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American
Assassin
by Vince Flynn
Release Date: 2010-10-12
Follow Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first, explosive counterterrorism assignment.
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And
Then There Was One
Release Date: 2010-10-04
One is the loneliest number.
Nine years ago, Katie and Scott Monroe were blessed beyond their wildest dreams with identical triplets, Sammie, Alex, and Jackie. Three beautiful daughters and two adoring parents formed the picture-perfect party of five. But this tight-knit family unravels when the three little girls go to see a movie, but only one emerges from the darkness of the theatre. How could Sammie and Alex vanish without a trace?
Plunged into the abyss of a parent's worst fear, Katie and Scott hang by a thread-waiting, worrying, not knowing, and confronting the terrifying realization that the kidnapping may not have been a random act.
Who took Sammie and Alex? Why? Where are they? When will they be found? And what if they're never found, or not found alive? When Jackie, the remaining triplet, crumbles under the weight of grief and survivor's guilt, Katie and Scott struggle to hold out hope and hold on to what remains of their family.
Until-or unless-Sammie and Alex are found safe, this picture-perfect family can't be put back together again.
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Athena
Project, The
by Brad Thor
Release Date: 2010-11-23
Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolina's Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nation's most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta.� Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born.� Its codename: The Athena Project.�The novels will follow an elite team of female warriors from their recruitment as top-level athletes, through their training, to their deployment on some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the fiction world has ever seen.�Brad Thor's readers will be electrified as he employs his vast knowledge of covert operations and military intrigue to bring to life his most heart-pounding, globe-trotting thrillers yet.
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Blind
Man's Alley
Release Date: 2010-08-10
From
the author of the Edgar Award nominated legal thriller A Cure
for Night, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in
the cutthroat world of New York real estate.
A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo
development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their
deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously
abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems,
including allegations of mob connections. Roth's longtime lawyers,
the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the
task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate
of smart, cynical, and sea�soned associate
Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the
pow�erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful
daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real
estate empire.
Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which
he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his
grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One
night Rafael is picked up and charged with the
mur�der of the private security cop who caught
him, a murder that took place in another controversial mixed income
housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan
Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal
morality.
Blind Man's Alley is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic
journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation.
The New York Times Book Review said of A Cure for
Night that [Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . .
he's got a good chance to make partner. This taut, topical, and
socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.
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Blue
Lightning
by Ann Cleeves
Release Date: 2010-10-11
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Bone
Crusher
Release Date: 2010-10-15
When the urge took hold, serial killer Larry Bright brought women back to his home. After raping and murdering his victims, he brutally disposed of their bodies. Sometimes he built a white-hot fire and burned them in his backyard. Other times he dumped them along nearby roads and fields. For years, Bright had trolled the roads and back streets of Illinois for the most helpless, desperate women he could find. Then one woman escaped, and suddenly police were looking for bodies everywhere - trying to find out how many women Bright had really killed and what he had done with their remains. Step by step, an all-out investigation would shock hardened detectives. From interviews with women who survived their encounters with him to the forensic search for bone fragments and pieces of burned, buried flesh, the case against Larry Bright finally closed like a vice - on the man who turned his victims into ashes.
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Buried
Secrets (Nick Heller)
Release Date: 2011-01-04
In 2009, Joseph Finder introduced Nick Heller'a private spy who finds out things powerful people want to keep hidden'in the
New York Times bestselling novel
Vanished. Now, in
Buried Secrets, Nick Heller returns, finding himself in the middle of a life-or-death situation that's both high-profile and intensely personal.
Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he's urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick's help. His eighteen-year-old daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped. Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She's been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn't meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she'll die. And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he's become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who's holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government. If he's going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever...before time runs out.
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Capitol
Game, The
by Brian Haig
Release Date: 2010-08-12
New York
Times bestselling author Brian Haig returns with a riveting
new thriller about a man caught between the politics of big
government and the corruption of big business.
The Capitol Game
It was the deal of the decade, if not the century. A small,
insignificant company on the edge of bankruptcy had discovered an
alchemist's dream; a miraculous polymer, that when coated on any
vehicle, was the equivalent of 30 inches of steel. With bloody
conflicts surging in Iraq and Afghanistan, the polymer promises to
save thousands of lives and change the course of both
wars.
Jack Wiley, a successful Wall Street banker, believes he has a
found a dream come true when he mysteriously learns of this
miraculous polymer. His plan: enlist the help of the Capitol Group,
one of the country's largest and most powerful corporations in a
quick, bloodless takeover of the small company that developed the
polymer. It seems like a partnership made in heaven...until the
Pentagon's investigative service begins nosing around, and the deal
turns into a nightmare. Now, Jack's back is up against the wall and
he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest
scandal the government and corporate America have ever
seen...
