The Galactic Alliance is reeling from civil war, the Jedi are in crisis, and the Sith are on the rise.

Jacen Solo’s shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Order’s influence within the Galactic Alliance.

But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way, a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.

PRESCOT'S
GREATEST CHALLENGE!

Striving to save his strife-torn empire of Vallia from the Nine Unspeakable Curses, Dray Prescot has faced a plague of murderous werewolves and attack by the witch herdes.

Now he must conquer the bfoodthirsty forces of the would-be king of North Vallia, while at the same time protecting the realm from the evil witch Csitra and her sorcerous son.  Journeying to the witch's dark Maze of Coup Blag, Dray and his comrades must meet the challenge of this realm of traps and treasures, where death waits around every turn, and a wizardly battle of destruction is the price of winning free....

HERBIVORE
CARNIVORE
OMNIVORE

These are the species which lived on the mysterious planet Nacre.  Three scientists came to Nacre to discover, to explore, to record.  Utterly defenseless, they trekked through a grotesque jungle of multiform mushrooms and dense spore-clouds, hoping to unlock the secret of this strange world.  The stunning climax of their mission was just the beginning of a complex drama in which their survival and return to earth - could spell the extinction of humanity!

"STUNNING, COMPELLIN6,AND MEMORABLE... the intelligent mantas of Nacre are surely among the most fascinating aliens in SF."
Science Fiction Review

THE FIRST VOLUME
IN THE EXTRAORDINARY TRILOGY INCLUDING
ORN AND OX

THE MAN WHO MURDERED DEATH

Shooting Death was a mistake, as Zane soon discovered.  For the man who killed the Incarnation of Death was immediately forced to assume the vacant position!  Thereafter, he must speed over the world, riding his pale horse, and ending the lives of others.

Zane was forced to accept this unwelcome task, despite the rules that seemed woefully unfair.  But then he found himself being drawn into an evil plot of Satan.  Already the Prince of Evil was forging a trap in which Zane must act to destroy Luna, the woman he loved.

He could only see one possible way to defeat the Father of Lies.  It was unthinkable - but he had no other solution!

IN THIS FIRST NOVEL OF THE INCARNATIONS OF IMMORTALITY, PIERS ANTHONY COMBINES A GRIPPING STORY OF ROMANCE AND CONFLICTING LOYALTIES WITH A DEEPLY MOVING EXAMINATION OF THE MEANING OF LIFE AND DEATH.  THIS IS A NOVEL THAT WILL LONG LINGER IN THE READERS MIND.

FIRST PAPERBACK PUBLICATION

From audible.com:

On Blue's Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe's four-volume Book of the Long Sun.

Horn, the narrator of the earlier work, now tells his own story. Though life is hard on the newly settled planet of Blue, Horn and his family have made a decent life for themselves. But Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk and convince him to return to Blue and lead them all to prosperity. So Horn sets sail in a small boat, on a long and difficult quest across the planet Blue in search of the now legendary Patera Silk. The story continues in In Green's Jungles and Return to the Whorl.

"By any standard, Wolfe's beautifully composed, meditative, thrilling, and tricky-beyond-belief 'science fantasy' is a work of the highest art." (The Washington Post Book World)

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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

From amazon.com:

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THE ONCE
AND FUTURE KING

From the moment of its first publication critics all over the world hailed THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING as a great contemporary classic:

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T.H. White has a genius for recreating the physical conditions of the past, the child who reads him will learn far more than all the historians and archeologists could tell of what England was like in the Middle Ages." -DAVID GARNETT

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"...one of the greatest works to come out of England in fifty years."  -NANCY SPAIN

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"THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING is a once and future book...  Shows every sign of staying a classic. -NEW YORK World-Telegram

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"T.H. White with artistry and genius has produced a work which will become without a doubt one of the classics of English literature."  -The American Statesman

"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

"...I'M GOING TO LEAVE THE LAND - TRY TO FIND THE ONE TREE.  SO I CAN REPLACE THE STAFF OF LAW.  I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO," COVENANT SAID.  "I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'M GOING TO BE GONE, AND EVERY DAY THEY KILL MORE PEOPLE.  SOMEBODY HAS TO STOP THEM."

