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Most people think of a world gone to hell in terms of famine in faraway Durfur, war in Iraq, and genocide in Rwanda. Not Charlotte Wolfe. For her, a Manhattan interior "desecrator" who is, happily, offing New York City trophy wives, that world gone to hell stretches from Bergdorf Goodman on 57th St. and Fifth Avenue, north to 96th St., across Madison to Park Avenue, and back down to 59th St. This is the Upper East Side, the richest, greediest 1.8 sq. miles in the United States. It is a world where women mistake trend for truth, fame for faith, and money for meaning. Here, where the insatiable pursuit of luxury square footage and perfect decor breeds monsters, Charlotte is not just biting the hands of the Botoxed, newly converted Buddhist women who feed her, she is murdering them. "Cleaning house," she calls it. As the real world continues to teeter on the brink of financial extinction, readers will applaud the efforts of this Pilates-pumped Crusader as she surfs through...
Cussler’s umpteenth installment in the 40-year run of Dirk Pitt chronicles, now written with his son, the eponymous Dirk Cussler, has become as formulaic a franchise as the James Bond movies. In fact, Pitt is a Bond of the seas with similar exotic locales, scenery-chewing villains, over-the-top technology, and bodacious babes served with a bucket of testosterone—“shaken not stirred.” But with formula fiction, as with theme restaurants, it’s fun, and you always know what you’re getting. Cussler, the Cheesecake Factory of adventure writers, doesn’t disappoint in his latest, in which the bizarre cargo carried by a Roman galley in 327 CE and the mysterious explosion of a British battleship in 1916 have tremendous ramifications on the current political climate of the Middle East. Brother-and-sister baddies Ozden and Maria Celik aim to resurrect the Ottoman Empire, to which they lay claim as the allegedly last surviving royal heirs, by fomenting a fundamentalist uprising in Turkey and the surrounding Middle Eastern countries. But they’ll succeed only if they can keep Dirk Pitt and his NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) team from discovering what was being transported in that ancient galley. High-Demand Back Story: A tried-and-true formula by a tried-and-true New York Times bestselling author will create its own stir. --Michael Gannon
Taking a break from the hustle and bustle of Paris, French detective Capucine LeTellier and her portly food critic husband, Alexandre, visit Capucine's family's manor home in Normandy. Arriving at the height of the pheasant hunting season, idyllic picnic lunches and mushrooming trips in the forest are interrupted by a series of hunting accidents that claim the lives of several employees from the local cattle ranch, famed for its exquisite beef. Suspecting foul play, Capucine delves into local affairs only to find her investigation stymied by the local police force. And as the case unravels, Capucine and Alexandre uncover romantic intrigues gone awry and dangerous, deadly resentments...
In a derelict cottage in L.A, a young woman is found savagely murdered. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive. On the nape of her neck is carved a strange double-cross: the signature of a psychopath known as the Crucifix Killer. But that's not possible. Because, two years ago, the Crucifix Killer was caught and executed. Could this be the work of a copycat? Or is Homicide Detective Robert Hunter forced to face the unthinkable? Is the real Crucifix Killer still out there, taunting Hunter with his inability to catch him? Robert Hunter and his rookie partner are about to enter a nightmare beyond imagining ...
A collection of science fiction tales by the author of Lost Boys presents the Hugo Award-winning "Eye for Eye," as well as an autobiography by the author.
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The third volume of short stories from Maps in a Mirror, the monumental anthology from the multiple award-winning author of Ender's Game and Xenocide. "Each section offers some provocative and entertaining reading . . . a must-have volume."--West Coast Review of Books. Includes the Hugo Award-winning "Eye For Eye."
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In his latest page-turner Cook turns his attention to the ethical and legal challenges surrounding legal patents and intellectual property in medical research, and the cutting edge topic of pluripotent stem cells. Furthermore, he returns with two of his most popular characters, husband-and-wife forensic pathology experts Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery.
With her infant son's neuroblastoma in complete remission, famed medical examiner Laurie Montgomery struggles to regain her confidence as she returns to work after nearly two years of maternity leave. She takes on a seemingly routine case to ease herself back into the job: an unidentified Japanese male who died of what appears to be natural causes. But after hours of intense investigation, Laurie begins to suspect that her case was a victim of something more devious. Little does she know that perhaps the answers she's searching for can be found on the other side of town...
When Dr. Ben Corey, the CEO of a promising startup company called iPS USA LLC, discovers he can make billions from the commercialization of human induced pluripotent stem cells being researched in Japan, he arranges to outsmart the competition by breaking into Kyoto University's research facility and steals the lab books that will help secure his company's patent on the breakthrough process. To further solidify his hold on the patent, Ben woos the study's primary researcher, Satoshi Machita, to join iPS USA by promising Satoshi's family refuge and stability in America. However, Ben turns to two of the most notorious and dangerous organized crime factions in the world in order to finance his business endeavors - the American Mafia and its Japanese gangster counterpart, the Yakusa. To complicate matters, two factions of the Yakusa are vying for possession of the same iPS patent documents that Ben stole to propel his company's success. When Satoshi suddenly goes missing and is found dead, the Mafia and Yakusa will stop at nothing to ensure Laurie does not discover the truth.
Robin Cook chooses to write thrillers as his "way to use entertainment as a method of exposing the public to policy conundrums," striving to expound on the ethics of new medical discoveries while imagining what could happen when the criminal element gets involved in funding for those life-saving cures. Like his previous works, CURE is rich in detail, masterfully blending intrigue and medical fact while forcing us to examine the issues facing modern healthcare. The strength of maternal instincts, intrepid forensic pathologists, solid detective work, ruthless gangsters, and the latest in biotechnology combine to create another pulse-pounding medical thriller from the man who invented the genre.
Seven fantastical science fiction stories make up a collection including the title story about an ordinary deckhand determined to save the life of a beautiful ghost
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