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Meltdown (Executioner #97)
by Don PendletonA series of "accidents" at nuclear power stations across the United States is destabilizing America's energy program.<P> In the fallout of this highly complex plot, the United States will be forced to rely on Third World oil, oil whose flow is controlled by the Russian KGB.<P> Mack Bolan must push to the core of this sabotage before a full-scale disaster occurs. But it's a race with a temperature gauge that goes only one way - straight toward a nuclear meltdown.
Tightrope (Super Bolan #15)
by Don PendletonOne by one, the top officials of international intelligence agencies are murdered, spearheading a new wave of terrorist atrocities throughout Western Europe. The White Front is using acts of violence in an effort to destabilize governments, and their web of corruption extends to the highest levels of the world's elite antiterrorist squads.<P> Mack Bolan's mission is compromised from the start. Stalking the dark corners of Europe, where assassins wait at every turn, his probe leads him to the heart of a conspiracy that will imperil the U.S. Government.<P> The line between good and evil is a tightrope no man should walk. Unless that man is the Executioner.
Savannah Swingsaw (Executioner #74)
by Don PendletonThe Executioner poses as a convict to spring a man marked for death by a mystery assassin.<P> Mack Bolan wants to know why a petty embezzler is the target of an international hit man. But Bolan's plan is foiled by a group known as the Savannah Swingsaw - four female vigilantes who break him out instead, in a baffling move that fires the big warrior to blazing action.
Whipsaw (Executioner #144)
by Don PendletonTorn by political struggles and underground revolution, the Philippines are wide open to powermongers and would-be messiahs. Now the deadliest and most elusive terrorist-bomber in the world stalks its crowded streets, plotting an act that will shake the country to its core. Working under government cover, Mack Bolan has to infiltrate the terrorist network, find the bomber, then break him. Bolan is thrown headlong into the fire - from an unthinkable airport massacre to the steamy jungle where the heart of terrorism beats relentlessly. In a country where white-hot violence has become almost a way of life, the Executioner is about to cause some scorching heat of his own.
Warrior's Edge (Executioner #163)
by Don PendletonA small African nation comes under siege when its president and his cabinet are kidnapped by a band of ruthless guns for hire. Their leader is a glory-seeking, modern-day Teutonic warrior who wields a machine pistol instead of a sword.<P> The Desert Knights cut a grisly path of slaughter through city streets and swirling sands, forcing the U.S. to take an arm's-length approach by sending in Mack Bolan.<P> With freedom and justice hanging in the balance, the arm becomes a hammer as the Executioner escorts the Desert Knights on a brief tour of hell.
Twisted Path
by Don PendletonAggressive, primitive and violent, the Shining Path murders in the name of freedom. Fanatical terrorists who are trying to destroy Peru's government, the Path's "low budget" warfare has suddenly turned high-tech--someone is selling them state-of-the-art weapons. Mack Bolan infiltrates the secretive group and follows an illegal arms shipment straight into hell. Framed for murder, locked in a Lima prison, the American warrior struggles to complete a mission that seems to be slipping out of his control. But the Executioner has special treatment for killers whose only reality is a smoking gun--strong medicine in a dose that will leave the Shining Path choking on its own violent prescription.
Blood Relations
by Barbara ParkerWhen a seventeen year-old model claims she was raped in the VIP room of a south beach nightclub by three high-profile men, it's up to Sam Hagen, head of major crimes for Dade County, to decide if they should be put on trial. Hagen's ambition to become the next state attorney outweighs his reluctance to be drawn back into the moral twilight of south beach, where his own teenage son died the year before. Hagen's investigation of the case only exacerbates his wife's ongoing grief over their son's death, broadening the gulf between them and driving him into the arms of a woman from his past. When a key witness is found brutally murdered, Hagen is swept into a storm of suspicion that leads, in a shocking twist, back into his own shattered family.
The Scorpion Sanction
by Gordon Pape Tony AsplerEgypt is preparing to welcome the President of the United States when the body of a Palestinian terrorist is found in the Nile. Cause of Death: radiation poisoning. In his office, the Egyptian president, flanked by top security officers, reaches for the phone. In Israel, a Mossad commander turns his jeept into an orange grove, where an old man contemplates the graves of his parents, brother and son. In the dessert, at an oasis, a American businessman and his assistant, who doubles as his mistress, race agains time to put the finishing touches on what will be the most opulent luxury hotel evry built. In Cairo, at Al-Azhar, the oldest university in the world, a professor of islamic thought kneel on a prayer rug, the fingers of his hand brushing the image of a scorpion branded on the instep of his foot. In 10 days all of these people will find themselves at Aswan, their fates inextricable linked.
