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The Procedure (Dr. Earl Garnet #3)
by Peter Clement"Heartpounding suspense," hailed Entertainment Weekly of Peter Clement's first medical thriller, Lethal Practice. Now the former ER physician has done it again--combining his technical expertise with a page-burning plot to create a chillingly plausible novel of suspense. With authentic detail and a surgeon's precision, Clement captures the tense, electrifying atmosphere of a big city hospital turned into a flash point. For in Fatal Medicine, one threat is more dangerous than contagion: the threat of human beings deciding who should live and who should die. . . . Death is a daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence at St. Vincent's Hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, in his pressure cooker career, Dr. Earl Garnet has broken the cardinal rule of modern medicine: he publicly blames a powerful HMO for practicing "no-fault murder" in the death of an eighteen-month-old baby. The HMO swiftly strikes back, igniting a debilitating boycott of the hospital. But after several accidents nearly cost patients their lives, the true bloodletting begins. A doctor is found sprawled out in the parking lot, his throat cut ear to ear. Blamed for instigating the chaos, Earl Garnet knows that he faces more than a deadly power play. The doctor may have uncovered a conspiracy reaching from the halls of one of the nation's most influential HMOs to a small, experimental clinic in Mexico, where yet another of his patients went for treatment and disappeared. To find answers, Garnet must wade deep into the murky, surreal workings of today's health care industry. Smart, tough, crackling with suspense, and vivid in its hospital setting, this visionary novel instantly places Peter Clement in the distinguished company of Michael Palmer and Robin Cook. Make no mistake: The Procedure is the work of a first-rate physician and an absolutely brilliant storyteller.
Process of Elimination (Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys SuperMystery #36)
by Carolyn KeeneNancy Drew has come to Los Angeles with her friend Bess to attend an international conference of environmentalists. But Nancy soon finds that there are even more urgent issues to address, such as the apparent murder of one of the conference coordinators, Carl Dubchek. And when Nancy starts asking questions, she ends up putting both herself and Bess in the line of fire! Meanwhile. . . One hundred miles to the south, Frank and Joe Hardy experience a bizarre encounter of their own. Visiting the San Diego Zoo, they witness a commando-like operation-- to steal a truckload of bamboo. Even stranger, a quick investigation on the Internet reveals a connection between the bamboo heist and an ex-CIA agent-- Carl Dubchek! The Hardys hook up with Nancy in L. A. , where they unravel a web of greed, deception, and international intrigue in. . . "Process of Elimination".
The Procession
by Jeff GulvinFBI Agent Johnny Harrison is back, tracking a coldblooded killer through the Louisiana bayou in a thriller that will &“keep your nose glued to the page&” (The Literary Review). Maxwell Carter, a criminal justice fingerprint analyst in West Virginia, has a lucrative racket going. When he finds a positive match for an old crime, he conveniently ignores it in return for a modest retainer from the alleged perp. But his latest mark isn&’t keen on being blackmailed. When FBI Agent Johnny Harrison finds Carter&’s body, bound and sliced in cheese wire, it isn&’t hard to connect the murder to Carter&’s unwilling patsy—a suspected child-killer living in the Louisiana bayou and working in Mississippi. Going undercover on an old trawler, Harrison wades into the sordid fantasy-world of a twisted mind. But what he discovers is even more dangerous: a century-old secret from New Orleans&’s troubled history . . . one that has yet to claim its last victim. The Procession marks the return of FBI Agent Johnny Harrison, who teamed up with Scotland Yard&’s Jack Swann in The Covenant, Nom de Guerre, and Storm Crow, which Jack Higgins praised as &“absolutely marvelous.&”
El procurador (Serie Washington Poe #Volumen 3)
