Editorial Content for Last Man in Tower
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This past April, “Radio Diaries” aired an astonishing story. The subject of the National Public Radio documentary was James Weekley, a man who grew up in the small mountain town of Pigeonroost Hollow, West Virginia, and had lived there for 70 years. Just like his father and his grandfather before him, James was a coal miner and worked hard to earn a good living for his family. Read More
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Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a new building that promises to be one of the city’s most elite addresses. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher named Masterji, who flat-out refuses to leave the apartment that Shah is on the brink of demolishing.
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Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a new building that promises to be one of the city’s most elite addresses. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher named Masterji, who flat-out refuses to leave the apartment that Shah is on the brink of demolishing.
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At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city’s most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors --- the residents of Vishram Society’s Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah’s luxury high-rise would be built --- a generous buyout. They can’t believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday.
Editorial Content for The Corn Maiden
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Joyce Carol Oates has a way of writing horrific stories that aren’t quite “horror” in the traditional sense of the genre. Dark, violent and emotional, her short stories explore human desperation and depravity without supernatural forces. Her latest, THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES, is just as creepy, provocative and finely crafted as her earlier collections. Read More
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An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense.
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An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense.
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An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in THE CORN MAIDEN AND OTHER NIGHTMARES Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense.
“The Corn Maiden” is the gut-wrenching story of Marissa, a beautiful and sweet 11-year-old girl with hair the color of corn silk. Taken by an older girl from her school who has told two friends in her thrall of the Indian legend of the Corn Maiden, in which a girl is sacrificed to ensure a good crop, Marissa is kept in a secluded basement and convinced that the world has ended. Marissa’s seemingly inevitable fate becomes ever more terrifying as the older girl relishes her power, giving the tale unbearable tension with a shocking conclusion. In “Helping Hands,” published here for the first time, a lonely woman meets a man in the unlikely clutter of a dingy charity shop and extends friendship. She has no idea what kinds of doors she may be opening.
The powerful stories in this extraordinary collection further enhance Joyce Carol Oates’s standing as one of the world’s greatest writers of suspense.
Editorial Content for Breaking Point
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BREAKING POINT is one of the best books to be published in 2011. If you read CRASHERS, Dana Haynes’s debut effort, you won’t be surprised. Haynes starts with a plot that picks you up by the seat of your pants and moves at MACH 3. He peppers his story through and through with instantly likable and memorable characters, and some horribly chilling ones as well. He starts clocks ticking all through the tale, and then ends with an event that promises to be huge, terrifying and unforgettable. Read More
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Three NTSB experts --- people brought in to help investigate whenever a plane goes down --- find themselves victims and witnesses rather than investigators when the plane they are on crashes.
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Three NTSB experts --- people brought in to help investigate whenever a plane goes down --- find themselves victims and witnesses rather than investigators when the plane they are on crashes.
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"Haynes is a gifted writer who grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go until the final page." -- Nelson DeMille
Three NTSB experts --- people brought in to help investigate whenever a plane goes down --- find themselves victims and witnesses rather than investigators when the plane they are on crashes.
En route to a conference, three NTSB experts --- known to insiders as "Crashers" --- Tommy Tomzak, a pathologist from Texas; Kiki Duvall, a sound engineer and former naval officer; and Isaiah Grey, investigator and former FBI agent --- are aboard a twin turbo prop plane when, just outside of Helena, Montana, the plane crashes into a thickly forested moutainside. But the crash isn’t an accident --- it was brought down on purpose - and the "Crashers" weren't the target. The plane was brought down by mercenaries, led by an enigmatic, shadowy self-described patriot known only as Calendar, using weapons technology banned by international treaty. The targets --- three men who planned to blow the whistle on the weapons technology and the power brokers behind its development.
In a twisty, compelling thriller that goes from the streets of Spain, to the mountains of the western United States, to the heart of the dark, hidden corridors of power where there are dangerous secrets that few suspect and fewer know, the “Crashers” are literally dropped in the middle of a case that neither starts, nor ends, with a plane crash with some of their own on-board. A new team of Crashers fights time, as a fire rages ever closer to the wreckage, conflicting and confusing evidence, and unpredictable outside forces trying to prevent them from uncovering the truth. With alllies --- unseen and even unknown --- working behind the scenes to help them, the team is trapped in the midst of a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with the deadliest of consquences, a game that not all of them will survive...
