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Wolf's Revenge (The Leo Maxwell Mysteries #5)
by Lachlan Smith“Full of revelations, surprises and shocks,” the fifth Leo Maxwell mystery pits the underdog defense attorney against an unforgiving prison gang (Bookreporter). Lachlan Smith’s Shamus Award–winning series continues with attorney-detective Leo Maxwell seeking an exit strategy from his family’s deepening entanglement with a ruthless prison-based gang. Caught between the criminals and the FBI, Leo charts his own path in defending a young woman who was manipulated into brazenly murdering a member of the Aryan Brotherhood in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. When the consequences strike heartbreakingly close to home, Leo, his brother Teddy, and the rest of the family are forced into a winner-takes-all confrontation with men who don’t care how many innocents they harm in achieving their goals. As Leo’s world collapses, long-held secrets are revealed, transforming his perspective on the aftermath of the tragedy that derailed his childhood and fractured his family twenty-one years ago. The question then becomes who will get revenge first—the Maxwells or the sadistic gang leader who pursues them? “In its complexity, Wolf’s Revenge might remind a reader of a John le Carré novel; few are who they seem to be. Spies and double agents abound. This novel has action, some violence, but its real strengths are its intricacy and some rather dispiriting revelations about our criminal justice system.” —Tuscaloosa News “Operating at the top of his game, Smith is as good as anyone writing today at combining a mystery with the overlay of existential dread that noir fans relish.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Wolf's Rite
by Terry L. PersunThe life of an Advertising executive is turned inside out when he is forced to experience a Native American vision quest, and accused of murder.
Wolf, No Wolf (The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré #3)
by Peter BowenA half-Indian, half-French deputy with &“a shrewd mind and wry sense of humor&” investigates a case of homicide on the range (The New York Times Book Review). Two men have been cutting fences at the ranches of Toussaint, Montana, loosing thousands of dollars&’ worth of cattle to use as target practice for their .22 rifles. Are they thieves? Pranksters? Local cattle inspector and sometime deputy Gabriel Du Pré guesses they&’re environmentalists, agitating for the reintroduction of native wolves to Montana&’s high plains. Du Pré knows the perpetrators are trying to send a message to the ranchers of eastern Montana—he also has a hunch they&’re already dead. When the activists are indeed found shot to death, Du Pré must figure out who used them for target practice. The FBI descends, but their agents are as clueless in this territory as the hapless victims were. Clearly, one of Toussaint&’s citizens committed this crime, killing to protect the traditional way of ranching life, a loyalty Du Pré shares. But if anyone&’s going to arrest his people, it will be the cattle inspector himself . . . Wolf, No Wolf is the third in &“a wonderfully eclectic and enjoyable series of interest to western crime readers, especially those favoring Montana authors C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Keith McCafferty as well as fans of the Hillermans&” (Booklist).Wolf, No Wolf is the 3rd book in The Montana Mysteries Featuring Gabriel Du Pré series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Wolf-Boy
by David FitzpatrickA coming of age story set in Provincetown, Truro, and Dennis Cape Cod during the summer of 1979. Sixteen-year-old Danny Halligan is seeking to define his sexual identity, struggling to navigate his feeling toward 18-year old childhood friend Liam Preston. Their lives spiral out of control when they meet 21-year-old Gracie Rose, a charismatic photographer and Yale dropout with a vision of a flesh festival on film. Danny finds his mind unraveling as he is caught up in a torrent of drugs, sex and photography. Entire days are lost in drug fueled grappling and flesh wars in a massive tree fort known as the Palace of the Palpable Pines. Gracie' s vision includes masking her subjects to maintain their anonymity. Liam becomes Lone Ranger while Danny' s fur covered mask transforms him into Wolf-Boy.Danny is left mentally and physically ravaged as Gracie gains ever more fame for her ground-breaking photographs, known as Transfiguration Photos.