by M.W. CravenLa fascinante y nueva entrega de la serie protagonizada por Washington Poe. «Un thriller brutal y apasionante.»The Sun «La mejor trama de misterio del año.Morning Star «Magistral e ingeniosamente sangriento, con un gran sentido de lugar.»Sunday MirrorSi crees que sabes lo que va a pasar a continuación es porque estás exactamente donde él quiere que estés... Es Navidad y un asesino en serie deja a la vista partes del cuerpo de su última víctima por todo Cumbria. Un extraño mensaje aparece en cada escena del crimen: # BSC6. Washington Poe y Tilly Bradshaw, de la Agencia Nacional contra el Crimen, se enfrentan a un caso que no tiene sentido. ¿Por qué algunas víctimas fueron anestesiadas, mientras que otras murieron en una agonía espantosa? ¿Por qué su único sospechoso niega lo que pueden probar de manera irrefutable, pero admite cosas de las que ni siquiera eran conscientes? ¿Y por qué todas las víctimas se tomaron las mismas dos semanas libres del trabajo tres años antes? Y cuando una agente del FBI caída en desgracia se pone en contacto con ellos, las cosas toman un giro aún más oscuro. Porque no cree que Poe esté lidiando con un asesino en serie en absoluto; ella cree que está lidiando con alguien mucho, mucho peor, un hombre que se hace llamar «el Procurador». Y nada volverá a ser lo mismo... Lo que se ha dicho sobre esta serie en España:«Washington Poe, el nuevo enfant terrible de la novela negra. [...] Engancha desde el primer momento.»Juan Carlos Galindo, El País «En El show de las marionetas, el misterio sobre el protagonista compite con el suspense de la trama.»La Vanguardia«Una novela ágil, profesionalmente planteada y resuelta, en la línea de Connelly y, antes que él, de aquel Dashiell Hammett que inventó el género.»Juan Bolea, El Periódico de Aragón «Washington Poe promete dar muchas satisfacciones a los amantes del género.»Negra y mortal «Washington Poe es el nuevo Harry Bosch.»Matt Hilton
Procurando por Faith
by Kristen MiddletonLivro 1 Um emocionante thriller de mistério escrito pela autora best-seller do New York Times, Kristen Middleton. Uma criança desaparecida. Uma psíquica talentosa. Um serial killer na caçada. Quando uma garotinha de sete anos parece ter sido sequestrada perto de Two Harbors, Minnesota, a psíquica Carissa Jones oferece ajuda para localizá-la. Desesperadas para encontrar a criança roubada, e sem pistas reais, as autoridades locais concordam em levá-la para o caso. Este é o primeiro livro da série Carissa Jones. Cada história se concentrará em um caso diferente de sequestro de crianças. Você pode lê-los separadamente ou em ordem.
Prodigal
by Marc D. GillerOnce an elusive hammerjack plunged into a virtual world of code, Lea Prism has been reborn as a corporate spook, hell-bent on ridding the universe of the anti-tech Inru terrorists. Their attempt to accelerate evolution robbed her of her once chance for happiness. Now the man she loved is nothing but a disembodied consciousness–and part of the computer matrix she has sworn to defend. But from the depths of a Martian volcano to the radioactive wasteland of Chernobyl, the Inru have launched one last offensive–giving rise to a final scenario more terrifying than anyone could imagine. The forces of technology are poised to distort the very worst of what nature has to offer...and the stage is set for battle.
The Prodigal Daughter (A Linda Wallheim Mystery #5)
by Mette Ivie HarrisonIn the wake of the #MeToo movement, has it become easier to speak out about sexual assault in religious communities?Linda Wallheim, increasingly disillusioned with her religion, has begun marriage counseling with her husband, Kurt, a bishop in the Mormon Church. On other days, Linda occupies herself with happier things, like visiting her five grown sons and their families. When Linda&’s eldest son, Joseph, tells her his infant daughter&’s babysitter, a local teenager named Sabrina Jensen, has vanished, Linda can&’t help but ask questions. Her casual inquiries form the portrait of a girl under extreme pressure from her parents to be the perfect Mormon daughter, and it eventually emerges that Sabrina is the victim of a terrible crime at the hands of her own classmates—including the high school&’s golden boys and future church leaders. Linda&’s search for Sabrina will lead her to the darker streets of Utah and cause her to question whether the Mormon community&’s most privileged and powerful will be called to task for past sins.