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Chasing
the Night
Release Date: 2010-10-19
A CIA agent's
two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of
vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something
Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and
colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is
never coming back. But she can't. Catherine needs to find someone
as driven and obsessed as she is to help her and that person is Eve
Duncan. She knows that Eve shares her nightmare, since closure is
also something that eludes Eve after the disappearance of her
daughter Bonnie. Now, Eve must take her talents as a forensic
sculptor to another level, using age progression as a way to unite
Catherine with her child. As Eve gets drawn deeper into Catherine's
horror, she must face looming demons of her own.
Bonnie's killer is still out there. And a new killer is taunting
Eve and Catherine at every turn. Is Catherine's son alive, or not?
These two women endure the worst fear any mother can imagine in
Iris Johansen's latest thrill ride, a gut-wrenching journey into
the darkest places of the soul.
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Cobra,
The
Release Date: 2010-08-17
An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the New York Times-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense.
Meticulous research, crisp narratives, plots as current as today's headlines-Frederick Forsyth has helped define the international thriller as we know it. And now he does it again.
What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. No boundaries, no rules, no questions asked.
The war is on-though who the ultimate winner will be, no one can tell...
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Cold
as Ice
Release Date: 2010-10-11
Kathleen Savio was married to Drew Peterson for eleven years before filing for divorce in 2003. The next year, she was found dead in her bathtub. Her drowning appeared to be an accident�and for years, no one had reason to question it. But when Peterson's next wife, Stacy�thirty years younger�went missing, the tough-talking and wise-cracking former Illinois cop came under suspicion�.
With Stacy Peterson missing�and presumed dead�authorities exhumed Kathleen Savio's body, looking for answers. A new autopsy pointed to homicide, and a 2002 letter was revealed in which Savio wrote that Drew, �knows how to manipulate the system, and his next step is to take my children away. Or kill me instead. He was arrested for Kathleen's murder, and is a prime suspect in Stacy's disappearance, Peterson continues to protest his innocence. New York Times bestselling author Carlton Smith digs deep into the mystery behind the two Peterson wives�and sheds some light on one of the most complex crime cases in modern American history.
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Coming
Back
Release Date: 2010-10-28
In Locked In, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost total paralysis but with an alert, conscious mind. Now, as Sharon struggles to regain control over her body, she wants everything to go back to normal, but realizes that it may not be possible to return to her old life. Meanwhile, Sharon's relationships are suffering. Her husband is impatient with her refusal to accept help and some of her colleagues doubt her abilities after the accident. But when Sharon's friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance. The investigation soon points to issues of national security and proves to be the most dangerous and critical case yet for Sharon and her colleagues.
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Confession
by John Grisham
Release Date: 2010-10-26
Holiday gift giving will be a breeze this fall when John Grisham's latest legal thriller lands on the shelves. Filled with the intriguing twists and turns that have become Grisham's trademark, this newest novel will prove once again that no one keeps readers in suspense like America's favorite storyteller.
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Crescent
Dawn (Dirk Pitt Adventure)
Release Date: 2010-11-16
Dirk
Pitt returns, in the extraordinary new novel from the #1 New
York Times-bestselling author.
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its
extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously
explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a
cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by
explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk
Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey
and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist
movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and
to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which
if discovered again...just may change the history of the world as
we know it.
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Cross
Fire (Alex Cross)
Release Date: 2010-11-15
Wedding bells ring
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put
on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed
assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty
congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman
begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of
theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?
A murderer returns
The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the
investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the
murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a
professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims'
movements--information that only a Washington insider could
possess.
Caught in a lethal cross fire
As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he
receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The
Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated
Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action,
deception, and suspense, Cross Fire is James Patterson's
most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.
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Cure
by Robin Cook
Release Date: 2010-08-10
The New
York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical
thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical
intrigue.
With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete
remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns
to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation
into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional
challenge-and has Laurie's colleagues wondering if she still has
what it takes after so much time away.
Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears
he's been poisoned, toxicology fails to corroborate Laurie's
suspicions. While her coworkers doubt her assassination theory, her
determination wins over her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack
Stapleton, and together they discover associations to a large
pharmaceutical company and several biomedical start-ups dealing
with stem-cell research. Laurie and Jack race to connect the dots
before they are consumed in a dangerous game of biotech
espionage.
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Dead
or Alive
by Tom Clancy
Release Date: 2010-12-07
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir and they will bring him in . . . dead or alive.
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Dexter
Is Delicious
by Jeff Lindsay
Release Date: 2010-09-07
America's most-read, most-watched, and
most� beloved serial killer'Dexter Morgan'is
back. After selling more than one million copies and
inspiring the wildly popular #1 Showtime series and top-rated crime
drama on pay-cable television, New York Times bestselling
author Jeff Lindsay returns with his most hilarious, macabre, and
purely entertaining novel yet.
