John Rain is back. And ‘the most charismatic assassin since James Bond’ (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott ‘Hort’ Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the(…)
An appalling choice faces the President of the USA and other statesmen: whichever option they choose, men are going to die. But Adam Munro is unmoved. He knows that politicians have no objection to loss of life, so long as they are not seen publicly to have had anything to do with it.
In two previous New York Times bestselling novels, Jefferson Bass enthralled readers with ripped-from-the-headlines forensic cases, memorable characters, and plots that “rival Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Drawing on research at the Body Farm—three acres of land in the backwoods of Tennessee, where bodies are left to the elements to illuminate human decomposition—Bass(…)
I’m into something a little weird here. I don’t want to worry you, but if anything unusual should happen, get in touch with Kidd, okay?” When the writer of this letter dies suddenly, allegedly burglarising a software company, his sister turns to Kidd – artist, computer whiz and professional criminal – to find out what(…)
‘The poster boy of southern gothic thrillers’ (Kirkus review) delivers a powerful and unforgettable reading experience with The Devil’s Punchbowl, and he marks the return of Penn Cage, the popular protagonist of The Quiet Game and Turning Angel. The Devil’s Punchbowl refers to a deep pit near the river in Natchez, Mississippi. Not only have(…)
After a machine gun attack in the Washington, D.C., subway system leaves dozens of people dead, retired FBI document examiner Parker Kincaid must track down the assassin with the aid of only one clue–a ransom note demanding twenty million dollars to stop further massacres.
A novel in which a man named Benedict inherits the family diamond company when his father dies, but part of the bequest is that he should destroy Johnny, his own foster brother. When Benedict sets out to fulfil his duty, Johnny finds himself surrounded by greed, vengeance and murder.
In David Ignatius’s gripping new novel, spies don’t bother to steal information…they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he(…)
He thought his final assignment would be simple: Transport a package from Japan to Amsterdam. But for Orlando’s mentor, Abraham, the job was not at all like he expected and ended up haunting him. Seven years later, Quinn and Orlando know something is up when Abraham asks for a favor. At his age, he should(…)
In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar’s worth of the world’s most valuable mineral, platinum. Now the only question is, how to get hold(…)
They took her. Then they took her family. Now she’s coming for retribution. Information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe has a reputation for getting things done, often dangerous and not-quite-legal things. Scarred from a life of violence, pursued by her own demons, and as proficient with languages as she is with knives, when a human trafficking(…)
Jay Grady wakes up in handcuffs. Sitting at a table in an isolated room. Across from him sits a man who wants Jay to recount his life. Every detail of it. If not, he’ll kill him. So begins Jay’s reluctant journey to a past he’s tried to forget. From his days ruling Wall Street as an(…)
John Thomas Rourke, ex-CIA Cover Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority, is pursuing the trail of his wife and children from whom he was separated when World War III began. As he sets out from his retreat, he meets a beautiful woman scientist, who has learned that the nuclear bombing on the Night of(…)
The assassin – the world’s most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card – one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets.The Judas goat – an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the next name(…)
Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional(…)
The sequel to “The Eagle has Landed”. By the end of 1943, all the evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Chuchill has been buried in a grave in Norfolk. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive, and the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the eagle’s return.
It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: “Operation Eagle”, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler’s audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.
The Empty Chair is the third – or, if you count a guest appearance in the millennial thriller The Devil’s Teardrop, the fourth – novel to feature Lincoln Rhyme, the irascible forensic genius who became a quadriplegic when a cave-in at a crime scene damaged his spinal cord beyond repair. The series began in 1997(…)
Ex-covert op Michael Westen has a new client. Paolo Fornelli is Helmsman for a yacht in the Hurricane Cup – a winner-take-all race financed by the super-rich and preceded by a week of highstakes gambling, high-risk business, and high-class attitude. Paolo’s family has been taken hostage. If Paolo ever wants to see them again, he(…)
World War III was only the beginning. Inevitable death now awaits every soul who lived through the holocaust as the earth’s atmosphere is about to explode into a searing blaze of fire. But one man refuses to die, refuses to accept the horror: John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert and survival(…)
Financial consultant, Malcolm Jaggard, begins a desperate investigation when flourishing industrialist and former Russian scientist, George Ashton, the father of Jaggard’s fiancie, mysteriously disappears following a vicious acid attack on his daughter. Ashton is traced from his home in Buckinghamshire to the wintry forests of Sweden, in a compelling tale about rivalries between intelligence groups(…)
Forget James Bond. Forget Jason Bourne. Forget Jack Bauer. Meet Victor. He’s the world’s deadliest assassin, locked in an uneasy alliance with the CIA. And he has a list: three names, three victims. But with each name he crosses off, the game grows far more complex – and far more lethal. With a woman to(…)
New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. Soon America won’t have any enemies left to fight. The army is under pressure to downsize. Jack Reacher is the duty Military Police officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporting a dead soldier. The body was found in a(…)
In Allon’s latest adventure, The English Assassin, he comes out of retirement once again and finds himself enmeshed in a murder investigation whose roots reach back to the cataclysmic policies of Nazi Germany. Allon’s involvement begins when he accepts a commission to restore a priceless Raphael original. He travels to Zurich, only to find that(…)