The Prodigal Project Book 2: Exodus
by Daniel Hart Ken AbrahamIn the twinkling of an eye, their lives changed forever. Husbands, wives, children, all lost in what was first called "the disappearence." Now many understand that with milllions of christians called home, the rapture has irrevocably turn the fabric of their lives. They wander, rootless and searching, in the wake of the events nearly too powerful too overwhelming to comprehend.
Prodigal Son: A Novel (The Mike Garrity Mysteries #2)
by Thomas B. Cavanagh&“With the clarity of Robert B. Parker and the complexity of Michael Connolly, [this thriller] disturbs and charms at the same time.&” —Booklist Once a cancer patient, former Orlando detective Mike Garrity is a survivor—for now, at least. Death has a way of following him around, like a black cloud over his head. If it&’s not his own mortality he&’s thinking about, it&’s someone else&’s. Like his teenage daughter&’s friend who just died of a suspected suicide. Or the woman he&’s just met in his cancer support group, Debbie, who learns that she doesn&’t have much longer to live. Maybe Mike has gotten soft during his second chance. He can&’t refuse to help Debbie when she asks him to track down the son she gave up for adoption more than twenty years ago. But his investigation leads to a dead body, which leads to Mike becoming the prime suspect in the murder. Desperate to clear his name, Mike soon uncovers a shocking betrayal. As a hurricane barrels towards the Sunshine State, a different kind of storm is brewing, one that will send Mike—and everyone he loves—running for cover . . . Praise for Head Games &“An Orlando, Florida, thriller that reads like a high-speed theme park ride . . . with dark humor so sharp it&’ll make you bleed.&” —Brian Freeman, New York Times–bestselling author &“Carl Hiaasen fans will be thrilled to know there&’s a new kid on the block. If you liked Basket Case, you&’ll flip over Thomas B. Cavanagh&’s sardonically and outrageously funny lead character.&” —Charlotte Hughes, New York Times–bestselling author
Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel (Orphan X #6)
by Gregg HurwitzForced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed—in Prodigal Son, the next New York Times bestselling Orphan X book from Gregg Hurwitz.As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name—The Nowhere Man—and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer—in exchange for an unofficial pardon, he must stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Now Evan has to do the one thing he’s least equipped to do—live a normal life. But then he gets a call for help from the one person he never expected. A woman claiming to have given him up for adoption, a woman he never knew—his mother. Her unlikely request: help Andrew Duran—a man whose life has gone off the rails, who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, bringing him to the deadly attention of very powerful figures. Now a brutal brother & sister assassination team are after him and with no one to turn to, and no safe place to hide, Evan is Duran’s only option. But when the hidden cabal catches on to what Evan is doing, everything he’s fought for is on the line—including his own life.
The Prodigal Son: A Carmine Delmonico Novel
by Colleen McCulloughThe fourth entry in this "compelling, passionate, and gritty" (Daily Mail, UK) series by internationally acclaimed bestselling author Colleen McCullough sends Carmine Delmonico on a heart-pounding ride through the world of toxic substances and brilliant biochemists to pursue a mysterious killer on the loose.JEALOUSY. INTRIGUE. THEFT. MURDER. CARMINE DELMONICO IS BACK ON THE CASE. HOLLOMAN, CONNECTICUT, 1969. A lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University. It kills within minutes and leaves no trace behind. Captain Carmine Delmonico is therefore quick off the mark when the bodies start to mount up. A sudden death at a dinner party followed by another at a gala black-tie event seem at first to be linked only by the poison and the presence of Dr. Jim Hunter. A black man married to a white woman, Dr. Hunter has faced scandal and prejudice for most of his life, so what would cause him to risk it all now? Or is he being framed for murder--and if so, by whom? Carmine and his detectives must follow the trail through the university town's crowd of eccentrics, no matter how close to home it may lead.
