Set initially in a future shanty town in America's Gulf Coast region, where grounded oil tankers are being dissembled for parts by a rag tag group of workers, we meet Nailer, a teenage boy working the light crew, searching for copper wiring to make quota and live another day. The harsh realities of this life, from his abusive father, to his hand to mouth existence, echo the worst poverty in the present day third world. When an accident leads Nailer to discover an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, and the lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl, Nailer finds himself at a crossroads. Should he strip the ship and live a life of relative wealth, or rescue the girl, Nita, at great risk to himself and hope she'll lead him to a better life. This is a novel that illuminates a world where oil has been replaced by necessity, and where the gap between the haves and have-nots is now an abyss. Yet amidst the shadows of degradation, hope lies ahead.
Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours Surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred. The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more, Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives – and their sanity – irrevocably at risk.
"Enormously entertaining and enormously authentic." – John Sandford“BORN IS THE REAL THING.”-Elmore Leonard“A NEW STAR.”-W. E. B. Griffin“Born owns not only the know-how to spin a good story but also has the stylistic chops to back it up. By turns funny and suspenseful.”- Chicago Sun-Times“Born shows his skill at mixing quirky characters and wry humor into a serious plot in his second novel… Once again, Born excels at blending the police procedural with the caper novel.”- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel“Born’s latest novel bombards us with a ...
Dirk Pitt is sent to investigate a lethal new way of speeding up diamond excavation, discovered by the head of a major diamond mining corporation. A fast-paced adventure begins in which Pitt has to dodge a volcano eruption and a sea serpent, amongst other dangers, in order to save the day.
The thought of working with a hot-shot producer and her TV crew is about as appealing to Abby as sticking her hand in a bucket of leeches. But "Reality Check" is a program that claims to turn American dreams into the real thing, and Abby figures that if anyone deserves that kind of bonanza, it's Emma Lopez, who has been raising her three younger siblings since her mother disappeared. Abby is determined to help Emma realize her dream of a reunion-even when it becomes clear that someone out there doesn't believe in happy endings.
In the newest addition to the bestselling series, Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise where very little is as it seems.Teddy Fay, a rogue agent last seen escaping an imploding building in Iron Orchid, has been considered dead for some time now. But President Will Lee thinks Teddy may still be alive. In a top-secret Oval Office meeting, Stone learns that he and his cohorts, Holly Barker and Dino Baldachetti, are being sent to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Marks, courtesy of the CIA, to track down Teddy once and for all.St. Marks is a vacationer’s paradise, but its luxurious beach clubs and secluded mountain villas are home to corrupt local politicians and more than a few American ex-pats with murky personal histories. Stone and Holly soon discover that in St. Marks, everyone is hiding something, and Teddy Fay may just be hiding in plain sight.
Author's 4th novel. As a former RAF pilot, a former Air Correspondent for The Sunday Times, Lyall certainly knows about flying.Combining his expertise with fast-paced, well-written plots has made him one of the most popular writers of action thrillers. An adventure story, influenced by the works of Hammett and Chandler. In this one, Keith Carr, piloting cargo around the Carribean, finds himself mixed up with potentially lethal local politics.
Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared in Stuart Woods's 1992 thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment.Turns out that Ed should have listened to his intuition. Ed Eagle awakens the morning after his fortieth birthday to find that Barbara has vanished, and Ed's money-from his business, his bank, and his brokerage accounts-has been wired to the Cayman Islands. Barbara, it appears, had drugged his birthday wine, neatly cleaned him out and then fled to Mexico, from where ...
An anthology of storiesThese all-new short stories of movies, music, murder, and mayhem by today's brightest talents will take you from vaudeville to Vegas, and make it chillingly clear that in the world of entertainment, if you want to make it, you may have to step on some people-or over their dead bodies…Includes first-run stories from€ Carolyn Wheat€ John Lutz€ Elaine Viets€ Parnell Hall€ Stuart M Kaminsky€ Edward D Hoch€ Annette Meyers€ Angela Zeman€ David Bart€ Bob Shayne€ Mark Terry€ Gary Phillips€ Suzanne Shaphren€ Libby Fischer Hellman€ Charles Ardai€ Gregg Andrew Hurwitz€ Steve Hockensmith€ Shelley Freydont€ Robert Lopresti€ Mat Coward
When he was the NYPD's top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative hunt by the presumptuous arrogance of murderers – by their smug belief that they could kill without leaving a trace. There was always a trace, Gurney believed.Except what if one day there wasn't?Dave Gurney, a few months past the Mellery case that pulled him out of retirement and then nearly killed him, is trying ...
Summer, 1954.U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems.And neither is Teddy Daniels.Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal ...
Tracy Whitney es joven y hermosa. Ha sido condenada a quince a?os de prisi?n por un delito que no cometi?. Una vez en libertad, busca vengarse de las fuerzas del crimen organizado, responsables de su condenada. Sus armas son las inteligencia, la belleza, y la firme determinaci?n de cumplir con su cometido, sin reparar en los medios utilizados.
Un a?o despu?s de abandonar la Kripo, la Polic?a Criminal alemana, Bernie Gunther trabaja en el Hotel Adlon, en donde se aloja la periodista norteamericana Noreen Charalambides, que ha llegado a Berl?n para investigar el creciente fervor antijud?o y la sospechosa designaci?n de la ciudad como sede de los Juegos Ol?mpicos de 1936. Noreen y Gunther se aliar?n dentro y fuera de la cama seguirle la pista a una trama que une las altas esferas del nazismo con el crimen organizado estadounidense. Un chantaje, doble y calculado, les har? renunciar a destapar la miseria y los asesinatos, pero no al amor. Sin embargo, Noreen es obligada a volver a Estados Unidos, y Gunther ve c?mo, otra vez, una mujer se pierde en las sombras. Hasta que veinte a?os despu?s, ambos se reencuentran en la insurgente Habana de Batista. Pero los fantasmas nunca viajan solos.
John Rain, de profesi?n asesino, est? especializado en hacer trabajitos finos en los que sus v?ctimas parecen morir de forma natural. Aquel que le contrata sabe que es un hombre fiel a sus principios: trabaja en exclusiva; liquida ?nicamente al protagonista del juego, no a sus familiares, y no asesina a mujeres. Por eso, cuando tras finalizar un trabajo le piden wque se encargue de la hija del objetivo, empieza a sospechar que hay gato encerrado y decide investigar por qu? quieren matar a Midori. La investigaci?n le har? descubrir peligrosas conexiones entre el gobierno nip?n y la yakuza, que comprometer?n su anonimato y complicar?n su vida.
Eccentric Eileen Chandler is all set to be married, but someone wants the vows stopped before they are started. Murder has made an uninvited appearance before the wedding and no one in the crazy wedding party is above suspicion.
