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151 | 1965 | 2019 | The Man with the Golden Gun James Bond #13 | Ian Fleming | | |
152 | 1959 | 2019 | The Manchurian Cadidate | Richard Condon | | |
153 | 2005 | | Mary, Mary Alex Cross #11 Cover Blurb | James Patterson | | |
| From amazon.com:
Vacationing in Disneyland with his family when he receives instructions to investigate an actress's murder outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith, who proves more challenging than Alex anticipates. Simultaneous. | |
154 | 2012 | | Merry Christmas, Alex Cross Alex Cross #19 Cover Blurb | James Patterson | | |
| From amazon.com:
It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again--a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything--and he may not make it back alive on this most sacred of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come. | |
155 | 2011 | 2023 | Micro Cover Blurb | Michael Crichton Richard Preston | | |
| Front flap:
IN JURASSIC PARK, HE CREATED A TERRIFYING NEW WORLD, NOW, IN MICRO, MICHAEL CRICHTON REVEALS A UNIVERSE TOO SMALL TO SEE AND TOO DANGEROUS TO IGNORE.
IN A LOCKED HONOLULU OFFICE BUILDING, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.
IN THE LUSH FORESTS OF OAHU, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.
IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.
BUT ONCE IN THE OAHU RAIN FOREST, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.
AN INSTANT CLASSIC, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
Back flap:
MICHAEL CRICHTON has sold over 200 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen of his books have been made into films. His novels include Next, State of Fear, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. Also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER, he remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show simultaneously. At the time of his death in 2008, Crichton was well into the writing of Micro; Richard Preston was selected to complete the novel.
RICHARD PRESTON is an internationally acclaimed bestselling author of eight books, including The Hot Zone and The Wild Trees. Many of Preston's books have first appeared in The New Yorker. He has won numerous awards, including the American Institute of Physics Award and the National Magazine Award, and he is the only person not a medical doctor ever to receive the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award for public health. He lives with his wife and three children near Princeton, New Jersey. | |
156 | 1989 | 2024 | Midnight Cover Blurb | Dean R Koontz | | |
| Four citizens of Moonlight Cove are left... they must escape before they face a fate more tortuous than death... and as inevitable as midnight.
In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur and spine-tingling terror descends to this "edge of paradise." Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.
Tessa Lockland comes to town to probe her sister's seemingly unprompted, suicide. Independent and clever, she meets up with Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to Moonlight Cove to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths. They meet Harry Talbot, a wheelchair-bound veteran, who has seen things from his window that he was not meant to see. Together they begin to understand the depth of evil in Moonlight Cove. Chrissie Foster, a resourceful eleven-year-old, running from her parents who have suddenly changed and in whom darkness dwells, joins them. Together they make a stand against darkness and terror.
READ BY J. CHARLES J. Charles has more than 40 years experience in professional theatre, radio, television, and film. His name is familiar to many Michigan and national audiences as a scenic and lighting designer, as well as a performer and director. Mr. Charles trained in theatre at Michigan State University and Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon). | |
157 | 2017 | 2024 | The Midnight Line Jack Reacher #22 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JANET MARIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"[A] classic Jack Reacher tale... compelling and moving." -Associated Press
Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?
So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of a small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere.
The deeper Reacher digs and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain: a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher.
"[A] gem... Bruce Springsteen might have written 'From Small Things (Big Things Come)' for Jack Reacher." - Chicago Tribune
"Compuisively readable." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Don't miss a sneak peek of Lee Child's novel Past Tense in the back of the book. | |
158 | 1955 | 2017 | Moonraker James Bond #3 Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| From epubbooks.com:
Another adventure from James Bond: 007. Britain’s new ICBM-based national defense system, is ready for testing, but something’s not quite right. At M’s request, Bond begins his investigation with Sir Hugo Drax, the leading card shark at M’s club, who is also the head of the Moonraker project. But once Bond delves deeper into the goings-on at the Moonraker base, he discovers that both the project and its leader are something other than they appear to be. | |
159 | 2004 | 2023 | The Narrows Harry Bosch #10 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| THE NARROWS
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has resurfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes and apparently he has not forgotten her.
Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI... and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...
