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Alias #20: Strategic Reserve
by Christina F. York J. J. AbramsAn oil pipeline leak in the Gulf of Mexico looks like sabotage, and APO is assigned to find the source using any means necessary. Sydney and Dixon visit the drilling platform and discover a likely suspect, but before they can corner him, he flees...in the APO helicopter. It seems the attack was a practice run for something bigger, and Sydney and Dixon must determine the real target before time runs out. There are other matters on the agents' minds too -- Dixon is concerned about his son, Steven, and Sydney is led to wonder, not for the first time, what it would be like to have a "normal" family. But there's no time for wistful thinking when the saboteurs' plot becomes clear...and threatens to throw the country into total chaos.
Alias #21: Once Lost
by Kirsten Beyer J. J. AbramsA strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market, and the seller has showcased the wares by infecting an African village. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. Out in the field again, Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles. Magrite has a dark secret that forces Sydney to confront her past, even as APO races to stop the distribution of a new and terrifying weapon.
Alias #22: Namesakes
by Greg Cox J. J. AbramsWhat's in a name? Apparently everything. A killer is targeting women in the Los Angeles area who share a name with Sydney Bristow's former aliases. Sydney wants the case, but she's already hot on the heels of a terrorist armed with a secret formula for a super-explosive. While Sydney and Dixon try to prevent the terrorist from creating a man-made tsunami aimed at the United States, Weiss and Nadia are tasked with catching the Alias Killer. Jack and Vaughn quietly embark on their own investigation into the alias killings and begin to suspect that the murderer may be an ex-coworker resentful of Sydney for shutting down the shadow organization SD-6 years ago. As Sydney struggles to stay focused and stop a ruthless man with mass destruction on his mind, she can't help but wonder, Will APO find the Alias Killer before another one of my unsuspecting namesakes pays the price?
Alias #23: Old Friends
by J. J. Abrams Steven HannaA terrorist cell based in China called Dark Cloud has devised a plan to release a deadly poison on entire nations using rocket technology. In true six degrees-of-separation style, Agent Sydney Bristow's friend from graduate school, Keiko Terajima, happens to be the daughter of a prominent Japanese physicist, and Dark Cloud needs his top-secret knowledge to carry out its devious plan. What's more, Keiko's married to Franklin, the son of an old colleague Jack Bristow killed years ago to protect Sydney. When APO learns that Franklin is part of an elite group of agents who marry women to gain access to information, Sydney begins to question his true intentions with Keiko. Tracing the connections leads deeper and deeper into the terrorists' plot -- with Keiko's father and husband at the centre. Suddenly, Sydney finds herself on a mission not only to prevent the poisonous rain from devastating a country, but to save her loved ones as well.
Alias #24: The Ghost
by J. J. Abrams Brian StudlerThe Ghost, a legendary figure who has gone by so many aliases his real identity is a mystery, has created a double-edged hallucinogen that is both a blessing to psychiatry and a powerful weapon that can ignite mass hysteria. When the mad scientist is double-crossed by one of his own minions, Agent Sydney Bristow must accompany him to his undercover clinic in Switzerland and help him learn which of his protégés stole the drug and sold it to a chemical weapons dealer. However, this plan doesn't sit well with Jack Bristow, who shares a past with the Ghost. . . . In fact, he thought he killed the man in a Vietnamese jungle years ago. Now Jack must determine if his mind is playing tricks on him, or if their wartime encounter was just another one of the Ghost's twisted psychological experiments. . . .
Alias #25: Mind Games
by Paul Ruditis J. J. AbramsAgents Sydney Bristow and Marcus Dixon are hot on the trail of a drug lord who has created a mind-control drug so potent that in the wrong hands it could be one of the world's most dangerous bioweapons. Determined to halt production of the substance, the agents go undercover as dealers. Their approach proves to be successful when the drug lord invites them to his estate -- the perfect chance for Sydney to snoop around and find the location of the main lab. But things don't go quite as planned. A government agency interferes with APO's mission; Sydney is forced to ingest a dose of the drug and commanded to turn on her APO counterparts; Dixon is taken hostage; and someone believed to be an ally turns out to be more foe than friend....