The Final Judgment
by Richard North PattersonLong estranged from her blue blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found 22-year-old Bret Allen, blood spattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime, the weapon covered with fingerprints. Carolyn has doubts of her own about Bret's innocence. But as the sensational trial heats up, she'll find disturbing inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecution's star witness and find herself facing some of the toughest challenges of her life and career. From trusting her former lover state prosecutor Jackson Watts, to risking the federal judgship she's worked her whole life for, to exposing a dark family secret that could save her niece or destroy them both.
Boneyards
by Robert CampbellFormer Chicago cop Rafe Sharkey's reputation for shady deals and shady ladies catches up with him when his prostitute lover is found murdered.
Under The Ice
by Richard P. HenrickThe Soviet Premier's airplane suddenly veers off course, far above the frozen Canadian wilderness--and shockingly close to a brand new, state-of-the-art NORAD radar installation. Is the Soviet action a simple error or a tactical slap in the face? A squadron of crack F-15 interceptors and team of Canadian Arctic rangers race to the region where the plane has disappeared. Simultaneously, the new Baffin Island radar station goes active, showing NATO's hand, but poise to fend off a global crisis with the highes stakes. The U.S. Naval Arctic Weapons lab provides support with an untested surface scanning fathometer mounted in the hull of the U.S.s Defiance. The Soviets counter by rushing an awesome Akula class attack sub to search for signs of the plane beneath the Canadian pack ice--that is, unless the NATO forces get there first. Wit all of the technological might of East and West homing in on the pressure point in the iceboun Davis Straits, a showdown unfolds with the highest stakes of all--the fate of humanity itself.
Pay Off
by Stephen LeatherWhy does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA, jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder. is adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when his plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late ...
Fire Arrow
by Franklin Allen LeibWhen a planeload of U.S. military dependents is hijacked by terrorists to a Libyan airbase, a complex rescue mission is mounted
The Mercy Rule (Dismas Hardy #5)
by John LescroartIn Dismas Hardy, New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart has created one of the most complex and engaging characters in contemporary fiction. Hardy, the former bartender, loving husband and father, and reluctant defense attorney of Lescroart's blockbuster novel The 13th Juror, returns in The Mercy Rule to face his most challenging case yet.<P> Set apart from his contemporaries by virtue of his remarkable storytelling, John Lescroart gives readers the novel of his career in The Mercy Rule. Vowing to spend more time with his wife and kids, Dismas Hardy is hesitant to take on the case of Graham Russo, a could-have-been-great baseball player turned lawyer indicted for the murder of his father, Sal. Everyone close to the Russos knew Sal was dying, and that he needed morphine injections to ease his suffering. Graham freely admits to administering those injections, but insists he wasn't there the night of Sal's overdose and resultant death. Was it suicide, murder--or mercy?<P> With personal and professional tensions mounting, Hardy finds himself face-to-face with a terrifying truth: If this was a murder, he might well be the next person to die.<P> With his mastery of courtroom drama, and solid connection to the human element that makes his fiction so compelling, John Lescroart has created in The Mercy Rule an intelligent and richly satisfying thriller that will keep readers turning the pages far into the night.
Counterparts
by Gonzalo LiraFBI agent Margaret Chisholm-a single mother and soccer mom, quiet, competent-is possessed of an unpredictable red rage that awes even her toughest colleagues. CIA agent Nicholas Denton-once a rising star, now considered a "disappointment"-manages to subtly control much of the Agency from his low-level desk. When Sister Marianne, a nun with a past, becomes the target of a fearsome international assassin, Chisholm and Denton are teamed up in an unlikely intra-agency pairing, code name: Counterparts. Just why Sister Marianne has been targeted remains a mystery, but the closer the assassin gets, the clearer it becomes that this is no ordinary hit. Following a trail of bloodshed that leads from within the walls of a rural New Hampshire convent to Washington's Beltway and finally to the streets of Rome, Chisholm and Denton keep close watch over Sister Marianne as the audacious killer zeroes in, cutting a measured swath of terror in his wake. There, in the Eternal City, Chisholm, Denton, and Sister Marianne will learn that nothing is as it seems: allegiances are variable and treachery is as common as votive candles, while only those they've come to distrust can be counted upon. Chockablock with unanticipated twists and turns, Counterparts will leave readers spinning as the action speeds to its satisfyingly fierce end. Gonzalo Lira is a new talent sure to win an immediate following with this bold, fresh debut.