Pearl Harbor. The JFK Assassination. September 11th. What do these events have in common? They all may have been engineered by one of the most elite, powerful, and secret organizations . . . in the U.S. government.A botched hostage rescue in the Philippines has earned Delta Force Major Jim Vaughn a choice: retire in disgrace, or join the aptly named Section 8 -- a collection of castoffs seemingly accountable to no one, composed of a handful of operators skilled enough to be unstoppable, and greedy, desperate, or insane enough to be expendable. But as Vaughn digs deeper, desperately trying to learn ...
Cuando una bruja joven le cuenta a Elena que un grupo de humanos est? secuestrando seres sobrenaturales, Elena ignora la advertencia. Vamos, obviamente todo el mundo sabe que no existe nada parecido a las brujas. Simplemente el pensamiento de otros “sobrenaturales”, bueno, Elena no ten?a el menor inter?s en explayarse demasiado en el asunto.Muy pronto, sin embargo, se ve enfrentada a la verdad de su mundo, cuando es secuestrada y lanzada a un bloque de celdas lleno de brujas, hechiceros, medio-demonios, y otro werewolf. Tal y como Elena pronto descubre, tratar con sus compa?eros de cautiverio es el menor de sus problemas.En esa prisi?n, el verdadero monstruo es el que lleva las llaves…
A Darby McCormick le han propuesto la investigaci?n de un nuevo caso. Se trata de la desaparici?n y posterior asesinato de dos j?venes universitarias: Emma Hale, hija de un poderoso magnate y. alumna de primer curso en Harvard, cuvo cuerpo fue hallado a orillas del r?o, y Judith Chen, una estudiante ejemplar que se costeaba sus estudios con su trabajo en una cafeter?a. Nada parece relacionar ambos cr?menes, salvo la causa de la muerte, un disparo en la nuca… y que las dos llevaban una estatuilla de la Virecn dentro de sus bolsillos.
Un asesino en serie acecha a las j?venes de Shanghai. Sus cr?menes han creado gran expectaci?n y alarma en la prensa y entre los ciudadanos, sobre todo porque suele abandonar a los cad?veres enfundados en un vestido muy llamativo, rojo y de estilo mandar?n. Cuando el caso comienza a complicarse, el inspector jefe Chen Cao est? de permiso: acaba de matricularse en un m?ster sobre literatura cl?sica china en la Universidad de Shanghai. Pero en el momento en que el asesino ataca directamente al equipo de investigadores del Departamento, a Chen no le queda m?s remedio que volver al trabajo y ponerse al frente de la investigaci?n. Mientras intenta dar con el asesino antes de que se cobre nuevas v?ctimas, ir? descubriendo que la ra?z de estos asesinatos se remonta al tr?gico y tumultuoso pasado reciente del pa?s.
Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins – and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation.and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate.Then, Win returns to England.only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. It's now or never for Kev to make his move. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny – or risk losing the only woman he has lived for.
Welcome back to the world of Meredith Gentry, a twilight world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls, a world full of sensuality, wild magic, treacherous deceits and the delicious anticipation of latent powers unleashed…
Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars.Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed-a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn’t intended to kill her. But now that he had, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt. Or start hunting again…
Plant yourself under the covers and get ready for Seeds of Fear, fifth in the ground- breaking Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series. Pinup queen Brinke Stevens delivers the Introduction, and 19 original stories cultivated by editors Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett follow. Terror and titillation reach full, florid bloom as Bentley Little invites you to “See Marilyn Monroe’s Panties!” Ronald Kelly introduces a “Scream Queen” you won’t soon forget, Edward Lee follows his Stoker-nominated “Mr. Torso” (HB4) with “Grub-Girl” and award-winning author P. D. Cacek (Stoker, World Fantasy) welcomes her “Devil With a Blue Dress.”These top-name horror writers bring you the freshest works guaranteed to raise goosebumps and scald the blood.