"SCARIFYING IN A BIG WAY - THOMAS HARRIS KIND OF SCARY." - Stephen King
"RIVETING, SUSPENSEFUL." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"CONNELLY IS A MASTER... AND THIS NOVEL IS YET ANOTHER OF HIS MASTERPIECES." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"SHOCKING... A WILD, HEART-STOPPING RIDE." - Entertainment Weekly | |
160 | 2020 | | Near Dark Scot Harvath #19 Cover Blurb | Brad Thor | | |
| From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor
The world's largest bounty has just been placed upon America's top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever - one that has already claimed the lives of the people closest to him, including his new wife - he's going to need help - a lot of it.
Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Sølvi Kolstad. Just as smart, just as deadly, and just as determined, she not only has the skills, but also the broken, troubled past to match Harvath's own. | |
161 | 2013 | 2023 | Never Go Back Jack Reacher #18 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Tight and compelling... Welcome to the relentless world of Jack Reacher and his impressive tendency to be in the wrong place at the right time.... [Lee] Child has created an iconic character that other thriller writers try to emulate but don't come close to matching." - Associated Press
Former military cop Jack Reacher has arrived at the headquarters of the 110th MP, his old unit near Washington, D.C., the closest thing to a home he's ever had. He's there to meet - in person - the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But Turner isn't there and Reacher is shocked to be charged with a crime with serious consequences.
When threatened, you can run or fight.
Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs. It is a race for the truth that will make Reacher question who he is, what he's done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road.
"An adrenaline-charged, action-packed thriller... impossible to put down." - Lansing State Journal
"The dialogue has never been sharper.... The pages turn themselves." - San Antonio Express-News
Don't miss Lee Child's short story "High Heat" in the back of this book. | |
162 | 2006 | | Next Cover Blurb | Michael Crichton | | |
| Front flap:
TALKING CHIMPANZEE REPORTED IN JAVA A Group of Tourists in Indonesia Swear They Were Abused by a Talking Ape in the Jungles of Borneo...
NEXT
SCIENTISTS ISOLATE "MASTER" GENE A Genetic Basis for Controlling Other People?
NEXT
NEW TRANSGENIC PETS ON HORIZON Giant Cockroaches, Permanent Puppies, Industry Hard at Work
NEXT
Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future - it's the world right now.
Is a loved one MISSING some BODY PARTS? Are BLONDES becoming EXTINCT? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes: is that why a CHIMP FETUS resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a NEW GENETIC CURE FOR DRUG ADDICTION - is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of MOMENTOUS SCIENTIFIC LEAPS, a time when it's possible to SELL OUR EGGS AND SPERM online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all OUR GENES ARE OWNED by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain VALUABLE genes within their chromosomes...
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
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Back flap:
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Next challenges our sense of REALITY and notions of MORALITY. Balancing the COMIC and the BIZARRE with the genuinely FRIGHTENING and DISTURBING, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals SHOCKING new choices where we least expect.
THE FUTURE IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, is best known for the novels Jurassic Park and State of Fear. He is also the creator of the television series ER. The first of his controversial novels was published while he was still in medical school. | |
163 | 2019 | 2024 | The Night Fire Harry Bosch #22 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| SOME CRIMES LIGHT A FIRE THAT NEVER GOES OUT...
A JUDGE MURDERED IN A CITY PARK Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer, defends the man accused.
A HOMELESS PERSON BURNED ALIVE Detective Renée Ballard catches the case on the LAPD's notorious graveyard shift.
AN UNSOLVED HOMICIDE FROM A LIFETIME AGO Harry Bosch is left a missing case file by his mentor who passed away. Why did he keep the case all these years? To find the truth - or bury it?
IN L.A. CRIME NEVER SLEEPS But in Ballard, Bosch, and Haller: the fire always burns. Will it light the way - or leave their lives in ashes? | |
164 | 2016 | 2023 | Night School Jack Reacher #21 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "This series [is] utterly addictive." - JANET MASLIN, The New York Times
It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and that night he must go back to school. Off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.
Two other men are in the classroom - an FBI agent and a CIA analyst - each wondering what the hell they are doing there.
Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor - a Saudi courier. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper "The American wants a hundred million dollars."
Reacher and his two new friends are told to find that American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don't get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.
"Another timely tour de force... The taut thriller is textbook [Lee] Child: fast-paced and topical with a 'ripper from the headlines' feel." - Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"As gripping as ever." - The Florida Times-Union | |
165 | 2019 | 2019 | The Night Window Jane Hawk #5 Cover Blurb | Dean R Koontz | | |
| From audible.com: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Jane Hawk’s one-woman war comes to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent gambles everything against a terrifying conspiracy, for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity’s freedom - from the author of The Silent Corner.
“Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created.... Simply put, wow.” - Associated PressA visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal.... A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder.... A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today’s surveillance state.... A sequence of quiet heroes - everyday citizens - stepping up, stepping forward, intent on countering the advancing darkness.... A Vegas mob boss teamed with a homicidal sociopath, circling a beloved boy and his protectors, aiming to secure him as leverage against his fugitive mother... And that fugitive mother herself, ex-agent Jane Hawk, closing in on the malevolent architects of ruin she has stalked as they stalk her, prepared to sacrifice herself to finally bring them down. These are the people and circumstances of The Night Window, the thrilling novel in Dean Koontz’s acclaimed Jane Hawk series. Replete - and then some - with the ingenious twists, the spellbinding action, the resonant themes, the sheer heart that have characterized Jane’s journey from the start, The Night Window follows its extraordinary heroine to her long-sought objective, in a stunning, unforgettable finale. Don’t miss any of Dean Koontz’s gripping Jane Hawk thrillers:
- THE SILENT CORNER
- THE WHISPERING ROOM
- THE CROOKED STAIRCASE
- THE FORBIDDEN DOOR
- THE NIGHT WINDOW
“The spectacular finale to Jane’s story...will hit series fans with all the impact of a carefully calibrated hammer blow.” - Booklist (starred review)“The best installment in the series since the first.... [Koontz] revs it up with entertaining encounters and offbeat humor.” - Kirkus Reviews | |
166 | 2009 | 2023 | Nine Dragons Harry Bosch #14 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| 9 DRAGONS
For many years Detective Harry Bosch has known Fortune Liquors, a small store in tough south L.A. A matchbook he once picked up there had a motto - Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself - that guided him through some of his darkest days. Now the store's owner has been murdered. With the help of another detective, Bosch uncovers a link between the death and a lethal, far-reaching crime ring. And instantly his world explodes. His own daughter, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him. With the stakes so high and so personal, the desperate Bosch must travel to a place known as Nine Dragons and risk everything to reclaim what belongs to him.
"One of the best in this series... works as a gripping police procedural, an intense character study, and an international thriller." - Miami Herald
"Coiled tight with suspense... Connelly remains a master." - Los Angeles Times | |
167 | 2017 | | No Middle Name Jack Reacher #18.5 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| Brace yourself for the ultimate Jack Reacher reading experience.
This pulse-pounding collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child features eleven previously published pieces and a brand-new novella, "Too Much Time," in which Reacher's sharp eye and quick deduction skills are on full display. In story after story, Reacher fans and lovers of action-packed fiction will witness "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes"* during different periods of his life: a teenage Reacher in sweltering New York City, Reacher as an MP in Georgia, Reacher as a magnet for women, and, of course, Reacher the loner, on the road and righting wrongs. No suitcase. No destination. No middle name. No matter how far Reacher travels off the beaten path, trouble always finds him. Feel bad for trouble.
PRAISE FOR LEE CHILD AND JACK REACHER
"There's a reason Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre." - Associated Press
"This series [is] utterly addictive." - JANET MASLIN, The New York Times
"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond." - KEN FOLLETT
*The Washington Post | |
168 | 2022 | 2024 | No Plan B Jack Reacher #27 Cover Blurb | Andrew Child Lee Child | | |
| "The world's favorite hero packs an even harder punch than ever." PETER JAMES
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and Andrew Child
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise before swiftly grabbing the dead woman's purse and strolling away.
When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. But he is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. There is no room for error, but they make a grave one. They don't consider Reacher a threat. "There's too much at stake to start running from shadows." But Reacher isn't a shadow. He is flesh and blood. And relentless when it comes to making things right.
For when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B.
"No Plan B is not to be missed: a perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It's no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone's favorite rebel hero." - KARIN SLAUGHTER
"Lee and Andrew Child nail it again with No Plan B." - RICHARD OSMAN
Don't miss a sneak peek of Lee and Andrew Child's novel THE SECRET in the back of the book. | |
169 | 2014 | 2023 | Not a Drill Jack Reacher #18.6 | Lee Child | | |
170 | 2008 | 2023 | Nothing to Lose Jack Reacher #12 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Explosive and nearly impossible to put down." - People
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on.
They're picking on the wrong guy.
Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?
"Colossal. Earthshaking. Stupendous... Jack Reacher is one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape." - JANET MASLIN, New York Times
With just one ally - a mysterious woman cop from Hope - and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge - a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?
"Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series." - The Plain Dealer | |
171 | 2010 | 2023 | Nowhere to Run Joe Pickett #10 Cover Blurb | C J Box | | |
| "This stellar novel combines harrowing adrenaline rushes with complex morality, humor, and a landscape described so vibrantly it seems to have a life all its own." - PEOPLE
"A thoroughly entertaining mystery." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
It's Joe Pickett's last week as temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his con-science won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. Not to mention the Olympic hopeful who'd been training in the region and then just... vanished. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real - and all too deadly. Joe thought he was saddling up for his last patrol. If only he'd known how true that might turn out to be...
"Box's series is the gold standard." - LIBRARY JOURNAL
"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers." - LEE CHILD | |
172 | 1965 | 2015 | Octopussy and The Living Daylights James Bond #14 Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| The locales are Flemingly sinister: a paradise in he British West Indies, the border territory between East and West Berlin, and a auction room at Sotheby & Co., London
THE ACTION IS ELECTRIC WITH TENSION. BOND IS DEVESTATINGLY DARING AND DEADLY-DEADLY. HE'S THE ONE AND ONLY 007... THE INIMITABLE SECRET AGENT WHO KEPT THE WORLD IN WILLING BONDAGE FOR OVER A DECADE.
"OCTOPUSSY IS A BRILLIANT GEM" - Publisher's Weekly
"Fine Flemming... has a fascination that will linger - charmingly chill." - John O'Neill, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Vintage Fleming" - Omaha World Herald
"Superb examples of James Bond at his best" - The Courant Magazine
Here they are - THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURES OF AGENT 007... Octopussy, The Living Daylights, The Property of a Lady (the latter published here for the first time in book form)
THE NEW AMERICAN LIVRARY publishers of SIGNET, MENTOR, SIGNET CLASSICS & NAL BOOKS | |
173 | 2016 | 2023 | Off the Grid Joe Pickett #16 Cover Blurb | C J Box | | |
| "With this exceptional entry, Box solidifies his place the upper end of the crime fiction pantheon." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, but never more dangerous than it is now for game warden Joe Pickett, his friend Nate Ro-manowski, and the one who should never have been there, Joe's daughter Sheridan.
Nate is off the grid when he is suddenly confronted by a small team of elite professional operators. They want to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in the Red Desert, and in return, will make Nate's criminal record disappear. But they are not what they seem - they have a very different plan in mind, one that might just take them all down.
"C. J. Box continues his spectacular roll with the darkly mesmerizing Off the Grid. Joe Pickett and Nate Romanowski have become the gold standard, playing off each other perfectly as different sides of the same coin." - PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
"Box is a master!" - THE DENVER POST | |
174 | 1963 | 2019 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service James Bond #11 Cover Blurb | Ian Fleming | | |
| For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, extraordinary danger, read IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND THRILLERS
CASINO ROYALE DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER DOCTOR NO FOR YOUR EYES ONLY FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE GOLDFINGER LIVE AND LET DIE MOONRAKER ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE THE SPY WHO LOVED ME THUNDERBALL YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE and his adventure charged visit to THRILLING CITIES
IAN FLEMING creator of the world's best-known secret agent, was consultant on foreign affairs to the London Sunday Times. In all, he wrote thirteen James Bond novels. The thirteenth, The Man with the Golden Gun, is published in hardcover by New American Library. Mr. Fleming died August 12, 1964, at the age of fifty-six.
PUBLISHED BY THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY | |
175 | 2005 | 2022 | One Shot Jack Reacher #9 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Pulse-pounding action." - Chicago Sun-Times
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me.
And sure enough, ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter - a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right - and soon the slam-dunk case explodes.
Now Reacher is teamed with a beautiful young defense lawyer, moving closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. Reacher knows that no two opponents are created equal. This one has come to the heartland from his own kind of hell. And Reacher knows that the only way to take him down is to match his ruthlessness and cunning and then beat him shot for shot.
"Compelling, furiously paced." - Los Angeles Times
"Crackles with excitement." - St. Petersburg Times
"Pure adrenaline, from its well-constructed setup to its explosive, unforgettable finale." - The Miami Herald | |
176 | 2023 | | Only the Dead Terminal List #6 Cover Blurb | Jack Carr | | |
| LONG-BURIED SECRETS. A DEVASTATING GLOBAL CONSPIRACY. AND ONLY ONE MAN WHO CAN STOP IT: JAMES REECE.
