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Or She Dies
by Gregg HurwitzA page-turning thriller from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy selections ORPHAN X and YOU'RE NEXT.First, Patrick receives the mysterious DVDs. They show invasive footage of him in the privacy of his own house. Soon, Patrick and his wife Ariana find themselves questioning everything and everyone as their lives unravel. Someone is clearly out to get them. And then, the email arrives:Go AloneDo What We SayOr She Dies...
Orphan X (An Orphan X Novel #1)
by Gregg HurwitzThe Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He’s also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin. Evan was Orphan X--until he broke with the program and used everything he learned to disappear. But now someone is on his tail. Someone with similar skills and training who will exploit Evan’s secret new identity as the Nowhere Man to eliminate him.
Out of the Dark: An Orphan X Novel (Orphan X #4)
by Gregg Hurwitz* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *"This novel will be remembered as one of the best thrillers of the year." —Associated Press "A shocking stunner in every way. The perfect thriller." —Robert CraisWhen darkness closes in—he's your last, best hope. Evan Smoak returns in Gregg Hurwitz’s #1 international bestselling Orphan X series in Out of the Dark. Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him.Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the Program and who is now the most heavily guarded person in the world: the President of the United States.But President Bennett knows that Orphan X is after him and, using weapons of his own, he's decided to counter-attack. Bennett activates the one man who has the skills and experience to track down and take out Orphan X—the first recruit of the Program, Orphan A. With Evan devoting all his skills, resources, and intelligence to find a way through the layers of security that surround the President, suddenly he also has to protect himself against the deadliest of opponents. It's Orphan vs. Orphan with the future of the country—even the world—on the line.
Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel (Orphan X #6)
by Gregg HurwitzForced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed—in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz.As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name—The Nowhere Man—and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer—in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he’s least equipped to do—live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew—his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran—a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran’s only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he’s fought for is on the line—including his own life.
The Program: A Novel (Tim Rackley)
by Gregg HurwitzThe second novel in the gripping Tim Rackley series from the internationally bestselling author, Gregg Hurwitz.Called back into the fold of the US Marshals Service, Tim Rackley is tasked with retrieving Leah Henning, the daughter of a powerful Hollywood producer, from a mind control cult. As Tim winds his way deep undercover inside an insidious operation called The Program, he confronts a brand of mind-warping manipulation beyond his worst expectations.Becoming enmeshed with a diverse band of characters - from the charismatic, messianic leader T.D. Betters, to a cult reject burnout, to the intelligent yet highly vulnerable Leah herself - Tim finds himself caught in a shadowy landscape of lies, manipulation, and terror. At stake are innocent minds - maybe even his own...
The Program (Tim Rackley Novel, #2)
by Gregg HurwitzThriller involving U.S. Marshall's attempting to save a young woman from an evil mind-controlling cult and its charismatic leader.
The Recital: A Joey Morales (and Orphan X and Tommy Stojack and Candy McClure and Aragón Urrea) Short Story
by Gregg HurwitzThe Orphan Program—which recruited and trained off-the-books assassins for the government—was responsible for creating some of the world’s most dangerous individuals. Evan Smoak, also known as Orphan X, is one of the few still surviving. Josephine “Joey” Morales was the last recruit of the program, now a world-class hacker.Still a teenager, trying to learn how to live as a normal person in the world, she sends Evan on his most unusual mission yet for which he must recruit some of the most elusive and deadly individuals: Candy McClure (Orphan V), Tommy Stojack (black market gunsmith), and Arragón Urea (former drug kingpin). Their help doesn’t come free. But Evan will face whatever danger he has to help Joey face her own greatest fears in The Recital.
The Survivor
by Gregg HurwitzA pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club selections, ORPHAN X and YOU'RE NEXT.From the eleventh storey of a Los Angeles high-rise, Nate looks out on the city - the traffic, the trees, the beach beyond. He breathes deeply. And then he moves one foot off the ledge and into thin air.But before he can jump, gunshots ring out from within the building. A robbery is in progress. And Nate, with nothing to lose but the life he was about to give up, decides to intervene.What happens next plunges Nate into mortal danger . . . and reunites him with the family he hasn't known for years - a family he will do anything to protect.Packed with twists and suspense, hurtling forward at relentless speed, The Survivor is a gripping, unforgettable story of sacrifice, redemption and heroism - a thriller to rival the very best of Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben.