Prodigal Son
by Colleen McCulloughThe fourth entry in this "compelling, passionate, and gritty" (Daily Mail, UK) series by internationally acclaimed bestselling author Colleen McCullough sends Carmine Delmonico on a heart-pounding ride through the world of toxic substances and brilliant biochemists to pursue a mysterious killer on the loose.When Chubb University biochemist Millie Hunter notices that a deadly neurotoxin is missing from her laboratory refrigerator, she knows the situation is grave: the poison, extracted from a blowfish, shuts down the nervous system, leading to a slow, gruesome, and virtually unstoppable death. The very next night, Millie and her husband, another exceptional biochemist, attend a black tie dinner for an old friend, John Hall. John's stepmother, an exotic former Yugoslavian model, has assembled some of the most important--and eccentric--people from Chubb University for a lavish dinner. Notably missing is John's Aunt Emily, who holds an old family grudge. After dinner, the men retire for cigars and whiskey, and John suddenly falls to the floor and dies a horrible death. The cause: a dose of the missing neurotoxin, administered through a tiny puncture wound in his neck. As the bodies pile up and the coroner keeps pointing to the neurotoxin, Captain Carmine Delmonico must find the killer fast. Assisted by his brilliant colleague Delia and his constant wife Desdemona (an excellent cook), Delmonico follows the trail--no matter how close to home it may lead.
The Prodigal Son
by Colleen McCulloughCarmine Delmonico returns in this heart-pounding thriller from internationally acclaimed bestselling author Colleen McCullough. HOLLOMAN, CONNECTICUT, 1969. A lethal toxin, extracted from the blowfish, is stolen from a laboratory at Chubb University. It kills within minutes and leaves no trace behind, and worried biochemist Dr. Millie Hunter reports the theft at once to her father, Medical Examiner Dr. Patrick O'Donnell. Patrick's cousin Captain Carmine Delmonico is therefore quick off the mark when the bodies start to mount up. A sudden death at a dinner party followed by another at a gala black-tie event seem at first to be linked only by the poison and the presence of Dr. Jim Hunter, a scientist on the brink of greatness and husband to Millie. A black man married to a white woman, Dr. Jim has faced scandal and prejudice for most of his life, so what would cause him to risk it all now? Is he being framed for murder--and if so, by whom? Carmine and his detectives must follow the trail through the university town's crowd of eccentrics, no matter how close to home it may lead.
The Prodigal Son (Roger the Chapman #15)
by Kate SedleyThe latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlier, robbed his mistress and murdered a fellow servant, and is thrown into prison, Roger feels obliged to investigate the charge.
The Prodigal Spy: A Novel
by Joseph KanonIt is 1950 and communists are being hunted across America. When Walter Kotlar is accused of being a spy by the House Un-American Activities Committee, his young son Nick destroys a piece of evidence only he knows about. But before the hearing can conclude, Walter flees the country, leaving behind his family... and a key witness lying dead, apparently having committed suicide.Nineteen years later, Nick gets a second chance to discover the truth when a beautiful journalist brings a message from his long-lost father, and Nick follows her into Soviet-occupied Prague for a painful reunion and the discovery of a secret that changes everything. To unravel the lies Nick must return to where it all began and expose the one person who knew the truth - and who watched his family's destruction.Trust no one in this compelling, surprising thriller from the author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German.
Prodigies of Mystery: Limited Edition I (Prodigies of Mystery #1)
by David Fraser Lisa J. Lickel Heather Fraser Brainerd M. G. ThomasProdigies of Mystery: Edition I offers you 3 novels in 1. José Picada, P.I.: Deception Al Denteby Heather Fraser Brainerd and David Fraser...Paranormal Mystery. New detective Josie Cates never thought her first real case would lead to the world of black magic. The Last Bequest by Lisa J. Lickel...Cozy Mystery - Just how high a price does buried treasure command? Wild Vengeance by M.G. Thomas...Suspense Mystery - Deaths, threats and sick attacks in a small, rural English town and the local church is the scene of several incidents.
