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At All Costs

Jack and Carolyn Donovan stand accused of massacring 16 people and touching off one of the country's worst environmental catastrophes. Although innocent, they have the power to bring down a top law enforcement official. With their young son Travis, they have eluded capture for 13 years and have remained at the top of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. Constantly moving from place to place, the strain of being on the run is finally taking its toll on the family. When they are driven from their last hiding place, the Donovons are forced to fight back--risking death to regain their lives and their freedom. (Page numbers included.)

The Alternate

Is there room in the overcrowded arena of the legal thriller for yet another major player? If that new arrival happens to be blessed with the real-life experience of San Francisco trial lawyer John Martel, the answer is a heartfelt yes. Martel advised the Los Angeles District Attorney's office on the Menendez Brothers retrial and the O.J. Simpson case (proving even a pro can't win them all). He has been called one of the top 10 trial lawyers in America by the National Law Journal . Best of all, he can write compelling scenes that take place both in and out of court, and can create characters who rise above their genre origins to become real people. Elliot Ashford, a millionaire congressman, is forced to resign because of a sex scandal. When he's charged with the brutal murder of his wife, Lara, assistant district attorney Grace Harris seems to have everything she needs to make a strong case for the prosecution. She also has ambitions that could propel her career up several notches. Then some key DNA evidence mysteriously disappears, and Grace's chief adversary--a former defense superstar named Barrett Dickson--appears ready for a comeback. But neither side is prepared for the barrage of political infighting, dirty tricks, and mysterious malevolence from inside the jury room. Three more murders and two trials later, you'll emerge from The Alternate with strong doubts about the legal system--but a feeling of certainty that John Martel has a future as a novelist.

The Angel Maker (Boldt / Matthews #2)

Potent blend of medical thriller and police procedural that resurrects the cop-hero of Pearson's Undercurrents (1988) and pits him against--of all things--a maniacal veterinarian. Lou Boldt has been off the Seattle force for two years, tending his infant son and playing jazz piano at a local dive, but his extraordinary empathy for murder victims won't let him refuse the request of police shrink and ex-lover Daphne Matthews (whose throat was slashed in Undercurrents) to help with her new case--a series of street kids found dead and missing a kidney, liver, or lung. Immediately suspecting that a transplant surgeon is "harvesting" the organs and selling them at great profit, Boldt rejoins the SPD and pushes for advice from the medical examiner. The narrative bristles with the sort of forensic detail that informed Undercurrents. Meanwhile, Pearson bares his villain- - sociopathic society vet Elden Tegg--as we see him snatching social-worker Sharon Shaffer with an eye to selling her heart to a mobster whose wife is dying from heart disease. Unlike Undercurrents, then, where suspense derived from "whodunit," the tension here is strictly--and tightly--time-wound: Can Boldt i.d. the killer and rescue Sharon--or can Sharon herself escape from the remote dog kennel where Tegg's imprisoned her, naked and terrified- -before the vet wields his scalpel? Thriller fans will note that this setup strongly echoes Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs--but Pearson matches Harris's pace as the hours tick down, marking off twists (a hiker chancing on the kennel) and hot suspense sequences (a pawnshop sting to break into Tegg's computer) until the cathartic, brutal climax. Exceptionally gripping and full of amazing forensic lore (e.g., that Band-Aids emit low-level radioactivity from being sterilized): a top-flight offering from an author who's clearly found his groove.

Armed Force

Mack Bolan is on the trail of a diabolical illegal arms dealer who has a far more sinister plan than just to provide arms to terrorist groups throughout the world. Violence. 197th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1995.

Asian Crucible

After a man appears in Thailand, claiming to have been a prisoner of war in Vietnam for the past twenty-two years, the United States finds itself near the brink of another war in southeast Asia. But, before the president makes any decisions, he calls on Stony Man Farm to investigate. Mack Bolan is then sent to Thailand to discover the truth. What he uncovers are corrupt CIA agents and a money-hungry crime syndicate. Violence. 209th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1996.

The Attorney

Sleuthing California defense counsel Paul Madriani lands one of his twistiest cases to date. His client, sport fisherman Jonah Hale, won $87 million in a lottery but lost his heart. Jonah's got custody of his eight-year-old grandkid Mandy, because his daughter Jessica is a cokehead party animal. Sprung from jail, Jessica demands cash. Jonah says no. So Jessica and Mandy disappear, with help from marital-rape-victim-turned-fanatical-activist Zolanda Suade. Suade's group, Vanishing Victims, specializes in thwarting courts and bashing rich males. Madriani tries to reason with Suade, who almost pulls a gun on him, then taunts him with a press release: Suade's going public with Jessica's charge that Jonah molested Mandy. Madriani's girlfriend works in Child Protective Services, so he gets a tidbit or two of inside info--the charge is phony, but because CPS can't comment on cases, the smear will suffice to ignite a media firestorm. When Suade turns up dead, media interest does not subside. In court, circumstantial evidence forms a tightening noose around Jonah's neck, and Madriani starts wondering whether Jonah did kill Suade. Also, underworld types who may know Jessica and/or a Mexican drug lord start stalking Madriani, and more corpses pop up. Martini, who covered the Manson trial, then became a lawyer and a bestselling novelist, is great at realistic, ingenious courtroom suspense, media-circus scenes, and dramatizing the impact of office politics on legal proceedings. His characters and prose are workmanlike but sturdy. Always grouped with lawyers-turned-writers Scott Turow and John Grisham, Martini thinks Turow's a better writer (in terms of character and dialogue), and Grisham's a natural-born storyteller who towers over all, but that he, Martini, is a better storyteller than Turow and a better writer than Grisham. The Attorney is evidence that he may be right.

