team guns down an undercover U.S. Marshal and locks Mercer and the remaining civilians inside a freezing freight locker, the operation should have been over.But Mercer Sample refuses to freeze to death quietly.Armed with a survival knife, a stolen handgun, and years of hard-earned grit, Mercer slips into the frozen maintenance tunnels beneath the depot and launches a savage one-man war through smoke, darkness, and snow.Now the isolated mountain fortress has become a kill zone.As temperatures plunge and bodies pile up, Mercer hunts the mercenaries one by one while a deadly blizzard rages outside. With the federal convoy closing in and Miller preparing to burn the entire facility to ash, Mercer must survive long enough to stop a massacre before dawn.❄️🔥 IRON DIVIDE is a brutal, fast-paced neo-western thriller packed with tactical action, survival suspense, close-quarters combat, heists, mercenaries, and nonstop tension.Perfect for fans of:✔️ Jack Reacher✔️ Joe Pickett✔️ Walt Longmire✔️ Vince Flynn✔️ Yellowstone-style western thrillers✔️ Survival action stories✔️ Lee Child & C.J. Box🎧 If you love:🔫 Action Thriller Audiobooks🏔️ Modern Western Fiction❄️ Snowstorm Survival Thrillers💰 Heist & Crime Stories🔥 Lone Wolf Vigilante Heroes🚨 Tactical Suspense & Mercenary Action🕵️ Hardboiled Mystery Thrillers🎯 Full Length Audiobooks👉 Subscribe for more action thrillers, western adventures, espionage fiction, mystery audiobooks, survival suspense, and nonstop tactical action every week.#Audiobook #ActionThriller #ModernWestern #ThrillerAudiobook #LeeChild #JackReacher #SurvivalThriller #WesternThriller #CrimeThriller #HeistThriller #MercenaryThriller #FullLengthAudiobook #Suspense

May 21, 20264 hr 17 min

A1A a full length comedy mystery audiobook

🎧 A1A — Complete Florida Mystery Audiobook🌴 He came to Florida for peace and quiet.🐊 Florida had other plans.Former corporate burnout Danny “Gumbo” Malone thought moving onto a beat-up houseboat in Cedar Key would mean sunsets, cold beer, and fewer idiots in neckties. Instead, he gets dragged into a bizarre Florida conspiracy involving corrupt developers, environmental scams, swamp secrets, and at least one emotionally unstable alligator.Welcome to A1A.What starts as a simple stalking case quickly spirals into a chaotic Gulf Coast investigation tied to shady land deals, coastal destruction, and a secret operation called Operation Sandcastle—a scheme designed to turn protected Florida coastline into a billionaire playground.Now Gumbo, fiery investigative reporter Eliza Mercer, and forensic-accountant-turned-human-calculator Ellie Hightower are racing through marinas, swamps, retirement communities, abandoned mini-golf courses, and backwater bars trying to expose the truth before they become permanent gator snacks.🐊 Emotional support alligators🌴 Weird Florida corruption💰 Coastal development scams🛥 Cedar Key marina chaos📰 Investigative journalism🏝 Environmental crime conspiracies😂 Offbeat humor and eccentric suspects🔥 Small-town secrets and swamp noir suspensePacked with laugh-out-loud moments, colorful Gulf Coast characters, fast-paced mystery twists, and satirical Florida insanity, A1A delivers a hilarious private investigator thriller perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, Janet Evanovich, and weird Florida crime fiction.If you love:✔ Funny mystery audiobooks✔ Florida noir crime fiction✔ Humorous private investigator series✔ Quirky detective stories✔ Swamp suspense and beach-town chaos✔ Tropical mystery thrillers✔ Southern crime comedy✔ Weird Florida adventures…then you just found your next audiobook obsession.Because in Cedar Key, Florida…even the alligators have emotional baggage. 🐊☀️🔔 Subscribe for more COMPLETE mystery and thriller audiobooks🎧 Perfect for road trips, late-night listening, beach days, and anyone who enjoys Florida chaos with their crime fiction#FloridaMystery #MysteryAudiobook #FunnyMystery #FloridaNoir #CrimeComedy #PrivateInvestigator #Audiobook #WeirdFlorida #SwampNoir #CedarKey #HumorousMystery