Nell Calder era una mujer t?mida y amable, una esposa que intentaba contentar a su ambicioso marido, una madre que amaba a su hijita con pasi?n. En suma, no era el tipo de mujer capaz de inspirar envidia, deseo ni pasiones asesinas.?Qui?n iba a querer hacerle da?o?Pero ocurri? una tragedia: una noche, en una ex?tica isla del mar Egeo durante una elegante reuni?n en la que su marido esperaba culminar su fulgurante carrera en el mundo de las finanzas, y que fue interrumpida por el estruendo de los disparos ...
Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views his political future in bold relief; and Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of the technique that will take stem cell research to the next level, sees a roadblock positioned before his biotech startup.The two seemingly opposite personalities clash during the senate hearings, but the men have a common desire. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his concern for ...
Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.
Gerhard Self, the dour, seventy-something sleuth, is back in a new chapter in the wonderful series of mysteries by the bestselling author of The Reader.When Gerhard Self happens upon one of the most intriguing cases of his career, he can't resist. From the start, the job is an unusual one: Herr Welker, partial owner of the German bank Weller and Welker desperately wants to write a history of his bank, but he has one problem – a silent partner, whose name does not appear anywhere in the bank's records. Welker wants Self to track this silent partner down. ...
Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective's desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.
Cuando el investigador privado Ben Callahan asumi? el encargo de vigilar y proteger a la rica heredera Grace Montgomery, crey? que ser?a una misi?n f?cil. Pero pronto descubri? que la maravillosa Grace representaba una seria amenaza para su libido. No le preocupaba poder mantenerla a salvo de cualquier amenaza, pero… ?qui?n podr?a protegerla de ?l?Grace era finalmente libre: libre para descubrir qui?n era y lo que quer?a. Y lo que quer?a en aquel momento era a su nuevo y sexy vecino. Pensaba explorar su propio lado sensual, despojarse de todas sus inhibiciones y descubrir lo que significaba ser una mujer: la mujer de Ben. Aunque jam?s hubiera podido imaginar que a Ben le hab?an pagado por obtener ese privilegio.
The victims are always the same: beautiful, successful, and blond. Someone was able to coax these intelligent and confident women away from safety. Someone was able to gain their trust long enough to do the unthinkable. Their shocking murders have terrified the inhabitants of a small, peaceful town where such heinous crimes are simply not supposed to happen. Police Chief Rafe Sullivan knows he has to find answers fast before another woman is lured to her death – but Sullivan literally doesn't have a clue. And when the FBI sends one of their top profilers to help, he's more than ...
As the owner of Stoneham, New Hampshire's mystery bookstore , Tricia Miles can figure out whodunit in the latest bestseller long before she gets to the last page. But when her friend is killed in a freak accident, Tricia must use her sleuthing skills to solve a murder mystery that promises to be much more sinister than the books on her shelves.
CIA director Thomas Stansfield is dead - a fact many individuals in and around the nation's capital are pleased to hear. But their happiness proves to be short-lived once they learn that Stansfield's successor is the late director's close friend and protege, Dr. Irene Kennedy. Her plan of action is to pursue the very goals Stansfield established -- something Stansfield's fiercest enemies don't want to hear. And something they refuse to accept. Meanwhile, Israel has discovered that Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race -- and they've vowed to stop the Iraqi madman before he ...
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire, vowing to let no one stand in their way, especially those newly rallying around Teddy Roosevelt's nascent environmental movement.Yet when Serena begins to suspect that George's allegiances may lie elsewhere, she unleashes her full fury on the young mountain woman who bore his illegitimate child the year before. Rash's masterful balance of violence and beauty yields a powerfully riveting story that, at its core, tells of love both honored and betrayed.'Serena catapults Ron Rash to the front ranks of the best American novelists.' – Pat Conroy'A complex and compelling study of human greed and the grimmest of lusts – that for wealth and power.An epic achievement.' – Jeffrey Lent, bestselling author of In the Fall.
