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Satan's Lullaby (Medieval Mysteries #11)
by Priscilla RoyalIt is the autumn of 1278. The harvest is in. The air is crisp. Dusty summer breathes a last sigh before the dark seasons arrive.For Prioress Eleanor, dark times arrive early in Norfolk. Abbess Isabeau, the head of her order, has sent Father Etienne Davoir from its headquarters in France to inspect all aspects of Tyndal Priory from its morals to its roofs. Surely the Abbess would not have chosen her own brother for this rare and thorough investigation unless the cause was serious and she had reason to fear intervention from Rome. Prioress Eleanor knows something is terribly amiss.The situation turns calamitous when Davoir's sick clerk dies from a potion sent by Sister Anne, Tyndale's sub-infirmarian. Is Sister Anne guilty of simple incompetence - or murder? Or, Davoir asks, did Prioress Eleanor order the death to frighten him away before he discovered the truth behind accusations she is unfit for her position? When Davoir himself is threatened, the priest roars for justice. Even expectant father Crowner Ralf, the local representative of the king's justice, has lost all objectivity. The most likely suspects are Anne, the woman Ralf once loved, the prioress he respects, and the Tyndal monk, Thomas, who is his closest friend. Who among the French and English assembled at Tyndal has succumbed to Satan's lullaby?
Satan's Sabbath (The Executioner #38)
by Don PendletonIn New York the Executioner brings his war to an explosive end Every day this week, one of the last great Mafia outfits has fallen. All that remains is New York, whose dons no longer believe the one-man army known as Mack Bolan even exists. They will soon find that he is very real—and that their most trusted hit man of all is working on the Executioner&’s side. Ever since his war began, Bolan has known that it would end in death—either for him or for the Mafia itself. Lured by the promise of amnesty into working for the US government, he will make this his final, most incredible mission. One way or another, Mack Bolan is finished—but the Executioner&’s war will live forever. Satan&’s Sabbath is the 38th book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Satan's Spy
by André Le GalloWe first meet Steve Church on a business trip in Bahrain where terrorists attempt to take over the hotel where he is staying. Using prior CIA training and tradecraft, Steve is able to blunt the attack until the police arrive. On the same day, the Director of the National Clandestine Service at the CIA calls to tell him that she wants to see him urgently. Steve, not knowing the nature of her interest, is conflicted. He is not wild about getting involved again with an overly bureaucratic CIA, and he knows that another CIA assignment would kill his relationship with his live-in girl friend Kella, a former French intelligence officer. Nevertheless, without being an adrenalin junky, he prefers the excitement of the CIA to working for West Gate, a defense contractor, where he is a fast tracker. Initially astonished and dejected that Steve will again risk his life to obtain information that policy makers will ignore, Kella is unable to change Steve's mind. Not willing to break off the relationship, Kella executes a mental somersault and recruits herself to go with Steve as his communicator.Meanwhile in Iran, the man who will become Steve's nemesis, Ali Mousavi, captures, interrogates and executes a scientist suspected of working for the CIA, the Great Satan's spy agency. He also orders a young American with uncertain loyalties, to Tehran from his home in California to work on a special project. Although Steve's father Marshall is now semi-retired from the CIA (does a spy ever retire?), he recruits an Iranian intelligence operative on a secret mission to the United States. Without a permanent presence in Iran, the CIA turns to Steve to handle the new agent (XYSENTINEL) in Tehran. Under business cover, Steve and Kella take over the case in Tehran. Their initial goal is to collect intelligence on Iran's nuclear plans and capabilities. Instead, they learn that Iran is preparing a massive cyber attack against the United States. Iran's theocracy, humiliated by the American Navy's control of the Persian Gulf, feels that anonymous cyber warfare is the card to play to force the Great Satan' to withdraw from the region. From the start, external factors begin to trump Steve's clandestine tradecraft. At stake is the future of the Middle East, the health of America's economy, and the lives of Steve and Kella. Today's headlines will take on an entirely new meaning after you read Satan's Spy.