Dexter Morgan has always lived a happy homicidal life. He keeps his
dark urges in check by adhering to one
stead�fast rule . . . he only kills very
bad people. But now Dexter is experiencing some major life
changes'don't we all?'and they're mostly wrapped up in the
eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is
cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the
disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl who has been running
with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires.
As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing
girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as
cannibals. And, most disturbing . . . these people have decided
they would really like to eat Dexter.
Jeff Lindsay's bestselling, dark, ironic, and oftentimes
laugh-out-loud hilarious novels about the lovable serial killer
with no soul (but a redeeming desire to kill only people who
deserve it) have gained a legion of fans and assumed a place in our
cul�ture.
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Don't
Blink
Release Date: 2010-09-27
The
good
New York's Lombardo's Steak House is famous for three
reasons--the menu, the clientele, and now, the gruesome murder of
an infamous mob lawyer. Effortlessly, the assassin slips through
the police's fingers, and his absence sparks a blaze of accusations
about who ordered the hit.
The bad
Seated at a nearby table, reporter Nick Daniels is conducting a
once-in-a-lifetime interview with a legendary baseball bad-boy. In
the chaos, he accidentally captures a key piece of evidence that
lands him in the middle of an all-out war between Italian and
Russian mafia forces. NYPD captains, district attorneys, mayoral
candidates, media kingpins, and one shockingly beautiful magazine
editor are all pushing their own agendas--on both sides of the
law.
And the dead
Back off--or die--is the clear message Nick receives as he
investigates for a story of his own.Heedless, and perhaps in love
with his beautiful editor, Nick endures humiliation, threats,
violence, and worse in a thriller that overturns every expectation
and finishes with the kind of flourish only James Patterson
knows.
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Edge
Release Date: 2010-11-02
Bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's�new independent thriller features his signature ticking-clock suspense,�sharp plot twists and whip-smart dialogue.
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Fatal
Error (Repairman Jack)
Release Date: 2010-10-12
�Repairman Jack is one of my favorite characters--I'm full of happy anticipation every time I hold a new RJ novel in my hands.
--Charlaine
Harris, creator of True Blood
The End of the World is at hand!
Munir Habib's life has become a nightmare. His tormentor has warned Munir not to report the kidnapping of his family, or else they will pay a terrible price. A friend realizes something is terribly wrong and tells Munir he doesn't have to go to the cops. There's a guy who fixes situations like this-Repairman Jack. Jack is backed into helping Munir despite his ongoing involvement in the cosmic shadow war between the Ally and the Otherness. Or perhaps because of it. He's chafing at being forced into the defensive role of protecting the Lady, the physical embodiment of the consciousness of the planet Earth.
Meanwhile, the Septimus Order and the Kickers are seemingly working in concert on a plot to extinguish the Lady and open the way for the Otherness to take over our reality. To top it all off, Dawn Pickering finally goes into labor and delivers a baby she only glimpses as it's whisked away, and is terrified by what she sees. Later she's told the baby died, but she doesn't believe it. Neither does Weezy. Neither does Jack. All these interlocking plots mean doom for humanity. But Jack never gives up or gives in.
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Heaven's
Fury
by Stephen Frey
Release Date: 2010-09-21
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess.
�Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the magnificent summer estates of wealthy families who value their privacy and privilege above all else. A few miles away, but a world apart, are the homes of the working men and women who cook, clean, and tend to the needs of the summer visitors. It's a place of staggering natural beauty, but where death can come unexpectedly and with no regard for a person's bank account or family tree. A place of steadfast loyalties and friendships, but where the long and brutal winter can make even the most intimate friends turn on each other with frightening intensity.
This is the place where Sheriff Paul Summers finds himself grasping for answers when the wild, unpredictable woman who captured his heart years ago is discovered brutally and spectacularly murdered inside her family's snowbound estate. As the last person to see her alive, and given his complicated history with the victim, Paul is not only lead investigator on the case but, in the eyes of many in Bruner, the prime suspect in her killing. Battling rumors of an evil cult's being formed just outside of town, the disappearance of another citizen, and a wife whose grasp of reality is quickly slipping away, Paul must race to find the true guilty party before a massive winter storm leaves them all cut off from the outside world and at the mercy of a remorseless killer.
As the approaching storm gathers in intensity, so do the twists and turns that bring Paul ever closer to unraveling the big secrets that haunt this small town. In a stunning conclusion, Paul witnesses firsthand the startling power and beauty of heaven's fury.
