"Child is a superb craftsman of suspense, juggling several plots and keeping his herrings well-rouged. Chances are you'll want to seek out other Reacher adventures the moment you finish."
- Entertainment Weekly

A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation.  In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces.  If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help.  Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

"Masterful... a tour-de-force of both structure and suspense."
- The Providence Journal

Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving.  But the next 61 hours will change everything.  The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed - but so is the woman he'll risk his life to save.

"Child keeps his foot hard on the throttle.... This is Child in top form, but isn't he always?"
- Booklist (starred review)

"Compulsively addictive [with] an explosive climax that will have you tearing out your hair until Reacher's next appearance."
- The Miami Herald

Front flap:

"Thor tops himself again and again."
- BookReporter.com

"One of the best writers you are ever going to read."
- WROK

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor delivers his most frightening and pulse-pounding thriller ever!

fter a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, is top asset surfaces with a startling and errifying claim.  There's just one problem - no one knows if she can be trusted.

But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion.

With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America's new president must turn to covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to help carry out two of the most dangerous operations in the country's history.

Code-named "Gold Dust" and "Blackbird," they are shrouded in absolute secrecy, as either of them, if discovered, will constitute an act of war.

"Anyone who thinks that the only thing to fear is fear itself should meet Brad Thor."
- Newsweek

Back flap:

"America's favorite author
- KKTX

BRAD THOR is the #1 New York Time bestselling author of Hidden Order, Black List, Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2011), The Athena Project, Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2010), The Apostle, The Last Patriot (nominated as best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback (recognized as one of the "Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time" by NPR); State of the Union, Path of the Assassin, and The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at I www.BradThor.com.

EmilyBestlerBooks.com

"The [Reacher] novel fans have been waiting for."
- USA Today

Everything starts somwehere.  For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.

Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman.  Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends.  Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets.  Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces.  Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever.  The conspiracy threatens to  shatter his faith in the mission - and turn him into a man to be feared.

"One of the best Reacher books yet...  The tension builds early and continues nonstop"
- The Miami Herald

"Big, exciting... The Affair shakes up the status quo."
- The New York Times

From amazon.com:

Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, DC, is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumors of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alex's investigations are going nowhere, and he's too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until he's dead. With white-hot speed, relentless drama, and hairpin turns, Alex Cross, Run is James Patterson's ultimate thrill ride.

SEPARATED BY TIME: From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan.  Now Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written - a novel called Trial.

CONNECTED BY BLOOD: As a lawyer in Washington, DC, early in the 1900s, Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases.  Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process.  When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.

UNITED BY BRAVERY: When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter, Moody.  Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town.  Lynchings have become commonplace, and residents of the black quarter live in constant fear.  Ben aims to break the reign of terror - but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart.  Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, and, above all, bravery.

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the bestselling writers of all time, with more than 170 million books sold worldwide.  He won an Edgar Award, the mystery world's highest honor, for his first novel.  He lives in Florida.  James Patterson's lifelong passion for books and reading led him to launch a new website, ReadKiddoRead.com, which helps parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians find the very best children's books for their kids.

RICHARD DILALLO is a former advertising creative director.  He has had numerous articles published in major magazines.  He lives in Manhattan with his wife.

DYLAN BAKER is an actor and director who has been nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and an Obie.  Some of his feature film credits include Happiness, Kinsey, Road to Perdition, Along Caine a Spider, and Random Hearts.  On television he has appeared in From the Earth to the Moon, Murder One, and The Laramie Project, among many others.  Baker resides in New York.

From amazon.com:

When nine-year-old Maggie Rose and her best friend, Michael Goldberg, are kidnapped from theirexclusive school in Washington, D.C., it is clear this is not an ordinarycase. Maggie's mother is a superstar actress, and Michael's father is Secretaryof the Treasury.
Together Alex Cross, deputy chief of detectives, and Jezzie Flanagan, supervisorin the Secret Service, must race to save the children.

Performed by Keith David. Keith David's remarkable versatility is demonstrated by his Tony nominated performance in Jelly's Last Jam, his singing in Puccini's La Boheme, his numerous Shakespearean portrayals, and his work in such films as Final Analysis and Platoon.

ANGELS FLIGHT

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf.  But the case is so explosive - and the dead man's enemies inside the LAPD are so numerious - that it falls to Harry to solve it.  Now the streets are superheating.  Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling.  And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. murder case, one where every cop had a motive.  The question is, did any have the guts?