IN 1980 a freshman congreeman was gunned down in Rhode Island, sending shockwaves through Washington that are still reverberating more than four decades later.
Now with the world on the brink of war and a weakened United States facing rampant inflation, political division, and shocking assassinations, a secret cabal of global elites is ready to assume control. And with the world's most dangerous man locked in solitary confinement, the conspirators believe the final obstacle to complete domination has been eliminated. They're wrong.
From the firms of Wall Street to the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and Moscow, secrets from the past have the uncanny ability to rise to the surface in the present.
With the odds stacked against him, James Reece is on a mission generations in the making. Unfortunately for his enemies, the former SEAL is not concerned with odds. He is on the warpath. And when James Reece picks up his tomahawk and sniper rifle, no one is out of range.
JACK CARR is a former Navy SEAL who led special, operations teams as a team leader, platoon commander, troop commander, and task unit commander. During his twenty years in Naval Special Warfare he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a Special Operations Task Unit in the most Iranian-influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of U.S. Forces. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List, True Believer, Savage Son, The Devil's Hand and In the Blood. Visit him at officialjackcarr.com and follow along on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at @JackCarrUSA.
RAY PORTER is an actor and multi-award-winning audiobook narrator. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows. Comic book movie fans might know him as Darkseid in Zack Snyder's Justice League. He has narrated over 500 audiobooks. He lives in Los Angeles. | |
177 | 2001 | 2022 | Open Season Joe Pickett #1 Cover Blurb | C J Box | | |
| "Superb... Riveting tensions!" - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden - especially one like Joe, who won't take bribes or look the other way - is always far from popular. When Joe finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally - and thrusts himself into a mystery that threatens the life and family he loves.
"Box's book has it all - suspenseful plot, magnificent scenery, and a flawed male hero who is tough but truly connected to his family.... Profoundly memorable." - BOSTON HERALD
"Open Season rings true.... Full of the kind of grittiness a reader can expect from a place where blood and bone are not just the stuff of crime fiction, but of sport and survival, too." - THE DENVER POST
1 ,411'._ 1, 4_ G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE • Cover diglillartecilla Cover photograph ® Richard Schultz/Corbis | |
178 | 2005 | 2022 | Out of Range Joe Pickett #5 Cover Blurb | C J Box | | |
| From amazon.com:
C. J. Box's best-selling Joe Pickett novels have earned him a spot on every serious suspense fan's shortlist of favorites. The tightly constructed Out of Range brings game warden Joe to a new, remote beat in Wyoming's vast countryside to investigate the suspicious death of the previous warden. ". if anything, Box is getting better. Recommended for practically everybody." -Booklist, starred review | |
179 | 2007 | 2023 | The Overlook Harry Bosch #13 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| THE OVERLOOK
Near Mulholland Drive, Dr. Stanley Kent is found shot twice in the back of the head. It's the case LAPD detective Harry Bosch has been waiting for, his first since being recruited to the Homicide Special Squad. When he discovers that Kent had access to dangerous radioactive substances, what begins as a routine investigation becomes something darker, more deadly, and frighteningly urgent. Bosch is soon in conflict with not only his superiors but the FBI, which thinks the case is too important for just a cop. Complicating his job even more is the presence of Agent Rachel Walling, his onetime lover. Now guarding one slim advantage, Bosch relentlessly follows his own instincts, hoping they are still sharp enough to find the truth and a killer who can annihilate an entire city.
"CONNELLY'S MY MAN!" - Janet Evanovich, People
"DAllLING... BRILLIANT." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[BOSCH IS] ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING HEROES OF MODERN CRIME FICTION." - Associated Press
"CONNELLY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST OF THE BEST." - Philadelphia Inquirer | |
180 | 2017 | | Paradise Valley Highway Series #4 | C J Box | | |
181 | 2018 | 2024 | Past Tense Jack Reacher #23 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| Family secrets come back to haunt Jack Reacher in this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestseller author Lee Child, "a superb craftsman of suspense" (Entertainment Weekly)
Jack Reacher sticks out this thumb and starts an epic trip across America from Maine to California. But he doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New Hampshire woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: the town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? He takes a detour. At the same moment, not far way, two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City when their car breaks down near a lonely motel. The owners of the strange establishment seem almost too friendly. As Reacher explores his father's life, and as strands of different sotries begin to merge, he makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense... and deadly.