Thus Thomas Covenant, accompanied by Linden Avery, begins his search for the One Tree aboard the giantship Starfare's Gem.  Armed with the knowledge given to him in Andelain by his trusted friend, the Forestal Hile Troy, Covenant was determined to succeed.  He was the last hope for the salvation of the Land.  Only he had the power to forge a new Staff of Law and return to the Land to stop the encroaching desecration of the Sunbane and the bloody sacrificial rites of the Clave.

But fate decreed that the journey was to be long, arduous, and fraught with danger as Covenant and his companions are assailed by powerful forces whose sole purpose is to ensure the failure of their quest.

THE ONE TREE, the long-awaited sequel to The Wounded Land, continues the extraordinary saga that has become an international bestseller.

Somebody's interfering with time. The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack arrive on modern-day Earth to find the culprit and discover a Neanderthal Man, twenty-eight thousand years after his race became extinct. Only a trip back to the primeval dawn of humanity can solve the mystery. Who are the mysterious humans from the distant future now living in that distant past? What hideous monsters are trying to escape from behind the Grey Door? Is Rose going to end up married to a caveman? Caught between three very different types of human being past, present and future the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack must learn the truth behind the Osterberg experiment before the monstrous Hy-Bractors escape to change humanity s history forever.

Featuring the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack as played by Christopher Eccleston, Billie Piper and John Barrowman in the hit series from BBC Television.

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.

"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

No one knew where they came from.  No one knew why.  But mysterious transmissions came through
THE OPHIUCHI
HOTLINE
teaching survival arts to the dispersed peoples of Earth.  Cloning was one of them... Lilo, though, was a criminal, and the Lilos created by Boss Tweed were outlaws from "birth'' their only option to serve him.  One Lilo rebelled and met a fate stranger than death.  Another was caught up in a bizarre emergency that threatened all civilization.  For another, a message came through the Ophiuchi Hotline.  Not instruction or information this time - it seemed to be a phone bill... with no indication of what had to be paid... or to whom....

QUANTUM SCIENCE FICTION
A new venture in international publishing, presents original works of the highest quality, approved by Quantum's two-man panel of judges: ISAAC ASIMOV and BEN BOVA.

Landing in present-day England, all appears serene as the Doctor and Sam emerge from the TARDIS into the idyllic grounds of the Silver family's ancestral home.  Only when they enter the house do they expect things are not what they seem.

How far-reaching is the strange power of a secret society almost 700 years old, and how is it linked to the mysterious Station Nine?  And what is the significance of a series of paintings that drove a man to suicide?

From thirteenth century England to the former Soviet Union, from the United States to the cold wastes of space, the various strands of a complex plan come together and threaten to engulf the world in a nightmare of nuclear destruction...

"A Roundear there Shall surely be.
Born to be Strong. Raised to be Free..."

The Prophecy of Mouvar is running its course in the many frames of reality inhabited by Kelvin Knight Hackleberry and his family.  The two kingdoms joined to form Kelvinia have now been united with three others to make a great confederation under the rule of the young twin kings, Kildom and Kildee.  And Kelvin has earned some time to rest with his family: Heln and their children Charles and Merlain... and the other one.

But Kelvin's enemies are not all dead.  One at least lives to seek vengeance for the deaths of Zoanna and Rufurt.  The evil witch Zady, who raised Zoanna and taught her every evil, has sworn not to rest until Kelvin has suffered as she suffered: Zady has sworn that Kelvin will pay with the lives of his children.

Charles and Merlain, and their dragon brother Horace, are now very precocious six-year-olds you idolize their father.  How difficult will it be, Zady wonders, to lure them into a quest of their own, a quest that will draw the Confederation into a war it cannot win, and bring death and ruin down on all Kelvin holds dear?

From audible.com:

When linguist Andrew Dennison is yanked from his bed by the Secret Service and taken to a top secret facility in the desert, he has no idea he's been brought there to translate the words of an ancient demon.

He joins pretty but cold veterinarian Sun Jones, eccentric molecular biologist Dr. Frank Belgium, and a hodge-podge of religious, military, and science personnel to try and figure out if the creature is, indeed, Satan.

But things quickly go bad, and very soon Andy isn't just fighting for his life, but the lives of everyone on earth…

'I'm playing with a fire so dangerous I could scorch eternity.'