Satan's Womb: You can escape everywhere and from everything but not from Humanity ...
by Pier-Giorgio TomatisSatan's Womb by Pier-Giorgio Tomatis You can escape everywhere and from everything but not from Humanity ... Satan's Womb Nicholas Marshall suffers a series of attacks from which he barely saves his life. He decides to flee Portland to go to Satan's Womb and find protection there. The structure, a huge building built inside Mount Withney, offers refuge and all sorts of fun. After an initial period of euphoria, the novel's protagonist will realize that he has landed in a place where his life will be worth very little. Love will save him ... while it lasts.
The Satapur Moonstone (A Perveen Mistry Novel #2)
by Sujata MasseyThe highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill.India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse?
Satin Doll
by Maggie DavisThe award-winning author of Satin Dreams delivers a novel that delves into the dark side of a famous model&’s picture-perfect life. Samantha Whitfield is a highly successful fashion model, traveling from New York to Paris to London as part of her glamorous high-profile career. Her face is the one every photographer needs; her body what every designer imagines. She plays for keeps in the fast paced game of the fashion glitterati—-only to risk it all on the demands of her own insatiable passions. Her world is fraught with the illicit dangers of sex and drugs, millionaires, and hangers-on. A dazzling whirlwind of high fashion and high stakes, where everyone is willing to succeed--at any cost.
Satin Dreams
by Maggie DavisAlix is on her way to becoming the hottest fashion model in Paris. She has success, power, beauty--and a dark secret. She is running away from a past she refuses to accept and a man she refuses to be tamed by. Serving as the model for the first American fashion house opening in Paris, Alix must use her unusual beauty and skills to help with the launch, or else it will end in dismal failure. Can she resist the dark eyes of the mysterious man who haunts her and escape her past?
Satisfaction Delivered (Triggerman Inc. #3)
by Marie HarteThe conclusion to TRIGGERMAN INC, a romantic suspense series about sexy assassins and a baby from New York Times bestseller Marie Harte. Three assassins and a baby...are up against a cold-blooded murderer.Hammer won't rest until he finds the woman who betrayed the team, who betrayed him. From the first, he hadn't welcomed his feelings for the supposed nurse. After what she did to the team, he feels both foolish and angry, falling for a pretty face. The need for revenge is all consuming—he’s not known as the Destroyer for nothing. But with so much danger on the horizon, his sexy prey will have to wait. The conspiracy behind a baby found on his friend's doorstep is narrowing, and answers are coming fast and furious. Assassins have targeted Hammer and the organization he works for, and no one is safe. To Hammer's shock, at the center of it all is the woman he can’t stop thinking about. But can he trust her when it's more than just his love and life on the line?
Satisfaction (A Lawless Novel)
by Lexi BlakeThe sizzling second novel in a sexy new contemporary romance series featuring the Lawless siblings—from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.Brandon Lawless is a man on a mission: obtain the information that will clear his father’s name. He’s willing to do whatever it takes—even seduce his enemy’s personal assistant, the beautiful and innocent Carly Hendricks. But with her beguiling smile and captivating intelligence, Brandon soon realizes he doesn’t want to deceive Carly, he wants to win her over—both in the boardroom and the bedroom. Then a twisted crime leaves Carly vulnerable and Brandon finds himself reeling. The stakes of his mission are now life or death—Carly’s life. And Brandon realizes he’s lost his heart to an amazing woman and his plan must succeed, because the stakes are no longer just revenge, but a once in a lifetime love.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Satori
by Trevanian Don WinslowA gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom.Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before...Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept.Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?
Satori
by Trevanian Don WinslowA gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom.Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before...Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept.Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?(P)2011 Headline Digital
Satoshi Kon's Opus
by Satoshi KonBrilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon&’s OPUS, an omnibus collection of a two-volume manga from 1996, created by Kon on the eve of his first film. OPUS contains the mastery of both realism and surrealism that would make Kon famous in Perfect Blue, as a manga artist planning a shocking surprise ending to his story gets literally pulled into his own work—to face for himself what he had planned for his characters!* Satoshi Kon was a Time magazine 2010 Person of the Year.* Kon was eulogized by director Darren Aronofsky.* Kon was a chief assistant to Katsuhiro Otomo on the Akiramanga.