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Hell's
Corner (The Camel Club)
Release Date: 2010-11-09
On the night of the State Dinner honouring the British Prime Minister, Oliver Stone witnesses an explosion as the motorcade leaves the White House. A bomb has been detonated in what looks like a terrorist plot directed at the President and the Prime Minister. In the aftermath, British MI5 agent Mary Chapman, an experienced, lethal operative with an agenda of her own, is sent to assist and coordinate the investigation alongside American authorities. Stone, together with Harry Finn, Alex Ford and the rest of the Camel Club, is drawn into the inquiry. But everything is not what it seems, and what happened in the park may not have been the actual plan. It seems the mysterious attackers had another target in their sights, and it's up to the Camel Club to stop them, or face the catastrophic results.
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Identity
Man, The
Release Date: 2010-11-11
Soon, to his amazement, Shannon finds himself living a life he never dreamed possible. In a ruined city that is trying to rebuild, he finds work as a carpenter and a wood carver. He meets the beautiful Teresa Grey and for the first time falls in love with the sort of woman who could make him a better man.
It seems too good to be true'and it is. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose. It turns out this ruined city is crawling with corruption. There are crooked politicians, gangsters, dirty cops everywhere'and, for some reason he doesn't understand, all of them seem to want Shannon dead.
John Shannon has run out of second chances, and now he's running out of time. Moving through the darkness in the burnt-out shambles of a dirty town, he's got to ferret out the secret of his new life'and fast'if he wants to be left with any life at all.
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Indulgence
in Death
by J.D. Robb
Release Date: 2010-11-02
An
indulgence for readers: the new Eve Dallas novel from the #1
New York Times-bestselling author.
First it was a limo driver shot through the neck with a crossbow.
Then it was a high-priced escort found stabbed through the heart
with a bayonet.
Random hits, thrill kills, murderers with a taste for the finer
things in life-and death-are making NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas
angry. And an angry Eve can be just as an efficient and dangerous
predator as the killer.
As time runs out on another innocent victim's life, Eve's
investigation will take her into the rarefied circle that her
husband, Roarke, travels in-and into the perverted heart of
madness...
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Kill
For Me
Release Date: 2010-10-11
His Target. Aspiring model Sandee Rozzo's big mistake was being kind to Timothy 'Tracey' Humphrey. After Rozzo refused the 'roided-up ex-con's advances, she described how he imprisoned, raped, and brutalized her for two days. When the courageous woman pledged to testify against him, Humphrey knew he had to silence her...His Weapon. That's when he turned to 19-year-old Ashley Laney. She had fallen in love with Humphrey, her personal trainer, and would do anything for him. On their wedding night, he made a strange request - one that would end with eight gunshot wounds and a dead body. His Scheme. The police knew Humphrey was the likely suspect, but he had an alibi for the time of the shooting. How could they prove that, even if he didn't pull the trigger, he was the manipulative psychopath behind Sandee's murder? It would all come down to a prison escape, a manhunt for a killer, and an explosive trial...
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Killer
of Little Shepherds
Release Date: 2010-10-15
A riveting
true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern
forensics.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph
Vacher, known and feared as The Killer of Little Shepherds,
terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for
years'until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr.
Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. The
two men'intelligent and bold'typified the Belle Époque, a
period of immense scientific achievement and fascination with
science's promise to reveal the secrets of the human condition.
With high drama and stunning detail, Douglas Starr revisits
Vacher's infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of how
Lacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science as
we know it. We see one of the earliest uses of criminal profiling,
as Fourquet painstakingly collects eyewitness accounts and
constructs a map of Vacher's crimes. We follow the tense and
exciting events leading to the murderer's arrest. And we witness
the twists and turns of the trial, celebrated in its day. In an
attempt to disprove Vacher's defense by reason of insanity,
Fourquet recruits Lacassagne, who in the previous decades had
revolutionized criminal science by refining the use of
blood-spatter evidence, systematizing the autopsy, and doing
groundbreaking research in psychology. Lacassagne's efforts lead to
a gripping courtroom denouement.
The Killer of Little Shepherds is an important contribution to
the history of criminal justice, impressively researched and
thrillingly told.
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Last
Lie (Dr. Alan Gregory), The
Release Date: 2010-08-17
Stephen
White's most recent bestseller, The Siege, featured his series
character Sam Purdy in a relentlessly paced stand-alone thriller
that critics hailed as brilliantly conceived and executed
(Publishers Weekly) and the best and most interesting terrorism
thriller I've seen. (The Washington Post) Now, in The Last Lie,
White returns to his Alan Gregory series roots with the popular
characters and Boulder setting that first launched him onto the
bestseller lists and attracted legions of fiercely loyal fans.
Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors
a legal legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife the
couple hosts a dinner party that ends in quiet disaster. One of
their guests, a young widow, elects to spend the night after
indulging in too much wine, only to wake the next morning with no
memory beyond getting ready for bed. Was she drugged? Raped?