Wolf.e (The Soldiers of Bedlam #1)
by Paisley Hope"Paisley Hope is a masterful storyteller, with plenty of heat and so much heart-wrenching romance." —Kristen Proby, New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling authorHounds of Hell MC President Gabriel Wolfe is as jaded as they come. His motto has always been: Always ride faster than your angel can fly...But when Brinley Beaumont runs back to her hometown and right into his crosshairs, Wolfe begins to feel something he hasn't felt for as long as he can remember: alive. Gabriel is the fallen dark angel and club president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club. His life has been infused with darkness and trauma since the day he was born, forcing more than just desensitization to violence and chaos. Forcing him to crave it to feel stable. Secure. Whole.With only a handful of people he cares about, his family, the ones who don his cut, women are just a tool, a means to an end. Never to covet, only to use. Each one blending into the next.The formula he lives by is simple.Death is at your door. You are a soldier of bedlam.Nothing more, nothing less…Until the moment Brinley Beaumont flies into his crosshairs. She seems so down to earth and pure-minded, but he can see the dark desires that she's kept hidden for so long. Brinley isn't about to get involved with this brooding alpha male, no matter how attracted to him she may be. Until he starts calling her his "little hummingbird" and she discovers he can give her everything she's always craved.Content warning: Violence expected with the life of an outlaw motorcycle club include but are not limited to torture, gun violence, murder, discussions of sexual assault (nothing descriptive on page), flashback domestic abuse and death of a family member, mild alcohol and drug use. Sexual triggers are not fully listed to conceal plot points and pivotal moments but are of a darker nature. Please check the author's note at the front for a brief list.
Wolfgang's Castle: Germans against Hitler
by Rex W LastAmidst the secluded valleys of Bavaria, 1940, lies a covert Nazi stronghold, the womb to the sinister Project Sea Eagle. Here, in hidden chambers beneath the earth, Nazi scientists toil over an innovative menace: a fleet of aqua-planes intended to unleash a torrent of terror upon Britain’s shores once more. Against the dark tide rises a band of unlikely allies: four anti-Nazi Germans, two audacious SOE operatives, and twenty captive RAF officers. With scarce resources yet unyielding resolve, they plot to dismantle this aquatic harbinger of invasion. At the heart of their mission lies the experimental ‘aquaplane,’ a swift maritime vessel conceived to ferry troops and weaponry across the Channel, a dire threat to England’s already beleaguered coast. The citadel of Sea Eagle, veiled beneath the earth, eludes the reach of aerial bombs, and a direct military assault is a gambit Britain can ill afford. Amidst the storm of war, Major Archie Wellings of the SOE forms a daring coalition with two German couples and others, orchestrating a clandestine assault on Wolfgang’s Castle, the nexus of Sea Eagle. They turn Nazi ideology against itself, employing ingenious subterfuges to thwart the looming peril. Wolfgang’s Castle is more than a tale of espionage and warfare. It delves into the essence of patriotism, the indomitable spirit of resistance, and the unexpected corridors of camaraderie amidst the horrors of war. With a sprinkle of satire, a glimpse into wartime’s gender dynamics, and a tender vein of romance, this thrilling narrative is not just a journey through the shadows of war, but a venture into the myriad shades of human valour and ingenuity.
Wolfnight (The Henri Castang Mysteries)
by Nicolas FreelingFrom an Edgar award–winning British crime novelist, an Inspector Castang thriller that “has it all—politics, sex, metaphysics” (The New York Times).It’s a quiet night at the Police Judiciare in Detective Castang’s provincial corner of France when a prominent politician stumbles in, claiming he was in a car accident he can barely recall, with a passenger who is his mistress—and is very likely dead. But when the unorthodox inspector’s astute investigation leads him straight into the heart of a political conspiracy, the stakes are suddenly higher for Castang—and for the fate of the French Republic.“Exhilaratingly rich in wit and humanity. Indignant at the right things.” —Detroit News
Wolfsbane
by Craig ThomasRichard Gardiner is a successful, smalltown English solicitor, whose violent past suddenly catches up with him while on vacation.