"A FLIGHT WELL WORTH TAKING."
- People

"A STUNNER, SUPERBLY PACED
- Esquire

"CONNELLY IS, QUITE SIMPLY, THE BEST OF THE BEST."
- Philadelphia Inquirer

"CONNELLY RAISES THE BAR OF EXCELLENCE... ONE OF AMERICA'S FINEST WRITERS.  DON'T MISS HIM.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Front flap:

Every politician has a secret.  And when the daughter of a politically connected family is kidnapped abroad, America's new president will agree to anything - even a deadly and ill-advised rescue plan - in order to keep his secret hidden.

"Quite possibly the next coming of Robert Ludlum."
- Chicago Tribune

Master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most riveting international thriller yet.

A new administration and a new approach to dealing with America's enemies have left covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job.  But when American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action.

In a dangerous assignment that the United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly infiltrate Kabul's notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom - al-Qaeda mastermind Mustafa Khan.

But when Harvath arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone dares to admit.  And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it takes to help one of the world's worst go free.

Brimming with the kind of ripped-from-the-head-lines authenticity Brad Thor's internationally bestselling novels are known for, The Apostle doubles down on the blockbuster success of The Last Patriot and reaffirms Thor's status as the master of the political thriller.

Back flap:

"Stunning."
- Publishers Weekly, on The Last Patriot

"As riveting as it is relentless, here is a story that cuts to the bone and stirs our deepest fears.  A must-read for our times."
- James Rollins, on The First Commandment


BRAD THOR, a graduate of the University of Southern California, has served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell Program and is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union, Blowback, Takedown, The First Commandment, and The Last Patriot.  Visit his web-site at www.BradThor.com.

From amazon.com:

"Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor" --The Real Book Spy

#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet!

In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. These men were considered part angel, part demon. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. You crossed these men at your peril. And once crossed, there was no crossing back.

They were fearless; men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai.

Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military operatives, and assassins.

One man is all three.

Two days ago, that man was crossed--badly.

Now, far from home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out.

With no support, no cavalry coming, and no one even aware of where he is, it will take everything he has ever learned to survive.

But survival isn't enough. Harvath wants revenge.

In the most explosive novel Brad Thor has ever written, page after captivating page of action, intrigue, loyalty, and betrayal will keep you hooked until the very last sentence.

"[An] action-packed thrill ride."
- Chicago Tribune

From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night.  On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends... and the people he once trusted with his life.

Reacher is the ultimate loner - no phone, no ties, no address.  But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know.  Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with.  Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his team, scrambling to unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades.  But Reacher won't give up - because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

A slam-bang yarn filled with [Lee] Child's usual terse life-and-death lessons." - Entertainment Weekly

"A breathless, ultra-cool novel with relentless pacing."
- The Plain Dealer

IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD FOR EVERYONE, JUST FOR BENNY.

Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair.  He's not paranoid.  Someone is out to get him.  He just doesn't know who or why.  Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message.  All will be well in time.

How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises.  Stranger yet is what's inside the crate.  He's a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.  Spike will take care of it.  He'll find Benny's enemies.  He'll deal with them.  This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation.

In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.

Performed by Ray Chase

From amazon.com:

Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one.

For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it.

As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: “Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it."

There are thrilling connections between stories; themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. In “Afterlife,” a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Others address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers—the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in “Obits;” the old judge in “The Dune” who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, people who then died in freak accidents. In “Morality,” King looks at how a marriage and two lives fall apart after the wife and husband enter into what seems, at first, a devil’s pact they can win.

“I made these stories especially for you,” says King. “Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth.”

From amazon.com:

New York Times best-selling author C. J. Box's Below Zero is the 9th novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. The telephone calls from her stepdaughter April send chills down the spine of Joe's daughter Sherry. Wasn't April murdered six years ago in a bloody massacre? Wondering how this youthful caller knows details only April could know, Sherry becomes confused while Joe grows suspicious. Is the caller April-or are Joe and his family victims of a cruel hoax?

Two Childs are
even better than one."
- JAMES PATTERSON

Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed
#1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants.  That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun - until he comes upon a curious scene.  A
Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around.  A woman is slumped over the wheel.

The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people.  The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark.

Reacher is good at finding people who don't want to be found.  And a life hangs in the balance.  Maybe more than one.  But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life.  Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.