Lauren, a deputy district attorney, and detective Sam Purdy are
both privy to facts they can't share with Alan, but Alan soon
discovers that he has a most unusual perspective into what truly
happened after the dinner party. Before Alan can discover all the
pieces to the puzzle, an important witness to the events is
murdered. Alan fears that other witnesses people he loves will be
next. Smart, topical, and deftly plotted, The Last Lie delivers the
pulse-pounding return of one of contemporary fiction's most
enduring heroes.
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Law
of Attraction
Release Date: 2010-10-12
As a newly minted Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Anna Curtis has already developed thick skin to deal with the brutality she encounters with her daily stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson walks into Anna's life'battered by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine's Day'there's something about this particular case that Anna can't quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor of her own troubled past. At the trial, Laprea makes a last-minute reversal, lying on the witness stand to free her boy-friend. Shortly after he is freed, Anna is horrified to hear that Laprea's body has been found in a trash heap. Hastily assigned to prosecute the murder case alongside intimidating chief homicide prosecutor Jack Bailey, Anna's heart sinks when she learns that her own boyfriend, public defender Nick Wagner, is representing the accused. Torn between bringing the killer to justice and saving her personal life, Anna makes a series of choices that jeopardizes her career, her relationships, and her very life as she uncovers the shocking truth behind the murder. Weaving expert knowledge with deft storytelling, federal sex-crimes prosecutor and Harvard Law School graduate Allison Leotta takes readers on a thrilling ride through D.C.'s criminal justice system. From the back rooms of the U.S. Attorney's Office and the flirtations and machinations of Washington's Ivy League lawyers to the struggles of its poorest citizens on the gritty streets of Anacostia, Law of Attraction is a gripping debut from an exciting new talent.
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Lost
and Found
by John Glatt
Release Date: 2010-10-15
Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for shocking discovery: that Garrido was Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper�
Jaycee's story was revealed: For eighteen years, she had lived in an outbuilding on the Garrido property in Antioch, CA, just two hours away from her childhood home. Kept in complete isolation, she was raped by Garrido, who fathered her two daughters. When news broke of Jaycee's discovery, there was a huge outpouring of relief across the nation. But questions remain: How did the Garridos slip past authorities? And how did Jaycee endure her captivity? This is the story of a girl-next-door who was Lost and Found.
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Lost
Empire
Release Date: 2010-08-31
Sam
and Remi Fargo, heroes of Spartan Gold, return in this
extraordinary new adventure from the number-one New York
Times- bestselling author.
With Spartan Gold, a daring thriller that Publishers
Weekly proclaimed "solidly in the Cussler tradition, [and]
sure to please new fans and old," Clive Cussler introduced
husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. In their
electrifying new adventure, the Fargos make a startling discovery
that others would kill to keep hidden...
While scuba diving in Tanzania, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a
relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about
the relic sets them off chasing a mystery-but unknown to them, a
much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico's
ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on
finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that
could destroy the party utterly.
Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar,
and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of
the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless
opponents pursue the hunt-but only one can win. And the penalty for
failure is death.
Filled with the dazzling suspense and breathtaking action that are
Cussler's trademarks, Lost Empire is a stunning new novel
from the grand master of adventure.
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Mister
X
by John Lutz
Release Date: 2010-10-05
He mutilates his victims. Slices their throats. And carves an X into their flesh. Five years ago, he claimed the lives of six women. Then the killings abruptly stopped - no one knows why. Ex-homicide detective Frank Quinn remembers. Which is why he's shocked to see one of the dead women in his office. Actually, she's the identical twin of the last victim, and she wants Quinn to find her sister's murderer. But when the cold case heats up, it attracts the media spotlight - and suddenly the killings start again...
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Murder
Room
Release Date: 2010-08-10
Thrilling, true tales from the Vidocq
Society, a team of the world's finest forensic investigators whose
monthly gourmet lunches lead to justice in ice-cold
murders
Three of the greatest detectives in the world--a renowned FBI agent
turned private eye, a sculptor and lothario who speaks to the dead,
and an eccentric profiler known as "the living Sherlock
Holmes"-were heartsick over the growing tide of unsolved murders.
Good friends and sometime rivals William Fleisher, Frank Bender,
and Richard Walter decided one day over lunch that something had to
be done, and pledged themselves to a grand quest for justice. The
three men invited the greatest collection of forensic investigators
ever assembled, drawn from five continents, to the Downtown Club in
Philadelphia to begin an audacious quest: to bring the coldest
killers in the world to an accounting. Named for the first modern
detective, the Parisian eugène François Vidocq-the
flamboyant Napoleonic real-life sleuth who inspired Sherlock
Holmes-the Vidocq Society meets monthly in its secretive chambers
to solve a cold murder over a gourmet lunch.