Wolfsbane (The Kenneth Aubrey & Patrick Hyde Series)
by Craig ThomasYears after a shattering wartime betrayal, an ex-agent embarks on a quest for revenge in this powerful thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author . . . Nineteen years ago, Richard Gardiner was a British agent who was captured and tortured by the Gestapo after a bitter betrayal. Now, during a visit to France, he sees a face that triggers his rage—and his thirst for revenge. All that he learned from his former career in espionage will be put to use as he sets out on a murderous new mission. Meanwhile, MI6 chief Kenneth Aubrey is on his own hunt for a double agent inside the NATO Senior Joint Intelligence Committee. As both men pursue their targets, secrets will be revealed—and blood will be spilled . . . &“Classic espionage.&” —The London Times &“Machinations within machinations.&” —The New York Times
Wolfsbane (Wolf #1)
by William W. JohnstoneNew York Times Bestselling Author: A deadly blossom grows in the rich Louisiana soil—and awakens a terrifying threat… It had been years since wolfsbane grew on the bayou, yet everyone who lived in Ducros Parish, Louisiana, knew that someday it would appear again. With its pretty yellow flowers and lovely green leaves, wolfsbane was as beautiful as it was deadly. And when the townspeople saw the ancient root once again spring from the earth, they knew it wouldn&’t be long before they heard the terrifying howls in the night . . . There were those who called the tales of wolfsbane superstition, the stuff of childhood legend. But others knew that when the flower blossomed again, so would the spilling of human blood—and there was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide . . .
Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage (The Conway Sax Mysteries)
by Steve UlfelderConway Sax is back in a thrilling and heartrending new novel from critically acclaimed, Edgar-nominated author Steve UlfelderConway Sax is a man on a mission-this time in Los Angeles, where he uses his race-driving experience in a desperate bid to rescue Kenny Spoon, a washed-up TV star who's been kidnapped. It's a favor for Kenny's mother Eudora, Conway's dear friend and a fellow member of the Barnburners, his tight-knit maverick AA group. After hauling Kenny back to Massachusetts, Conway finds himself caught between Eudora and her two sons: Kenny, and Harmon, a cop who resents his talented, troubled half-brother. Each member of the Spoon family distrusts and even despises the others, it seems... and each has a past full of dark secrets that may explain why.While Conway tries to learn why Kenny was kidnapped and protect him from further harm, a shocking murder devastates this complex, all-too-human family. Conway vows to find the killer and avenge the death, but each clue only points to more suspects. Things get even more complicated when Conway, separated from his girlfriend Charlene, begins a passionate affair that can't help but cloud his judgment. The more secrets he uncovers, the more danger he's in as this masterfully written page-turner builds to a wrenching confrontation."Wolverine Bros. Freight & Storage is tough and full of heart, just like its hero, Conway Sax. It's fast-paced, hard-edged, and so authentic that you can almost feel the grit beneath your fingernails." -Meg Gardiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow Tracer
Wolverine: Election Day
by Peter DavidThere's less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the nation's next general presidential election-a heated political contest pitting the incumbent president against a popular challenger. But all bets are off when a heinous act of domestic terrorism results in a young boy being held hostage before the eyes of America... with the ultimate demands to result in nothing short of changing the face of history. But as the country threatens to descend into chaos, a nationwide investigation into the boy's possible whereabouts is quickly mobilized, military brass requests that the mutant Wolverine become involved as well-there's simply no one more qualified with tracking skills and vicious talent necessary to uncover the truth. ...
Wolverine: Election Day
by Peter DavidWolverine answers the call of duty when a domestic terrorist tries to sabotage an election in this New York Times–bestselling author&’s original novel. The next presidential election is less than one week away. The divisive contest pits the current president against a popular challenger. But tensions mount even higher after a devastating act of domestic terrorism. Now the entire country looks on as a young boy is held hostage. And the demands require nothing less than changing the course of history . . . With a nationwide search for the boy underway, the military must turn to the mutant Wolverine for help. With his unparallelled tracking skills and vicious talents, it&’s up to him to uncover the truth before the boy&’s life is lost—and America descends into chaos.