The Survivor
by Gregg HurwitzWITH ONE SELFLESS ACT, HE'S PUT EVERYTHING HE LOVES IN MORTAL DANGER. Nate Overbay, a former soldier suffering from PTSD and ALS, goes to an eleventh-floor bank and climbs out the bathroom window onto the ledge, ready to end it all. But as he's steeling himself to jump, a crew of gunmen bursts into the bank and begins viciously shooting employees and customers. With nothing to lose, Nate climbs back inside, confronts the robbers, and with his military training, starts taking them out, one by one. The last man standing leaves Nate with a cryptic warning: "He will make you pay in ways you can't imagine."
Troubleshooter (Tim Rackley)
by Gregg HurwitzThe third novel in the gripping Tim Rackley series from the internationally bestselling author, Gregg Hurwitz.The leader of one of the country's most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey, should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on the LA freeway, several US marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Rackley, back on the Service's warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law-enforcement community driving him.Just when Laurey is within his grasp, circumstances force Rackley to let him go with devastating results. A few miles up the road, a sheriff's deputy is attacked: Tim's pregnant wife, Dray. Driven by guilt, Tim vows to hunt Laurey down. With the stakes rising, Tim must unravel a horrifying secret and confront a deadly terror that reaches from the back alleys of Mexico to the poppy fields of Afghanistan . . . and threatens to explode on the dark streets of LA.
Troubleshooter (Tim Rackley Novel, #3)
by Gregg HurwitzThe maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white-knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley -- a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice. The leader of one of the country's most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on an L.A. freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Rackley, back on the Service's warrant squad, is in hot pursuit of the outlaw and his ruthless gang -- with a media whirlwind and the entire Los Angeles law-enforcement community driving him. Just when Laurey is within his grasp, circumstances force Rackley to let him go -- with devastating results. A few miles up the road, a sheriff's deputy is attacked: Tim's pregnant wife, Dray. Driven by guilt, Tim vows to hunt Laurey down -- a search that will lead him into a dark world of deception and lies, a world of criminals and undercover cops, drugs and mutilation. And the key to the violent puzzle lies in the discarded corpses of women -- women for whom Tim must seek justice when no one else will. With the stakes rising, Tim must unravel a horrifying secret and confront a deadly terror that reaches from the back alleys of Mexico to the poppy fields of Afghanistan ... and threatens to explode on the dark streets of L.A.
Trust No One
by Gregg HurwitzOver the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist, someone Nick has never heard of, has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he'll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick the truth behind the events that shattered his life twenty years ago. At seventeen years old, Nick Horrigan made a deadly mistake, one that cost his stepfather his life, endangered his mother, and sent him into hiding for years. Now, what Nick discovers in that nuclear plant leaves him with only two choices. To start running again, or to fight and finally uncover the secrets that have held him hostage all these years. As Nick peels back layer after layer of lies and deception, buffeted between the buried horrors of the past and the deadly intrigues of the present, he finds his own life, and the lives of nearly everyone he loves at risk. And the only thing guiding him through this deadly labyrinth are his stepfathers dying words: TRUST NO ONE. Acclaimed for years by both critics and his peers as one of the finest thriller writers today, Gregg Hurwitz has lived up to all the accolades and expectations with Trust No One, an electrifying and compelling novel that will be remembered for years to come.
We Know
by Gregg HurwitzA breakneck thriller from the bestselling author of Richard & Judy Book Club selections ORPHAN X and YOU'RE NEXT.A good job, a decent flat in Los Angeles, a quiet life - Nick Horrigan has finally put his traumatic past behind him. Or so it seems, until a SWAT team smashes into his place in the middle of the night. Still in pajamas, he's dragged outside to a waiting helicopter. He's told that a terrorist has seized control of a nuclear power plant and is threatening to blow it up...unless he can talk to Nick. Flown into a deadly intrigue, Nick is charged with a dangerous secret, one that will take him from the dark alleys of the city to behind the scenes of a Presidential race. As he rockets toward the truth, peeling back layer after layer of lies and deception, only one thing is certain: The long-buried secret, tied to the traumas of his own past, threatens his life at every turn.
You're Next: A Thriller
by Gregg HurwitzA pulse-pounding bestseller from the author of ORPHAN X.I know you, don't I?' Five words - that's all it takes to plunge Mike Wingate and his family into mortal danger. Mike doesn't recognise the crippled stranger who approaches him at a party . . . but the stranger seems to know all about him.What has Mike done? Do they have the wrong man? Overnight, the threats become attacks, and Mike, his wife, and their young daughter learn they aren't safe anywhere -especially not their own home. He doesn't know who they are. He doesn't know what they want. But there's no time to figure it out - because his enemies have killed before, and he's next.