Blue Crystal

Psychological thriller set deep in the secret heart of Kentucky cave country. Blue Crystal exposes the evil and chaos lurking just beneath the surface of a picture-perfect rural town. In a world ripped apart by sudden and random violence, a man will struggle to survive, to find rebirth and redemption in the rising waters of an underground hell. Meet Sam Preston, the owner of Blue Crystal Cave, a man held hostage by its tragic history. Local legend whispers of a priceless hoard, hidden, buried, beckoning. But Sam remembers the grisly truth that years ago seventeen children were buried alive when the walls of the cave collapsed. Haunted by memories of the accident and his father's subsequent suicide, Sam tries to escape the past by going underground, into the winding channels of Blue Crystal Cave. Yet his obsessions are consuming him and endangering his growing relationship with Mary Beth. Enter Bobby Drake, an ex-convict, and his band of misfits, Clay, Misty, Hermie, and Christiann. Irresistibly drawn to the cave by rumors of riches, they trap Sam and Mary Beth during a raging storm that threatens to flood the town. With water rushing in and time running out, Sam and Mary Beth find themselves lost in the utter darkness, being relentlessly pursuedþ but is it by their abductors or by shadows of the past? With its driving, urgent prose, cinematic speed, Blue Crystal is an action-packed and action-powered novel of suspense. But the cave is also an internal landscape of psychic terror. In succinct, often surprising, and sharply observed portraits, Philip Lee Williams masterfully explores the inner lives of his characters in a death-defying spiritual odyssey. Philip Lee Williams is the author of six novels, The Heart of a Distant Forest, All the Western Stars, Slow Dance in Autumn, The Song of Daniel, Perfect Timing, and Final Heat. He won the Townsend Prize in 1986 and was named Georgia Author of the Year in 1990. He lives with his wife, Linda, their son, Brandon, and their daughter, Mcgan, near Athens, Georgia.

The Best Defense

Attorney Barbara Holloway has given up on her father's dream for her to become a successful lawyer. The deaths of both Barbara's mother and her lover have deeply affected her, and now she lives on the tiny salary she makes helping the poor who can't pay for "real" legal services. When Lucille Reiner first asks Barbara to help her sister, Barbara has no idea that Lucille's sister is Paula Kemmerman, dubbed the "Baby Killer" by the press after her six-year-old daughter was burned to death, allegedly by a temporarily deranged Paula. The more Barbara investigates, the more certain she becomes that Paula is the innocent victim both of a right-wing fundamentalist with an ax to grind and of a legal system that has turned its back on an innocent woman.

Blind Side

Black Alert

The chillingly authentic novel of build-up to the British nuclear holocaust. A Kremlin hawk has seized control of the Medusa. The space satellite now carries a nuclear payload designed to paralyse America - or destroy England.

Dark Sleeper

SOMETHING HAS AWAKENED... ...in the fog-enshrouded city of Salthead. An undead sailor dances along the wharves. A sunken ship rises from the waters and sails into the harbor. The ghost of a long dead boy haunts a tavern. The vicious canine of the local miser evolves into an even more terrifying beast... And in the course of investigating these events, the eminent professor of metaphysics, Titus Tiggs, and his colleague, Dr. Daniel Dampe, encounter something more sinister than anything they had found before-a mystical presence intent on destroying the city of Salthead and every person in it...

Blood Circle

Igor Baibakov is a seven-foot-tall instrument of death. Narrowly escaping termination by Mack Bolan in a previous offensive, this killer is discovered leading terrorist sorties in war-torn Sarajevo. In a united effort to stop the giant's brand of butchery, the U.S. and Russia join forces, sending Bolan and a female GRU agent on Baibakov's trail. But the grim picture darkens when American soil becomes the new killing ground. The former Spetsnaz soldier will stop at nothing until he gets Bolan's head. But as the two warriors face off in a final showdown, the Executioner vows that Baibakov will get nothing except the rewards of evil. Violence. 227th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1997.