Alias #26: A Touch of Death
by Christina F. York J. J. AbramsA brilliant Alliance geneticist who disappeared years ago walks into a police station in Siberia wearing a hazmat suit and claims to be responsible for the deaths of his wife and three children. But before he can be questioned, he is kidnapped by his former employer, Gai Dong Jing, an ex-Alliance officer who is head of a terrorist network conducting bioweapon research of deadly proportions. With the threat of a worldwide epidemic looming, Sydney and the APO team must locate Jing and decode the toxic scientist's medical diary, which holds the answers to the virus he carries and the fate of the scientist's family. In the meantime, the highly contagious geneticist plans to rid himself of his illness in the most unimaginable way....
Alias Basil Willing
by Helen McCloyPsychiatrist-sleuth Dr Basil Willing is in a tobacconist's in Manhattan when another customer follows him into the shop, buys cigarettes, and leaves in a hurry. The man hails a taxi to take him to 51st street with the instruction: 'Come back and call for me; I am Dr Basil Willing.'Intrigued, the real Basil Willing hails a second taxi and finds himself at a formal dinner party given by a psychiatrist for his patients, who do not really seem at ease there - and later he discovers the horrifying reason why ...
Alias Emma
by Ava GlassEn equilibrio perfecto entre KILLING EVE y JAMES BOND, Alias Emma es una lectura exhilarante y propulsiva protagonizada por una espía tremendamente ingeniosa. Emma Makepeace tiene 12 horas para cruzar Londres con un activo al que ha de proteger. Para ello, deberá de esquivar todas las cámaras de la ciudad, pues Rusia las ha hackeado para encontrarla. Emma está a punto de pasar la noche más larga de su vida... Si sobrevive a ella. Nada sobre Emma Makepeace es real, ni siquiera su nombre. Es agente secreta y trabaja para la Agencia, una misteriosa organización gubernamental que acaba de encargarle su primera misión de envergadura. Su objetivo: poner a salvo a un hombre inocente, Michael Primalov, perseguido por el servicio secreto ruso. Para ello, deberán moverse sin ser descubiertos a través de Londres, una de las urbes más vigiladas del mundo. Pero cuando el enemigo hackea el famoso «anillo de acero» de la capital británica, Emma y Michael se ven obligados a evitar los cientos de miles de cámaras que documentan cada rincón. Su intención es llegar a la sede del MI6 antes del amanecer, pero los espías rusos les pisan los talones y la situación se recrudece cuando Emma pierde todo contacto con su enlace en la Agencia. Todo depende de ella. Y cualquier paso en falso hará que los maten. La crítica ha dicho:«Un thriller perfecto para los fans de la serie 24».Fortune «Alias Emma es uno de esos thrillers magníficos que te lees en un día y recuerdas durante años. Emma Makepeace es una excelente candidata para recoger el testigo de James Bond».James Patterson «Una lectura emocionante... ¡No podría haberme gustado más!».Lisa Jewell «Es adicción total. Una vez que empiezas a leer, ya no puedes parar».Lisa Gardner «Es un THRILLER con mayúsculas».Jonathan Kellerman «El ritmo de esta lectura jamás te da tregua».Robert Gold «Me dejó sin palabras».Cristina Alger «Apártate, James Bond... Hay una nueva heroína en la ciudad».Karen Cleveland
Alias Emma: A Novel
by Ava Glass&“A thrilling read . . . I could not have loved it more.&”—LISA JEWELL&“Emma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James Bond mantle.&”—JAMES PATTERSONIn this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city&’s security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed?Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth, she dives in headfirst. Emma must covertly travel across one of the world&’s most watched cities to bring the reluctant—and handsome—son of Russian dissidents into protective custody, so long as the assassins from the Motherland don&’t find him first. With London&’s famous Ring of Steel hacked by the Russian government, the two must cross the city without being seen by the hundreds of thousands of CCTV cameras that document every inch of the city&’s streets, alleys, and gutters. Buses, subways, cars, and trains are out of the question. Traveling on foot, and operating without phones or bank cards that could reveal their location or identity, they have twelve hours to make it to safety. This will take all of Emma&’s skills of disguise and subterfuge. But when Emma&’s handler goes dark, there&’s no one left to trust. And just one wrong move will get them both killed.
