The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem todisappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: anextreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how toset off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California,time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turnedcult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows thatthe dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violentlyshift, bolt, and shake down to its very core. . . .
Through her research on twins and the genetic components ofaggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery.Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appearto be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: aconvicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, todifferent mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferramidelves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns withsome of the most powerful forces in America, including theuniversity where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon.What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss andmentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, thetwin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he'ssurrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain:There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chillingconspiracy in the shadows. . . .
Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has beenabducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may havebeen brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in theOregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his greatsadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God,inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his betterjudgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks backinto his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change hislife forever.
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and DetectiveAlex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone veryhigh-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him offthe case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of thecapital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleashthe most devastating attack the United States has everexperienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes adesperate decision that goes against everything he believes--onethat may alter the fate of the entire country. KILL ALEX CROSS isfaster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Crossthriller James Patterson has ever written!
胖查理在伦敦过着正常的生活，当他给住在美国、久已疏远的父亲打电话，请他来参加自己的婚礼时，却发现父亲刚刚过世了。胖查理去佛罗里达参加了父亲的葬礼，于是惊心动魄的故事逐一上演…… 因为他发现两件事：，他的父亲是化作人形的蜘蛛神阿纳西，一个来自非洲的骗子之神；第二，他还有个叫“蜘蛛”的兄弟继承了父亲的部分神力。蜘蛛拥有胖查理所没有的一切优点：幸运、快活、充满自信，还有父亲的如簧巧舌和追求女人的天份。他的出现把胖查理有条不紊的生活被蜘蛛搅得天翻地覆，他偷走了胖查理的工作、未婚妻，甚至是家中好的房间，更糟的是，他还害胖查理被警方当作挪用公款和谋杀客户的嫌疑犯…… 胖查理身陷囹圄，只得回到佛罗里达，试图摆脱兄弟的干扰。他借助于魔法，进入了图腾动物神祗们居住的灵魂世界，但故
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d
His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad
A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundredand thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife andtwo daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzinggrief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to havesurvived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret thatwill bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions,she slips away. Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheldinformation?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (ifthere is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find themysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path ofa powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rosebefore she can reveal what she knows about the crash. Sole Survivorunfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and ashattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will forcehim to reassess everything he thought he knew about lif
From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now themesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricaneapproaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin tospin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and thefuture of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests withVictor’s first, failed attempt to build the perfect human.Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as the originalmanifestation of a soulless vision–and it is fated to end in theultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his madcreator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor’smalignant mind could have conceived–an indestructible entity thatsteps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with powers, and apurpose, beyond imagining.
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah reach out to each other...soon they are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to reexamine everything they believe in-including their love.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TALES OF THE SOUTHPACIFIC returns to the scenes of those tales, which won him worldrecognition. Once again he evokes the magic of the blessed isles inthe Pacific with stories and accounts glowing with color and alivewith adventure. "This is a book that should be read by everyone...and all whohave seen the South Pacific will find on every page the odors offrangipani, copra, blood, and beer."
From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, movingstory of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love. Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from aninjury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergencyroom physician. Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn'ttrust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedsidein her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tuckeddemurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from thepast century. Sarah Troyer had been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne, butnothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to hercore when she gazed at him. Though her life was bound by the simpleAmish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside. Her jobat the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, andfalling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her familyand the only life she knew. Yet something sparked within her withevery touch of his hand, each glance fr
The author of such classics as Tell Me Your Dreams and The Other Side of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon has sold more than 300 million copies of his books in 51 languages. The only writher to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar award, he is—according to the Guinness Book of World Records—the most translated author in the world. Now this incomparable storyteller is back with another dazzling blockbuster guaranteed to enthrall fans everywhere. When five members of America's most illustrious family are all killed in separate accidents in less than a year, Dana Evans, a beautiful young anchorwoman for a Washington, D.C., television network, becomes suspicious. Investigating the deaths, the determined journalist uncovers a trail of blood that takes her to half a dozen countries around the world in search of a killer. In a startling turn of events, Dana becomes the hunted, and the terrible secret she's learned puts her and her young son into dire jeopardy from which they may not be able to escape
For four years,Patrick had often wondered how it would feel ifthey caught him.Now th was terror-stricken.Practically naked andstrapped down like an animal,he knew the next few hours would beinsufferable…… Once he was a well-liked,well-paid young partner in a thrivingMississippi law firm.Then Patrick Lanigan stole ninety milliondollars from his own firm-and ran for his life.For four years,heevaded men who were rich,powerful,and would stop atnothing to findhim.Then,inevitably,on the edge of the Brazilian jungle,theyfinally tracked him down.
The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientificachievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion,adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales andastounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon,silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history,finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the(frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy incolleagues' wives when she'd invite them into closets to see herglow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowedmercury capsules across the country and their campsites are stilldetectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine?Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium?And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush inhistory? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it's all in THE DISAPPEARINGSPOON.
The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series ofmurders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno. Only anelite group of America's first Dante scholars--Henry WadsworthLongfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T.Fields--can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more livesendangered, and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Clubmust shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer."From the Trade Paperback edition."
