Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue. For over thirty years, in over twenty international bestsellers, he has a set a standard that has never been equaled. Now, with the Prometheus Deception, he proves that he is at the very pinnacle of his craft. Nicholas Bryson spent years as a deep […]
During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medell??n drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars worth of cocaine. They werent likely […]
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa …of a real-life fugitive known as the “Butcher of Riga”..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger…….and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish the worldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitlers chilling […]
Reclusive tycoon Sir Oswald Coote and his melancholy wife, Lady Coote, have hit upon the ideal plan to spice up their quiet lives. Theyll host a lavish weekend party at Chimneys, their isolated estate, and invite only “bright young things.” But the festive mood is clouded by doom. A practical joke involving seven clocks and […]
A small mining community in New Zealand is devastated when the snow tiger (an avalanche) rips apart their entire township in a matter of minutes, killing fifty-four people. In the course of the ensuing enquiry, the antagonisms and fears of the community are laid bare, and a ruthless battle, for control of a multi-million pound […]
After Richard Prestons The Cobra Event, youd think bestselling authors would give the abused citizens of New York City a little break. Well, not so. In Robin Cooks Vector, the Big Apple is locked in the sights of a twisted citizen who feels hes been deprived of the American dream. Get ready to be terrified […]
Working from the premise that Hitler was murdered in 1943, and replaced by a look-a-like, this story reinterprets the events which took place from 1943 to 1945. At the centre is Martin Bormann, and his plan to cover-up Hitlers death in an attempt to stop anti-Nazi generals seizing power.
With this suspenseful novel, the author of The Amber Room and The Romanov Prophecy moves from czarist Russia to papal Rome. At its core are the unspoken secrets of the 1917 Fatima prophecies, a topic that continues to reverberate among the faithful and the unfaithful alike.
Here are ten suspenseful, serpentine stories of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and revenge…all culminating in shocking twists of fate. Within these pages live a wealth of characters you will not soon forget…people whose lives become irrevocably trapped in a world of no comebacks, beyond the point of no return–from the manipulators and the manipulated to the […]
A unique collection of stories featuring Hercule Poirot and linked by mythological figures and classical legend and lore. Its everything “Christies admirers have come to expect” (New Yorker), including her fans favorite detective in a dozen of his most unusual cases.
Shortly after his 12:30 appointment, Dr. Morley is found with a bullet through his right temple, the gun on the floor beside him. The authorities are satisfied that the amiable old dentist shot himself. Hercule Poirot is not. But who could have murdered him? One of Dr. Morleys glamorous patients? His hard-drinking partner? His secretarys […]
When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should […]