Alias Grace: A Novel
by Margaret AtwoodThe bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
Alias Mommy
by Linda O. JohnstonRugged doctor Reeve Snyder had saved her and delivered her baby girl. He was her hero-the kind of man she would have liked to have as a friend...a lover...a father for her baby. If only....Polly Black had been running from something-someone-when the accident had landed her in Reeve's care. He didn't want her gratitude; he wanted the truth, and he wanted her-for the three of them to be a family. Somehow he had to convince Polly that the only place worth running to...was straight into his arms.
Alias. Obra completa en colaboración
by Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy CasaresUN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La obra completa que escribieron juntos dos de los autores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX, ganadores del Premio Cervantes y del Nacional de Literatura CON PRÓLOGO DE ALAN PAULS «Borges y Bioy me enseñaron no sólo a escribir y leer, sino también a mirar el mundo».Antonio Muñoz Molina No ha existido en la literatura en español una amistad literaria tan notable y fértil como la que mantuvieron a lo largo de cincuenta años dos de los escritores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX: Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Cuando se conocieron, Borges era un autor de éxito, quince años mayor que Bioy, un joven fascinado por el surrealismo. Éste fue el comienzo de una asociación excepcional en la que inicialmente Borges adoptó el papel de mentor, pero poco a poco empezó a darse un aprendizaje mutuo. De esta colaboración surgieron una decena de títulos, entre los que se encuentran relatos fantásticos y novelas policíacas. El primero de sus libros en común, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, está protagonizado por un singular detective que resuelve casos sin moverse de la cárcel. Todas estas obras extraordinarias, creadas no por Borges ni por Bioy sino por «un tercer escritor» que aúna las mejores cualidades de ambos, y publicadas bajo los alias de Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch o por sus identidades reales, se reúnen ahora después de mucho tiempo en un único volumen prologado por Alan Pauls. La crítica ha dicho:«La suya fue una escritura monstruosa por poco frecuente y por desatada, y su producto, los hijos de la imaginación de ese escritor que algunos llaman “Biorges”, monstruosos. [...] Borges más Bioy es deliciosamente barroco, y a menudo los argumentos yacen bajo una acumulación ingente de chistes públicos y privados, eufemismos torpes y travestismo lingüístico que los hacen incomprensibles».Patricio Pron, La Vanguardia «Dos grandes de la literatura en español regresan con su obra cómplice y conjunta, una sinergia creadora nunca igualada. [...] Una lectura fulgurante».Santiago Ortiz Lerín, La Opinión de Málaga «Eran el mismo otro: un tercer escritor, inasimilable a uno tanto como al otro, profundamente excéntrico. De ahí que Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch sean algo más que seudónimos. Son escritores de derecho, tan autores como los autores que los inventaron».Alan Pauls «Empezamos a escribir de un modo que no se parecía ni a Bioy ni a Borges. Creamos de algún modo entre los dos un tercer personaje [...]. Ese personaje existe, de algún modo. Pero sólo existe cuando estamos conversando».Jorge Luis Borges «Borges y Bioy Casares: la fiesta de dos monstruos. [...] No hay entretenimiento comparable al de descubrirlos».Luis Chitarroni, Clarín «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes».Mario Vargas Llosa «Me gustaría ser Adolfo Bioy Casares. Quisiera ser Bioy porque siempre lo admiré como escritor y lo estimé como persona».Julio Cortázar «Borges es uno de los autores más extraordinarios del siglo XX».The New York Times «Bioy Casares tiene un encanto, un siniestro ingenio y una tristeza repentina que sólo un gran maestro de las letras puede ofrecernos».John Updike, The New Yorker «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos fascina. [...] Cumple con nuestro anhelo esencial en cuanto a las razones por que leemos».Harold Bloom
Alias the Lone Wolf: Large Print (Lone Wolf #3)
