| Thrillers and Suspense March 2007 |
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"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
~ from Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
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| New and Recently Released! |
| Napoleon's Pyramids - by William Dietrich |
| Publisher: HarperCollins |
| Pub Date: 02/01/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0060848324 |
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Historical Thriller. Just after American Ethan Gage wins an ancient Egyptian medallion in a card game, a shadowy group who wants that very medallion frames him for murder. To save his skin, Gage flees France and joins Napoleon's army, which is on its way to invade Egypt. There, thanks to the medallion and his former association with Benjamin Franklin, he joins the scientific group accompanying the army. Still pursued by those who want the medallion for themselves, Gage must decipher its secrets and figure out what makes it so desirable. Library Journal calls Napoleon's Pyramids "rousing, swashbuckling fun." | |
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| Hurricane Punch: A Novel - by Tim Dorsey |
| Publisher: William Morrow |
| Pub Date: 02/01/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0060829672 |
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Thriller. In this 9th thriller starring socially conscious killer Serge Storms, "scathing humor strips the pretense off its targets like a hurricane" (Publishers Weekly). Serge has returned to Florida to find the state terrorized by at least one brutal serial killer and plagued by its worst hurricane season yet. Naturally, Serge and his perpetually stoned, perpetually clueless companion, Coleman, decide to take a road trip across the state, driving in the eyes of the hurricanes, killing price-gougers, evading the law, and skewering the media and George W. Bush. This Florida screwball rampage is ideal for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry. | |
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| Hide - by Lisa Gardner |
| Publisher: Bantam Books |
| Pub Date: 01/30/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0553804324 |
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Police Thriller. Decades after the Boston State Mental Hospital closed its doors, an underground cavern containing six small mummified female bodies is discovered there. One wears a locket bearing the name Annabelle Granger, so it's rather a shock when Annabelle Granger walks into the police station to talk to the detective on the case, Bobby Dodge (last seen in Alone). But what is Annabelle's connection to the dead girls? And why, for the last 20 years, has her father kept them moving, constantly changing their identities? The answers "will take your breath away," says Booklist. | |
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| The Next Victim - by Jonnie Jacobs |
| Publisher: Kensington |
| Pub Date: 01/30/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0758208014 |
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Legal Thriller. In her 7th appearance, attorney Kali O'Brien is determined to discover the truth behind her brother John's death, ostensibly by drug overdose. But as she investigates, she discovers that not only was he the lead suspect in a double homicide and the subject of a wrongful-death civil suit, he may be connected to yet another murder. Kali's sister refuses to believe John's guilt, and as Kali gets more involved in the circumstances leading to John's death, she becomes grimly resolved to prove his innocence. Who was the real John O'Brien? You'll have to read The Next Victim to find out. | |
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| Black Monday: A Novel - by R. Scott Reiss |
| Publisher: Simon & Schuster |
| Pub Date: 02/13/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0743297644 |
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Technothriller. Imagine what would happen if a deadly microbe were to contaminate the world's oil supply: nothing powered by gasoline would operate--no ambulances or police, no trucks carrying food supplies, no electricity. In this world, markets and governments alike fall prey to total chaos. In this world, one man, epidemiologist Greg Gillette, is scrambling to find an antidote before society collapses entirely... Already a hit among Hollywood movie-makers, Black Monday is "sure to be a crowd-pleaser" (Library Journal). | |
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| The Echelon Vendetta - by David Stone |
| Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons |
| Pub Date: 02/15/2007 |
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| ISBN: 0399154086 |
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Spy Thriller. Micah Dalton is a CIA special operative whose job is to clean up after botched operations. His professional detachment is compromised when colleague and close friend Porter Naumann is savagely slaughtered in a manner made to look like a partifularly horrific suicide. As he investigates, Dalton comes to realize that the agents who had been involved in the brilliant but illegal Echelon operation are being systematically eradicated. His search, which takes him from Europe to the U.S. on the trail of a ruthless killer, has "everything you want in a thriller" (Kirkus Reviews). | |
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| Far-Flung Corners of the World |
| From a spy who crosses European borders with a fake passport (Blow the House Down) and a Bosnian detective who follows a trail from the Balkans to the Amalfi Coast (The Small Boat of Great Sorrows) to action that spans the globe--with these books you're sure to visit places you've never been before. |
