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Recondo
by Larry ChambersLarry Chambers writes a fictional account of Vietnam; however, truth is not always stranger than fiction. Excellent actionn packed adventure!
Red Dragon
by Thomas HarrisThere's a serial killer on the loose. Will Graham, former forensics specialist and instructor for the FBI comes out of retirement to find him. He has captured some of the worst, including the notorious Hanabal Lecter. That collar put him in the hospital with near-fatal slash wounds. The next one put him in the psychiatric wing for depression. Now, to catch 'The Tooth Fairy', he must seek the aid of Dr. Lecter and by so doing he opens himself and his family to terrible, unknown danger. By the Author of The Silence of The Lambs, this one is a real thriller.
Red Horse
by Don PendletonA specter of fire has turned sections of inner-city Boston into a smoke- choked nightmare of terror. As the city weeps for its dead, Mack Bolan returns to his old hunting ground to challenge a new breed of evil. Suspicions that the fire-bombings are part of a turf gang war crumble under Bolan's hard probe. No gang-bangers can pull off this kind of deliberate, coordinated arson. Whoever is behind the attacks is professional, operating with military precision. By their acts, the enemy have consigned themselves to hell. The Executioner will dispatch them to the eternal fires personally. Violence. 226th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1997.
Religious Conviction (Gideon Page #3)
by Grif StockleyThe latest in the lawyer novel derby, this effort centers on a murder case that tears apart a born-again Christian group in rural Arkansas. Hotshot defense lawyer Chet Bracken brings in moderately successful Gideon Page to help him defend beautiful Leigh Wallace, charged with murdering her husband. Leigh's father, Shane Norman, head of the Christian Life group, instantly becomes the real chief suspect in Gideon's mind, but he admits his pursuit of the preacher is partially from jealousy--Gideon's impressionable teenage daughter has joined Norman's church group and is shunning her widower dad. Stockley is a lawyer himself (naturally), and he's created a prickly dilemma for Gideon, who risks losing both his daughter and his girlfriend if he pursues the preacher too much. While not matching the breathtaking pace of Scott Turow's novels, this one will nonetheless draw interest with its unusual born-again angle.
Reliquary (Pendergast #2)
by Douglas Preston Lincoln ChildHidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by those who walk the streets above. There lies the ultimate secret of the Museum Beast. When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid the investigation, Margo must once again team up with police lieutenant D'Agosta and FBI agent Pendergast, as well as the brilliant Dr. Frock, to try and solve the puzzle. The trail soon leads deep underground, where they will face the awakening of a slumbering nightmare.
Remote Control (Nick Stone #1)
by Andy Mcnabthe fictional story of an SAS agent named Nick Stone, who is on the case of two Irish terrorists. He follows them across the Atlantic to Washington, D.C., but is suddenly ordered back home on the next available flight. His old mate Kevin Brown, now with the Drug Enforcement Agency, lives near the airport, so Nick decides to drop in. He finds a slaughterhouse: Kev, his wife, and youngest daughter have been battered to death, but daughter Kelly has survived in a special hideout. Prying information from the shocked child, Nick links the killers to either the CIA, the DEA, or his own organization--which means that he and Kelly are virtually on their own. As Nick trundles the spunky youngster from one seedy motel to another, stuffs her with junk food, and teaches her the rudiments of spy craft, he also begins to piece together a picture of why Kevin and his family were killed. There is a connection between a terrorist bomb scare in Gibraltar in 1988, the Colombian drug cartel, and high-level intelligence-agency skullduggery. McNab keeps dropping those shiny nuggets of believability along the trail and winds up holding our attention until the predictable but satisfying end.
Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders
by Larry MillettSherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson visit an ice palace built for an ice carnival in St. Paul, Minneapolis. He discovers the severed head of a would be groom imbedded in an ice block. The mystery is on in excellent Sherlokian fashion.