"Superb... Smart writing, vivid action scenes, and dramatic twists mark this seamless effort.  Even those for whom this is their first Reacher novel will be clamoring for more."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"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

"The mixture of brute-force and intellectual problem-solving is just right"
- Booklist

WHO'S AFRAID?

Alex Bross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as as the Wolf.

Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied.  Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely.  These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes.  They are being bought and sold.  And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves.

YOU'RE AFRAID

Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move.  A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive.

As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too.  His ex-fiancée, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

Full of the unexpected twists and heartrending surprises that James Patterson delivers better than any other suspense writer alive, The Big Bad Wolf is an unforgettable thriller from "one of America's most influential authors" (New York Times).

Peter Jay Fernandez is a New York based actor and narrator.  He has appeared on Broadway in JELLY'S LAST JAM and THE MERCHANT of VENICE, and has performed in numerous off-broadway plays and musicals.  His extensive television credits include FUNNY VALENTINES, THE PROSECUTORS, LAW & ORDER, and COSBY.  He currently lives in Harlem with his wife Denise.

Denis O'Hare won the 2003 Tony award for his performance in TAKE ME OUT, directed by Joe Mantello.  He was also seen in the Broadway productions of MAJOR BARBARA, CABARET, and in the films HAMLET, directed by Campbell Scott, and SWEET AND LOWDOWN, directed by Woody Allen.

THE BLACK BOX

Harry Bosch first encountered journalist Anneke Jespersen in a dark alleyway.  She'd been shot, execution-style, on the night Los Angeles burned in riots and the police protected no one.  His investigation was reassigned and the murder was never solved.  Now, twenty years later, Bosch comes across shocking evidence - a gun used in recent crimes is the same one that killed Anneke Jespersen.  With this sliver of a lead, Bosch must pry open the case that he has never been able to forget.

The investigation will stretch from the roughest neighborhoods of Los Angeles to distant battlegrounds where Jespersen once covered bloody conflicts.  What really brought her to Los Angeles?  And in a new age, will Bosch find the "black box," the one piece of evidence that pulls the case together - and makes justice possible at last?

"I decided several years ago that this is the finest crime series written by an American, and nothing in the new book changes my mind."
-Washington Post

"Continues [Connelly's] streak of telling stellar crime stories... one of the top detectives in crime fiction."
-Chicago Sun-Times

THE FIRST HARRY BOSCH NOVEL
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD
FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

THE BLACK ECHO

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mullholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  This one is personal... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war.  Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.  From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.  Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.

"Recalls no one so much as Raymond Chandler... ambitious, skillful, moving, intricate, and clever."
- Los Angeles Times

"Connelly is one of those masters... who can keep driving the story in runaway locomotive style."
- USA Today

THE BLACK ICE

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing.  Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.  Working the case, L.A.P.D. detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together.  Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border.  Now this battle-scarred veteran will findhimself in the center of a complex and deadly game - one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

"MICHAEL CONNELLY IS ONE OF TODAY'S TOP CRIME NOVELISTS." -Associated Press

"TERRIFIC." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"OUTLANDISHLY REALISTIC AND DARKLY ENTERTAINING." -Houson Chronicle

Front flap:

A stunning masterwork of action,
intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor returns with his most explosive thriller ever.

Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list.  Members of Congress never get to see it - only the President and a secret team of advisers.  Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off... until you're dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath's name.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together.  The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

An intense, page-turning novel that is action-packed and frighteningly real, Black List blurs the line between fiction and reality and once again reaffirms why Brad Thor "is arguably the best thriller writer of our time" (Suspense Magazine) and "America's favorite author" (KTTX).

Back flap:

"Anyone who thinks the only thing to fear is fear itself should meet Brad Thor:"
- Newsweek

"The Master of Thrillers."
- Bookreporter.com

BRAD THOR is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2011), The Athena Project, Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2010), The Apostle, The Last Patriot (nominated best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback (recognized as one of the "Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time" by NPR), State of the Union, Path of the Assassin, and The Lions of Lucerne.  Visit his website at www.BradThor.com.

"One of today's solid-gold A-list must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"An original voice...  Box is exploring new territory.  He is fresh, captivating, and has something to say."
- MICHAEL CONNELLY

It's elk season in the Rockies - but a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey.  Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp - strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been pursuing.  A poker chip lies next to his body.  As ripples of horror spread through the community, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early.  Are the murders the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta?  Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer down before someone declares open season on humans.