Wolverine: Nature of the Beast
by Dave SternStripped of his powers, Wolverine must unravel a conspiracy threatening all of mutantkind in this original adventure novel. With his uncanny strength, indestructible adamantium-coated skeleton, and fearsome claws, Wolverine was a uniquely unstoppable fighting force. Then, everything changed. With the adamantium ripped from his body and his legendary healing ability almost extinguished, he is once again merely a man named Logan. Yet he faces a threat more powerful and terrifying than ever. Only Logan can stop a deadly plot that takes him from the Nevada desert to the mountains of Tibet, and then back to the untamed streets of Las Vegas. The criminal scheme reaches back to Logan&’s days as a Canadian government agent—and his years as a member of the X-Men. Armed with only his cunning mind and merciless instincts, the man who was once Wolverine must face forgotten enemies from his past . . . and unexpected threats of his future . . .
Wolverine: Violent Tendencies
by Marc CerasiniIn the days following Wolverine&’s transformation, government scientists test his deadly potential in this original adventure novel. In the remote Canadian Rockies, a government research facility has just transformed one of its own agents into the ultimate weapon. Formerly known as Logan, Weapon X is now enhanced with an adamantium skeleton and retractable claws. With his natural mutant ability to heal from any wound, he is as indestructible as he is vicious. By all accounts, the experiment is a success. Until Weapon X goes missing. It has been months since Logan escaped captivity. Breaking through all constraints—and slaughtering anyone who got in his way—he now hides out in the wilderness. But Logan&’s creator is merely waiting for the right moment to reclaim his creation. Before Weapon X is brought back, the program director wants to test the limits of his new abilities . . .
Wolves Among Us
by Ginger GarrettWhen two brutal murders occur in a small German village, the local priest requests help from an inquisitor. But far from being a savior, he creates a climate of fear in the town. It is up to a doubting priest and an unloved wife who is a friend of the Bible translator Tyndale to counteract this climate of witch hunting zealotry with love and truth. Garrett sets her novel against the historical backdrop of the inquisition, in which people were imprisoned and tortured, often burned on the false testimony of others. She shows how easily the atmosphere in a community can be poisoned by fear and distrust.
Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko #5)
by Martin Cruz SmithA Moscow detective is sent to Chernobyl for a frightening case in the most spectacular entry yet in Martin Cruz Smith’s Arkady Renko series.In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find his transformed nation just as obsessed with corruption and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case yet: the death of one of Russia’s new billionaires, which leads him to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion—closed to the world since 1986’s nuclear disaster. It is still aglow with radioactivity, now inhabited only by the militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly peasants who refuse to relocate. Renko’s journey to this ghostly netherworld, the crimes he uncovers there, and the secrets they reveal about the New Russia make for an unforgettable adventure.
Wolves Eat Dogs (The\arkady Renko Novels Ser. #5)
by Martin Cruz SmithThe iron curtain has fallen and a screen of nouveau capitalism stands in its place. Though the New Russia is foreign to Renko, the corruption and brutality that he encounters are all too familiar. The seeming suicide of one of Russia's new billionaires leads Arkady Renko to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion, the still radioactive site of great catastrophe - a spectral netherworld populated by the corrupted, the obstinate and the reckless.
Wolves in the Night (Wrath & Righteousness #Episode Seven)
by Chris StewartFive days ago an EMP attack brought the most technologically advanced country on Earth to its knees. Cars were useless. Phones were dead. Electricity was only a memory. <p><p> Those who survived the initial assault now faced an even more desperate situation: mobs of angry, violent people with nothing to do. No food, water or medicine. Evil spreading through the masses as though it were an infectious disease. <p> As Americans struggle to survive, so does the country itself. With the President and Vice President killed in the attack, the line of succession itself becomes a target--creating a power vacuum in Washington and leaving the country vulnerable to final, devastating attack. <p> Against the backdrop of torn-from-the-headlines Middle Eastern drama, the Wrath & Righteousness series is a fast-paced thriller that explores man's role in the eternal battle between good and evil.
