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 »

E-Book Extras: ONE: Why Speculate?: A speech to the International Leadership Forum; TWO: The Greatest Challenge Facing Mankind: Remarks to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco; THREE: Aliens Cause Global Warming: The 2003 Michelin Lecture at the California Institute of Technology The undisputed master ... 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 »

When diplomacy and military intervention fail, our leaders turn to The Third Option. CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp is obeying his orders -- to kill a German industrialist selling sensitive equipment to sponsors of terrorism -- when he learns his own government is plotting against him. Rapp ... more »

In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestrors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and ... more »

James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as America's best novelist, the Graham Greene of the bayou, and a poet of the mystery novel, returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke ... more »

In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. Paul Schumann, a German American living ... more »

It's June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for the province of Quebec, looks forward to a relaxing weekend -- after considering the extent of human depravity, investigating a brutal ... more »