"Box ratchets up the suspense in this tightly plotted example of his writing genius."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL

"[Box] continues to be red-hot."
- BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY
BOSCH SERIES AND THE LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES

BOOK WORK

When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement.  He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful.  But when Graciella tells him the way her sister, Gloria, was murdered, it leaves Terry no choice.  Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul.  For Gloria's killer shatters every rule McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau - as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life... and just one shot at the truth.

"Compelling... A spine-tingling manhunt guaranteed to boost the blood pressure." - People

From amazon.com:

From #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author, Brad Thor, comes Blowback.

Scot Harvath’s counterterrorism career has just crashed and burned—thanks in part to a ruthless senator with her sights set on the White House. But when the war on terror takes a chilling turn, the president has no choice but to secretly bring Harvath back inside. Deep beneath an Alpine glacier, an ancient weapon designed to decimate the Roman Empire has been unearthed—and a shadowy organization intends to use it for America’s downfall. Racing across Europe, Harvath must secure the ultimate instrument of destruction before it brings the United States and the rest of the world to their knees.

"Child is at the top of his game in this nail-biter."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus for a good deed... that turns into something bad. Now Reacher wants to make it right.

An elderly couple owes big money to some dangerous people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.

Reacher has to stay one step ahead of thugs and assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice... the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.

"Reacher is so irresistible a character that he draws fans from every demographic."
- Nooklist (starred review)

From audible.com:

An audio original novella featuring bestselling author Dean Koontz’s compelling new heroine, Jane Hawk. From the case files of the former FBI agent before she became the nation’s most wanted fugitive - The Bone Farm details a desperate man-hunt for a serial killer before he murders again.

Katherine Haskell, a young college co-ed is on her way back to school, but she never makes it there. Instead, she becomes the latest prey of the rapist and murderer dubbed by the tabloids the “Mother Hater.” He is a twisted soul who kidnaps young girls for pleasure then discards them.

Katherine is missing, but she’s not yet dead. FBI agents Jane Hawk and her partner Gary Burkett must descend into the hell of this killer’s mind to solve the case before it is too late. The question is - will they both get out alive?

THE BRASS VERDICT

After two years of wrong turns, defense attorney Mickey Haller is back in action.  His former colleague Jerry Vincent has been slain and Haller inherits his biggest case yet: defending a Hollywood producer accused of multiple murders.  With a key part of the defense strategy missing, Haller scrambles to prepare for trial - and gets more pressure when he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.  Enter Harry Bosch, who will do whatever it takes to crack the Vincent case, including using Haller as bait.  But as danger quickly mounts, these two loners will soon realize that their only chance is to work as a team.

"HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK."
- DENVER POST

"A TERRIFIC RIDE."
- WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

"An exceptionally well-told story that will entertain, thrill, and maybe even outrage its readers."
- USA TO DAY

Joe Pickett always liked Butch Roberson - a hard-working local business owner whose daughter is friends with his own.  Little does he know that when Butch says he is heading into the mountains to scout elk, he is actually going on the run.

Two EPA employees have been murdered, and all signs point to Butch as the killer.  Soon, Joe hears of the land Butch and his wife had bought to retire on - until they are told the EPA declared it a wetland - and the penalties the agency charged Butch until the family was torn apart.  Finally, it seems, the man just cracked.

It's an awful story.  But is it the whole story?  The more Joe investigates, the more he begins to wonder - and the more he finds himself in the middle of a war in which he must choose sides.

"Fans of this series will burn through the pages...  Another must-read."
- LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)

"[Bosch is] one of the most popular and eduring figures in American crime fiction."
- Chicago Tribune

THE BURNING ROOM

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die a decade after the crime.  So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other clues are virtually nonexistent.

Now Bosch and his new partner, Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving a murder that turns out to be highly charged and politically sensitive.  Beginning with the bullet that has been lodged for years in the victim's spine, they must pull new leads from years-old evidence, and these soon reveal that the shooting was anything but random.  When their work starts to threaten careers and lives, Bosch and Soto must decide whether it's worth risking everything to find the truth, or if it's safer to let some secrets stay buried.

CAREER OF EVIL
A Cormoran Strike Novel
by Robert Galbraith

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed.  There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men.  But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them. ...

Career of Evil is the third book in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant, Robin Ellacott.  A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.