Prodigies of Mystery: Limited Edition II (Prodigies of Mystery #2)
by Lindsay Townsend Conda V. Douglas C. Chessher3 Mystery Novels in 1...Starke Naked Dead by Conda V. Douglas...Jeweler Dora must become a sleuth to solve a murder in the first of the Starke Dead cozy mystery series. An Older Evil by Lindsay Townsend...In the spring of 1386 trouble is brewing, murderous trouble... The Highway Shooter: A South Texas Cozy Mystery by C. Chessher...In The Highway Shooter: A South Texas Cozy Mystery, newspaper reporter Glennis Dunning and Deputy Sheriff Jake Briggs join forces to free a Hispanic teenager wrongly accused of murder.
Prodigies of Sci-Fi: Limited Edition I (Prodigies of Sci-Fi #1)
by Rosalie Skinner Cyrus Keith John B. Rosenman Joanne Elder4 Sci-Fi novels in 1: Exiled: Autumn's Peril by Rosalie Skinner...Hunted by off world assassins, haunted by ghosts, homesick for a planet light-years away, Caleath's quest is to survive and escape. / Becoming NADIA by Cyrus Keith, Epic Winner..."What's one more little white lie?" Inspector of the Cross by John B. Rosenman...Across four millenna, Turtan, our greatest hero, battles to save all humanity from invincible aliens. Spectra by Joanne Elder...What happens when the fragile line between genius and insanity is drawn with the blood of an entire species?
Prodigy Effect
by Don PendletonSTONY MAN Fighting terror around the globe, the Stony Man team is a covert group only a few know exists, acting under order of the President. Dedicated to saving the innocent, these men risk everything-including their lives-to keep the peace in situations where no one else can. Extreme Recovery First an unmanned spy drone ends up in American air space and then U.S. operatives in China are killed trying to help a teen prodigy defect. Then it appears the boy might be the brains behind the spy tech. While Phoenix Force attempts to bring the teenage scientist back to the U.S. without triggering retribution from the Chinese government, Able Team's mission in Alaska to recover the drone becomes a matter of international security. Because the good guys aren't the only ones bent on retrieval. The spies are covering their trail...with lethal efficiency.
The Producer's Daughter
by Lindsay MarcottHannah Doran is every tabloid's dream: Hollywood pedigree (wild child of a charming and powerful producer and his cultured wife, who died mysteriously in her prime); best friends with entitled movie stars and celebutantes--and a loud, earth-shattering fall from grace when she was convicted of grand theft after a night of one-percenter excess. But that's not real--or at least not what Hannah claims is her real life. Hannah is smart, devoted... and, she maintains, innocent of the felony that landed her in prison. She's determined to make something positive of her life. But it's hard to break from her public image when everyone has a stake in her old role--her beguiling old cellmates, her ruthless father, a female studio exec with much to hide, and a gorgeous, ambitious photographer. In a town built on image, is success more compelling than the truth--and is true redemption even possible?
Profane Men
by Rex MillerProfane Men brings the dark, creative, visionary energy of Slob, Chaingang, and other works by Rex Miller to a story set in Vietnam during the late 1960s. There have been many tales written about that troubled and troubling era, and Miller's popular fiction work is clearly informed by personal experience relating to the war. In fact, this novel is filled with apparently autobiographical touches (the central narrator character has a developing career in broadcast radio, among other things). A rootless young man drifting through life faces the likelihood of being drafted and decides to choose his own destiny, seeking a way to avoid becoming cannon fodder. Unfortunately for him, he finds himself thrust into some of the worst corners of Vietnam, working with a team of assassins tracking a pirate radio broadcaster who seems to be supplying intelligence to the Viet Cong. And then things get complicated . . .
