Silencer

"Welcome to Marcus Wicker's Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chaf... (more)

"Welcome to Marcus Wicker's Midwest, where the muzzle is always on and where silence and daily microaggressions can chafe away at the faith of a young man grieved by images of gun violence and police brutality in twenty-first-century America. Precisely contradictory, bittersweet, witty, and heartbreaking, Silencer is where the political and the personal collide. Driven by the sounds of hip-hop and reimagined forms and structures, Wicker's explosive second bookis composed of poems at war with themselves, verses in which the poet questions his own faith in God, in hope, in the American Dream, and in himself. Pushing our ideas of traditions and expectations, these poems and queries work in concert towards creating a new dialectic"-- (less)

She's known as the Silencer, and for years she used her deadly skills and sound-dampening abilities to keep the criminal... (more)

She's known as the Silencer, and for years she used her deadly skills and sound-dampening abilities to keep the criminal organization Leviathan in check as Talia al Ghul's personal assassin. Six years ago she thought she'd accomplished the impossible-she got out. She took on a new identity as Honor Guest, got married, had a kid. It was bliss. But bliss never lasts. A power struggle within Leviathan has removed Talia from command, and the new leaders aren't as willing to simply let Honor walk away. Now, to protect the family that means everything to her, she has to go back to the life she swore she was done with. The underworld had better watch out. The Silencer is back, and she knows what needs to be done to keep her family safe...and there's no one better or deadlier at what she does! (less)

A retired military sniper must fight his way across the US-Mexico border to rescue a young girl kidnapped by the kingpin... (more)

A retired military sniper must fight his way across the US-Mexico border to rescue a young girl kidnapped by the kingpin of a Mexican drug cartel. (less)