In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion’s Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as “The Lion.” Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the(…)
April 1986 : American F-111 warplanes bomb the Al Azziyah compound in Libya where President Gadhafi is residing. A 16-year-old youth, Asad – Arabic for “lion ” – loses his mother, two brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his family but his nation, his religion(…)
When the president is kidnapped during his ski holiday in Colorado, disavowed Secret Service Agent Scott Harvath is his only hope of rescue. As the FBI and CIA chase a string of dangerously false clues across the Middle East, Agent Harvath’s investigation leads him to Switzerland. Throughout the picturesque towns of Bern, Interlaken and Lucerne,(…)
The partners at Finley & Figg – all two of them – often refer to themselves as ‘a boutique law firm.’ Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in(…)
The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert. Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination. But he doesn’t know who the target is. Or where the crack marksmen will(…)
Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers. It quickly becomes clear that the victim, John Pearce, was more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer(…)
Dan Brown’s new novel, the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The Da Vinci Code, which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all time, will be published on September 15, 2009. The Lost Symbol will once again feature Dan Brown’s unforgettable protagonist, Robert Langdon. ‘The Lost Symbol is a brilliant and compelling(…)
Thomas Lourds ventures to Istanbul University in Turkey to examine artifacts never before seen by Western scholars. He’s barely off the plane before he’s kidnapped by ruthless people who leave a string of dead bodies in their wake. They want Lourds to translate coded writings that they hope will lead them to a lost scroll(…)
Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done: dangerous and not quite legal things that have taken her undercover into some of the world’s deadliest places. Still healing from a Somali hijacking gone wrong and a brutal attack that left her near death, Munroe joins her lover, Miles Bradford,(…)
A former director of the KGB and the West’s most professional assassin join forces against a common enemy, the Matarese Circle.
Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back–and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out(…)
A man is assigned to investigate a large-scale drugs and prostitution business. Does he realise what the ultimate effect on his personal life will be?
Deep in the Guatemalan jungle lies the Maya Codex, an ancient document containing a terrible warning for civilisation. Archaeologist Dr Aleta Weizman is desperately searching for the codex, but powerful forces in Washington and Rome will do anything to stop her. When CIA agent Curtis O’Connor joins Aleta in her dangerous quest, he also becomes(…)
You always remember the first time. Isn’t that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder… Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one’s different — this one’s on the loose. In the northern town of Bradfield four men have been(…)
Raised by his tough but loving distant cousin Colleen, Eric Anthony never cared or asked what became of the parents who abandoned him early in life. But now Colleen is dying, and Eric, single dad to his young deaf son, is left with a mind-boggling mystery revealed in Colleen’s last breaths: a cryptic directive from(…)
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, has been widely acclaimed as one of the most fascinating characters in the genre and now he is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem. Monsignor(…)
John Stefanovuitch is one tough New York cop. Nobody knows the city like he does. Stef is out to get Alexandre St Germain, a powerful member of the Midnight Club – a secret international society whose membership is limited to an elite group of crime czars, all of whom are respectable business men.
At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government’s refusal to release publicly(…)
Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who’s long been in hiding – a fiend known as the Poet.
1991, Glasnost has its enemies, the worlds oil is running out and ruthless mercenaries have kidnapped the US president’s son. As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophe, the negotiator goes to work.
J.D. Cade is a successful businessman who has put his first career, as an Army sniper in Vietnam, far behind him. And he’s walked away from a volatile feud involving the Cades and the McCrays, two families who have hated each other for over a century for reasons barely remembered by any save the surviving(…)
Everyone has something to hide…The virile, all-American husband. The brainy golden girl. The happily-wed bi-coastal couple. Someone is watching…Someone who has uncovered their darkest secrets. Someone who is hell-bent on making them pay for their sins… No one suspects the truth… Now there is no escaping the shadowy jury that watches their every move. It(…)
A mobile unit of video freelancers prowl the midnight streets for material to sell to the highest network bidder. Murders, robberies, high speed chases. It’s an exhilarating life. Until two deaths change everything.
Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, is recovering from injuries sustained in the line of duty when she receives a letter from her estranged friend, Cate, imploring her to come to their high school reunion. Alarmed by the urgent tone of the note, and eager to make amends for her unforgivable past(…)