Joseph Finder

Jason Steadman is a thirty-year-old sales executive living in Boston and working for a electronics giant, a competitor to Sony and Panasonic. He's a witty, charismatic guy who's well liked at the office, but he lacks the "killer instinct" necessary to move up the corporate ladder. To the chagrin of his ambitious wife, it looks as if his career has hit a ceiling. Jason's been sidelined.
But all that will change one evening when Jason meets Kurt Semko, a former Special Forces officer just back from Iraq. Looking for a decent pitcher for the company softball team, Jason gets Kurt, who was once drafted by the majors, a job in Corporate Security. Soon, good things start to happen for Jason - and bad things start to happen to Jason's rivals. His career suddenly takes off. He's an overnight success
Only too late does Jason discover that his friend Kurt has been secretly paving his path to the top by the most "efficient" - and ruthless - means available. After all, Kurt says, "Business is war, right?"
But when Jason tries to put a stop to it, he finds that his new best friend has become the most dangerous enemy imaginable. And now it's far more than just his career that lies in the balance.
A riveting tale of ambition, intrigue, and the price of success, Killer Instinct is Joseph Finder at his best. He 

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Lacking the competitive instincts considered necessary to get ahead in his sales job, Jason Steadman meets a recently hired Iraqi war veteran who recruits him for the company softball team and offers him a job in corporate security, a situation that turns ugly when Jason learns his new friend's true agenda. 250,000 first printing.

Killer Instinct

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Edward Rutherford

Brilliantly weaving impeccable historical research with stirring storytelling, Edward Rutherfurd explores our shared Celtic roots in a magnificent epic of Ireland spanning eleven centuries. While vividly conveying the passions and struggles that shaped particularly the character of Dublin, Rutherfurd portrays the major events in Irish history: the tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of Saint Patrick; the coming of the Vikings; the making of treasures like the Book of Kells; and the tricks of Henry II, which gave England its first foothold in medieval Ireland. Through the interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters–druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, noblewomen and farmwives, laborers and orphans, rebels and cowards–Rutherfurd captures the essence of a place and its people in a thrilling story steeped in the tragedy and glory that are Ireland.

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The Dublin Saga

From the bestselling author of LONDON and SARUM - a magnificent epic about love and battle, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of eleven centuries. THE PRINCES OF IRELAND brilliantly weaves impeccable historical research and mesmerizing storytelling in capturing the essence of a place and its people. Edward Rutherfurd has introduced millions of readers to the human dramas that are the lifeblood of history. From his first bestseller, SARUM, to the international sensation LONDON, he has captivated audiences with gripping narratives that follow the fortunes of several fictional families down through the ages. THE PRINCES OF IRELAND, a sweeping panorama steeped in the tragedy and glory that is Ireland, epitomizes the power and richness of Rutherfurd's storytelling magic. The saga begins in tribal, pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the fierce and mighty High Kings at Tara, with the tale of two lovers, the princely Conall and the ravishing Deirdre, whose travails cleverly echo the ancient Celtic legend of Cuchulainn. From that stirring beginning, Rutherfurd takes the reader on a powerfully-imagined journey through the centuries. Through the interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters - druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, noblewomen and farmwives, merchants and mercenaries, rebels and cowards - we see Ireland through the lens of its greatest city. While vividly and movingly conveying the passions and struggles that shaped the character of Dublin, Rutherfurd portrays the major events in Irish history: The tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of St. Patrick; the coming of the Vikings and the founding of Dublin; the glories of the great nearby monastery of Glendalough and the making of treasures like the Book of Kells; the extraordinary career of Brian Boru; the trickery of Henry II, which gave England its first foothold in Medieval Ireland. The stage is then set for the great conflict between the English kings and the princes of Ireland, and the disastrous Irish invasion of England, which incurred the wrath of Henry VIII and where this book, the first of the two part Dublin Saga, draws to a close, as the path of Irish history takes a dramatic and irrevocable turn. Rich, colorful and impeccably researched, THE PRINCES OF IRELAND is epic entertainment spun by a master.

