Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the CostaBrava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, doubleagent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There wasnothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in onefrantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sawhis Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S.and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautifulbetrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by atop-level mole with the world in his fist-- Parsifal.
Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has neverbeen so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Danielsmay have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she's still knee-deepin paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone tohire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging thanshe thought it would be-now that the Order is disparaging her goodname, and many potential clients are afraid of getting on the badside of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate's mate.So whenAtlanta's premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with avampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work.Turns out this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to getto the bottom of it-fast, or the city and everyone dear to hermight pay the ultimate price.
Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormalkind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents hergreatest challenge.
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. A modern masterpiece, "The Godfather" is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.
According to Mayan doomsday prophecy, 12/21/12 marks the endof the world in a global cataclysm that can only be prevented bythe Nightkeepers, magical warriors enlisted to fight the rise ofthe underworld demons. To fulfill the final prophecy theNightkeepers must find their mates, but when Lucius and Jade arecharged with rescuing the Mayan sun god, they try to ignore theirgrowing attraction. Unless they can confront their own demons andaccept that love isn't a weakness, even destiny might not be ableto save them...
Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerousman in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has aplan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the worldfrom her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who isworking under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stophim, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerfutriumph on earth.
Here is Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel -- a tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? It is no secret that King is one
With more than 500,000 copies of her books in print in theUnited States, Donna Leon continues to find new fans for herriveting Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. In "Death andJudgment," a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on atreacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, inSanta Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboardan intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the twotragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedyVenetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches farbeyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venicebefore Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what isreally going on.
With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print,Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (neeBloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new" "Shopaholic novel Becky'slife is blooming She's working at London's newest big store, TheLook, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a ShoeRoom)...and she's pregnant She couldn't be moreoverjoyed--especially since discovering that shopping cures morningsickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from thedesigner nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity,must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turnsout to be Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky'sperfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but arethere three in her marriage?
An environmental fable that "evok es] the power of NativeAmerican moods and mythologies" (Lloyd Alexander).
Praise for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best …tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that youwill be hooked within a few pages’ The Times ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasywriters away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct theTwelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous theycould eat the Borgias’ Guardian ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicatingcomplexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in hisimaginary world … The writing is always powerful …' SFX
Handsome, strong, and just a little bit dangerous, hald-ComancheChase Wolf is used to getting what he wants. So when he seesFranny-a golden- haired angel with deep green eyes, delicatefeatures, and the sweetest smile-he sets out to make her his. ButFranny is far from the innocent she seems. And the truth may bemore than Chase can bear...
Common sense said that the whole idea wascrazy...but when offered huge sums of money to move to England andhelp the Earl of October uncover a suspected racehorse dopescandal, Danny Roke finds the proposal intriguing. Swapping his jobas proprietor of an Australian stud farm to work undercover as astable hand in Yorkshire, Danny soon has his hands full. Whilst theEarl's attractive daughters Patricia and Elinor draw his attention,he finds himself ever more deeply involved with the viciousswindlers he is out to entrap. And if neither the money nor theswindle will keep his mind on the job, maybe the death of theEarl's original investigator, Tommy Stapleton, will...
But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle,racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past intoa bizarre world of murderous conspirators -- led by Carlos, theworld's most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bournebut the woman who once wanted to escape him.
"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."--TheWashington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Much of the infamous NaziEnigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrableoperational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans'movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Alliedvessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on theirhands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishlyaround the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematicianTom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . ."A TENSE ANDTHOUGHTFUL THRILLER."--San Francisco ChronicleUntil the unthinkablehappens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has beencracked. And they've changed the code. . . ."SUSPENSEFUL ANDFASCINATING."--The Orlando SentinelAs an Allied convoy crosses theU-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Clairedisappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . .as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, hecannot esca
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night." Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach
The countdown to the end of days has begunaand Only theNightkeepers can stop the annihilation of all mankind... Though aNightkeeper, Nate Blackhawk refuses to allow others to control hisfate. The gods have even tried to influence his love life, sendinghim visions of Alexis Gray, a sleek blonde who is everything heasever wanted in a woman. The two warriors canat deny theirattraction. But a frightening vision leads Nate to distance himselfin spite of the intense passion he feels. Thrown together oncemore, they must reassemble seven Mayan artifacts that hold the keyto preventing the end of the worlda]
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name isDeucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, asleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with asecret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks thestreets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for thehumanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor iscool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks
Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no oneelse can do. It's been a year since ex-Navy SEALEthan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he's received ananonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethanwill have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captiveto a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.
As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, KateDaniels knows how waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow acrossAtlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, atime when magic runs rampant. When Kate sets out to retrieve a setof stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she quickly realizes much more is at stake. The stolenmaps are only the opening gambit in an epic tug of war between twogods hoping for rebirth, and if Kate can't stop the cataclysmicshowdown, the city may not survive.
It was whispered all through London Society that Ian Mackenziewas mad, that he'd spent his youth in an asylum, and was not to betrusted-especially with a lady. Yet Beth found herself inexorablydrawn to the Scottish lord. Despite his decadence and hisintimidating intelligence, she could see that he needed help- herhelp. Because suddenly the only thing that made sense to herwas... the madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie .
The long-awaited reissue of "New York Times" bestsellerCatherine anderson's "truly spectacular read" (Linda Lael Miller).Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the Texas plains for a quiet life asa teacher in Oregon. Then, out of the shadows comes Swift Antelope,the Comanche warrior to whom she once pledged her heart. But Amy'sbrutal past has made it impossible for her to trust any man-eventhe bold warrior who has haunted her dreams, the only man she everloved, the Comanche heart she can't live without...
They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.