Like his peers William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, bestselling author Bruce Sterling writes cutting-edge speculative fiction firmly rooted in today's reality. Now in The Zenith Angle , he has created a timely thriller about an information-age security expert caught up in America's escalating war on terror ... more »

I've got a weird one, so naturally I thought of you, says Milo Sturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. What makes it a weird one is the lack of any obvious motive, and the luridly careful ... more »

Quinn Patrick O'Connell is an honest and courageous man on the brink of becoming the second Irish Catholic President of the United States. But an explosive secret is about to shatter his career, his life, and the country -- a secret buried for over a half century that even he doesn't know.... "Uris ... more »

E-Book Extra: The Truth is in Here: An Interview with Gary Tigerman When Angela Browning, an ambitious journalist, receives a mysterious computer disk from an anonymous source, she can't believe the information it contains: photos of ancient structures on the planet Mars. But after diligent research ... more »

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortunethe elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation. Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude ... more »

Ellie Cavanaugh was seven when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea, was murdered. Ellie's testimony led to the conviction of a man who would deny his guilt through twenty-two years in prison. Ellie, now an investigative reporter, uncovers new details. With each new discovery, she comes closer to a confrontation ... more »

If he hadn't needed the cash so badly, Nick Stone would never have messed with the Russian mafia. But the lucrative offer was one he couldn't refuse. The job seemed simple enough for a man of his particular talents: kidnap a ruthless, money-laundering mob boss from his fortified Helsinki hotel room and ... more »

Under the benign watch of Police Chief Arly Hanks, things are pretty quiet in the sleepy Arkansas town of Maggody these days. Not even the prospect of a historical society-funded Civil War documentary on the locally touted (albeit historically insignificant) Skirmish at Cotter's Ridge of 1863 does much ... more »

E-Book Extras: ONE: Dale Brown: The Novels; TWO: Death of the Dogfight: An Interview with Dale Brown The fifth installment of the best-selling Dreamland series. The Dreamland force halts an Asian nuclear nightmare, but detects an unknown super-weapon inside their top-secret military facility. The ghost ... more »

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When Kurt Austin, leader of an underwater exploration team, rescues marine archaeologist Nina Kirov, he becomes the target of madman Texas industrialist Don Halcon. Only Austin and his team stand between Halcon and the the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria, holding a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity ... more »

When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a scintilla of life left in her--it's up to homicide detective Jane Rizzoli to find the perpetrator. Medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, nicknamed the Queen of the Dead, has the unlucky fortune to discover that the murdered nun, a ... more »