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12)
by Alexander McCall SmithTHE TWELFTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one where Mma Makutsi gets married . . . As the countdown to Mma Makutsi's big day begins, Violet Sephotho, her former rival for the affections of Phuti Radiphuti, is up to no good as usual. And will Mma Makutsi bury her differences with pushy Mma Potokwani, who has offered to help with the wedding feast?Meanwhile Mma Ramotswe is called away on a case at a southern cattle post, and Charlie has again got himself in a bit of bother with a young lady. At least they all have the happy occasion to look forward to . . .
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12)
by Alexander McCall SmithAs the countdown to Mma Makutsi's wedding begins, all is not as it should be at the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. While investigating unpleasant occurrences on a southern cattle-post, Mma Ramotswe, always on the side of the weak against the strong, has reason to reflect on Rule No.3 of The Principles of Private Detection: never lie to the client. Apprentice mechanic Charlie seems to be avoiding certain important responsibilities. And as Mma Makutsi's big day approaches, her nemesis Violet Sephotho is casting her net wider: by standing for election which could spell trouble for the entire nation. But as friends and family gather under starry African night skies, it turns out that even the most perplexing of apparitions - and the most shocking of crimes - may yield to rational explanation. And, of course, to Mma Ramotswe's inimitable way with love, intuition and redbush tea.
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #12)
by Alexander Mccall SmithThe twelfth installment in the beloved, bestselling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a profoundly touching tale of the human heart.Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve it), Mma Makutsi wonders whether her dream will turn out to be prophetic as well.They can only wait and see, but, in the meantime, one of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices has gotten a girl pregnant and, under pressure to marry her, has run away. Naturally, it is up to Precious and Grace to help the couple work things out. In other developments, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy in which cattle are being poisoned. Add to the mix Violet Sephotho's newly begun, already unstoppable run for the Botswana Parliament and the possibility that wedding bells may finally ring for Phuti Radiphuti and Grace Makutsi -- whose love for each other is as great as their love for Botswana -- and we have a charming and delightful tale from the inimitable Alexander McCall Smith.From the Hardcover edition.
Saturday Bloody Saturday
by Alastair Campbell Paul FletcherFootball manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work, but tensions are running close to the surface ahead of the next round: Chelsea away. Footballers fall into two categories: artists or assassins. Soon Charlie is going to find out which players can deliver - and just how much pressure they can all stand.Meanwhile, as the country prepares for a general election, one of the most dangerous political assassinations in the IRA's history is being planned in London. An active service unit await the critical signal to proceed...Both sides will converge on the capital for a result that will shake everyone's lives, with consequences far beyond football.
Saturday Bloody Saturday
by Alastair Campbell Paul FletcherFebruary 1974. Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling, and with each defeat the sack gets closer. His greatness as a player counts for nothing with directors or fans, or the Number 2 who is after his job. Things are no better off the field, and after a failed marriage and the loss of a child, he is taking more and more consolation in alcohol.Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work. But how to turn things around with the same players who got him here in the first place? Can he trust this remarkable but often unreliable mix of characters to save him? Footballers fall into two categories - artists or assassins. With the next round of the Cup at Chelsea away he will soon find out which of his players, from homesick teenage starlet Willie Buchanan, to playboy record signing DD Marland, can deliver for him.Meanwhile, as the country prepares for a general election, one of the most audacious and high-profile political assassinations in the IRA's history is being planned in London. An active service unit of two men and a woman await the critical signal to proceed. Now both teams - the IRA's and Charlie's - converge on the capital for a result that will alter everyone's lives irrevocably, with consequences far beyond football.Read by Jonathan Keeble(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case (Michael Ohayon Series #1)
by Batya GurFrom award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, Batya Gur, comes a hair-raising mystery in which Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon’s detective skills are put to the ultimate test.When Dr. Eva Neidorf is found dead on the morning that she is to give a lecture to the Jerusalem Psychoanalytic Society, Chief Inspector Michael Ohayon investigates—revealing, along the way, intimate details about his own life. As he works around the clock to find the killer, he must also solve the riddle of the enigmatic self-contained world of the Psychoanalytic Society. A fast-paced, chilling, labyrinthine mystery, Saturday Morning Mystery attests to Batya Gur’s suspense writing genius in another fascinating, unforgettable novel.