Editorial Content for Them or Us
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THEM OR US is the concluding volume in David Moody’s unrelentingly grim but stunningly brilliant Haters trilogy. The complete narrative, which began with HATER and continued with DOG BLOOD, covers a year in which a sudden madness takes hold of Great Britain and, for all that is known, the entire world. A portion of the population is randomly infected (possessed? given over?) with a berserker mentality, where each member who is infected, known as a Hater, is compelled to attack and murder any member of what becomes known as the Unchanged. Read More
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The war that has torn the human race apart is finally nearing its end. With most towns and cities now uninhabitable, and with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter, both Hater and Unchanged alike struggle to survive.
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The war that has torn the human race apart is finally nearing its end. With most towns and cities now uninhabitable, and with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter, both Hater and Unchanged alike struggle to survive.
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The war that has torn the human race apart is finally nearing its end. With most towns and cities now uninhabitable, and with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter, both Hater and Unchanged alike struggle to survive.
Hundreds of Hater fighters have settled on the East Coast in the abandoned remains of a relatively undamaged town under the command of Hinchcliffe --- who’ll stop at nothing to eradicate the last few Unchanged and consolidate his position at the top of this new world order. This fledgling society is harsh and unforgiving --- your place in the ranks is decided by how long and how hard you’re prepared to fight.
Danny McCoyne is the exception to the rule. His ability to hold the Hate and to use it to hunt out the remaining Unchanged has given him a unique position in Hinchcliffe’s army of fighters. As the enemy’s numbers reduce, so the pressure on McCoyne increases, until he finds himself at the very center of a pivotal confrontation, the outcome of which will have repercussions on the future of everyone who is left alive.
Editorial Content for A Burial at Sea
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In New York-born Charles Finch’s fifth historical whodunit (after A STRANGER IN MAYFAIR), former detective and now freshman member of Parliament Charles Lenox is dispatched in 1873 on a covert mission to France’s newly opened Suez Canal, aboard HMS Lucy. Several British spies have been killed on French soil, war seems imminent, and control of the canal is in Queen Victoria’s best interest. Lenox is called away from his later-in-life wife, Lady Jane Grey, who now expects their first child. Read More
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In 1873, a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, and the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission. Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds that the ship’s second lieutenant has been murdered on the first night, his body cruelly abused.
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In 1873, a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, and the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission. Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds that the ship’s second lieutenant has been murdered on the first night, his body cruelly abused.
About the Book
Charles Lenox, Member of Parliament, sets sail on a clandestine mission for the government. When an officer is savagely murdered, however, Lenox is drawn toward his old profession, determined to capture another killer.
1873 is a perilous time in the relationship between France and England. When a string of English spies is found dead on French soil, the threat of all-out war prompts government officials to ask Charles Lenox to visit the newly-dug Suez Canal on a secret mission.
Once he is on board the Lucy, however, Lenox finds himself using not his new skills of diplomacy but his old ones: the ship’s second lieutenant is found dead on the voyage’s first night, his body cruelly abused. The ship’s captain begs the temporarily retired detective to join in the hunt for a criminal. Lenox finds the trail, but in the claustrophobic atmosphere on board, where nobody can come or go and everyone is a suspect, he has to race against the next crime --- and also hope he won’t be the victim.
At once a compulsive murder mystery, a spy story, and an intimate and joyful journey with the Victorian navy, this book shows that no matter how far Lenox strays from his old life, it will always come back to find him.
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Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is the New York Times bestselling author of 10 books. His subjects include the ’80s Los Angeles Lakers (SHOWTIME), the 1986 New York Mets (THE BAD GUYS WON), the ’90s Dallas Cowboys (BOYS WILL BE BOYS), and NFL legends Walter Payton (SWEETNESS) and Brett Favre (GUNSLINGER). HBO adapted SHOWTIME into the dramatic series "Winning Time," produced and directed by Adam McKay.
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Editorial Content for Shock Warning
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SHOCK WARNING by Michael Walsh reads as if it should come shrink-wrapped with a seatbelt and airbag. It begins with a veiled threat, proceeds with a biological attack, and continues with a plot that weaves, dips and swirls its way through politics, religion, economics and warfare, all without pausing for breath.
"If you’re in need of a high-powered jolt of literary caffeine, you need look no further than SHOCK WARNING."
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It begins in California with a devastating biological attack --- a horrific display of homegrown terror unseen on U.S. soil --- just weeks before the presidential election. For the White House, it is a political nightmare. But for the NSA's undercover agent Devlin, it is the ultimate warning.
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It begins in California with a devastating biological attack --- a horrific display of homegrown terror unseen on U.S. soil --- just weeks before the presidential election. For the White House, it is a political nightmare. But for the NSA's undercover agent Devlin, it is the ultimate warning.