The Profession
by Steven PressfieldThe "master storyteller" (Publishers Weekly) and bestselling author of Gates of Fire, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel returns with a stunning, chillingly plausible near-future thriller about the rise of a privately financed and global military industrial complex. The year is 2032. The third Iran-Iraq war is over; the 11/11 dirty bomb attack on the port of Long Beach, California is receding into memory; Saudi Arabia has recently quelled a coup; Russians and Turks are clashing in the Caspian Basin; Iranian armored units, supported by the satellite and drone power of their Chinese allies, have emerged from their enclaves in Tehran and are sweeping south attempting to recapture the resource rich territory that had been stolen from them, in their view, by Lukoil, BP, and ExxonMobil and their privately-funded armies. Everywhere military force is for hire. Oil companies, multi-national corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches. Even nation states enlist mercenary forces to suppress internal insurrections, hunt terrorists, and do the black bag jobs necessary to maintain the new New World Order. Force Insertion is the world's merc monopoly. Its leader is the disgraced former United States Marine General James Salter, stripped of his command by the president for nuclear saber-rattling with the Chinese and banished to the Far East. A grandmaster military and political strategist, Salter deftly seizes huge oil and gas fields, ultimately making himself the most powerful man in the world. Salter's endgame is to take vengeance on those responsible for his exile and then come home...as Commander in Chief. The only man who can stop him is the novel's narrator, Gilbert "Gent" Gentilhomme, Salter's most loyal foot soldier and as close to him as the son Salter lost. As this action-jammed, lightning fast, and brutally realistic novel builds to its heart-stopping climax Gent launches his personally and professionally most desperate mission: to take out his mentor and save the United States from self destruction. Infused by a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield's fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains.From the Hardcover edition.
The Professional (The Spenser Series #38)
by Robert B. ParkerPrivate eye Spenser has never had any difficulty handling women. But when four stunningly beautiful trophy wives hire him to protect them against a blackmailer threatening to expose their infidelities, even he must admit that they look like trouble.Tracking down Gary Eisenhower, the blackmailer and serial adulterer, isn't too difficult - but almost in spite of himself Spenser finds that he quite likes the guy. Certainly the women, with their loose purse-strings and looser morals, and their loveless marriages to rich, powerful, corrupt men, are hard to feel sorry for.But a killing soon changes the complexion of the case, and draws Spenser into the world of Boston's moneyed aristocracy: a world of corruption, vice and murder. As the bodies start to pile up, Spenser must decide which of his friends he can trust.'One of the great series in the history of the American detective story' New York Times
The Professional (The Game Maker Series #1)
by Kresley ColeThe highly anticipated complete novel of The Professional--the first installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole's scorching Game Maker series, an erotica collection that has readers asking: How hot is too hot? Get lost in the sultry world of the Game Maker series with The Master, book two, and The Player, book three!Meet the Professional. Mafiya enforcer Aleksandr "The Siberian" Sevastyan's loyalty to his boss is unwavering, until he meets the boss's long-lost daughter, a curvy, tantalizing redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksandr will do anything to possess her as well--on his own wicked terms. He makes the rules. Grad student Natalie Porter has barely recovered from her first encounter with the dark and breathtaking Siberian when he whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures. In the game of obsession, two players are better than one. Yet all is not as it seems. To remove Natalie from an enemy's reach, Aleksandr spirits her into hiding. From an opulent palace in Russia to the decadent playgrounds of the mega-rich in Paris, the two lovers tempt each other's boundaries to discover whether their darkest--and most forbidden--fantasies really can come true... Previously released as The Professional--Parts 1, 2, and 3 as ebook exclusives.
The Professional (Dangerous in Dallas #3)
by Addison FoxHer sexy neighbor turns savior in this next Dangerous in Dallas romance! Despite her job as a wedding planner, Violet Richardson doesn't believe a happy-ever-after is in her future. And when she's kidnapped by a killer, she's surprised that rescue comes in the form of her tempting yet irritating neighbor Max Baldwin. Trying to forget his dark past, Max never meant to take on his attractive neighbor's troubles. But now the bickering pair must outrun a thug who's determined to get his hands on mysterious jewels he thinks are in Violet's possession. And as they race for their lives through Dallas's summer heat, Max and Violet may finally open their eyes to the burning passion they share.