Robert Philip Hansen thought he could outsmart the system. In the mid-1980s, the mild-mannered FBI bureaucrat and father of six began selling top secret information to agents of the Soviet Union. A computer expert, Hansen carefully encrypted his stolen files: anyone but his contacts would destroy the ... more »

Master of mystery Robert Barnard, internationally acclaimed for his suspenseful, witty literary gems, cleverly mixes past and present in A Cry from the Dark, an intriguing tour de force sweeping from 1930s Australia to contemporary London. Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the ... more »

It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night where your life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse ... more »

J.J. Donovan is a private consultant--an expert people turn to when they've run out of options. In this fast-paced sequel to Broken Machines , Donovan and his partner Boris are unwittingly drawn into a scheme to murder sick people for their viatical or death benefits. The murders are being carried out ... more »

As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Dale Townsend comes upon a chilling scene--a young man, knives in his hands and the body of a woman at his feet. But the enigmatic suspect refuses to answer any questions, and, bizarrely, there is no forensic evidence to link him to ... more »

Mackie dreaded the mail. From this simple beginning, Peter Abrahams opens the curtains on a mesmerizing world down on the Mexican border, a world of complex and passionate people whose ambitions will lead them on a relentless collision course, a desert world that rises to the mythic in Their Wildest ... more »

In one moment, time is ripped apart . . . Spectators gape as frogs rain down in Queen Salome's arena. Simultaneously yet two thousand years later, a dark-eyed shepard boy appears outside the New Mexico laboratory . . . babbling in an ancient, near forgotten tongue. Almost immediately, before the astonished ... more »

Not all police officers are bad. And very rarely does an officer join the force already corrupt. But, Chicago police Sergeant Joe Donegan has a plan. To him, the police badge is a license to steal, an easy way to get whatever he wants without consequence. Donegan knows where to strike and he knows which ... more »

Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre ... more »

Peter Janson is a retired operative, now a highly sought after and extremely selective security specialist. The spy game ended up costing him everything that was most important to him and it would take a lot to lure him back into it. Unfortunately, the one person to whom Janson's personal debt is so ... more »

With twists as harrowing as a high-g-force turn, Hostile Contact is vintage Gordon Kent: an electrifying blend of military suspense and espionage thriller. In it, Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik returns to action, strapping himself in for a wild ride into a dangerous, borderless realm of spies, ... more »

On a warm summer night, an attractive woman hurtles north in a blue Peugeot with a hastily scrawled address in her pocket, while, back in London, a desperate man leaves an urgent late-night phone message on his brother's answering machine. By sunrise the next morning, the woman is found inside her car ... more »