"There's a reason [Lee] Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre." - Associated Press
"This series [is] utterly addictive." - JANET MASLIN, The New York Times
"Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of. I read every one as soon as it appears." - KEN FOLLETT | |
182 | 2003 | | Path of the Assassin Scot Harvath #2 | Brad Thor | | |
183 | 1987 | | Patriot Games Jack Ryan World #2 Cover Blurb | Tom Clancy | | |
| Front cover: "Tom Clancy is the best there is."- Edward L. Beach, San Francisco ChronicleFor readers who wondered how Tom Clancy could possibly top The Huntfor Red October, the sensational Red Storm Rising provided the answer. It sold a million copies in hardcover alone, and firmly established Clancy at the head of the league. And now Clancy tops Red Storm Rising - with Patriot Games. Filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished his two previous books, but on a far more intimate scale, and featuring Red October's charismatic hero, Jack Ryan, Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war, but one no less deadly: the international battle against terrorism. It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns whose lives he has saved - the Prince and Princess of Wales and their new young son - and which enemies he has made - the Ulster Liberation Army, an ultra-left-wing splinter of the IRA. By his impulsive act, he has gained both the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men - men who do not sit on their hate. And in the weeks and months to come, it is Jack Ryan, and his family, who will become the targets of that hate. Sweeping from England to Ireland to America with ever-growing momentum, its suspense steadily intensifying as Ryan must summon all the skills and (Continued on backflap) Back cover: (Continued from front flap)knowledge at his command to battle back against his nemesis, Patriot Games gives us a remarkable set of characters in the most desperate struggle of their lives. As with Tom Clancy's two previous triumphs, it is both a marvel of the storyteller's art - and, as the headlines attest, frighteningly real. He has had a private talk with the President of the United States, conferred with the White House staff, lectured at the Central Intelligence Agency and been consulted by international intelligence experts. Yet Tom Clancy is neither a former intelligence officer nor naval man. Extensive primary and secondary research into Soviet-American military strategies and advanced technology gave him the backgrounds for The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. For Patriot Games, his research took him to the streets of London and to meetings with British secret antiterrorism specialists, to the corridors of the FBI and CIA and to the choppy waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a Navy patrol boat. He lives in Prince Frederick, Maryland, where he is now at work on his fourth novel. Back cover: Remarkable praise for Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising" Red Storm Rising is a true classic. The true measure of Tom Clancy's art is his ability to make both the high technology and the personal motivations of his characters not only real but alive and human. This is what makes him a new star in our national constellation of writers.... In addition, the book is a first-class shoot-'em-up. The book gives an extraordinary picture, from both sides, of what war might be like in the last decade of the twentieth century.... Tom Clancy is the best there is. He is a master." - Edward L. Beach, San Francisco Chronicle" Red Storm Rising is even better than the The Hunt for Red October. I dare you to read one chapter and try to put it down." - Curt Schleier, Newsday " Red Storm Rising will take its place with such remarkable works as Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. It is a brilliant military fantasy - and far too close to reality for comfort.... The author even manages to invest his characters with hot blood and real emotion.... His sureness of three-dimensional touch prompts the reader to wonder whether the Pentagon wouldn't be spending some of its millions better at employing him inside Cheyenne Mountain than letting his talents go to waste in best-selling authorship." - John Keegan, The Washington Post Book World "The possibility of World War III, vividly rendered, is what gives Clancy's book such a chilling ring of truth." - Walter Isaacson, Time"The author of The Hunt for Red October proves convincingly that his first success was no fluke. A fascinating and totally credible story, told with authenticity and great suspense." - Publishers Weekly"Frighteningly realistic... A masterful grasp of strategy, tactics and military technology laced with tension and suspense." - John Barkham Reviews "A rattling good yarn!" -Robert Lekachman, The New York Times Book Review | |
184 | 2014 | 2023 | Personal Jack Reacher #19 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "Reacher is the stuff of myth... one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes... [Lee] Child does a masterly job of bringing his adventure to life with endless surprises and fierce suspense." - The Washington Post
Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott - a U.S. Army marksman gone bad - is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he's out... and there's a G8 suimmit coming up, packed with enough world leaders to tempt any assassin.
If anyone can stop Kott, it's the man who beat him before: Jack Reacher. And though he'd rather work alone, Reacher is teamed with rookie analyst Casey Nice. They're facing a rough road, full of local thugs, doube-crosses, and no backup if things go wrong. Reacher never gets too close. But this time it's personal.