Wolves of Eden: A Novel
by Kevin McCarthy“Kevin McCarthy is in the company of masters like Patrick O’Brian and Hilary Mantel.… [A] shiningly humane novel.” —Stephen Harrigan, author of The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln1866, Dakota Territory. Red Cloud’s coalition of tribes is battling the U.S. Army to reclaim hunting grounds in the Powder River Valley. Against this background, Wolves of Eden sets four men on a deadly collision course in a narrative that explores the cruelty of warfare, the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit. Lieutenant Martin Molloy and his loyal orderly are sent west to investigate a triple murder at a frontier fort, and Irish immigrant brothers Thomas and Michael O’Driscoll, who survived the brutal frontlines of the Civil War, find themselves as both hunters and the hunted in another bloody campaign. Blending intimate historical detail and emotional acuity, Wolves of Eden is “a riveting and propulsive mystery” (Publishers Weekly).
Wolves of Memory
by Bill JamesA cash-in-transit raid goes pear-shaped when armed police show up. After all the smart planning and careful preparation someone must have talked - so think the relatives and friends of the jailed gang members. And it looks like the grass must have been the only raider to escape the trap. A vengeance squad is on the prowl and Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are given the job of protecting the informant and his family. Yet all the time the lynch mob is closing in . . . 'James's writing dazzles with its poetic brevity'Publishers Weekly
Wolves of Memory (Harpur and Iles #6)
by Bill JamesA cash-in-transit raid goes pear-shaped when armed police show up. After all the smart planning and careful preparation someone must have talked - so think the relatives and friends of the jailed gang members. And it looks like the grass must have been the only raider to escape the trap. A vengeance squad is on the prowl and Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his boss Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles are given the job of protecting the informant and his family. Yet all the time the lynch mob is closing in . . . 'James's writing dazzles with its poetic brevity' Publishers Weekly
Wolves of Winter: A Novel (Essex Dogs Trilogy #2)
by Dan Jones"Superb historical fiction, as fresh, vivid and vital as this morning's headlines ... proves once again that nothing really changes, be it a soldier's life - or great storytelling."—Lee ChildAN ENDLESS WAR.A BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD.A BAND OF BROTHERS.The epic sequel to Essex Dogs, continuing the New York Times bestselling historian's trilogy of novels following the fortunes of ten ordinary soldiers during the Hundred Years War.1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting—and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France &‘til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down the vanished Captain, Loveday struggles to control his own men. Romford is haunted by the reappearance of a horrific figure from his past. And Scotsman is spiraling into a pit of drink, violence, and self-pity. The Dogs are being torn apart—but this war is far from over. It won't be long before they lose more of their own. From a vast siege camp built outside Calais' walls, to the pirate ships patrolling the harbor, and into the dark corners of oligarchs' houses, where the deals that shape—and end—lives are made, this captivating and darkly comic story brings the fourteenth century vividly to life.
Wolves of the Crescent Moon
by Yousef Al-MohaimeedBanned in Saudi Arabia, this provocative, fast-paced debut novel confirms what The Washington Post reported about its award-winning author: "Yousef Al- Mohaimeed is taking on some of the most divisive subjects in the Arab world . . . in a lush style that evokes Gabriel García Márquez. " In a Riyadh bus station, a man comes across a file containing official reports about an abandoned baby. As he pieces together the shattered life documented within, a larger picture emerges of three outsiders-a Bedouin, an orphan, and a eunuch-linked by fate and trying to make lives for themselves in a predatory city. Unfolding with the intensity of a fever dream over the course of one night, Wolves of the Crescent Moon is a novel of astonishing power and great moral consequence about a deeply traditional society confronting the modern world. .
Wolves vs. Zombies: An Unofficial Minecrafter's Novel (Secrets of an Overworld Survivor #3)
by Grace Sandford Greyson MannWith zombie attacks threatening their town, Will’s older brother urges him to act responsible by staying home to protect the villagers. But Will, ever the explorer, is already dreaming of his next destination: the snow-covered forests of the Taiga biome.Despite the danger facing his home, Will sneaks off on his adventure, and he soon finds that the wintery region is everything he hoped it would be-right down to the pack of wild wolves he could try to tame as pets.But when an urgent message from home tells him his brother’s in trouble, Will has to choose: stay in the Taiga biome and tame the wolf he’s always wanted, or return home and rescue his brother?The third book in the Secrets of an Overworld Survivor chapter book series, Wolves vs. Zombies is an epic adventure-perfect for introducing young gamers to reading!