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It begins in California with a devastating biological attack --- a horrific display of homegrown terror unseen on U.S. soil --- just weeks before the presidential election. For the White House, it is a political nightmare, as it threatens to plunge the country into panic and economic chaos. But for the NSA's undercover agent Devlin, it is the ultimate warning. Devlin knows who's behind the mayhem. He knows who controls the media. And he knows that, unless he can stop it, the End of Days begins...on Election Day.
Editorial Content for L.A. Mental
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L.A. MENTAL will come as somewhat of a surprise to those familiar with Neil McMahon’s more recent, non-collaborative novels such as DEAD SILVER and LONE CREEK. Those books, with their contemporary western setting, are a world away from his latest, in both geography and subject matter. What he has done here is combine the character-driven plotting of his later work with some of the scientific elements of his first efforts, thrown some Hollywood glitz, glamour and drugs into the mix, and created a book quite different from anything he has done before. Read More
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Los Angeles has become a bedlam of murder, drugs, conspiracy and obsession, and only one man has the power to put things right.
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Acclaimed mystery writer Neil McMahon, coauthor of the James Patterson thriller TOYS, delivers a fast-paced psychological thriller from the heart of a city gone insane: America’s myth-making capital, Los Angeles, has become a bedlam of murder, drugs, conspiracy, and obsession, and only one man has the power to put things right. Fans of science-tinged suspense from authors like Patrick Lee, William Gibson, and Greg Bear, will thrill for L.A. MENTAL’s taught, high-stakes story of one man’s accidental immersion in an underworld he never knew existed --- one which will require every last reserve of his intelligence, ruthlessness, and cunning to escape.
Editorial Content for A Killer's Essence
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Dave Zeltserman is arguably better known to literary critics and to fellow authors than he is to the public at large, which is puzzling. His output is steady and consistently strong. Best of all, his books have the potential to appeal to even casual fans of the mystery and thriller genres. His style and topics are meaty and accessible. Read the first page of any one of his books, and you will keep reading until the tale is told; read one of his books, and you will want to read them all. Read More
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New York City Homicide Detective Stan Green has seen better days. As his family life threatens to disintegrate and his work partner disappears, he is assigned to the most shocking case of his career --- a strange and remarkably violent murder. He finds just one witness, a neurologically disabled recluse who sees demonic hallucinations through the souls of others.
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New York City Homicide Detective Stan Green has seen better days. As his family life threatens to disintegrate and his work partner disappears, he is assigned to the most shocking case of his career --- a strange and remarkably violent murder. He finds just one witness, a neurologically disabled recluse who sees demonic hallucinations through the souls of others.
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Stan Green is a New York City Homicide Detective who has seen better days. As his family life threatens to disintegrate and his work partner disappears, he is assigned to the most shocking case of his career-a strange and remarkably violent murder. Stan must look into the crime alone. He finds just one witness, a neurologically disabled recluse who sees through the souls of others as demonic hallucinations. As more murders occur, and he drifts further from his family and friends, Stan's suspicion and rage escalate. Soon he realizes that the deaths fall into the pattern of a serial killer --- and starts to believe that his witness is not at all insane, but terrifyingly perceptive...
Editorial Content for The Stonehenge Legacy
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Every once in a while, I crave a good thriller --- one with a relentless pace and suspense that keeps me constantly turning pages. When I finish, I want to feel windswept and out of breath from trying to keep up. For this, I’m willing to suspend all disbelief and go with it. If you can to do just that, Sam Christer spins an entertaining tale.
"Christer does a good job of pulling you in and keeping you there with just enough intrigue, suspense and mystery to hold you there until the end."
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The death of a well-known treasure hunter and archaeologist causes grief for his estranged son, but also sets in motion an ancient prophecy that could unlock the secrets of Stonehenge. Cryptic letters and blood sacrifices are just the beginning.
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Eight days before the summer solstice, a man is butchered in a blood-freezing sacrifice on the ancient site of Stonehenge before a congregation of robed worshippers. Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion. And to his estranged son, young archaeologist Gideon Chase, he leaves a cryptic letter. Teaming up with an intrepid policewoman, Gideon soon exposes a secret society --- an ancient international legion devoted for thousands of years to Stonehenge.
With a charismatic and ruthless new leader at the helm, the cult is now performing ritual human sacrifices in a terrifying bid to unlock the secret of the stones. Packed with codes, symbology, relentless suspense, and fascinating detail about the history of one of the world's most mysterious places, THE STONEHENGE LEGACY is a blockbuster to rival the very best of Dan Brown.





