The second of three high-energy thrillers arriving back-to-back from cult crime fiction sensation Duane Swierczynski.
Left for dead after an epic shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie quickly realizes that when you're dealing with The Accident People, [...]
Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, D[...]
A compelling and moving biography of a brilliant pianist whose music helped her survive the Holocaust[...]
An attack on the heart of power ...In sight of the White House ...At a place known as ...HELL'S CORNER Oliver Stone -- once the country's most skilled assassin -- stands in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again [...]
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in #1 bestselling author David Baldacci's most stunning adventure yet.
"An attack on the heart of power . . . "
"In sight of the White House . . . "
"At a place known as . . . "
HELL'S CORNER
John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled[...]
Every New York City neighbourhood has a story, but what John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own. The Hollywood location scout is hoping to capture the unvarnished memories of longtime Kitchen residents in a no-budget documentary film. But when a suspicious fire ravages an[...]
William Diehl stunned readers with Primal Fear and Show of Evil, the national bestsellers featuring Chicago lawyer Martin Vail. Now, in his gripping new novel of suspense, Diehl enters uncharted territory, pushing Vail and the legal system he represents to the brink of destruction.
After [...]
The year is 1915, and the world is convulsing. Though the Confederacy has defeated its northern enemy twice, this time the United States has allied with the Kaiser. In the South, the freed slaves, fueled by Marxist rhetoric and the bitterness of a racist nation, take up the weapons of the Red rebell[...]
"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, no[...]
This "wickedly entertaining . . . cathartic collection" ("O, The Oprah Magazine" of Dear John letters from women--both fictional and real--includes letters by Sylvia Plath, Jacqueline Susann, Anne Boleyn, and others.[...]
The acclaimed producer, screenwriter, director, and author of Who the Devil Made It shares twenty-six memorable portraits of some of Hollywood's most notable actors and actresses, including Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Marilyn M[...]
If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great deal more successful in his career choice than the average talent show contestant. He's also got the media taped - by the simple expedient of by-passing them completely and posting [...]
HOPE'S BATTLEGROUND
Earth's secret history of alien occupation is challenged by a powerful alliance of warriors driven to reclaim humanity's birthright. But when a cruel, vicious ruler spreads a new wave of terror, the Cerberus rebels must fight for their lives.
DEATH BLOOMS
Beautiful, s[...]
From the New York Times-bestselling author Stephen M. Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions dissects the faults and foibles of recent American foreign policy--explaining why it has been plagued by disasters like the "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan and outlining what can be done to fix it.In 1992,[...]
By turns hilarious, satirical, and brilliant, David Shrigley's full-page illustrations a combination of drawing, comics, photography, and sculpture are sui generis: uproariously funny, pleasantly unnerving, and, most of all, really, really cool. Neither "graphic novel" nor "art book," What the Hell [...]
No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro will not reveal what he knows; and the records of the Soviet Union have long been sealed from public view: Of the most frightening episode of the Cold War[...]
Christina Pirello, chef, teacher, award-winning television host, and vocal advocate for healthy living, is mad as hell-and she's going to do something about it In this, her most ambitious and passionate book to date, Pirello takes on the food establishment, big pharma, marketers, the government, and[...]
A stunning new play by the great American dramatist Described by Sam Shepard as 'a take-off on Republican fascism', this uncompromising black comedy was written just before the 2004 US presidential election.Frank and Emma are American dairy farmers, alone in the Mid-West. Nothing ever happens. Nothi[...]
Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. [...]
While a killer stalks the streets of London, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller is more concerned with a light-heavyweight boxer-turned-expert-cat-burglar who has busted out of prison. High above the streets, cop and convict will face down their most daunting challenges the only way they know how.[...]
Hell's not the only thing that's hot in the sinful new novel from the author of "Accidentally Dead."
Delaney Markham doesn't just see dead people, she hears them too. And FYI-communicating with tortured souls all day can really wreak havoc on your love life. Sans boyfriend, Delaney makes the be[...]