| Blow the House Down: A Novel - by Robert Baer |
| Publisher: Crown Publishers |
| Pub Date: 05/30/2006 |
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| ISBN: 1400098351 |
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Spy Fiction. CIA agent Maxwell Waller has asked one too many questions about an old murder in Beirut, putting him in danger from his own colleagues. As he crosses borders in the Middle East, Europe, and finally the U.S., he's also finding evidence of an impending terrorist plot--one that he may be unable to prevent. Author Robert Baer is the former CIA agent whose memoir, See No Evil, inspired the movie Syriana. In Blow the House Down, his insider knowledge of the spy trade is apparent as he incorporates trade secrets and suggests a chilling twist on events that lead straight to the World Trade Center disaster. | |
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| The Small Boat of Great Sorrows: A Novel - by Dan Fesperman |
| Publisher: Knopf |
| Pub Date: 09/01/2004 |
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| ISBN: 1400030471 |
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Spy Fiction. Former detective Vlado Petric has fled war-torn Bosnia for Berlin, where he now works construction. Until, that is, he is summoned by the International War Crimes Tribunal in the form of American Calvin Pine. Petric is needed to capture a Croatian mobster who committed crimes in the recent Balkan conflict as well as in WWII. But why Petric? As he soon discovers, it's because his own father may have had a strong connection to the mobster hiding in the Balkans. "Impeccably plotted and ably written," says the New York Times Review of Books, while the L.A. Times claims The Small Boat of Great Sorrows sets "a new standard for war-based thrillers." | |
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| Scarecrow - by Matthew Reilly |
| Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks |
| Pub Date: 08/02/2005 |
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| ISBN: 0312937660 |
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Action-Adventure. Fifteen highly-trained men from around the world are on a hit list that offers a bounty of nearly $20 million per head--but all must die by noon on October 26th, Eastern Standard Time. As Scarecrow opens, it is three hours prior to that deadline, and Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield is one of those men. What begins as an international race for survival becomes a high-stakes encounter in which Scarecrow must unravel a vast conspiracy that reveals why he and 14 others have been targeted. As you might imagine, a novel that spans only three short hours means non-stop action--if you're a fan of shoot-em-up video games, you're sure to enjoy this 3rd in the Shane Schofield series. | |
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| The Unknown Soldier - by Gerald Seymour |
| Publisher: Overlook Press |
| Pub Date: 01/30/2005 |
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| ISBN: 1585676349 |
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Spy Fiction. Caleb Hunt is British--or rather, British-born--but he was recruited and al-Qaeda trained in Afghanistan. Now he's about to be released from Guantanamo, having convinced authorities he's merely an innocent Kabul cabbie. While in transit he escapes, and British and U.S. intelligence agencies belatedly figure out that his reunion with al-Qaeda ought to be prevented. Al-Qaeda, on the other hand, seems willing to do just about anything to retrieve him, so important is he to their destructive plans. Kirkus Reviews says this is an "unrushed but thoroughly fascinating look into the making and pursuit of the most frightening kind of terrorist, one of our own." | |
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| The Fourth War - by Chris Stewart |
| Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press |
| Pub Date: 10/01/2005 |
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| ISBN: 0312286465 |
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Military Thriller. Qatar, Oman, Kyrgyzstan, and France are only a few of the 20-odd locations that CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic visits in a desperate attempt to save more than 20 cities worldwide from utter destruction. He's been assigned the seemingly impossible task of finding and destroying the 24 stolen nuclear warheads that went missing in the wake of the assassinations of Pakistan's president and prime minister. Aiding him is U.S. Air Force pilot-commander Tai Lei, whose airborne exploits are skillfully rendered by author Chris Stewart, a former Air Force pilot. | |
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| Contact Zero: A Novel - by David Wolstencroft |
| Publisher: Dutton |
| Pub Date: 09/08/2005 |
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| ISBN: 052594902X |
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Spy Fiction. Ben Sinclair (or is it Steven Locke?) is a recent Spy School graduate, cut loose from MI-6 during his first assignment for a crime he did not commit. The danger of his situation escalates when he learns that several of his classmates have been murdered. To save himself, Ben must join two other surviving members of his class in a search for the enigmatic Contact Zero, a person (or maybe an organization?) who aids spies in need. Possibly Contact Zero is just an old spies' tale; nevertheless, their search for sanctuary takes them through South America and the capitals of Europe. Booklist calls this fast-paced read a "killer novel." | |
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