"Yet another satisfying page-turner." - Entertainment Weekly
Don't miss Lee Child's short story "Not a Drill" and a sneak peek of his new novel Make Me, in the back of the book. | |
185 | 2003 | 2022 | Persuader Jack Reacher #7 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "A page-turner... [Lee] Child's tale drives hard and fast." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA agent Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion.
Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord's waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence - and confront some unfinished business from his own past.
"Gripping and suspensful... Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights." - The Denver Post
"Wickedly addictive... so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin." - Orlando Sentinel
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186 | 1996 | 2022 | The Poet Jack McEvoy #1 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| From audible.com:
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES
An electrifying standalone thriller that breaks all the rules!
Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write - and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself. | |
187 | 1999 | | Pop Goes the Weasel Alex Cross #5 Cover Blurb | James Patterson | | |
| From amazon.com:
Detective Alex Cross is in love. But his happiness is threatened by a series of chilling murders in Washington, DC, murders with a pattern so twisted, it leaves investigators reeling. Cross's ingenious pursuit of the killer produces a suspect-a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shafer. But proving that Shafer is the murderer becomes a potentially deadly task. As the diplomat engages in a brilliant series of surprising countermoves, in and out of the courtroom, Alex and his fiancee become hopelessly entangled with the most memorable nemesis Alex Cross has ever faced.
Pop Goes the Weasel reveals James Patterson at the peak of his power. Here is a chilling villain no reader will forget, a love story of great tenderness, and a plot of relentless suspense and heart-pounding pace. To read Pop Goes the Weasel is to discover why James Patterson is one of the world's greatest suspense writers. | |
188 | 2022 | 2024 | Quicksilver Cover Blurb | Dean R Koontz | | |
| #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past - mile by frightening mile.
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery - abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.
During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his destined companions: Bridget Rainking, a beauty as gifted in foresight as she is with firearms, and her grandpa Sparky, a romance novelist with an unusual past Bridget knows what it's like to be Quinn. She's hunted, too. The only way to stay alive is to keep moving.
Barreling through the Sonoran Desert, the formidable trio is impelled by that same inexplicable magnetism toward the inevitable. With every deeply disturbing mile, something sinister is in the rearview - an enemy that is more than a match for Quinn. Even as he discovers within himself resources that are every bit as scary.
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189 | 1998 | | Rainbow Six Jack Ryan World #9 | Tom Clancy | | |
190 | 1995 | | The Rainmaker Cover Blurb | John Grisham | | |
| HE'S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE....
It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing through law school and punching his ticket to the good life. Now he doesn't have a job or a prayer... except for one: an insurance dispute that leaves a family devastated and opens the door for a lawsuit, if Rudy can find a way to file it.
"THE PACE IS FAST, THE CHARACTERS QUIRKY, THE RESULT ENTERTAINING... WILL BE JOHN GRISHAM'S MOST POPULAR NOVEL SINCE THE FIRM" - USA Today
"GREAT FUN TO READ... THE COMPLEX PLOTTING IS GRISHAM'S MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT." - Los Angeles Times
By the time Rudy gets to court, a heavyweight corporate defense team is there to meet him. And suddenly he's in over his head, plunged into a nightmare of lies and maneuverings. A case that started small is exploding into a thunderous million-dollar war of nerves, skill, and outright violence - a fight that could cost one young lawyer his life, or turn him into the biggest rainmaker in the land.... | |
191 | 2002 | | Red Rabbit Jack Ryan World #11 | Tom Clancy | | |
192 | 2023 | | Resurrection Walk Mickey Haller #7 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| LINCOLN LAWYER, BOOK 7
LINCOLN LAWYER MICKEY HALLER TAKES A NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE CASE AND ENLISTS THE HELP OF HIS HALF BROTHER, HARRY BOSCH, TO PROVE A WOMAN'S INNOCENCE.
Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long-shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. After getting a wrongfully convicted man out of prison, he is inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence. He brings on board his half brother, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, to weed through the letters, knowing most claims will be false.
Bosch pulls a needle from the haystack: a woman in prison for five years for killing her husband, a sheriff 's deputy, though all along, she has maintained that she didn't do it. Bosch reviews the case and sees elements that don't add up, and a sheriff 's department intent on bringing quick justice in the killing of one of its own.
Now Haller has an uphill battle in court, a David fighting Goliaths to vindicate his client. The path for both lawyer and investigator is fraught with danger from those who don't want the case reopened and will stop at nothing to keep the Haller-Bosch dream team from finding the truth. Packed with intrigue and courtroom drama, Resurrection Walk shows once again that Michael Connelly is "the most consistently superior living crime fiction author" (South Florida Sun Sentinel).