May 20, 20266 hr 50 min

High Tide Homicide

High Tide Homicide: AGumbo Malone Mystery (Book 4)AWeird, Wacky, and Wild Florida Mystery You Won’t Forget!Inthe heart of Florida’s untamed coast, where alligators get spatreatments and every Tuesday feels like a full moon, ex-executiveturned reluctant private investigator GumboMalone isneck-deep in the weirdest case of his offbeat career.Whengutsy investigative reporter ElizaMercer claimsshe’s being stalked, Gumbo figures it’s just another day in theswamp. But her story blows wide open into a dark tangle ofenvironmentalcrime, exotic animal trafficking,and massivecoastal corruptiontied to a secret operation known only as OperationSandcastle.Asthe clues pile up and bodies start surfacing (sometimes withnewspapers wrapped around dead fish), Gumbo and his partner, EllieHightower—aformer forensic accountant with a talent for untangling money trailsand brewing hurricane-strength coffee—must dodge crookedpoliticians, taxidermy-obsessed developers, shady trackers, and onemysterious art thief called ThePelican.Setin the quirky, danger-filled world of Cedar Key, Florida, thisfast-paced, laugh-out-loud mystery will have you hooked from thefirst flamingo sighting to the last twist in the tide. From rundownhouseboats toabandonedmini-golf courses,High Tide Homicidedelivers a hilarious and thrilling ride through Florida’s mostbizarre corners.Perfectfor fans of Carl Hiaasen, Tim Dorsey, and Dave Barry,this wild ride blends humor,crime, and Florida weirdnessinto one unforgettable coastal caper.🎧 Diveinto High TideHomicide today —because in Florida, the real danger isn’t the wildlife... it’sthe people.Keywords:Florida mystery, humorous detective fiction, quirky privateinvestigator, Cedar Key mystery, environmental thriller, swamp noir,funny crime novel, amateur sleuth, beach read, wildlife smuggling,Florida PI series, tropical crime novel, eccentric characters, resorttown mystery, coastal corruption, Everglades fiction, offbeatdetective story, Florida humor, Southern mystery, Gumbo Malone series

May 19, 20266 hr 33 min

Rigged Game

A billion-dollar land grab. A weaponized federal warrant. A town pushed to the breaking point.Ex-federal investigator turned private fixer Mercer Sample prefers to operate in the gray areas of his rain-slicked Pacific Northwest logging town. But when a corrupt county zoning board starts starving independent farmers off their land using fabricated environmental laws, Mercer recognizes the unmistakable shape of a massive corporate grift.The local squeeze is just the tip of a billion-dollar spear. Portland venture capitalist Cameron Bell needs a contiguous corridor of valley farmland for a massive green-energy data center, and he’s willing to buy the local government to steal it.When a young hacker uncovers the encrypted ledgers proving Bell's offshore bribes, the billionaire unleashes a ruthless private hit squad to bury the evidence. Worse, Bell tips off a relentless U.S. Marshal to the location of a fugitive mechanic hiding in Mercer's town, triggering a spectacular federal manhunt designed to act as a smokescreen for the corporate slaughter.Outgunned and cut off by a devastating Pacific storm, Mercer must assemble a desperate crew—a stubborn farmer, a hunted mechanic, and a stoic local contractor—to hold the line. As the mercenaries close in and the federal government kicks down doors, Mercer is forced to step out of the shadows and into the mud. He isn't just fighting a paper war anymore; he's fighting for survival.To save the valley, he’ll have to break a billionaire's empire.RIGGED GAME is a gritty modern western noir packed with razor-sharp dialogue, hardboiled crime, and relentless suspense. Perfect for fans of Elmore Leonard's snappy grifters, John D. MacDonald's cynical heroes, and the action-packed corporate conspiracies of Lee Child and C.J. Box.Keywords / Categories: Modern Western Thriller, Noir Crime Fiction, Corporate Conspiracy Thriller, Private Investigator Mystery, Pacific Northwest Suspense, Action & Adventure, Hardboiled Detective, Vigilante Justice.

May 18, 20264 hr 34 min

Laredo a modern thriller audiobook

Ina sun-blasted border town, the monsters don't hide in the dark—theyhide in plain sight.MercerSample spent twenty years tracking fugitives for the US Marshals.Today, he’s a cynical bounty hunter operating on the unforgivingedges of Laredo, Texas. He survives by reading people andunderstanding the ruthless mathematics of the border: keep your headdown, collect the skip, and never ask questions. But when a routinehunt for a terrified, embezzling cartel accountant goes violentlysideways, Mercer steps into a conspiracy that will drench the Texasasphalt in blood.CassidyLane is walking the desolate, neon-lit truck stops of the Interstate35 corridor with a bottle of whiskey and a loaded hand cannon. She’susing herself as bait, desperate to catch the elusive serial killerwho butchered her sister.ButMercer knows the terrifying truth: the "Laredo Killer"isn't a disorganized psychopath. He’s a ghost.Hisname is Silas—a highly trained special operations veteran workingas a cartel "cleaner." Silas is deployed to systematicallyerase women who inadvertently witness the underworld'smulti-million-dollar bulk cash transfers. Worse, the cartel assassinis being fed his targets by the very police detectives sworn toprotect the city.Forcedinto a fractured, uneasy alliance, the burnt-out bounty hunter andthe grief-fueled vigilante must go off the grid to hunt the hunter.Navigating a labyrinth of corrupt cops, three hundred thousanddollars in stolen cartel capital, and a heavily armed corporateassassin who leaves zero loose ends, Mercer and Cassidy must writetheir own laws. In a town where justice is bought and paid for, itcomes down to basic math: kill the other guy first, or end up buriedin the South Texas scrub brush.LAREDOis a gritty, relentless modern western noir thriller that grabs youby the throat from the first page and doesn't let go.Perfectfor fans of: Ifyou love the snappy, character-driven dialogue of Elmore Leonard, theatmospheric, hard-hitting tension of John D. MacDonald, and thecinematic grit of Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Yellowstone), you won'tbe able to put this book down.

