Its 1952. Bitterly divided by the struggles of their native land, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of all South Africans, white and black alike. But revolution is in the air and Shasa Courtney finds he must choose between his ideals and the quest for power.
Name: John Rain. Vocation: Assassin. Speciality: Natural Causes. Base of operations: Tokyo. Availability: Worldwide. Half American, half Japanese, expert in both worlds but at home in neither, John Rain is the best killer money can buy. You tell him who. You tell him where. He doesn’t care about why… Until he gets involved with Midori(…)
Critics praised Barry Eisler’s first two novels, Rain Fall and Hard Rain, calling Japanese-American John Rain, the cynical, romantic, conscientious assassin, “one of the most memorable characters in recent thrillers” (San Jose Mercury News) and “a remarkable creation, a multifaceted killer with the soul of a poet” (Mystery Ink). In Rain Storm, Rain has fled(…)
Mightiest of ocean liners, “Titanic” lies over two miles down in the North Atlantic. In her hold, perhaps the only amount anywhere of an incredibly rare substance which could make the free world invulnerable to foreign attack forever. Maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt wades in.
Resurrects Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi in a legal thriller in which the murder of an elderly Jewish couple may be connected to a sixteen-year-old Arab runaway who kills her pimp in self-defense.
Alpha Force – a group of five kids dedicated to fighting against injustice in the world – are in Australia, helping with a TV reality show. But when Paulo spots a dangerous terrorist hiding out in a nearby town, events suddenly force them into a terrifying adventure as the terrorist seizes hostages and flies off(…)
From the author of “Silence of the Lambs” and “Black Sunday”, this is the book that introduces the series killer, Hannibal Lecter – a tortured, torturing monster who finds ultimate pleasure in viciously murdering happy families.
A band of soldiers in its last month of service in Vietnam goes out on a patrol through enemy territory with a female sniper in its path. territory only to find a female Viet Cong sniper in its path. Recounting the mission in shattering and sometimes gruesome detail, DeMille creates a concise masterpiece of moody(…)
Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash – otherwise she would never have agreed to cover a fundraising gala at Derbyshire House Girls’ School. But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder. Who had the key to the locked room in which(…)
Hunted and finally cornered, John Rain faces his deadliest enemy ever: himself. For Rain, “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle), getting out of the life was never going to be easy. But with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to(…)
“A convicted killer named Felix Tighe has escaped from prison and has vowed to hunt down and execute the NYPD detectives who arrested him years ago. But there’s more – Tighe’s also planning a fight to the death with Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, the man who put him away.” Felix Tighe’s laser-focused, obsessive(…)
Ex-marine Samuel Carver makes bad things happen to worse people. He is used to being in complete control. So when he finds himself caught in the middle of a riot in South London, he must fall back on his instincts and years’ of training as the riot turns into a battleground. Someone planned this riot(…)
As major New York drug dealers are murdered one by one, Assistant D.A. Butch Karp launches an investigation and begins to suspect that the police department’s senior detective on the case, Clay Fulton, is corrupt.
A supercharged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it. Rommy “Squirrel” Gandloph is an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder. His slow progress toward execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer and Rommy’s reluctant representative, receives word of new evidence(…)
Special Agent Mark Beamon is a maverick. His open disdain for the FBI’s rules – and Directors – has exiled him to a no-profile post in the boondocks. But when a shadowy right-wing group starts flooding America’s emergency rooms with dead and dying, Beamon is summoned back to Washington. Teamed with an icily efficient female(…)
On the 45th floor of the Matsumoto Tower in LA, the headquarters of the Japanese Electronics Corporation, celebrities from the film and music world mix with the captains of industry and politics. On the 46th floor, the dead body of a young woman is discovered. By the author of “Jurassic Park”.
City of Thebes. The Festival of Osiris. Loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather to pay homage to their leader, but Taita – a wise and formidably gifted eunuch slave – sees him only as a symbol of a kingdom’s fading glory.
An expedition searching for a legendary lost city in South America discovers a Nazi reunion, a river of death, a scheme of revenge, and other terrifying surprises.
‘If you stay involved with Sean Meyer you will end up killing again,’ my father said. ‘And next time, Charlotte, you might not get away with it’ Still bearing the emotional scars from her traumatic first bodyguarding job in the States, Charlie Fox returns to her former home to try and work out both her(…)
The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways — not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites.(…)
The Mastermind is a deadly criminal who orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their precise demands – and their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, promptly getting under The Mastermind’s skin, who makes it his personal goal to take revenge on(…)
Virgil’s always been known for having a somewhat active, er, social life, but he’s probably not going to be getting too many opportunities for that during his new case. While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, he gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a(…)
Whilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US President’s right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing his own checks for the British Prime Minister. When both men get involved with a group of Russian soldiers about to commit an atrocity, Miller(…)
All over London, criminals are being viciously attacked and left bleeding or crippled by vigilante cops. For some, this is no great tragedy — after all, crime rates appear to be on the decrease. But it is inevitable that the situation must change, and Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd, working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, is(…)