"Robert Galbraith has written a second absorbing whodunit starring detective Cormoran Strike to follow the stealth hit The Cuckoo's Calling. ...Astutely observed, well-paced, and full of Galbraith's trademark acerbic wit, The Silkworm thoroughly engages as a crime novel." -Sue Corbett, People on The Silkworm

From epubbooks.com:

In the first of Fleming’s James Bond novels, 007 declares war on Le Chiffre, French communist and paymaster of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. The battle begins with a fifty-million-franc game of baccarat, gains momentum during Bond’s fiery love affair with a sensuous lady spy, and reaches a chilling climax with fiendish torture at the hands of a master sadist. For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills, and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure.

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Alex Cross is back - and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancée. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane - so unimaginable - that he is thought of as "not of the Earth". Pierce, known in the business as St. Augustine because of his track record for catching killers and his invaluable status to the FBI and Interpol, may even be better than Cross. When things heat up and Alex is in a near-death coma following an attack in his own home, Pierce goes to Washington to help with the investigation. But just as he begins to piece together the mystery of how Gary Soneji could have mortally wounded Cross after he was believed to be dead, he is summoned to Paris, with a postcard from Mr. Smith inviting him to a very special killing. The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?

CITY OF BONES

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier.  It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan.  He can't let it go.  As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present.  No official warning can break them apart or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns.  Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.

"SUREFOOTED... INVIGORATING... A CAREFULLY WROUGHT MAZE... CONNELLY'S DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE STORYTELLING HAS GREAT URGENCY."
-New York Times

"THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME SERIES NOW IN PROGRESS... CONNELLY'S UNDERSTANDING OF HOW COPS WORK AND THINK REMAINS UNSURPASSED."
-Washington Post Book World

"SIZZLES WITH ENERGY"
-Chicago Tribune

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Remarkable praise for Tom Clancy's
The Cardinal of the Kremlin

"Tom Clancy has a genius for big, compelling plots, a passion for research, a natural narrative gift."

"Tom Clancy is a master storyteller."

"Tom Clancy has written a great spy novel.  It has the authentic feel of espionage.  It moves on at least ten action fronts.  It offers a marvelous portrait of the Soviet Union and Moscow.  It delivers with the nitty-gritty detail of spy work in the field.  And, as always, it does a superlative job of clearly rendering a nearly unfathomable subject: the high-technology of modern warfare."

"Clancy is known for his abilities to take technical details and weave them into a gripping and fascinating story.  Here, he is in top form as he takes Jack Ryan through his paces, including an incredible heart-stopping scene on a Russian runway.  Stunning."

"A military-political adventure with enough suspense and surprise to awaken even the most sated of readers of spy novels.  In its recipe of plot, characters and technology, Cardinal may be the best of the Clancy novels - high praise indeed."

"An adventure of high quality.  The unmasking of the Cardinal is as sophisticated an exercise in the craft of espionage as I have yet to encounter."

"Clancy proves himself as capable as John Le Carré at spinning the complicated web of spy vs. spy.  It's great reading."

"Like its three predecessors, a terrific piece of storytelling.  Its action sequences are as good as anything Clancy has written.  A tightly plotted and delightfully complex tale."

"A big, involving spy saga that delivers the goods.  It will satisfy Clancy's many fans and will surely earn him legions of new ones."


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Clear and
Present
Danger
Tom Clancy

"Tom Clancy is the best there is.  He is a master."

The Hunt for Red October... Red Storm Rising...  Patriot Games...  The Cardinal of the Kremlin...  Tom Clancy's novels now total, remarkably, over 15 million copies in print, and The Cardinal of the Kremlin was hailed by reviewers as his finest novel yet.  "Terrific characters... the authentic feel of espionage... a superlative rendering of modern warfare... Clancy delivers," wrote Bob Woodward in The Washington Post.

And now Clancy delivers again, with a novel as explosive as today's headlines.

At what point does criminal activity threaten national security?  When can a nation respond to it as to an enemy?  These are the questions Jack Ryan must consider


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when he hears the awful news: Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by U.S. law enforcement agents, have assassinated three high American officials, and that is just the beginning.  The message is clear: Leave us alone.

But they have pushed too far.  Someone steps quietly over the line they have drawn, deploying covert-action teams in Colombia.  At home, too, men armed with the most sophisticated tools their country can devise begin to take the fight to the enemy.  But does anyone know who the real enemy is, and how much action is too much?  Who is doing what?  Which line has been crossed?  Ryan and his "dark side," a shadowy field officer known only as Mr. Clark, must find out.  They expect danger from without - but the danger from within may be the greatest of all.