"Buoyed by the slick duds and his brainy patter, the so-called Lincoln Lawyer (who indeed does most of his work and lives much of his life in the back seat of his Town Car) turns in another dazzling courtroom performance." - MARILYN STASIO, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of thirtyseven previous novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law of Innocence. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida. | |
193 | 2010 | 2023 | The Reversal Mickey Haller #3 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| THE REVERSAL
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller never thought he would cross the aisle and work for the prosecution - until imprisoned child killer Jason Jessup is granted a retrial based on new DNA evidence. Convinced Jessup is guilty, Haller takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
But there's a serious political taint on the case, and Haller must face down a celebrity defense attorney who has already started trying it in the media. While Bosch searches the cold trail for the eye-witness who was the key to Jessup's original conviction, the convict is released on bail. Now Haller and Bosch fear the worst: This killer may have just gotten started - and the trial is a matter of life-and-death for everyone.
"A CLASSIC DETECTIVE-STORY PUZZLE... SPARKS REALLY FLY." - New York Times
"THANK GOD FOR MICHAEL CONNELLY... THE REVERSAL MIGHT BE HIS BEST." - Los Angeles Times
"CONNELLY IS A MASTER..." - Wall Street Journal | |
194 | 2022 | | Rising Tiger Scot Harvath #21 | Brad Thor | | |
195 | 2000 | | Roses Are Red Alex Cross #6 Cover Blurb | James Patterson | | |
| From amazon.com:
Facing a particularly vicious breed of killer in his latest investigation, Alex Cross finds his family targeted by the vengeful Mastermind, a situation that is complicated by tension in his relationship with his girlfriend Christine and his daughter Jannie's unexplained seizures. Simultaneous. | |
196 | 2000 | 2022 | Running Blind Jack Reacher #4 Cover Blurb | Lee Child | | |
| "The best... Lee Child's tough but humane Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer." - Stephen King
Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there's only one thing that links the victims. Each of the women knew Jack Reacher - and it's got him running blind.
"Spectacular... Muscular, energetic prose and pell-mell pacing." - The Seattle Times
"Plan tio stay up long past bedtime." - Kirkus Reviews | |
197 | 2023 | | The Running Grave Cormoran Strike #7 | Robert Galbraith | | |
198 | 2002 | 2022 | Savage Run Joe Pickett #2 Cover Blurb | C J Box | | |
| "Hunker down and hang on tight for an intense, twisting ride that lasts to the final page." - THE DENVER POST
When a massive blast rocks the forests of Twelve Sleep County, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate the death of a colorful environmental activist. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy - one that will test his courage, his survival skills, and his determination to "do the right thing" despite all costs.
"Box sets up an impressive dual perspective in the novel, shifting between Joe Pickett's life as a game warden in Saddlestring, Wyoming, and the wanderings of two hired killers.... A tense chase." - THE WASHINGTON POST
"Riveting... Box weaves in a history that gives the action a rich context.... Harrowing." - USA TODAY
"A story as crisp as a Wyoming sunrise and every bit as dramatic:." - HOUSTON CHRONICLE | |
199 | 2020 | | Savage Son Terminal List #3 | Jack Carr | | |
200 | 2008 | 2023 | The Scarecrow Jack McEvoy #2 Cover Blurb | Michael Connelly | | |
| THE SCARECROW
Once a hotshot in the newsroom, crime reporter Jack McEvoy is now about to be laid off at the Los Angeles Times. Deciding to use his final work days to write the definitive murder story of his career, he focuses on Alonzo Winslow, an imprisoned sixteen-year-old drug dealer who confessed to the murder of a young woman found strangled in the trunk of her car. But as Jack delves into the story, he realizes that Winslow's so-called confession is bogus. The kid might actually be innocent.
When Jack connects the L.A. trunk killing to an earlier murder in Las Vegas, he is on the biggest story he's had since the Poet crossed his path years before. But Jack doesn’t know that his investigation has set off a digital trip wire. The killer knows Jack is coming... and he's ready.
"CONNELLY HAS THE NERVE AND TIMING OF A WHOLE SWAT TEAM." - New York Times Book Review
"INGENIOUS... TWISTED BRILLIANCE." - Washington Post
"CRIME FICTION AT ITS BEST." - Miami Herald | |