Saturday Night Dead (The Harvey Blissberg Mysteries #3)
by R. D. RosenA late-night TV executive falls to his death, and Blissberg must crack the case before the killer has the last laughWhen Harvey Blissberg is hired by Roy Ganz, the pretentious, pint-size producer of a legendary but fading late-night network comedy show, he has no idea that he&’s about to walk right into a television tragedy. The private eye thinks he&’s doing a short, easy job by dragging a missing guest host out of a Times Square bar. The show goes well but just as the cast and crew start to celebrate, Ganz exits a twenty-fourth floor window, plunging faster than his show&’s ratings. Hastily hired by the network to conduct a discreet investigation, Blissberg slowly makes his way through the show&’s ragtag roster of writers and actors, many of who would have relished a chance to defenestrate their manipulative boss. The joke&’s on Blissberg, however, when he&’s forced to make an unexpected detour back to the early days of television.
Saturday Scare (Juli Scott, Book #6)
by Colleen L. ReeceJuniors at last! Juli Scott, Shannon Riley, and their friends look forward to the new school year--especially when their most-awesome youth group leader, Kareem Thompson, offers to take them all to Mount Rainier to enjoy the early snowfall! As Juli and her friends enjoy the great outdoors, an unexpected blizzard suddenly leaves the group stranded--and brings unwelcome guests seeking shelter in their mountain cabin. Snowbound, super sleuth Juli must swallow her own panic and tackle head-on a case that could be far more serious than a simple Saturday Scare!
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry: Friday The Rabbi Slept Late, Saturday The Rabbi Went Hungry, Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home, And Monday The Rabbi Took Off (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #2)
by Harry KemelmanRabbi Small returns in this New York Times-bestselling novel to investigate a mysterious death on the Day of Atonement The day before Yom Kippur, the synagogue sound system is on the blink, the floral arrangements are in disarray, and a member of Rabbi David Small's congregation--in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing--is terribly concerned with how much a Torah weighs. The rabbi is determined not to let these mundane concerns ruin his day of prayer and contemplation. But the holiest day of the Jewish year is interrupted when a member of the congregation is found dead in his car. Details emerge that suggest the man may have killed himself, but the rabbi's wife suspects murder. Which is it? Rabbi Small kicks into high detective gear to find out. His search for the culprit among the small town's cast of eccentric characters leads to nail-biting suspense in this highly entertaining and engrossing mystery.
Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
by Harry KemelmanSaturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard's Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it accidental. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small's pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it's murder. Now it's up to him to prove her right. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Harry Kemelman has a B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. in English philology from Harvard. Kemelman taught at a number of schools before World War II and during the war, Kemelman worked as a wage administrator for the United States Army Transportation Corps in Boston and later, for the War Assets Administration. It was after that war that Kemelman became a freelance writer and private businessman. He began his writing career by writing short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring New England college professor Nicky Welt, the first of which, "The Nine Mile Walk", is considered a classic. He was the creator of one of the most famous religious sleuths, Rabbi David Small--the key figure in his Rabbi series.