by Louis Joseph VanceOn the brink of retirement, the Lone Wolf risks everything for loveNearly forty years old, the Lone Wolf is, as his British Secret Service friend Wertheimer puts it, &“superannuated.&” His last adventure involved not just the surprise of meeting his grown daughter, but the twin shocks of seeing her fall in love with a secret agent and risk her own death at the hands of murderous Bolsheviks. The excitement has left Lanyard—or Monsieur Duchemin, as the British government prefers to know him—feeling slow and cranky. There is nothing to do, suggests Wertheimer, but retire from undercover work and leave England for good. Wertheimer more than suggests this, in fact; he demands it—for the Russians have made it known that they intend to kill the Lone Wolf and will tear apart London and every other corner of the British Isles to find him.Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson&’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Lanyard heads to the South of France. Hiking alone in the mountains, he goes to bed with the birds, rises with the sun, and considers what to do with the rest of his life. Visions of a dusty Parisian antique shop and Sunday afternoons with his grandchildren delight the Lone Wolf, but fate has something altogether different in store. In the eerie rock field of Montpellier-le-Vieux, he rescues a beautiful woman and her traveling party from highway bandits. Then the real danger begins.This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Alias the Saint
by Leslie CharterisSimon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.In three more classic tales, the Saint continues to push his luck in his own inimitable style. The Story of a Dead Man sees the Saint in a more mundane line of work - running an office and writing letters to the editor - until Inspector Teal comes to investigate the mysterious Mr Vanney and the Saint's real intentions come to light. In The Impossible Crime, a bored Saint tackles a most unlikely mystery: a man who has somehow been shot in a locked room. And in The National Debt Simon Templar stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things is happening . . . another job for the Saint!
Alibi
by Sydney Bauer"There she lay, her neck placed at a devilish angle on the Death Stone which acted like a pillow. " Set amongst the hallowed grounds of Deane University, the most expensive college in the country, America's privileged youth must allow nothing to jeopardise their chances to succeed. Nineteen-year-old Jessica Nagoshi, in her third year of economics at Deane, is the beautiful and intelligent heiress to her father's multi-million dollar empire and is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. David Cavanaugh, Boston's most sought-after defence attorney, is unwittingly forced into this high-society murder case when he must defend his young protégé James Matheson, final year law student at Deane. For in James he sees traces of his younger self - Matheson is dedicated, ambitious and unsullied by the nuances of a system more often driven by politics than justice. From the outset David realises the odds are against him. Unspoken alliances, corporate secrets, love, lust and a disastrous misplace of trust lead David down a road where nothing is as it seems.
The Alibi
by Sandra BrownFresh from her bestselling triumphs Unspeakable and Fat Tuesday, the incomparable Sandra Brown delivers her latest #1 blockbuster of high-voltage suspense. The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney--if he wins the case. His investigation turns up no shortage of people who wanted Pettijohn dead. But when the prime suspect turns out to be a mysterious woman who holds the secret that can shatter Hammond's ambitions, he faces a moral dilemma and a haunting question: Was he set up to be the perfect alibi?
The Alibi
by Sandra BrownNumber One New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another suspenseful thrillerBorn into a fine old Charleston family, Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney - without sacrificing his integrity. Prosecuting the sensational murder of a real estate magnate could be his ticket into office. Yet, while Hammond anticipates his success, someone near him is plotting his downfall. Is it Steffi Mundell, colleague, ex-lover and rival? Rory Smilow, homicide detective and Hammonds avowed enemy? Is it the dead man's widow, wily, beautiful and Hammond's lifelong friend? Or is it Hammond's prime suspect, the mysterious woman who shares the secret that would be fatal to Hammond's ambitions? Praise for Sandra Brown 'Suspense that has teeth' Stephen King 'Lust, jealousy, and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller' Publishers Weekly 'An edge-of-the-seat thriller that's full of twists . . . Top stuff!' Star
Alibi (Orca Currents)
by Kristin ButcherFifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town's ghost walk, which gives Christine the opportunity to meet local characters and visitors, including a mysterious young man who seems to know far too much about the crimes. When the pickpocket targets Aunt Maude's store, Christine is determined to find out who is behind the thefts. Her search takes her through the nooks and crannies of the quaint town full of stories, and she unearths more than one surprise.
