Nathan McBride leads a secretive life. The ex-CIA agent doesn't give out his phone number and never reveals his operative name. So how does a twelve-year-old girl whom he's never met know both? The girl's name is Lauren, and after she's been kidnapped, she sends a text for help to Nathan's cell phon[...]
America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and l[...]
Praise for the Presidential Agent series ?Tough-fisted . . . hard-edged . . . Griffin's formula is straightforward: set up a bunch of obstacles, and let us watch Charley Castillo knock them down one at a time. His novels promise action, suspense, and rousing entertainment, and they never fail to del[...]
Praise for the Presidential Agent series ?Tough-fisted . . . hard-edged . . . Griffin's formula is straightforward: set up a bunch of obstacles, and let us watch Charley Castillo knock them down one at a time. His novels promise action, suspense, and rousing entertainment, and they never fail to del[...]
With crooks to cuff and pimps to put behind bars, detectives Carella and Meyer of the 87th Precinct simply don t have the time or patience to deal with a prank caller even if he has phoned murder threats to two dozen local shop owners. What they fail to realize, however, is they aren t dealing with [...]
A bitterly cold night offers up a body turned blue not frozen, but swinging from a rope in a dank basement. The dead teen seems like a clear case of suicide, but Detective Steve Carella and Lieutenant Peter Byrnes find a few facts out of place, and an autopsy confirms their suspicions. The boy hadn [...]
On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread. [...]
Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find a better way[...]
?The best thriller writer of the moment.? ? The New York Times Child is a master of the thriller genre.? ? Times Union (Albany, NY) All Jack Reacher novels] are ripping yarns.? ? Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Thumbing across the scorched Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the[...]
The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasn t just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish woman named Carole Rutledge, the badly injured Avery would find that plastic surgery had given her C[...]
Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the daring and adventurous young Lord Jaxom and his extraordinary white dragon, Ruth. Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth was a dragon of many talents, though almost everyone on Pern thought he was a runt that would never amou[...]
?As the ultimate outsider, Reacher brings a fresh, if cynical, perspective to a world that he never made ? and can't wait to escape.? ? The New York Times The] plot is ingenious?This is a superior series.? ? The Washington Post Book World Relentlessly paced?and absolutely mesmerizing.? ? Milwaukee [...]
Once they were boyhood best friends, playing in the woods near their homes, pretending to be soldiers surviving behind enemy lines. Grownup, they belonged to Delta Force and later worked as protectors for the world's best security company. Now their lives have taken drastically different paths, pitt[...]
Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking, a classic bestseller, has inspired an optimistic perspective for millions of Americans. Now, in an inspirational and entertaining rebuttal, the legendary basketball coach Bob Knight explains why ?negative thinking? will actually produce more pos[...]
Trained Marine sniper and CIA operations officer Nathan McBride cannot escape his bloody past. Not when the evidence of it is carved across his body. Now he owns a private security company, his scarred visage a warning to anyone who dares cross his path. When a deep-cover federal agent vanishes alon[...]
Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is no stranger to sacrifice. Fourteen years ago, he paid a heavy price in service to his country when he was tortured to the brink of death by notorious Nicaraguan interrogator Montez de Oca. McBride is the sole survivor, his scarred body a living testament to th[...]
Nathan McBride leads a secretive life. The ex-CIA agent doesn't give out his phone number and never reveals his operative name. So how does a twelve-year-old girl whom he's never met know both? The girl's name is Lauren, and after she's been kidnapped, she sends a text for help to Nathan's cell phon[...]
A terrifying thriller that's unforgettable. ""I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper. Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops. I saw the police cruisers pull into the gravel lot. They were m[...]
Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he s moved from place to place without family without possessions without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble big, violent, complicated trouble finds Reacher wherever he goes. And whe[...]
Book 4: "Temple of the Winds"Wielding the Sword of Truth, Richard Rahl has battled death itself and defended the D'Haran people. But now the power-mad Emperor Jagang confronts Richard with an inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent v[...]
"The Poet"
Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a "Rocky Mountain News" crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and [...]
America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overnight, the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure fall, and wholesale rioting and l[...]