The last words of a dying alien send the Doctor and Bernice to thirtieth-century Earth in an attempt to avert an unspecified disaster. Before they can even unpack they've been arrested by the Adjudicators and sentenced to death by the Imperial army. Their attempts to prove their innocence take them from the mosaic planet Purgatory to a prison inside a star.

Meanwhile, Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej have their own problems. Investigating a series of apparently motiveless murders, they have stumbled upon a conspiracy with sinister overtones. On the run and out of luck, the only people they can turn to are their chief suspects: the Doctor and Bernice.

And as they run, someone is watching them. Someone who knows the Doctor of old...

CAL
VEG
AQUILON
ORN

Three humans and an extraordinary alien creature in a quest across the face of a counter-earth in turmoil:

Cal is a wise and courageous old man whose courage overcomes his wisdom in a deadly encounter with a towering and majestic monster.

Veg is a strong and sensitive man whose total loyalty to the exploration team is fearfully tested in the wilds of the killer planet.

Aquilon is a beautiful young woman, an artist and adventurer, who forms a strange and haunting friendship with a creature who cannot speak.

Orn is a great, powerful, lethal bird - a bird with a subtle and fascinating alien intelligence and a surprising and unique reason for living.

SECOND VOLUME IN THE TRILOGY INCLUDING
OMNIVORE AND OX

Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies.  His people - his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids - are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human public.

But within his inner circle is Henry McLean, Soldier of God, and a True Faith-Holder.  Henry fears for the soul of his nephew Bleys, and while he guards, he also watches, and judges.

And beyond Bleys Ahrens' control is Hal Mayne: the one man in all the human worlds who might successfully challenge Bleys in his bid for power.  For Hal Mayne is the true culmination of the Cycle's grand design.  Bleys would give anything to convert Hal Mayne to his cause—or failing that, to destroy him.

"Machinations and intrigues abound, including kidnapping, drugging and threats, but Dickson's presentation is so balanced that even readers unfamiliar with Mayne's role in this series may sympathize more with him than with Ahrens.... And so the Cycle rotates on, never less than interesting." - Publishers Weekly

CAPELLA VS ERIDANI VS EARTH

PHILIP JOSÉ FARMER won the Hugo for the best SF novel of last year.  His study of the background of Tarzan made feature headlines in the news.  Now in his latest novel, he turns his literary wizardry to the astonishing science fiction story Jules Verne did not tell in Around the World in Eighty Days.

Who was Phileas Fogg really - this man whose origins were shrouded in mystery and whose actions were guided as if by clockwork?  How could he compute the probababilty of future events so accurately?

THE OTHER LOG OF PHILEAS FOGG is a thoroughly enthralling novel of what went on behind the scenes during Fogg's unprecedented trip - in which not only do two alien races contend for Earth's mastery, but you will meet some even more famous characters you never suspected were involved in the globe-girdling race!

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -
NEVER BEFORE IN
PAPERBACK

"Le Guin is not only one of the purest stylists writing in English, but te most transcendently truthful of writers."
- The Nation

"A superb novel-length addition to the Earthsea universe, one that, once again, turns that entire series on his head.  Alder, the man who unwittingly initiates the transformation of Earthsea, is a humble sorcerer who specializes in fixing broken pots and repairing fence lines, but when his beloved wife, Lily, dies, he is inconsolable.  He begins to dream of the land of the dead and sees both Lily and other shades reaching out to him across the low stone wall that separates them from the land of the living.  In her new novel, [Le Guin] reconsiders the relationship between magic and something even more basic: life and death itself."
- Publishers Weekly

Steeped in Earthsea lore and featuring familiar characters as well as dramatic action, the first full-length novel since Tehanu will leave its readers wanting yet another."  - Booklist

"One of the few writers I know who excels at both political fiction and epic fantasy.  She's brilliant at both."
- Salon.com

A FEATURED ALTERNATE OF SCIENCE
FICTION BOOK CLUB®

"A complex tale of transported identities, cyborgs and robots, werewolves and golems...!"  - Publishers Weekly

PIERS ANTHONY
OUT OF PHAZE

Welcome to the astonishing parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton.  Where magic and science maintain an uneasy truce.  Where an accidental mind-switch plunges an apprentice wizard from Phaze into the mind-boggling technology of Proton.  And where a robot named Mach is, in turn, swept away to a world of bizarre and terrifying wonders: the dazzling world of Phaze...

