Dark Side of the Street (Simon Vaughn: 1/ Paul Chevasse: 5) (Camden S.)
by Jack Higgins
For Harry Youngblood, escaping from prison is going to be easy. But escaping his past could cost him his life... Twenty years inside for one third of a million pounds: that was the price Harry Youngblood was paying. Drummond is Youngblood's cellmate. He is also intelligence agent Paul Chavasse, working undercover. And when Youngblood is broken out, Chavasse tags along for the ride. His objective is to break the crime ring headed by the Baron, to whom Young...
Abu Qasim, the ruthless and cunning Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the G-8 in Paris, has escaped from the grasp of the Americans and is plotting his next move. A small band of powerful men, highly placed leaders of industry and politics in the West, have decided they need to target and destroy the terrorist and his inner circle before he can strike again. When a prominent Russian dissident is poisoned in London, however, it's clear that there's a very dangerous l...
The Two-Faced Truth (Two-Faced Truth, #1)
by Dee Kay and Roy & Dee Kay
Shortlisted for the Australian 2007 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards C. A. Hocking's debut novel, A PLACE IN TIME, explores the theme of what good people are driven to do in order to survive when pushed beyond human endurance. Dan Campbell is a troubled man who sinks into depression as each birthday approaches. Thirty years earlier, on his 11th birthday, he'd witnessed his father's murder and saved his mother from a deranged stranger, but something is wrong with the memory of that terrible day....
The old gate house where Nara Blake and her father lived in the English Midlands was cold and filled with secrets. And Nara wasn't the only one who felt its mystery. Although Nara's aunt insisted the building held nothing more than useless trinkets and cheap copies of nineteenth century art work, someone had attempted to break in, until Nara caught them in the act. And the police force of the small English town where nothing ever happened was suddenly besieged with burglaries and a murder. As th...
The story of a New York family whose patriarch, H.O.Ho Rothman, founded a publishing dynasty that continues to exert an inescapable power over his heirs - particularly beautiful Alexandra Rothman, editor-in-chief of Mode, the flagship magazine of the empire.
Seventy-five years ago, a madman nicknamed the Torso Killer terrorized Cleveland, claiming dozens of victims. He was never caught. Today, forensic scientist Theresa MacLean is called to examine a decades-old body that everyone assumes is a lost Torso Killer victim. Though few clues still exist, Theresa sees this as an opportunity to shed some light on a mysterious piece of Cleveland's past. But then another body - this one recently deceased - turns up, and all clues point to a new Torso Killer....
In a spectacular storm, homicide cop Gregory Samsa's car skids across a flooded field and overturns. Gregory Samsa survives. His passenger doesn't. But instead of reporting the accident, in a frenzied panic Samsa drags his passenger to a lonely place and buries her. He has his reputation to think about, his career, his daughter. So when he does report the incident he leaves out one important detail - the death of the thirteen-year-old hooker, Almond, who had been riding in his car. This one mome...
The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler, #4) (Simon Serrailler Mystery, #4)
by Susan Hill
'They shall griow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.' It is late October, and the inhabitantsof the Cathedral town of Lafferton are getting ready for the Remembrance Day parade. This year will be grander than usual because of a VIP visitor. Leonard Cramm is preparing himself, as he always does; his grandfather was a hero of the First World War, his father a hero of the Ba...
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A photograph found in the effects of a murdered polar explorer reveals evidence of something that should not be there. A military team from a top-secret unit is dispatched. But the South Atlantic in winter is about the most hostile environment on earth. And before you can fight, first you have to survive . . . Complex, rocket-paced, and dripping with authenticity, Deception Island is a unique thriller that conveys the details of the intelligence world, survival techniques, combat tactics and...