David Morrell

David Morrell is one of America’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers, with over eighteen million copies of his books in print. His thrillers have been translated into twenty-two languages and turned into record-breaking films as well as top-rated TV miniseries.

A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, David Morrell now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Lived: 1943 -

The Shimmer

When a high-speed chase goes terribly wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page watches in horror as a car and gas tanker explode into flames. Torn with guilt that he may be responsible, Page returns home to discover that his wife, Tori, has disappeared. Frantic, Page follows her trail to Rostov, a remote town in(…)

The Totem

In the small town of Potter’s Field, Wyoming, where the police chief is a man called Slaughter, strange things are happening. Faced by an elemental terror beyond his experience, Slaughter holds the town’s life in his hands. High in the night sky, the moon is full.

Creepers

On a chilly October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into an abandoned hotel nearby. Built during the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure, which foreshadowed the beauties of Art Deco architecture, is now a decrepit, boarded up(…)

Scavenger

To save himself, and the woman he loves, Balenger must play by the rules of a god-like Game Master with an obession for unearthing the past. But sometimes the past is buried for a reason. As modern technology is layered over the dusty artifacts of earlier times, the result if a surreal manuscript, one which(…)

First Blood

The chilling story of a manhunt. This classic thriller became a worldwide bestseller and inspired the series of films that gave the English language the word “Rambo”.

Assumed Identity

It is the ultimate nightmare of a deep-cover specialist – to come face-to-face with someone from a previous mission. Brendan Buchanan is hailed by a man who knew him from another time and place. And the consequence is that Buchanan’s career could be terminated. Just like Buchanan himself.

Blood Oath

Pete Houston never knew his father. He grew up worshipping the memory of a man who died a hero in 1944, but when he travels to France to visit his grave, he finds it gone. The wall of silence surrounding him makes Pete even more determined to discover the truth, but then the killing begins.

Brotherhood of the Rose

They were orphans, Chris and Saul–raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed.

Fraternity of the Stone

Drew Maclane was a star agent-until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses. Someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying(…)

The League of Night and Fog

From the Vatican to the Swiss Alps, from Australia to the heartland of America, the two masterful operatives known as Saul and Drew are being drawn together to solve a violent riddle: Why have ten old men been abducted from around the world? When the agents, weary of their own covert wars, begin to investigate,(…)

Desperate Measures

Spanning the globe, here is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired.

Extreme Denial

The pleasures of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a beautiful woman named Beth Dwyer look very good to burned-out intelligence agent Steve Decker. But beneath the lovely surfaces of both lie darkness and danger–which is why we read this kind of book in the first place, right? David Morrell pulls it off as smoothly as(…)

Front Man

In “Front Man,” an aging screenwriter cast adrift in a youth-oriented Hollywood culture finds a frightening way to make it back into the business.

The Covenant of the Flame

Fatal attacks on polluters around the world are investigated by a writer and an NYPD lieutenant. By this environmental thriller’s bloody climax, readers will be thoroughly tired of its padding and cardboard characters.

Long Lost

Brad Denning is a successful architect living a perfect life in Denver with his loving wife and son. Or so it would be, if not for the haunting memory of his brother Petey who disappeared while under Brad’s supervision when they were kids. Now, a man claiming to be his sibling has mysteriously appeared and(…)

Nightscape

By and large the kind of tales an author writes are metaphors for the scars in the nooks and crannies of his/her psyche. In David Morrell’s youth, thrillers and horror stories provided an escape from his nightmarish reality. Is it any wonder that, as an adult obsessed with being a writer, he has compulsively turned(…)

The Fifth Profession

Savage is no mere bodyguard but a state-of-the-art defender who must always be many steps ahead of those who threaten his clients. Akira, a master of the samurai arts, is Savage’s counterpart. Together they’ve pledged to protect Rachel Stone, the wife of a Greek tycoon who has sworn to destroy her.

The Protector

Cavanaugh, a former member of Delta Force who now works as a protector for those rich enough to afford him and his team, is hired by a brilliant scientist named Prescott who needs protection from a powerful drug lord seeking the highly addictive drug he has invented. At least that is what Cavanaugh is led(…)

The Naked Edge

Once they were boyhood best friends, playing in the woods near their homes, pretending to be soldiers surviving behind enemy lines. Grownup, they belonged to Delta Force and later worked as protectors for the world’s best security company. Now their lives have taken drastically different paths, pitting them against one another, forcing them to play(…)

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