You're Next
by Gregg HurwitzMike Wingate had a rough childhood--he was abandoned at a playground at four years old and raised in foster care. No one ever came to claim him, and he has only a few, fragmented memories of his parents. Now, as an adult, Mike is finally living the life he had always wanted--he's happily married to Annabel, the woman of his dreams; they have a wonderful young daughter; and his successful construction company guarantees a solid future for them all. Until Mike's past comes back to haunt him. Menacing characters are starting to surface in Mike's life... and when he reports them, the police seem more interested in Mike's murky origins than in protecting the family he has now. With no one left to turn to, Mike calls on Shep, a truly dangerous man--and Mike's only true friend--from their childhood days together in foster care. Together, the two of them will do whatever it takes to protect Mike and his loved ones against a hidden enemy who comes with a deadly warning: You're Next...
The Tower
by Gregg Andrew HurwitzIn the bestselling tradition of The Silence of the Lambs comes The Tower, a novel of nail-biting suspense and heart-stopping terror played out in a psychological battle of wit, cunning, and pure evil between a diabolically clever killer and his determined hunter.Allander Atlasia is an infamous psychopath whose heinous crimes have earned him a lifetime stay at the Tower (nicknamed Alcatraz II), the world's most extreme maximum-security prison. But after a briliant and brutal escape, the criminal mastermind begins a killing spree that is intensely personal—one by one, victims fall prey to a twisted and chilling re-enactment of his own depraved past.Jade Marlow is an ex-FBI profiler and tracker whose fearlessness is only surpassed by the severity of his own inner demons. With a record of irrational behavior and a genius for putting himself into the mind of a criminal predator, he may be the one man diabolical enough to catch Atlasia. In an excalating contest of wills and wits, two equally defiant men race toward a showdown where daring is deadly and failure is fatal.
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (Ali Baba Bernstein)
by Johanna HurwitzThroughout a series of adventures, ten-year-old David "Ali Baba" Bernstein spends most of his time thinking about becoming a detective and getting a dog.
The Edge Of The Gulf
by Hadley HuryGrief has nearly destroyed Hudson. He's just going through the motions, of teaching, writing, talking to the dog. It's been two years since Kate died, two years of grappling with profound loss.
The Good Father
by Marion HusbandThe Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery. When Peter Wright's father dies he leaves his entire fortune to Peter's best friend Jack. Over a few weeks in the summer of 1959 the consequences of the old man's legacy seriously affect three men's lives, Jack, who has brought up his three children alone since his wife was killed, Wright's solicitor Harry, who is trying to rebuild his relationship with his estranged son Guy, and Peter himself, whose friendship with Jack is threatened by his father's death and the terrible secrets he has kept since his return from the Japanese POW camps.The Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.
The Good Father
by Marion HusbandThe Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.When Peter Wright's father dies he leaves his entire fortune to Peter's best friend Jack. Over a few weeks in the summer of 1959 the consequences of the old man's legacy seriously affect three men’s lives, Jack, who has brought up his three children alone since his wife was killed, Wright's solicitor Harry, who is trying to rebuild his relationship with his estranged son Guy, and Peter himself, whose friendship with Jack is threatened by his father's death and the terrible secrets he has kept since his return from the Japanese POW camps.The Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.
The Good Father
by Marion HusbandThe Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.When Peter Wright's father dies he leaves his entire fortune to Peter's best friend Jack. Over a few weeks in the summer of 1959 the consequences of the old man's legacy seriously affect three men’s lives, Jack, who has brought up his three children alone since his wife was killed, Wright's solicitor Harry, who is trying to rebuild his relationship with his estranged son Guy, and Peter himself, whose friendship with Jack is threatened by his father's death and the terrible secrets he has kept since his return from the Japanese POW camps.The Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.