Pandora's Clock
by John J. NanceThere is no antidote for terror<P> Captain James Holland is the pilot on a routine flight from Frankfurt to New York, packed with people eager to be home for Christmas. When a passenger collapses from what appears to be a heart attack, Holland is forced to request an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. But to his great surprise, the air traffic controllers will not let him land in England -- they tell Holland that his sick passenger has contracted a dangerous new form of influenza and that the plane must return to Germany.<P> But when German officials also refuse the landing, and other European countries follow suit, Holland begins to suspect that he's in much more trouble than anyone's letting on. In fact, his sick passenger is carrying a deadly virus accidentally released from a Bavarian laboratory, and it is feared that everyone on board is now infected. At the same time, someone with access to the CIA's computers wants to shoot the plane out of the sky, and there is a United States ambassador on board with powerful terrorist enemies who want to see him dead. While the panic on the ground spreads from the White House Situation Room to a small airport in the Ukrainian Republic, Captain Holland has only one concern: Where and when can he land?
Payback
by J. C. PollockJ.C. Pollock once again uses his insider's knowledge of covert actions and special warfare to deliver hard-hitting action, state-of-the-art weaponry, and high-tech espionage in this story of a former Special Forces officer whose wife's murderer is diplomatically immune to prosecution... of the legal kind, that is
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer
by Patrick SuskindBorn in sweaty, fetid eighteenth-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has "the finest nose in Paris and no personal odour". With wit, a Gothic imagination and considerable originality, Suskind has developed this simple idea into a fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' - Literary Review
Piranha Firing Point
by Michael DimercurioIn a world where there are two Chinese nations, a Red Chinese commander steals six super-stealth Japanese submarines in an attempt to annihilate his sister country. American forces are in desperate straits! Admiral Michael Pacino, supreme commander of the Pacific Fleet, has one hope to defeat this deadly adversary: America's newest nuclear submarine.
The Perfect Witness
by Barry SiegelMurder. Courtroom suspense. Unforgettable characters. A California town drenched in fog and secrecy. Barry Siegel delivers one of the most original and exciting legal thrillers in years. They used to be partners: Greg Monarch and Ira Sullivan, a couple of do-good lawyers in the central California town of La Graciosa. Ira, the charmer who glided through life. Greg, ever the searching idealist. But it all went bad for Ira. Bad enough that he wakes up in jail one day staring at a death sentence for murder. And he can't remember if he's the killer. Only Greg Monarch has a prayer of getting him off--if he's willing to cross certain ethical lines. Just how far should he go to save his former partner? As Greg Monarch wrestles with that question, he finds himself inexorably drawn into an ever-widening web of deceit and intrigue. The stakes are much higher then he first imagined; the forces gathering against Ira reach well beyond their coastal hamlet. Layer by layer, Greg peels back a tissue of lies--and at the rotten core he comes to Sandy Polson. A self-possessed beauty with a shady past, Sandy is the kind of woman who can look you deep in the eyes and make you believe anything. Sandy says she was with Ira the night of the murder, says she saw the whole thing. The prosecution believes she's the perfect witness. But what if Monarch could persuade Sandy to tell the truth? Wouldnt Sandy then become the perfect witness for the defense? A spellbinding story of crime and punishment, betrayal and revenge, Barry Siegel's new novel is a compelling journey into the heart of the courtroom and the human soul.
The Specialists: Plunder
by Chet CunninghamThe death of a young Jewish-American man in Berlin triggers a chain of events that captures the attention of J. August Marshall, former head of the CIA. Now retired, Marshall sets up his own band of "specialists" to fight crime, corruption, and terrorism around the globe. His elite team must go undercover to find the horrific truth behind the young man's death. But what it finds could shock the world. Violence. 1st novel in "The Specialists" series, 1999.
Presumption of Guilt
by Lelia KellyDynamic Atlanta lawyer Laura Chastain has developed a hard-earned reputation for waging uncompromising courtroom battles, inciting tabloid headlines, and making enemies on both sides of the law. But now, she's about to plunge straight into the heart of Atlanta's most controversial trial: defending an unscrupulous white cop indicted for killing a black suspect held in custody. Laura soon learns, however, that the case isn't as simple as the charge.