When Quark holds a poker tournament on Deep Space Nine someone from almost every sentient race — Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans, Vulcans, Ferengi — shows up for what is sure to be the highest-stakes game of all time. But when one player is killed, the stakes get higher than even these big-money players had counted on. […]
Busy looking after her writers colony and hoping for a holiday in Spain with her husband and children, Shruti Narayan is startled to find a rather unwanted email in her inbox one morning. It is an invitation to a reunion at her college in Bangalore. It takes her a second to delete the mail. After […]
The new high-concept thriller from the number one bestselling author of The Righteous Men, The Last Testament and The Final Reckoning In the game of Washington politics the stakes are as high as they get — and not everyone is prepared to play by the rules…Newly elected US President Stephen Baker is flying high after […]
Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a pitcher for the New York Mets, clash with his childhood hero, the Cubs golden-boy Joe Castle, in a contest from which no winners emerged. Now the news that his father is dying brings the memory of that day flooding back. Deciding […]
As co-anchor of St. Louis evening news show Nightbeat , Joan Carpenter has seen it all. She deals with a news director who will do anything to boost ratings. She puts up with cutthroat TV critics. And she can even handle a jealous co-anchor eager to see her fall on her face. Shes beautiful, tough, […]
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capitals hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to […]
Not even love could stop her… Despite her privileged life in the sultry paradise of Martinique, the beautiful and daring Sapphire Fabergine will never be satisfied until she claims the honor and legitimacy that has been denied her. Sapphire sails to London to confront the aristocratic family who had disowned her before she was even […]
DID J. EDGAR DIE A NATURAL DEATH? . . . OR WAS HE MURDERED? Inver Brass–a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoovers unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him–quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller […]
The best of a lifetime of stories from a short story writer of rare distinction. Ruskin Bond??s stories are predominantly set in the beautiful hill country of Garhwal where he has made his home for the last twenty-five years. Some of these stories present people who, consciously or otherwise, need each other: people in love […]
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince […]
Former movie star Jenna Hughes left Hollywood for an isolated farm in Oregon to get away from fame. But someone has followed her-an obsessed fan whose letters are personal and deeply disturbing. While Jennas already shaken up by what shes seen on paper, shed be terrified if she knew what Sheriff Shane Carter is investigating. […]
As the bestselling master of medical suspense, Robin Cook has always always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risks, he confronts one of the most provocative isssues of our time–personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. “Takes on the ethics involved in such personality-altering drugs as Prozac.”–Publishers […]