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Jack Reacher is back, dragged into what looks like a series of grisly serial murders by a team of FBI profilers who aren't totally sure he's not the killer they're looking for, but believe that even if he isn't, he's smart enough to help them find the real killer. And what they've got on the ex-MP is enough to ensure his grudging cooperation: phony charges stemming from Reacher's inadvertent involvement in a protection shakedown and the threat of...
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British secret agent James Bond has never met an adversary like Mr. Big, a gangland kingpin who uses voodoo to control his vast criminal empire. When a crooked trail of smuggled gold leads through Mr. Big's New York hideout to SMERSH headquarters in Moscow, Bond's mission takes him from Harlem to the Florida Everglades.
4) White cargo
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Woods's violent but involving thriller about a father's attempts to retrieve his kidnapped daughter from the clutches of a merciless drug kingpin is thankfully relieved by pleasant interludes at lavish South American hotels, often poolside, and by a little romance.
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The bear is on the prowl in many different guises. He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a psychiatrist haunted by his patient's nightmare. Or maybe he's beautiful, lethal woman in a blood-red scarf. So beware of the this huge, dangerous beast. Because first he will enthrall you.. and then he will strike.
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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher finds himself in Margrave, Georgia, where he is almost immediately arrested for murder; after being released, he joins with a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop to unearth a conspiracy that stretches through the small town and beyond.
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British secret agent James Bond pursues the beautiful Tracy di Vicenzo, troubled daughter of a crime lord. On the hunt for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his heavily fortified Alpine stronghold, 007 uncovers SPECTRE's latest plot to take over the world with biological warfare. Now Bond must put a stop to the plan and survive a personal act of vengeance.
9) Sons
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Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age.
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On Christmas Eve, a lawyer helps a battered wife search for her kidnapped son As ex-husbands go, they don't get much worse than Carl. He's violent, drunken, and possessiveand worst of all, he's an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, but when Carl comes to terrorize themstinking drunk on Christmas Eveshe cannot call the cops for help. After years of living in fear, she visits a legal aid...
11) Family blessings
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Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado descends on Larkspur, the small town in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco--affectionately called "Cisco" by her grandchildren--lives, and levels the home she's inhabited for fifty years. Then there's more bad news: Cisco's beloved triplet grandchildren--Hannah, Sara, and Sam--all newlyweds, are experiencing marital problems but they refuse to confide in their...
12) Flying changes
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Twenty years after her competitive riding career died, Annamarie Zimmer worries that her relationship with the man she loves is off course, and fears that daughter Eva's own dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far from home...and into harm's way. When the teenage Eva is invited to an audition for a world-class trainer, Annemarie realizes that she must give Eva a chance to soar. But when Eva falls in love with a spectacular blue roan Nokota who...
13) Dark paradise
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“Without a doubt . . . one of the most intense suspense writers around.”—Chicago Tribune
New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Someone with secrets worth killing for—and the power...
New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Someone with secrets worth killing for—and the power...
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"Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso, a Jew who practices her prohibited religion clandestinely helping others of her banned faith escape persecution and death." -- Back cover.
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Classic adventure from the undisputed master of action and adrenalin-pumping suspense. When a plane crashes in the icy Greenland desert with no passengers on board, and no means of identification, Joe Martin is hired to fly to the scene of the crash by the insurance company involved and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot. But the routine mission spirals into hair-raising suspense when a priceless batch of emeralds are added to the mystery, and...
16) Velvet song
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With her father murdered and her home burned, Alyx Blackett fled to the woods - and found sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king's harsh decree. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery's squire. But how long could such lovliness as hers remain hidden? How long could such a gallant man's desire be blind? Soon - even as a blood feud raged between the Montgomerys and...
17) The danger
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When a string of kidnappings rocks the horse racing world, Andrew Douglas is brought in to recover the missing-without becoming the next victim.
18) Nightstar
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Whisked from office obscurity to overnight fame as The Nightstar Girl, the ultimate model for Rayven Cosmetics' sensational new perfume, Caren Ainsley felt that at any moment the dream would vanish, that devastating Marc Rayven would cast her aside once she had served her purpose. But Caren was determined to hold on to her dream despite Moira Evans, Marc's ravishing assistant who attempted to sabotage her at every turn. She'd fight fire with fire...
19) Glory in death
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It is 2058, New York City. In a world where technology can reveal the darkest of secrets, there's only one place to hide a crime of passion-in the heart. Even in the mid-twenty-first century, during a time when genetic testing usually weeds out any violent hereditary traits before they can take over, murder still happens. The first victim is found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second is murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant...
