Deep in the heart of Russia, a group of casually dressed young men are learning a different kind of lesson. The undergraduates sprawled around a game board aren’t chilling out on campus: the young KGB agents attending the Charm School are brushing up on their American. When a young tourist goes to the aid of(…)
The Chinaman understood death. Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business. Until(…)
Meet Jonathan Quinn: a freelance operative with a take-no-prisoners style and the heart of a loner. His job? Professional “cleaner.” Nothing too violent, just disposing of bodies, doing a little cleanup if necessary. But in Brett Battles’s electrifying debut novel, Quinn’s latest assignment will change everything, igniting a harrowing journey of violence, betrayal, and revenge.(…)
A US state senator is dead, and a young boy is told the name of the killer – a mafia hit-man, Danny “The Blade” Muldano – by Muldano’s lawyer. After the lawyer’s suicide, Muldano and the boy are the only people who know the killer’s identity. By the author of “The Firm” and “The Pelican(…)
The Closers puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of(…)
In a White House meeting in 2011, a covert concordat is struck to destroy the vast world-wide cocaine industry. The man chosen is a former head of Special Ops for the CIA, Paul Devereaux, nicknamed the Cobra.
The Coffin Dancer is America’s most wanted hit-man. He’s been hired by an airline owner who wants three witnesses disposed of before his trial, and has got the first, a pilot, by blowing up the whole plane. Lincoln Rhyme has the task of keeping the witnesses safe and finding the Coffin Dancer.
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered — the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims’ last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and(…)
A cleaner’s tasks are simple: get rid of the body so that it will never be found, and make the scene of the kill look like nothing happened. Rule Number One: Don’t get caught. With Jonathan Quinn’s career in question, his apprentice Nate has successfully taken on the role of full-fledged cleaner, using Quinn’s name(…)
When maverick LAPD Harry Bosch shot and killed Norman Church, the police were convinced it marked the end of the search for the Dollmaker, one of the city’s most bizarre serial killers. But now, Church’s widow is accusing Bosch of killing the wrong man, and to make things worse, Bosch has just received a taunting(…)
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police(…)
“Who the hell are you?” Benjamin Stern’s rude question to the intruder in his apartment was answered quickly by an equally rude — and fatal — bullet.
Private military contractors–the corporate soldiers usually found roaming the deserts of Iraq and Afghanistan–are operating within the borders of the United States. With a relentless pace and doses of black humor, Hunsicker creates a thrilling combination of What-If with an altogether plausible What-Actually-Might-Be, giving the reader a remarkable post-9/11, War-on-Drugs novel.
In an Istanbul hotel, a deep source warns a CIA agent that Iran intends to kill a CIA station chief. Quickly, John Wells is called in to investigate, but before he can get far, the tip comes true. Which means that the next warning the source gives will be taken very seriously indeed. And it’s(…)
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.
When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles National Forest, Homicide Detective Robert Hunter finds himself entering a horrific and recurring nightmare. Naked, strung from two parallel wooden posts, the victim was sadistically tortured before meeting an excruciatingly painful death. All the skin has(…)
A tale of human endurance, fear and murder as Alex McAuliff is ordered into the savage depths of the Jamaican jungle to discover the secrets of a native tribe called The Halidon.
Harvard Professor Robert Langdon, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci – and beyond.
Eight job advertisements. Eight jobs. Eight specialists in modern technology required.Eight scientists to fill them. Applicants to be married, with no children, and prepared to travel. Highly persuasive salaries.One criminal mastermind. Eight positions filled. Eight scientists – and their wives – disappear. Completely.One secret agent to stop him. Advertisement no.9. Sydney, Australia. Fuel specialist required.(…)
Someone is breaking Britain’s most notorious criminals out of jail. His code name is the Baron, and the only way to stop him is to put an operative inside prison walls–and let the Baron get him out. From the author of On Deadly Ground.
An adventure thriller in which an anonymous Englishman who in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle.
After Augustus McKnight’s wife is murdered, leaving him as the sole beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance policy, he delves into his job as a full-time day trader and is plunged into an intricate game of intrigue and revenge.
Good job you didn’t turn on the lights …’ A student nurse has the shock of her life when she discovers her patient, prosecutor Derek Nicholson, brutally murdered in his bed. The act seems senseless – Nicholson was terminally ill with only weeks to live. But what most shocks Detective Robert Hunter of the Los(…)
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can’t stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn’t know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the(…)