May 17, 20265 hr 8 min

Cost of War a full length action thriller audiobook

When a covert rescue mission turns into a manhunt across a war-torn battlefield, survival becomes the only mission that matters.Former CIA field operative Cole Walker lives in the shadows, running off-book intelligence operations across Eastern Europe while Russian armor rolls toward the edge of another global crisis. Burned, hunted, and already on the radar of the FSB, Cole is ready to disappear—until a desperate embassy attaché begs for his help.Her husband, a humanitarian doctor trapped behind enemy lines in Ukraine, is caught between advancing Russian forces, corrupt militia units, and secret kill orders from both sides of the war.Now Cole and Kate Ellison must cross shattered villages, survive drone strikes, dodge Spetsnaz hunters, and outrun betrayal at every checkpoint as they race toward a hidden root cellar where innocent civilians wait to die.But someone inside the intelligence network wants them all erased.And the deeper they push into the war zone, the more they realize the rescue mission was never the real objective.Perfect for fans of Jack Carr, Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, and Mark Greaney, COST OF WAR is a brutal, fast-paced military action thriller packed with covert operations, espionage, black ops warfare, tactical combat, survival suspense, CIA intrigue, drone warfare, and nonstop action.If you love: • military thrillers • espionage suspense • black ops action • CIA covert missions • special operations fiction • tactical survival stories • war zone thrillers • man-on-the-run adventures • international conspiracies • high-stakes rescue missionsthen you’ll love COST OF WAR.The war is spreading.The clock is running out.And every side wants them dead.

May 17, 20263 hr 32 min

High Divide

❄️ ONE STORM.🚂 ONE TRAIN STATION.🔫 SEVEN ARMED MEN.⚠️ ONE DEADLY MISTAKE.They trapped Eldridge Sample inside with them.HIGH DIVIDE is a brutal, fast-paced Western Thriller packed with snowbound suspense, gunfights, survival, and relentless action from beginning to end.Half-frozen and looking for nothing more than a warm fire and black coffee, drifter Eldridge Sample rides into isolated Summit Station high in the Rocky Mountains.Then the door explodes open.A ruthless gang led by the cold-blooded mastermind known only as “The Professor” storms the depot carrying stolen silver ore and a deadly plan: hijack the morning snowplow train, rob a federal payroll shipment, and disappear forever into the mountains.But the storm has trapped everyone inside.Now Eldridge must outfight killers, survive the freezing whiteout, and stop a massacre before the station burns to the ground.🔥 OUTNUMBERED❄️ TRAPPED BY THE BLIZZARD🚂 NO ESCAPE ROUTE🔪 ONLY ONE MAN STANDS IN THEIR WAYIf you enjoy:✅ Western Thrillers✅ Survival Stories✅ Action Audiobooks✅ Snowbound Mysteries✅ Lee Child style heroes✅ Yellowstone and Longmire vibes✅ Fast-paced cinematic storytelling…then HIGH DIVIDE is for you.🎧 Sit back, relax, and enjoy this FULL LENGTH WESTERN THRILLER AUDIOBOOK.👇 Don’t forget to:👍 LIKE💬 COMMENT🔔 SUBSCRIBENew thriller and western audiobooks uploaded regularly.

May 11, 20267 hr 34 min

Jack the Stripper a complete full length mystery audiobook

JACK THE STRIPPERA Weird & WhackyFlorida MysteryOn Florida’s Gulf Coast,bodies don’t stay hidden for long.Secrets do.When a young stripper turnsup dead under bizarre circumstances, Gulf Coast private investigatorDanny “Gumbo” Malone expects another routine homicide wrapped inbad decisions and worse company. But the deeper he digs into thevictim’s final days, the clearer it becomes that this murder wasn’trandom.It wasorganized.Careful.Planned long before the body dropped.As Gumbo follows a trailthrough neon-lit clubs, waterfront condos, backroad motels, and thehumid underbelly of Sarasota nightlife, he uncovers a chillingnetwork of corruption hiding in plain sight. What first appears to bea single killing slowly reveals something far more disturbing—acalculated system of exploitation tied to powerful local players whoknow exactly how to bury evidence and redirect suspicion.Now Gumbo is trappedbetween frightened witnesses, ambitious detectives, politicalpressure, and predators who view people as disposable inventory.Every answer drags him deeper into a web of manipulation, blackmail,organized crime, and carefully constructed lies designed to survivepolice scrutiny.But Gumbo sees patternsother people miss.And somebody is starting torealize he’s getting too close.With razor-sharp dialogue,dark humor, layered suspense, and atmospheric Florida noir, JACKTHE STRIPPER delivers a gritty hardboiled mystery packedwith eccentric Gulf Coast characters, psychological tension, andrelentless investigative twists. Perfect for fans of privateinvestigator thrillers, crime procedurals, coastal noir, andsun-soaked Southern crime fiction.If you love: …then JACK THESTRIPPER belongs on your shelf.Because on the Florida GulfCoast, everybody’s selling something.And murder is alwayspart of the deal.