Includes Cover Illustration: Operative Taz Azaria plots to assassinate Ravena Volkov, a rogue Soviet official. But Taz is betrayed and Volkov invites Taz to her apartment to extract revenge.
All of a sudden, it is like the world has come to an end. The enemy has launched fearsome missiles at American cities. The ex-Marine decides it is time to take some evasive action and packs his family up for a safer place than the middle of Los Angeles. His wife is a bit reluctant to leave the proximity of the shopping mall and his children are less than happy at losing all of the electronic goodies they have come to depend upon. Still, he knows they are a lot luckier than almost everyone else.
A woman enters an elevator in an ordinary office building with a sole male passenger. Suddenly it stops and the lights go out. What happens next is shocking.
Three women are held captive during a bank hold-up: the fifty-something divorced, sophisticated Assistant Manger; a thirty-something attractive woman trapped in an unhappy marriage; a cute seventeen-year-old devout Christian who is saving her virtue for her wedding day. The bank robbers have just been released after serving long prison sentences, and are hungry not only for money; but for sex.
When a burglar breaks into a house to steal, he finds that the husband and wife are home. The cowardly husband offers his wife in place of himself when he is threatened and has to suffer the indignity of watching the burglar rape his new wife while she is still wearing her wedding dress.
A family vacations for a week at Virginia Beach, Va. All goes well until three thugs show up one night wanting some of what the girls have been flaunting all week. The whole family becomes victims.