Los ladrones de seda
by Dirk HusemannEl primer robo de guante blanco históricamente documentado se convierte, a manos de Dirk Husemann, en una emocionante novela repleta de aventuras. Bizancio, año 552 de nuestra era. Dos espías romanos disfrazados de monjes persas, Taurus y Olympiodorus, viajan a China con la intención de robar su secreto más preciado: la manera de producir la seda. El comercio de tan delicado y preciado material es una de las mayores fuentes de ingresos para el Imperio romano, pero desde que el emperador Justiniano inició la guerra con Persia, las rutas han quedado bloqueadas. Los dos espías consiguen robar unos gusanos y huyen por la ruta de la Seda, la ruta comercial más larga del mundo y fuente de ingresos para muchos comerciantes que, cuando descubren el robo, ven peligrar su monopolio. Pronto, grandes recompensas se ofrecen por la captura de los bandidos. Pero el peor enemigo para los dos ladrones no son aquellos que les persiguen, sino el tiempo. Si las preciosas mariposas salen de sus capullos mientras están de viaje, morirán. Y si los ladrones vuelven a Bizancio con las manos vacías, sus cabezas no tendrán ningún precio. La crítica ha dicho sobre el autor y su obra...«La redacción de un estilo muy legible evidencia que el autor, como periodista científico, es capaz de transmitir hechos y circunstancias complejas de un modo popular y comprensible.»Münchner Merkur «Una fascinante novela de aventuras ambientada en la época de Carlomagno.»Sabine Jünemann, Delmenhorster Kreisblatt «En Un Elefante para Carlomagno, su primera novela, Dirk Husemann ha transformado una auténtica misión diplomática en un fascinante novelón histórico. Y mediante un fluido estilo literario el periodista científico vuelve comprensibles hechos y circunstancias complejos »Frankfurter Neue Presse
Los ladrones de seda
by Dirk HusemannEl primer robo de guante blanco históricamente documentado se convierte, a manos de Dirk Husemann, en una emocionante novela repleta de aventuras. Bizancio, año 552 de nuestra era. Dos espías romanos disfrazados de monjes persas, Taurus y Olympiodorus, viajan a China con la intención de robar su secreto más preciado: la manera de producir la seda. El comercio de tan delicado y preciado material es una de las mayores fuentes de ingresos para el Imperio romano, pero desde que el emperador Justiniano inició la guerra con Persia, las rutas han quedado bloqueadas. Los dos espías consiguen robar unos gusanos y huyen por la ruta de la Seda, la ruta comercial más larga del mundo y fuente de ingresos para muchos comerciantes que, cuando descubren el robo, ven peligrar su monopolio. Pronto, grandes recompensas se ofrecen por la captura de los bandidos. Pero el peor enemigo para los dos ladrones no son aquellos que les persiguen, sino el tiempo. Si las preciosas mariposas salen de sus capullos mientras están de viaje, morirán. Y si los ladrones vuelven a Bizancio con las manos vacías, sus cabezas no tendrán ningún precio. La crítica ha dicho sobre el autor y su obra...«La redacción de un estilo muy legible evidencia que el autor, como periodista científico, es capaz de transmitir hechos y circunstancias complejas de un modo popular y comprensible.»Münchner Merkur «Una fascinante novela de aventuras ambientada en la época de Carlomagno.»Sabine Jünemann, Delmenhorster Kreisblatt «En Un Elefante para Carlomagno, su primera novela, Dirk Husemann ha transformado una auténtica misión diplomática en un fascinante novelón histórico. Y mediante un fluido estilo literario el periodista científico vuelve comprensibles hechos y circunstancias complejos »Frankfurter Neue Presse
Frosty the Dead Man
by Christine HusomA snow globe becomes a murder weapon in the latest cozy mystery from the national bestselling author of Snow Way Out and The Iced Princess.Mayor Lewis Frost has always been known as Frosty to his friends--not that he has many these days. Controversies swirling around the city council have members wondering if Frosty is trying to snow them. After one councilman storms off in a huff, the mayor turns to curio shop manager Camryn Brooks and asks her to consider taking a seat on the council. Later, when Cami goes to his office to discuss the proposal, her blood runs cold. She finds Frosty dead, and the very snow globe she sold him earlier that day lies in sparkling shards on his carpet--along with a large diamond. Does the snow globe--which features a peculiar tableau of an armed man and three menacing bears--hold a clue to Frosty's demise? One way or another, it's up to Cami to shake things up before the killer's trail goes cold...Snow globe-making projects and tips included! From the Paperback edition.
The Iced Princess
by Christine HusomThe national bestselling author of Snow Way Out returns with more sparkling snow globes and cold-blooded murder...It's that time of the year again--the Christmas rush is about to begin, and curio shop owner Camryn Brooks and her BFF, coffee shop owner Alice "Pinky" Nelson, need to hire additional help. Their former high-school classmate, Molly Dalton, is not exactly who they had in mind. Has the rich socialite worked a day in her life? But Molly practically begs for the job.On her first day, Molly seems to be in her own little world, and Cami worries that her new employee may flake out. The problem turns out to be far worse than that when Cami discovers Molly dead in the back of the shop, after drinking a poisoned cup of coffee. Soon there is an avalanche of suspects as Cami starts shoveling through the clues--including a shattered snow globe of Marilyn Monroe. Now Cami will have to venture out of her safety zone before the pathological poisoner stirs up more trouble...Snow globe-making projects and tips included!From the Paperback edition.