The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files: Smoke Rising (Book 1) (The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Series)

The unexpected begins...

Agent Sidney Shaw is one of the FBI's finest. Toughas nails with a calculating mind, she thought she was ready for anything. Shewas wrong. Enter John Smoke. He's a bounty hunter whosespirited arrest methods landed him hard time in prison. The decorated veteran,now branded an ex-con, just wants to serve his time in peace. The powers thatbe have other plans. They need his unique skills to hunt down criminalfugitives on a list called The Black Slate. To let Smoke hunt, they let him outof prison.

When Sidney is assigned to be Smoke's handler, bothof their lives are turned upside down. She plays by the rules. He trusts hisinstincts. Fighting to control him, she finds herself chasing him down bizarrepath that leads them to the doorstep of vast secret criminal network called TheDrake that has begun to rear its head in the heart of Washington, D.C. It's notlong before Sidney and Smoke realize that they aren't up the typical againstjust any criminals, but criminals with supernatural abilities and powers.
Followinga trail of mayhem and death they have to learn to trust each other, but will itbe enough for them to see it through to the end.
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The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files is inspired by the likes of the X-Files, Supernatural, Castle and The Dresden Files. If you find shows and books like that entertaining, perhaps you will enjoy this series as well.
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Craig Halloran has over 35 published books and several Amazon bestsellers among them.  He is also an Amazon KDP All-Star.

"I would recommend this book to fans of Cormac in the Kitty Norville series, fans of the Dresden Files or fans of Monster Hunter International." M.L. Page, Amazon Reviewer         
 
"Smoke Rising" is an effective, engaging suspense novel that starts out as pure thriller before developing its supernatural twist that pulls the reader even more deeply into the plot.  
  -E. Lucas, Top 500 Reviewer-

Where there's Smoke, there's hellfire...
 
Bounty Hunter John Smoke never liked the rules.  As a result of his overly aggressive--and often illegal--arrest methods, he ended up behind bars. But the Bureau won't let him be.  Placed in the able care of beautiful, tough-as-nails Sidney Shaw, his new FBI handler, Smoke needs to alter his loose-cannon ways to remain a free man.
 
But there is an unchecked evil festering deep in the heart of the nation's capital, a shadow conspiracy that won't be defeated with a by-the-book approach to law enforcement. A vast, hidden network of criminals with the terrifying ability to shapeshift into monsters is spreading its supernatural sickness into the very fabric of human society. No ordinary mortal can fight it.  But there's nothing ordinary about John Smoke, which Sidney Shaw is about to discover as she follows Smoke's trail into the darkest, most secret corners of Washington, DC.
 
Because now the clock is ticking...and the fate of humankind itself may be at stake. The unexpected begins.
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Craig Halloran, master of the fantastic and bestselling author of the Darkslayer and the Chronicles of the Dragon series, is back with Smoke Rising, the first book in an exciting new urban fantasy series set in Washington, DC. Fans of The X Files and Supernatural, and the ever-growing army of devoted Halloran readers will be thrilled to meet the wildly unpredictable monster-hunter John Smoke and his tough and beautiful FBI handler, Sidney Shaw, as they pursue a shadow conspiracy through the dark, secret underbelly of the nation's capital. In the bestselling vein of Jim Butcher and Simon R. Green, Halloran's Smoke and Shaw must confront a powerful hidden network of criminals who are capable of shapeshifting into werewolves, giants, and all manner of supernatural horrors in their quest for ultimate dominion over an unsuspecting human race.