The Murder Room draws the reader into a chilling, darkly
humorous, awe-inspiring world as the three partners travel far from
their Victorian dining room to hunt the ruthless killers of a
millionaire's son, a serial killer who carves off faces, and a
child killer enjoying fifty years of freedom and dark fantasy.
Acclaimed bestselling author Michael Capuzzo's brilliant
storytelling brings true crime to life more realistically and
vividly than it has ever been portrayed before. It is a world of
dazzlingly bright forensic science; true evil as old as the Bible
and dark as the pages of Dostoevsky; and a group of flawed,
passionate men and women, inspired by their own wounded hearts to
make a stand for truth, goodness, and justice in a world gone
mad.
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My
Stolen Son
Release Date: 2010-10-11
The
true story of the shocking crime behind the hit movie Alpha
Dog
One week after fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz vanished, his mother
received the news: Nick's body had been found in a shallow grave.
Now she tells her own gripping story-the unbelievable motive for
the murder, the shocking identity of the accused, and her own
nine-year battle to bring her son's killers to justice.
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Naked
Heat (Nikki Heat)
Release Date: 2010-09-28
Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle's thrilling follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave.
When New York's most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan.
Heat's murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with their raw emotional baggage. But the handsome, wise-cracking Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's personal involvement in the case forces her to team up with Rook anyway. The residue of their unresolved romantic conflict and crackling sexual tension fills the air as Heat and Rook embark on a search for a killer among celebrities and mobsters, singers and hookers, pro athletes and shamed politicians.
This new, explosive case brings on the heat in the glittery world of secrets, cover-ups, and scandals.
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Our
Kind of Traitor
Release Date: 2010-10-12
The
unrivaled master of spy fiction returns with a taut and suspenseful
of dirty money and dirtier politics.
For nearly half a century, John le Carré's limitless
imagination has enthralled millions of readers and moviegoers
around the globe. From the cold war to the bitter fruits of
colonialism to unrest in the Middle East, he has reinvented the spy
novel again and again. Now, le Carré makes his Viking debut
with a stunning tour-de-force that only a craftsman of his caliber
could pen. As menacing and flawlessly paced as The Little
Drummer Girl and as morally complex as The Constant
Gardener, Our Kind of Traitor is signature le
Carré.
. Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they
splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua. But
the charm begins to pall when a big-time Russian money launderer
enlists their help to defect. In exchange for amnesty, Dima is
ready to rat out his vory (Russian criminal brotherhood)
compatriots and expose corruption throughout the so-called
legitimate financial and political worlds. Soon, the guileless
couple find themselves pawns in a deadly endgame whose outcome will
be determined by the victor of the British Secret Service's
ruthless internecine battles.
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Port
Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel)
Release Date: 2010-11-30
From
the world's #1 bestselling crime writer comes the extraordinary new
Kay Scarpetta novel.
Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's 18th Scarpetta
novel, is literally a port for the dead. In this fast-paced story,
a treacherous path from Scarpetta's past merges with the high tech
highway she now finds herself on. We travel back to the beginning
of her professional career, when she enlisted in the Air Force to
pay off her medical school debt and found herself ensnared in a
gruesome case of what seemed to be vicious, racially motivated hate
crimes against two Americans in South Africa. Now, more than twenty
years and many career successes later, her secret military ties
have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base, where she has been immersed
in a training fellowship to master the art of CT-assisted virtual
autopsy--a procedure the White House has mandated that she
introduce in the private sector.
As the chief of the new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts,
a joint venture of the state and federal governments and MIT,
Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could shut down her new
facility and ruin her personally and professionally. A young man
drops dead, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to
Scarpetta's new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the
next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been
alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked insider the
Center's cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking
details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen.
These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass
casualties. She realizes that she is fighting a cunning and cruel
enemy that is invisible as she races against time to discover who
and why before more people die.
In Port Mortuary, Patricia Cornwell brings Scarpetta
together with Marino, Benton, and Lucy in an intimate way that is
reminiscent of the early novels, and we welcome a voice we haven't
heard in years. The point of view is Scarpetta's, and this is her
story.
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Postcard
Killers, The
Release Date: 2010-08-16
NYPD detective
Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the
sights aren't what draw him--he sees each museum, each cathedral,
and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer.
Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on
vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen,
Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the
murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes
each new victim.
Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who
has just received a postcard in Stockholm--and they think they know
where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and
unstoppable action, The Postcard Killers may be James
Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.
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Power
Down
by Ben Coes
Release Date: 2010-10-11
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Pretty
Little Things
Release Date: 2010-09-17
But Special Agent Bobby Dees, who has headed up the department's di4cult Crimes Against Children (CAC) Squad in Miami for more than a decade, is not quite so sure. Nicknamed �The Shepherd by colleagues, he has an uncanny ability to find the missing and bring them back home�dead or alive. Haunted by the still unsolved disappearance of his own daughter, Bobby recognizes the all too familiar up-swell inside him, the gut feeling that Lainey Emerson is no runaway.
