Ross Thomas is considered to be at the very top of American thriller writers by many of his fellow authors as well as by his many readers. He won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards, one for Best First Novel, The Cold War Swap, and another for Best Novel, Briarpatch. He died in 1995, and since then all but one ... more »

Former mob chief Bill Bonanno and former undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco, who infiltrated the Mafia*s Bonanno family in the 1970s, combine their unique experiences to deliver an unprecedented crime thriller. This novel represents the extraordinary insights of two men who lived ... more »

eBook Special Feature: Also includes chapter excerpts from THE RED ROOM, KILLING ME SOFTLY, and LAND OF THE LIVING. They are three very different women: Zoe, the pretty blond schoolteacher; Jenny, the former hand model turned model mother and wife; and Nadia, the free spirit who entertains at children ... more »

A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community sits in jail, accused of a chilling act of evil. But then another boy disappears, triggering panic in tiny Deer Lake. Have the police caught the wrong man? Or is there an ... more »

In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In The New Daughter, a father comes to suspect that a burial mound ... more »

We begin with Alex Cross, the detective introduced in ALONG CAME A SPIDER. He's back, and this time it's personal. Alex's favorite niece, Naomi, disappears from school at Duke University. The trail of evidence points to Wylie, a serial killer who takes sexual perversion to new heights. Wylie works in ... more »

Forced to resign after being wrongly scapegoated for a tragic midair disaster, former Navy TOPGUN instructor Luke Henry has opened a private aerial combat training school in the Nevada desert -- with the aid of a cadre former aces and full support of the government. But the Defense Department's contract ... more »

I m not a religious man, but I make the sign of the cross over my heart just in case. The way I do every time I start. After all, the next few seconds could change my life forever. Employees aren t supposed to use company Internet access for personal reasons, but lots of us violate the policy and no ... more »

Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels, or Jack, as she's known, has just broken up with her boyfriend and is having one of her bouts of insomnia, so she's not in the best of moods anyway. Then a frightening serial killer who calls himself the Gingerbread Man starts murdering women all over Chicago and dumping ... more »

CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq ... more »

Courage is often enough to drive a soldier forward, to make him climb out of his foxhole and face enemy fire. But it takes something else, something more than courage, to keep going when every instinct and every shred of reason tells him to stop. The men of Recon Team Kilo, a Special Forces unit operating ... more »

Terrorists have seized the world's largest cities. London, Washington D.C., New York, and Frankfurt will be destroyed, unless their demands are met-and their demands are impossible. After a city in the western United States is fire bombed-a practice run-Alex Cross knows that it is only a matter of time ... more »