When a US senator is assassinated and a building in Washington DC is ripped apart by a suicide bomber, the usual suspects are blamed. But this time, it's far worse? One of America's own sons, ex-soldier Jason March is identified as the mastermind behind the terror. And no one in active service knows how to stop him. Yet there is one man who understands March and his methods. It is the man who trained him, Ryan Kealey. Kealey, an elite but maverick operative, had put his killing days behind him. However, when a man as deadly and merciless as March decides to take the fight to the home of dem... View More...
'A total white knuckle stay-up-all-night thrill ride, (Harlan Coben) from the bestselling author of Reckless and Killing Hour. Fifteen seconds can tear a life apart. OUT OF TOWN Dr Henry Steadman has it all: a booming business, a daughter he loves, and plenty of time to enjoy life. But while visiting upstate Florida, a police-stop ends in the shooting of a local cop - with Henry as the prime suspect. OUT OF LUCK Framed for a second murder, this time of a close friend, Henry goes on the run. His only lifeline is state-trooper Carrie Holmes, no stranger to tragedy herself, who can help prove his... View More...
A young man's suicide. An elderly woman's murder. A conspiracy stretching back decades. Dr. Jay Erlich's life is perfect: a wife and children he loves; a successful career. But a call comes that changes everything. His troubled nephew, Evan, has killed himself and Jay's brother is in despair. Jay flies to California to help out and is soon convinced Evan's death was no suicide. The police want him to leave the matter alone but he is determined to dig deeper. When his investigation takes him on a journey into his brother's shady past, Jay finds himself caught up in a world of dangerous secret... View More...
The heart-stopping new novel from the co-author of five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard, and the hit thrillers The Blue Zone and Reckless. A chance encounter with a stranger in a New York hotel ends in a shooting. Wendy Gould was an average mother - now she's the sole witness to the murder she's being framed for. YOU CAN RUN What she saw makes Wendy the top target for a deadly network of powerful men. They want her silence. They will take no prisoners. How can she clear her name? YOU CAN HIDE Lauritzia Velez is a suburban nanny with a tragic past - and ... View More...
A breathtaking novel of suspense from the co-author of five bestselling James Patterson novels, including 'The Jester' and 'Lifeguard'. They were the perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day changed it all. Arrested for racketeering, Ben Raab must testify against a Colombian drug cartel before leaving his lifestyle as a wealthy lawyer forever. He and his family will join the FBI's Witness Protection Programme. Currently protecting over 4,500 people, it is the most successful scheme of its kind ever, the backbone of American justice. But the Programme's perfect success rate ... View More...
Small blemishes, no creasing to spine. Has remainder mark. For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing -- to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep. Ironically, it is a letter from one of the aliens on that space station, Dr. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to look at the f... View More...
The Uncanny: When American film director Richard Storm first comes to London, he has his own secret mission. Part vacation, part research, he finds renewed purpose working at a curious magazine of weird phenomena - BIZARRE. The owner/editor is herself a curiosity and opens up an extraordinary new world - of strange but true hauntings, hunts and spirit worship. When Richard is introduced to beautiful heiress Sophia Endering he finds himself helplessly in love with her. But she is as dangerous to herself as she is for those who love her - for she has an almost unstoppable death wish. Strange for... View More...
Seven Troop is Andy McNab's account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men - from the day, freshly-badged as a member of the SAS Regiment, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life. View More...
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is a nearly mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home... View More...
The year is 1929 and Honora Beecher and her husband, Sexton, are just settling into a new marriage and a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. While Honora fixes up the derelict house and searches for bits of sea glass on the beach, Sexton risks everything they own to buy the house they both love. Along with millions of other Americans, he is blindsided by the stock market crash and finds himself penniless. The only work he can find is a nearly mill, where a labour conflict is erupting into violence. Shaken by forces they scarcely understand, Honora and Sexton try to build a marriage and home... View More...
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, Anita Shreve's Testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can... View More...
