Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/21/2011
ISBN-13: 9780525952237
ISBN-10: 0525952233

Thriller. With its supernatural elements -- think angels and demons and a plot by Satan to rule mankind -- this fast-paced thriller won't appeal to everyone. But readers interested in the battle between good and evil might enjoy it, for that eternal war has reached a critical point. After a famous pop singer is found burned to a crisp, covert agent Bernadette Callahan (with a mysterious and top-secret government agency) teams up with religious historian Sebastian "Batty" LaLourie to determine who (or what) is behind her death and the ones that follow. Their race for answers is delivered in "consistently smart prose" (Publishers Weekly).

Publisher: Harper
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/26/2011
ISBN-13: 9780062060747
ISBN-10: 0062060740

Psychological Suspense. Raised by a woodcutter in northern England, Wolf Hadda is now a wealthy, influential businessman living the perfect life with his wife...until he is arrested, branded a fraud and a sexual deviant, and thrown in jail. Though he's innocent, he nevertheless loses everything and everyone. Without giving too much of the deliciously cunning, twisty plot away, Wolf is eventually released and returned to society. He's an outcast, but he spends his days planning his revenge on those who set him up. Brilliantly drawn characters add strength to a "fast-paced, unpredictable plot" (Publishers Weekly).

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/26/2011
ISBN-13: 9780307263179
ISBN-10: 0307263177

Crime Thriller. Former CIA agent Carr is using his skills on the other side of the law these days: he's leading a potentially lucrative heist that will relieve a dirty financier of his ill-gotten gains. But he's worried about the recent death of the group's popular former leader, inaccuracies in their bought intelligence, and his lover's personal agenda. Is there a traitor in their midst -- and is Carr being set up for failure, or worse? Thick as Thieves' excellent writing, clever story, and great ending will have you flipping through the pages, likely in one sitting.

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Publisher: Minotaur Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/19/2011
ISBN-13: 9780312601898
ISBN-10: 0312601891

Comic Caper. The windfall that house cleaner Morty Martinez came across in Feelers has allowed him to follow his dream of retiring to La Paz, Mexico, where he wears white suits and checks out the local ladies. However, he's soon headed back to New York on behalf of a priest who's asked him to find and return a sacred ring stolen from the desiccated finger of a conquistador in the orphanage Morty's own father was raised in. Once there, he finds himself caught between the billionaire in possession of the ring, his tabloid-fodder stepdaughter, a greedy palm reader, and a hit man -- and eventually in jail for murder, awaiting execution while simultaneously writing a screenplay of the events that led him there. Unsurprisingly, this one's a fun, quirky read.

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/11/2008
ISBN-13: 9780812977097
ISBN-10: 0812977092

Spy Fiction. Moroccan teenager Jamal has been captured in Afghanistan and sent to Bagram Prison, though he hasn't really done anything wrong. But he's got to tell his captors something, and his lies (taken as truth) eventually get him freed and set up as an informant in Madrid. There, his continued fabrications provoke violence, and he eventually disappears. American intelligence is desperate to find him -- though not for the most benevolent of reasons, as his one-time interrogator Katherine "Kat" Caldwell eventually comes to realize. With a great sense of place and time, this smart, complex thriller will appeal to fans of John le Carré's novels.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439138656
ISBN-10: 1439138656

Thriller. After his attempt on the life of an Afghan warlord known as Zarzi ("the Beheader") went disastrously wrong, Sergeant Roy Cruz was, along with the rest of his sniper team, presumed dead. But when Zarzi suddenly changes sides to become an American ally, Cruz resurfaces to finish the job, unconvinced that the warlord's change of heart is genuine. Retired sniper Bob Lee Swagger, in his 7th appearance, has been given the challenging task of locating Cruz -- somewhere amid Afghanistan's remote deserts and caves -- and preventing another attempt on the Afghan warlord's life. Fans and newcomers alike will love the tight writing and steady action.

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9780385531542
ISBN-10: 0385531540

Thriller. In this 3rd installment of the Rules series, surgeon Jonathan Ransom of Doctors without Borders barely escapes from the Taliban in rural Afghanistan to find that his wife, a secret agent, is missing. Recruited by her agency, Jonathan is catapulted into the shadowy world of double and triple agents, where his life depends on discovering his wife's true loyalties. Frighteningly, there's a nuclear device at stake -- one that has been sitting on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border since an American B-52 crashed there in the 1980s -- that Taliban drug lords can't wait to get their hands on. Plenty of action (and spycraft) will have readers turning pages.

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Publisher: Overlook Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/30/2005
ISBN-13: 9781585676347
ISBN-10: 1585676349

Spy Fiction. Caleb Hunt is British -- or rather, British-born -- but he was recruited and trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Now he's about to be released from Guantanamo and handed over to the Afghanis, having convinced authorities he's merely an innocent Kabul cabbie. While in transit, however, 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."