Saturday's Child (Cal Innes, #1)
by Ray Banks<p> The first novel in Ray Banks's highly acclaimed Cal Innes series.</p> <p> Cal Innes is fresh out of Strangeways, playing PI and running from a past muddied with ties to local ganglord Uncle Morris Tiernan. When Tiernan tells him to track down a rogue casino dealer who s absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan s psychotic son. Finding the thief proves potentially fatal as the case points north to Newcastle and the sordid truth threatens to put blood on his hands. With Tiernan s son on his tail, and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back on the spurs, Saturday s child definitely has to work hard to keep living.</p> <p> PRAISE FOR RAY BANKS'S CAL INNES NOVELS</p> <p> "Ray Banks writes with harshness, humour and elegance, and his punchy dialogue teems with vigorous authenticity." – The Times</p> <p> "Tough and assured . . . Banks is updating the noir novel with an utterly original sensibility."<br /> - Publisher's Weekly</p> <p> "Bleakly, desperately funny, Ray Banks offers us a glimpse of what Samuel Beckett might have read like had he turned his hand to crime fiction."<br /> - Crime Always Pays</p> <p> "Ray Banks’s writing is a dark delight, and 'Saturday's Child' is like blunt surgery from a cricket bat. Fast, hard, packed with madcap violence and twisted humor, it’s a bone-jarring ride through England’s bleak underbelly."<br /> - Patrick Quinlan, author of Smoked</p> <p> "'Saturday's Child' is a knock-out, written with the kind of energy and passion that far too few writers can muster. Fresh and fierce, it raises the bar for hardboiled fiction on both sides of the Atlantic."<br /> - New York Times Bestseller Laura Lippman, author of What The Dead Know</p> <p> "Banks wields language with a knifefighter's precision, with much the same result. From the first words to the last, this book flashes brilliantly."</p> <p> - Don Winslow, The Power Of The Dog and The Winter of Frankie Machine.</p> <p> "Banks is part of the post-Rankin generation for whom hardboiled is not just a state of mind but a reality. Tough-guy colloquial prose and a pace fast enough to skin a rabbit, at the service of a tale of down-and-dirty realism: this is fiery stuff."<br /> - Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian</p> <p> "The writing's so urgent, so brutal, and just so obscenely real that it creates a whole new kind of 'dark' for a genre that's become a trifle stagnated in recent years. Hence this is a book anyone who's fallen out of love with the genre in these recent times, where the old quality has been severely lacking, simply needs to read."<br /> - Chris Pickering, Bookmunch</p> <p> "...terrific, brooding and chilling prose"<br /> -Tom Adair, The Scotsman</p> <p> "...a fine example of energetic, visceral and compelling storytelling... This is properly thrilling stuff."<br /> - The Big Issue In Scotland</p> <p> "Let's make this official then: 'Saturday's Child' is not only an excellent book, but it manages to do something which is damn near impossible to pull off: keep straight two first-person POVs written in different tenses and completely different dialects. Wait for the cricket bat, but the real gems are the incredibly strong voice, Cal's further descent into hell and how profoundly screwed up families can really be."<br /> - Sarah Weinman in her Idiosyncratic Pick Of The Week.</p> <p> <br /> About the author:</p> <p> Ray Banks is the author of the Cal Innes Quartet (SATURDAY'S CHILD, SUCKER PUNCH, NO MORE HEROES, BEAST OF BURDEN), DEAD MONEY, WOLF TICKETS, MATADOR, INSIDE STRAIGHT, the novellas GUN and CALIFORNIA, and the short story collections WRONG 'EM BOYO and DIRTY WORK. He lives in Edinburgh.</p>
The Saturn House Killings: A brand new chilling and spine-tingling crime thriller
by V.J. RandleMysterious deaths on a Greek island may have a connection to ancient mythology, in this police thriller by the author of The Athenian Murders. On the island of Aegina, a body&’s been found on the beach. The Special Violent Crime Squad is brought in to investigate. The cause of death is drowning, but the circumstances are cause for alarm. As bodies begin to pile up, there&’s a growing number of suspects. The motive becomes increasingly difficult to determine, but it seems to be rooted in ancient mythology . . . Now the team must work to figure out the meaning of the mysterious letter &“T&” left at every scene, all while unravelling the other secrets that the Saturn House beach club is hiding—and fast.
Saturn Run: A Novel Of 2066
by Ctein John Sandford"Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up." --Stephen KingFor fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins--an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect--and everything you could want from one of the world's greatest masters of suspense.From the Hardcover edition.