Traces the life-long relationship between Linda Fallon and poet Thomas Janes. Beginning at a writers' festival in 2000, the novel accelerates backwards and ends on a June night in 1962, taking in Toronto, Nairobi and Massachusetts, and exploring the ravages of life and the need for forgiveness. View More...
Traces the life-long relationship between Linda Fallon and poet Thomas Janes. Beginning at a writers' festival in 2000, the novel accelerates backwards and ends on a June night in 1962, taking in Toronto, Nairobi and Massachusetts, and exploring the ravages of life and the need for forgiveness. View More...
From the author of The Wild Colonial Girl comes another breathtaking story set in Australia's turbulent past; and another unforgettable Australian heroine. Crushed at Culloden, driven from their Highland crofts and transported to Australia ... the Douglas family is no stranger to injustice. The Encounter Bay whaling station, on the wild, windswept southern coast of Australia, is at the very edge of civilisation. But at least Bonnie Douglas and her father have their freedom - until Sergeant Rowan Elliott arrives. Bonnie's father is accused of murder and she is driven to bushranging, fighting in... View More...
Feisty, spirited and independent, Irish orphan Kate arrives in the colony of South Australia, determined to make a new life for herself. Wanting the security only wealth can bring, she slips her derringer into her pocket, cracks the whip over the bullocks and sets off on a rugged outback track for the adventure of a lifetime. Her adventures take her from wild Aboriginal camps to vast sheep stations and from the rough sprawling goldfields to the glittering ballroom at the Governor's residence. Her orphan dreams of silk gowns and sumptuous dinners are finally within her grasp. What she doesn... View More...
Hannah Gordon has always wanted to be someone important, yet she's stuck in an inner-city back street, fighting to keep hold of her children, her home and her sense of self. Then a devastating accident sets off a chain of events that will rock the family foundations to the core and change live forever. About the Author: Ann Whitehead was born in Sydney and now lives on the coast in southern New South Wales. Ann has won awards and is a published author of plays, short stories and novels for children, young adults and adults. She is the author of the bestselling Australia Street, The House Ac... View More...
In a Land ravaged by plague and rebellion, Cressida takes flight from the menace of the lord to whom she and her young brother are slaves. But his violent courtship tracks her even to the teeming streets of London where she must hide for a year and a day if she is ever to be free - to live, and love, as she chooses. Emerging triumphantly, a golden beauty at the King's court and desired by many men, she marries the rebel scholar she has loved since childhood. Yet, haunted by the figures from her past, she seems doomed to lose all she holds most dear. Until the night the peasant armies revol... View More...
The demands of a young woman's heart are Hidden in the Flame... Catherine huddled in the ashes of the hut she had shared with her father. Her eyes could not focus on his dead body. Her mind would not admit that their life together was over. She knew that the rebels of Surajo had killed him, and without him she had no one. When the imperious Doctor Armand Alvares delivered her to the convent, she thought she had found sanctuary. Catherine-young and rebellious, fighting the restrictions imposed by her South American convent, but afraid to leave its sanctuary; distrustful of the man who had saved... View More...
Three old space mining prospectors in their beat-up space ship discover a small pod floating in space. Inside is a tiny girl child, with funny little hooves, a wealth of silver hair growing on her body, and a lump in the middle of her forehead which, as time elapses, grows into a horn. It is a sort of unicorn. When the old prospectors come to sell their ores on the home planet controversy breaks out. Bureaucrats want to put her in a home and cut off her deformity, scientists want to study her and isolate her, and so the old three kidnap her back on their ship and go roaring off round the unive... View More...
This title is about England's forgotten Queen. England, 1469. A daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, Anne Neville cannot dictate her own future. Her marriage will be political, made purely to advance her family's interests. But at the age of fourteen, her father's treason forces her into exile, and into an uneasy betrothal with Edward of Lancaster. Edward is changeable and completely controlled by his powerful mother, Margaret of Anjou. In a hostile, impoverished court, Anne finds herself at the mercy of other's whims. On her wedding night, the audience assembled to witness her bedding instead w... View More...