Blood and Glory

Easy Company: the 141st Regiment of the Texas National Guard's 36th Infantry Division. From Naples to Rome these rock-tough diehards battle impossible odds to turn the tide of a war that Germany considers already won. Mobilized for the final push to seize the Eternal City, Easy Company comes face-to-face with a crack unit of Waffen SS troops occupying the Italian capital. But in the heart- stopping, desperate drive to penetrate the Roman perimeter, the Americans forge their own legacy of blood and glory. An action-packed, authentic account of America's National Guard in wartime. Violence. 1991.

Blood Harvest

Synopsis: Bodies are turning up in New Orleans, some dead, some alive, all missing one or more internal organs. Mack Bolan is sent to investigate and quickly discovers a highly organized operation that is kidnapping people, harvesting their organs and selling them. Bolan's investigation leads him from the streets of the French Quarter, deep into the bayou and to a final confrontation on an off-shore oil-drilling platform. Violence. 213th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1996.

Blood Rush

PARTNERS IN CRIME A teenager cutting school. A stranded biker hitching a ride. A single mother on her way to a birthday party. A television executive with a nice condo. They had nothing in common -- except their murderer. Robert Ressler, the FBI's expert on serial killers, called him "even more dangerous than Ted Bundy." Blood Rush is the chilling story of the life and crimes of Texas Death Row inmate Ricky Lee Green, America's most deviant serial killer. Raised by abusive relatives, Ricky was an alcoholic runaway by age fifteen, turning tricks for male johns. While building up a police record for everything from making obscene phone calls to sexual assault, his addiction to violent sex grew fiercer. Then he met his wife, Sharon, the preacher's daughter with tastes as perverse as his. With her he discovered a way to take his desires to their horrific extreme: After mutilating and killing, they had sex in the blood of their victims! Based on Ricky Lee Green's own exclusive account, this is the most astounding true crime story ever reported.

Body Armor

Mack Bolan has had plenty of enemies in the past, but none more formidable than the Juggernauts. Special helmets, body armor and superior hardware make these warriors impervious to bullets and steel. Their tactics are simple, direct and violent. They are well trained and highly motivated. And, so far, unstoppable. While the identity and agenda of these state-of-the-art storm troopers remain uncertain, they are an indestructible force, crushing everyone in their path--cops, criminals and civilians. And America knows that only one man stands a chance against the Juggernauts. The Executioner. Violence. 225th novel in the "Executioner" series, 1997.

Body of a Crime

The murder charge against Ex-Pro Athlete Chad Curtis is bizarre. There's no evidence that anyone was killed, but gorgeous ex-girlfriend, Robin, has vanished, posing a big problem for Defense Attorney Sean Barrett: with no corpus delicti, it will be very hard to prove his client didn't do it. This sets Sean off on a search for evidence that leads him to a shattering discovery and threatens the case-and his life. This action-packed thriller crackles with excitement and intense courtroom drama right to its final, shocking twist.

The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1)

A couple is kidnapped right outside JFK airport and one of the bodies is found with clues that point to more murders to come. Lincoln Rhyme, a quadraplegic forensic specialist -- the best in the business -- is brought out of retirement to help solve these gruesome crimes and find the madman who's committing them. This is one of the best crime/mystery books I've ever read, with lots of excitement, incredible plot twists and tension. Plus lots of interesting forensics procedure that has the "feel" of accuracy. Plus characters who, for a change, are complicated and act like real human beings, with all of their flaws. This is a must read. It will scare you to the bone.

Bone Deep

The author of Into the Fire presents a tense thriller featuring a cat-and-mouse struggle between agent John Becker and a diabolical killer who seduces his victims before callously murdering them in the throes of passion. With characteristic intensity, Wiltse probes the mind of the killer, as well as the limits of the human psyche.

Cain

Once the best killer the CIA had, Cain has been reborn--thanks to the wonders of modern science--as the ultimate soldier. Possessing titanic strength, outfitted with computer-enhanced musculature, bulletproof bones, and a host of other deadly accessories, he is capable of killing an entire platoon of elite Special Forces. The only force that can stop him is a team of three flawed mortals--a soldier who has lost his family to a terrorist; bullets, a priest who has lost his faith, and the beautiful young scientist who dared to play Frankenstein.

Call to Arms

A cross-country crusade against a paramilitary group in America now brings Mack Bolan back to the Everglades, where a force of ultra conservatives is unleashing an all-out assault against their homeland. But a greater conspiracy lies beneath the violence that's sweeping America. One of her patriotic sons has betrayed his country to Middle Eastern enemies, who are pulling the strings of their U.S. puppets. The penalty for treason is death. Mack Bolan is the Executioner. Violence. 224th novel in the "Executioner" series, third novel in the "American Trilogy," 1997.

Carrier 1

An American intelligence-gathering ship has been captured by the north Korean military in international waters off the coast of Korea. The vessel's crew is being held hostage and it is up to the members of Carrier Battle Group 14 to rescue them and recover the ship. Violence. 1st novel in the "Carrier" series, 1991.