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The Winner
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When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later she has become a wealthy woman determined to live a normal life. But it will take more than money to escape the attention of the FBI who may want her for murder, and the dangerous man from her past who wants to kill her--if she doesn't stop him first.
The English Assassin
Sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore a painting owned by a reclusive millionaire banker, art expert and sometime Israeli agent Gabriel Allon discovers his would-be employer murdered and finds himself back in the espionage game, tangling with a rogue assassin he had trained. Reprint..
Vixen 03
1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.
Point of Impact
Tense and brilliant, Stephen Hunter's newest thriller unleashes a staggering conspiracy aimed point-blank at America's heart.
Mayday
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger Jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane.<BR>From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes MAYDAY--the classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page...the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever.
Special Ops
A new novel by the creator of The Aviators chronicles the exploits of American Special Forces troops who fought a covert war against Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in the Congo in 1964. Reprint.
The Charm School
On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger: a U.S. P.O.W. on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. Poised against the very heartland of America is a vast and astounding KGB enterprise known as "The Charm School." Three Americans -- an Air Force officer, an embassy liaison, and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station -- take on this renegade power of the Soviet state in a tour de force of suspense, excitement, and danger.
By the Rivers of Babylon
Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.N. conference that finally will bring peace to the Middle East. The planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries--and a terrorist bomb. Forced to crash land at an ancient desert site, the men and women of the peace mission make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos. (Spy Thriller)
Sudden Prey
Lucas Davenport knows why people kill. Some do it for profit. Some do it because they must. But when his team guns down two bank robbers in the middle of a heist, Davenport falls prey to the purest, simplest criminal motivation--revenge.
Blood and Honor
Argentina, April 1943: World War II rages in clandestine battles both sides deny--but neither can afford to lose. A Nazi plot threatens to overthrow the government and change the course of the war--and three American fighting men are thrust into a lethal nest of intrigue....
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
Happy Adventure was a schooner with one fatal flaw. It leaked like a sieve. So why would anyone repeatedly expose himself and his friends to the elements of the North Atlantic in a treacherous, stubborn, uncomfortable, unfloatable boat which at last count, has sunk eight times? Any explanation of this appalling narative seems outrageously unlikely. But the story is true. All too true. And it's decidedly the funniest story yet from Farley Mowat, whose books have sold over a million and a half copies in this country alone.
Black Friday
When a mysterious army of saboteurs attacks Wall Street and begins an economic war, Caitlin Dillon, the most powerful woman on Wall Street, and Arch Carroll, the federal agent who plays by no rules at all, must stop Operation Black Market at any cost. Reissue.
Zero Hour
Sent in to investigate a series of grisly murders in Raccoon City, the members of S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team, including rookie Rebecca Chambers, come face to face with the nightmarish evil created by the Umbrella Corporation, in a novelization of the best-selling computer game from Capcom. Original.
Cathedral
A band of Irish extremists led by Brian Flynn seizes St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on St. Patrick's Day and demands the release of prisoners from Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland. Reissue.
All the Queen's Men
A gripping and erotically charged thriller pits Niema Burdock against CIA operations specialist John Medina--a man she blames for her husband's death--when they are forced to work together to infiltrate an international terrorist ring. Reprint.
The Last Heroes
June, 1941. Determined that the United States will be prepared for war, Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" Donovan orchestrate the most complex espionage organization in history, the Office of Strategic Services. Young and daring, the OSS assemble under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then disperse throughout the world to conduct their operations. And no operation is more critical than the one being conducted by hotshot pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German friend Eric Fulmar: to secure the rare ore that will power a top-secret weapon coveted on both sides of the Atlantic--the atomic bomb.
Last Man Standing
Haunted by the slaughter of the fellow members of his FBI Hostage Rescue Team in an ambush in which he was the sole survivor, FBI agent Web London becomes the target of suspicion and an investigation into the incident and joins forces with an unlikely ally to find the killer of his friends, before the killer can find him, instead. Reprint.
Lila
The author who captured the spirit of an entire generation with his classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance now takes readers on a voyage of poignant and passionate philosophical exploration. "An intellectual rebel's book . . . the writing of a thoughtful, sensitive social and cultural observer".--Washington Post Book World. "Daring, highly original and provocative".--The New York Times. (Philosophy)
If Tomorrow Comes
Lovely, idealistic, Tracy Whitney, is soon to enter a life of hardship and revenge, one that will led her into a dazzling world of sumptuous wealth, audacious exploits, and narrow escapes--and to a passion that promises to fulfill all her secret dreams.
Rogue Warrior--Detachment Bravo
Here is the explosive autobiography of the brilliant, death-defying founder of the Navy's top-secret counterterrorist unit: Seal Team Six. Following that success, he organized a group of military terrorists to test the defenses of the Navy's facilities, only to incur the wrath of the Navy brass. 8 pages of photographs.