In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is home to women who have been sold to brothels as punishment for their crimes. It is here that the shogun's dashing young cousin and heir apparent is found dead--stabbed through the eye with a long hairpin--in ... more »

Methodical, calculating, and detached during his usual kidnappings and murders (by which he literally bronzes his victims at the moment of their utmost despair), he lets himself go with family #9, developing a liking to the unorthodox and outspoken teenage daughter, who seems to be taunting him with ... more »

Nicholas Bryson was a deep cover operative for the secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission goes wrong, he's retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania. Now, years later, he discovers that the Directorate was using him against his own country's ... more »

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. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes the classic bestseller ... more »

Lucifer Jones, everyone's favorite con man, is in danger of running out of continents that will have him. This time he decides to try his luck in Europe. Europe's pain is your gain. Join Lucifer as he encounters a home-made man, exercises ghosts in Italy, goes into business with the notorious Clubfoot ... more »

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A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy turns -- from ... more »