"The versatile and prolific author of fantasy and science fiction returns to one of his most popular series with a tale of adventure and intrigue!"
- Library Journal

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

Out of the Silent Planet

"C.S. Lewis... is a master of fantasy"
Saturday Review

"...a delicious book, full of wisdom and savor"
Christopher Morley

"A delightful fantasy"
New York  Herald Tribune

C. S. LEWIS, perhaps best known author of The Screwtape Letters, was professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University until his death in 1963.  He also wrote the well-loved Chronicles of Narnia, a series of stories for children, as well as nonfiction, including The Problem of Pain and Miracles.

Also includes the bonus story "Star Wars: Mist Encounter"



It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery, only to become a dark chapter in Jedi history.  Now acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable - and doomed - Outbound Flight Project.



The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of an ambitious mission: to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy.  But government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start - until Master C'baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.



Or so it would seem.  The evil Sith Lord Darth Sidious has his own interests in Outbound Flight.  Yet even he is not the mission's most dangerous challenge.  Once under way, the starship crosses paths with the forces of the alien Chiss Ascendancy and the brilliant mastermind known as "Thrawn."  Thus what begins as a peaceful Jedi mission is violently transformed into an all-out war for survival.

Does a new start for the Galactic Alliance mark the beginning of the fall of the Jedi Order?

After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisis. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order and determine the future of their unified worlds. But even more critical, and far more uncertain, is the future of the Jedi.

In a shocking move, Chief of State Natasi Daala orders the arrest of Luke Skywalker for failing to prevent Jacen Solo’s turn to the dark side and his subsequent reign of terror as a Sith Lord. But it’s only the first blow in an anti-Jedi backlash fueled by a hostile government and suspicious public. Negotiating his freedom in exchange for his exile from the Jedi Order, Luke, with his son, Ben, at his side, sets out to unravel the shocking truth behind Jacen Solo’s corruption and downfall. But the secrets Luke uncovers may bring his quest - and life as he knows it - to a sudden end. And all the while, another Jedi Knight, consumed by madness, is headed to Coruscant on a fearsome mission that could devastate the entire galaxy.

From audible.com:

This stunning blend of historical romance and time traveling adventure has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world and catapulted author Diana Gabaldon to the top of the New York Times best seller list. Outlander introduces an exhilarating world of heroism and breathtaking thrills as one woman is torn between past and present, passion and love.

In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall returns from World War II and joins her husband for a second honeymoon. Their blissful reunion is shattered when she touches a boulder in an ancient stone ruin and is instantly transported to 1743 Scotland, a place torn by war and raiding border clans. Will Claire find her way back to her own time, or is her destiny forever linked with Clan MacKenzie and the gallant James Fraser?

EXILE'S
RETURN

Tarl Cabot's long exile was over.  Again he was back on Gor, the strange world of Counter-Earth, where he had once been the proudest warrior and mightiest tarnsman of that savage planet.

But nothing was as it had been.  His home city of Ko-ro-ba was destroyed, razed until not one stone remained standing.  His beautiful mate, Talena, was dead or vanished.  His family and friends were scattered across the globe.

And Cabot was now declared an outlaw, with all men ordered to kill him on sight.  His only chance was to find the strange Priest-Kings who ruled Gor and to submit himself to them.

But Tarl Cabot was not about to submit!

From amazon.com:

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively listenable stories.

An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad.

As the investigation expands and horrifying answers begin to emerge, King's propulsive story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

A BROTHER'S VENGEANCE
When Owen Chantry returned to his brother's ranch for a visit, he found his brother had been savagely murdered and two dirt farmers - Ether and son - were now building a life on his land.  Chantry didn't mind the squatters much, but Mac Mowatt's gang was another matter.  Mowatt believed a fortune was buried somewhere on the Chantry place.  One man had died for it already, and Mowatt told Chantry and the squatters they'd he next.  That forced Chantry to make the only decision a brother could: to make the cold-blooded killers pay... or die trying.

LOUIS L'AMOUR
Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier.  There are now more than 225 million copies of his books in print around the world.

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