A search of Lainey's computer and a talk with her best friend reveal Lainey was involved in a secret Internet relationship, spawned over a chat room, and nurtured through untraceable instant messages. Bobby fears she may be the victim of an on-line predator, and he fears she may not be the only one.
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Reversal
(Harry Bosch), The
Release Date: 2010-10-05
Longtime
defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and
prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After
24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been
exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is
guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to
choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political
and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a
defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a
runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must
nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of
anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.
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Secrets
to the Grave (Deeper Than the Dead)
by Tami Hoag
Release Date: 2010-12-28
Marissa
Fordham had a past full of secrets, a present full of lies.
Everyone knew of her, but no one knew her.
When Marissa is found brutally murdered, with her young daughter,
Haley, resting her head on her mother's bloody breast, she sends
the idyllic California town of Oak Knoll into a tailspin. Already
on edge with the upcoming trial of the See- No-Evil killer,
residents are shocked by reports of the crime scene, which might
not have been discovered for days had it not been for a chilling
911 call: a small child's voice saying, "My daddy hurt my
mommy."
Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez faces a puzzle with nothing but
pieces that won't fit. To assist with his witness, Haley, he calls
teacher-turned-child advocate Anne Leone. Anne's life is hectic
enough-she's a newlywed and a part- time student in child
psychology, and she's the star witness in the See-No-Evil trial.
But one look at Haley, alone and terrified, and Anne's heart is
stolen.
As Tony and Anne begin to peel back the layers of Marissa Fordham's
life, they find a clue fragment here, another there. And just when
it seems Marissa has taken her secrets to the grave, they uncover a
fact that puts Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer:
Marissa Fordham never existed.
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Shift
by Tim Kring
Release Date: 2010-08-10
A new caliber
of thriller set at the collision of '60s counterculture and the
rise
of dark forces in world government. Heroes creator Tim
Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic
what-if.
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Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of
Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is
unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment. After being
given a massive dose of LSD, Chandler
de�velops a frightening array of mental
powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler's
heightened perception uncovers a plot to
assassi�nate President Kennedy.
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Propelled to prevent the conspiracy of
assassi�nation and anarchy, Chandler becomes a
target for deadly forces in and out of the government and is
pursued across a simmering landscape peopled by rogue CIA agents,
Cuban killers, Mafia madmen, and ex-Nazi scientists…all the
while haunted by a beautiful woman with her own scandalous past to
purge, her own score to settle. Chased across America, will
Chandler be able to harness his shift and rewrite history?
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Combining the nonstop style of Ludlum with the sinister, tangled
conspiracies of DeLillo and Dick, and featuring cameos from Lee
Harvey Oswald to Timothy Leary to J. Edgar Hoover, Shift
is a thriller guaranteed to be equal parts heart-stopping and
thought-provoking.
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Sleepwalkers,
The
Release Date: 2010-10-12
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������� ������� As he moves through darkness closer to the truth, Willi begins to understand that much more than the solution to a murder is at stake.�What he discovers will mean that his life, the lives of his friends and family, and Germany itself will never be the same
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The Sleepwalkers is a powerful, dramatic debut thriller of a
nation's unstoppable corruption, featuring a good man trapped
between his duty to serve and his grave doubts about what, and who,
he serves.��
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Spider
Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Release Date: 2010-08-24
#1 New York Times bestseller�Kathy Reichs is back with her thirteenth novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan.
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Templar
Cross, The
Release Date: 2010-08-27
From
the USA Today Bestselling author of The Sword of the
Templars and The Aztec Heresy
Some secrets are too great to bear...
Retired Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday has reluctantly settled
into his teaching position at West Point when young Israeli
archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news.
Holliday's niece-and Rafi's fiancé-Peggy has been kidnapped.
Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left.
But their search for Peggy will lead them to a trail of clues that
spans across the globe, and into the heart of a conspiracy
involving an ancient Egyptian legend and the darkest secrets of the
Order of Templar Knights.
Secrets that, once known, cannot be survived...
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Thieves
of Darkness
Release Date: 2010-08-24
An irresistible treasure, two master thieves, and a secret as old as mankind . . .
Michael St. Pierre, a reformed master thief, thinks he has left his criminal days far behind him, when he receives word that his best friend, Simon, has been locked up and sentenced to die in a brutal desert prison. Breaking into jail for the first time in his checkered career, Michael is stunned to discover that his new girlfriend, KC, is connected to Simon's case.