As Clancy takes us through the twists and turns of Clear and Present Danger, he blends the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, knife-edge suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters.  This is Clancy at his very best - and that is "the best there is."

Tom Clancy is the author of The Hunt for Red October, Red Storm Rising, Patriot Games and The Cardinal of the Kremlin.  He lives in Maryland.

THE CLOSERS

He walked away from the job three years ago.  But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit.  His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime.  With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal.  But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together.  Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit - and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night...

"LEAVE IT TO MICHAEL CONNELLY TO REINVENT
THE POLICE PROCEDURAL...  HE ARTFULLY
RECLAIMS THE GENRE."
- New York Times Book Review

"CONNELLY COMES AS CLOSE AS ANYONE TO BEING
TODAY'S DOSTOYEVSKY OF CRIME LITERATURE, AND
THIS IS ONE OF HIS FINEST NOVELS TO DATE."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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"Thor tops himself again and again."
- BookReporter.com

"Feels like the TV show 24 on the page."
- The Associated Press

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever an action-packed tour de force!

Hidden deep within one of the world's most powerful organizations is a secret committee with a devastating agenda.  Its members are afforded incredible protections considered elites, untouchables.

But when four seconds of video is captured halfway around the world and anonymously transmitted to D.C., covert wheels are set in motion, and counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is tapped to undertake the deadliest assignment of his career.

What begins as a favor will evolve into a globe-spanning drama of highly personal stakes played out against a backdrop of stunning international intrigue, duplicitous political gamesmanship, and the darkest, most clandestine fears of the espionage world.

With razor-sharp plotting, richly rendered characters, and heart-stopping surprises on every page, Thor isn't just at the top of his game - he owns the entire genre.

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"One of the best writers you are ever going to read."
- WROK

BRAD THOR is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Code of Conduct, Act of War, Hidden Order, Black List, Full Black (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2011), The Athena Project, Foreign Influence (one of Suspense Magazine's best political thrillers of 2010), The Apostle, The Last Patriot (nominated best thriller of the year by the International Thriller Writers Association), The First Commandment, Takedown, Blowback (recognized as one of the "Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time" by NPR), State of the Union, Path of the Assassin, and The Lions of Lucerne.  Visit his website at BradThor.com.

"Thor... shows a gift for dramatic storytelling."
- Publishers Weekly

"I would say that C. J. Box is at the top of his form, but the top keeps moving ever upward." - BOOKPAGE

When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, his wife, Missy, is arrested.  Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his much-disliked mother-in-law, and he's not sure What to do - especially since it looks like Missy is guilty as sin.

But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be?  Is Missy being set up?  He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck.

Whichever way this goes, it's not going to be good...

"Stunning...  Will curl your hair." - KIRKUS REVIEWS

"I love Joe Pickett." - MICHAEL CONNELLY

"One of today's solid-gold, A-list, must-read writers."
- LEE CHILD

"A CHILLING, FAST-MOVING, SUSPENSE THRILLER... UN-PUT-DOWNABLE!" - BOSTON GLOBE

The call it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table.  They never wake up again.

Some traceless error in anesthesia has caused irreversible brain death, leaving each of them in a hopeless coma.

Something is wrong here.  And Susan Wheeler, a beautiful young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation - a plot so ghastly, so far-reaching, so terrifyingly incredible, yet so nightmarishly possible it will leave you suspended in a state of fear....

COMA

"UNNERVING... WILL LOWER YOUR TEMPERATURE!"
- NEWSWEEK

"STRIKES A DEAFENING CHORD OF TERROR!"
- WASHINGTON POST

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD

NEW AMERICAN PUBLISHES SIGNET, MENTOR, PLUME & MERIDIAN BOOKS

THE CONCRETE BLONDE

They call him the Dollmaker, a serial killer who stalks Los Angeles and leaves a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims.  When a suspect is shot by Detective Harry Bosch, everyone believes the city's nightmare is over.  But then the dead man's widow sues Harry and the L.A.P.D. for killing the wrong man - an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new corpse is found with the Dollmaker's macabre signature.  Now, for the second time, Harry must hunt down a ruthless death-dealer before he strikes again.  Careening through a blood-tracked quest, Harry will go from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go - the darkness of his own heart...

"MASTERFULLY ENTERTAINING."
- Houston Chronicle

"OUTSTANDING... CAN'T BE PUT DOWN."
- Kansas City Star