Alibi: A Novel
by Joseph KanonFrom the acclaimed author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in post-WWII Venice.It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his socialite mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a US Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he must confront the dark secrets lurking just beneath the city’s charms.Adam begins to see another Venice, one still at war with itself and haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, including his mother’s suave new Venetian suitor, has been compromised by the occupation, and Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi? Winner of the Hammett Prize
Alibi
by Teri WoodsTwo men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords. But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as they break into the stash house. Temperatures flare as the men capture Shuller's worker, Poncho, and force him to show them the goods. What they didn't expect was for Poncho's partner to be armed and very dangerous. An altercation breaks out and when the smoke clears, Nard, Poncho's accomplice, is the only one left standing. Thinking quickly, Nard cleans shop and makes his escape, but not before being spotted by a few neighbors. Not wanting to kill anyone else, he makes a mad dash for the streets but wonders if the witnesses will give up his identity. What he needs now is a plausible alibi. If he doesn't come up with one fast, it could mean life in prison, or death on the streets.
The Alibi Club
by Francine MathewsIt's the city's most infamous after-hours haunt--a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club...for there's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong. His murder and the desperate attempt to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands will bring together the strands of a twisted plot of betrayal, passion, and espionage--one connected to the Alibi Club...and to the most explosive secret of the war. As the Nazis march on Paris and the crisis escalates, four remarkable characters are swept into the maelstrom. Their courage will change the course of history. Epic and yet intimate, a seamless blend of fact and fiction based on a little-known episode of the war,The Alibi Club is a thriller of fierce and complex suspense by a writer whose own life in the spy world makes espionage come uniquely alive.
Alibi for an Actress
by Gillian B. Farrell Jane CheliusActress Annie McGrogan is "between things"—down to her last subway token ana a maxed-out credit card—when she sees the magazine story on J. "Duke" DeNobili, ex-cop turned successful PI. Three days later, she's the new partner to big, basso-voiced ex-cop Sonny Gandolfo, all-around good guy and Brooklyn-Bronx-Queens seducer. The assignment—protect Lucinda Merrill, sexy star of the popular daytime soap, Forever and Ever, from a threatening fan—proves to be a dull night of door-watching. The fireworks come in the morning, when Lucinda's wandering husband is found dead, murdered in his sleazy East Side pied a terre. At the scene, witnesses claim to have seen Lucinda grab a cab and flee into the night. While Forever and Ever's producers exult in the lurid headlines that send their ratings soaring, Annie McGrogan gives a triumphant, funny, heart-stopping performance to trap a murderer in a kinky case that only she—with her command of the actor's art—can solve.
Alibi for Isabel: And Other Stories
by Mary Roberts RinehartNine short stories from one of the nation's finest mystery authorsWhen her husband demands a divorce, a young wife heads to Reno alone, leaving the baby with her husband and his new beloved, betting that a week trapped between his child and his mistress will make her hubby yearn for her return. By the sea, a hairdresser gets into mischief over a star sports fisherman. And in a city threatened by conflict, a World War I veteran tries to make himself useful by enforcing the blackout.These are just a few of the scenes from the short fiction of Mary Roberts Rinehart, who in these nine brief tales shows why she was one of the nation's most popular authors for so many decades. Though famous as a mystery writer, Rinehart is just as much at home writing drama, or taking a witty look at the lighter side of law and order. More than a century since she published her first story, Rinehart's prose remains as sharp as an assassin's blade.