With a madman on their heels, the three adventurers make their way to Istanbul in search of the mysterious artifact that landed Simon behind bars in the first place: a map containing the location of a holy place lost to the mists of time, a repository of knowledge and treasure predating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Testing their courage and wits, Michael and his team are forced to plot a series of daring thefts that take them inside some of the city's most celebrated (and heavily guarded) sanctums, from the imperial harem of Topkapi Palace to the tombs of the Hagia Sophia itself. More than priceless artifacts are at stake'the lives of loved ones and perhaps the fate of humanity itself hang in the balance.
A globe-trotting adventure that wings from the glittering banks of the Bosporus to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, The Thieves of Darkness confirms Richard Doetsch's place as the modern-day master of pulse-pounding suspense.
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Thirteen
Hours
by Deon Meyer
Release Date: 2010-09-07
An
unputdownable thriller from South Africa's #1-bestselling crime
writer.
Some would call Detective Benny Griessel a legend. Others would
call him a drunk.
Either way, he has trodden on too many toes over the years ever to
reach the top of the promotion ladder, and now he concentrates on
staying sober and mentoring the new generation of crime fighters '
mixed race, Xhosa and Zulu. But when an American backpacker
disappears in Cape Town, panicked politicians know who to call:
Benny has just thirteen hours to save the girl, save his career,
and crack open a conspiracy, which threatens the whole country.
A potent, suspenseful thriller, and a brilliant portrait of life in
the country that will host the 2010 World Cup.
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Truth-Teller's
Lie
Release Date: 2010-10-15
"A
superbly creepy, twisty thriller about obsessive love,
psychological torture, and the darkest chambers of the human
heart."
-The Times (UK)
Naomi Jenkins knows all about secrets: three years ago something so
terrible happened to her that she's never told anyone about it.
Now, Naomi has another secret: her relationship with the unhappily
married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without explanation,
Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less
convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not
missing. In desperation, Naomi decides that if she can't persuade
the detectives that Robert is in danger, she'll convince them that
he is a danger to others. Naomi knows how to describe the actions
of a psychopath; all she needs to do is dig up her own traumatic
past.
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Twelfth
Imam, The
Release Date: 2010-10-19
As the
apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and
the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one
objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear
weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without
triggering a regional war. At extreme personal risk, Shirazi
executes his plan.
A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he
couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his
training has prepared Shirazi for what will happen next. An obscure
religious cleric is suddenly hailed throughout the region as the
Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi or the Twelfth Imam. News of his
miracles, healings, signs, and wonders spreads like wildfire, as do
rumors of a new and horrific war.
With the prophecy of the Twelfth Imam seemingly fulfilled, Iran's
military prepares to strike Israel and bring about the End of Days.
Shirazi must take action to save his country and the world, but the
clock is ticking.
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Velocity
Release Date: 2010-10-05
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Warlord
by Ted Bell
Release Date: 2010-09-14
Gentleman spy
Alex Hawke has all but given up on life. The British-American M16
counterterrorism operative lost the woman he loved on his last
mission, almost a year ago, and has sought refuge at the bottom of
a rum bottle ever since. But late one night at his home on Bermuda,
he receives a wake-up call…literally.
His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend, desperately needs
his help. Someone is threatening the lives of the British Royal
Family. And the death threat Charles has received carries a
signature identical to one found in a book that belonged to his
uncle, Lord Mountbatten ' the beloved family patriarch who was
assassinated 30 years before. Someone from the past has the British
crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these
threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty
Hawke needs to get back in action ' if the madman doesn't wreak
total havoc first.
Warlord is adventure-thriller fiction of the highest order ' told
with verve and swashbuckling panache by a master of the
art.
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What
She Always Wanted
Release Date: 2010-10-15
The
true story of a woman who had it all-and would kill for
more.
Jewelry dealer Jay Orbin disappeared in Florida on a sales run when
Hurricane Frances hit. But when his horribly mutilated remains
turned up weeks later, the trail of evidence led straight to his
glamorous wife Marjorie-whose web of betrayal cost her the one
thing she valued most, her child.
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While
Galileo Preys
by Joshua Corin
Release Date: 2010-10-05
If there were a God, he would have stopped me.
That's the message discovered atop an elementary school in downtown Atlanta. Across the street are the bodies of fourteen innocent men and women, each quickly and cleanly murdered. The sniper Galileo is on the loose. He can end a human life from hundreds of yards away. And he is just getting started.
Where others see puzzles, Esme Stuart sees patterns, and these outside-the-box inductive skills made her one of the FBI's top field operatives. But she turned her back on all that eight years ago to start a family and live a normal life. She now has a husband and a daughter and a Long Island home to call her own, far removed from the bloody streets of Atlanta.
But Galileo's murders escalate and her beleaguered old boss needs the help of his former protégée. But how can she turn her back on her well-earned quiet life? How would she ever be able to justify such a choice to her husband? To her daughter?
And what will happen when Galileo turns his scope on them?
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