The Princes of Ireland

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Myles Dillon

Nora Chadwick

This masterly survey of the history and culture of the Celtic peoples covers the whole period from their prehistoric origins to the Norman invasion of Britain. The early part of the book is concerned with the narrative history of the period, beginning with the origins of the Celts and discussing the society and culture of ancient Gaul. History of civilization.  

Fully illustrated with 64 pages of photographs. 

The history and culture of the Celtic Peoples from Pre-history to the Norman invasion.

Celtic Realms

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Stephen King

A best-selling novelist retreats to his lakeside cabin in Maine after his wife is killed in a road accident. There he meets an attractive widow, and becomes embroiled in her custody battle for her daughter against the child's wealthy grandfather.

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations. 1,750,000 first printing. BOMC Main.

Bag of Bones

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W. Michael Gear

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

When Veronica Tremain's anthropologist brother Scott is brutally murdered, she can only recall that he had once mentioned solving a 60,000-year-old mystery. His son Abel is brought to her by computer expert Bryce Johnson and they realise that Abel is the key to a discovery from the ancient past.

When her brother is murdered, Veronica Tremaine tries to uncover who is killing genetics professors and encounters three more would-be victims in her brother's co-worker Bryce Johnson, research assistant Rebecca Armely, and Rebecca's young son. By the authors of Dark Inheritance. 50,000 first printing.

Raising Abel

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James B. Huggins

When the CIA took Cain's lifeless body from the ground, they intended to create the perfect soldier. Piece by piece, they rebuilt his soulless flesh and transformed it. A team of scientists outfitted him with the most powerful muscles and the deadliest weapons that the generals could ever have wished for. Alive, Cain had been their deadliest killer; dead, he became their greatest nightmare. When Cain awakes, he is transformed: he has become the ultimate predator. His body is now inhabited by a spirit that's been wandering the earth for millennia - one of the crown princes of hell. The only force that can stop him is made up of three tragically flawed mortals - a soldier who's lost his family to a terrorist's bullets, a priest who's lost his faith, and the beautiful young scientist who created this modern Frankenstein. Together, though, they form an unstoppable team who will fight the forces of hell itself to save themselves and humankind.

Cain

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Michael Alexander Eisner

This is a retelling of one of the most brutal and ignominious adventures ever undertaken in the name of Jesus Christ. It follows the adventures of a young Spanish nobleman during the time of the crusades against Islam.

A Novel

A rousing historical novel of extraordinarily broad appeal, about a Crusader with a heavy heart. The Year of Our Lord, 1275, Santes Creus monastery, Spain. Brother Lucas, a venal and moderately trustworthy monk, is put in charge of an exorcism. His former fellow acolyte, the brooding and magnetic aristocrat Francisco de Montcada, has returned from the Crusades possessed by demons. If Brother Lucas can drive out the demons, his monastery will be enriched by the Montcada patriarch and he himself will be made a bishop. Gradually Francisco comes out of his possession, and begins to spin the tale of his crusade: how he set out to free the soul of his dead brother, lost at sea before he could reach the Holy L∧ his fierce friendship with his cousin Andres, a mighty warrior with an honest heart; his intense love for Andres’s feisty sister, Isabel; the high ideals of Ramon, his battle-hardened commander; and the amoral cruelty of the perfidious Don Fernando, a noble who delights in executing Muslim women and children. The crusaders win a great battle at Toron, taking it back from the Infidel, but at the gigantic fortress Krak des Chevaliers, the key to the Christian position in the Holy Land, the Saracens have laid siege. In the fierce battle to defend the fortress, Francisco will lose everything–including, unless the dodgy Bruther Lucas succeeds, his immortal soul. The Crusader is a wonderfully crafted novel of knights, torture, romance, religious fervor, vows, quests, sieges, and villainy, told by an author who knows how to make history come to shimmering life.

The Crusader

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John Douglas

Mark Olshaker

The authors of Journey into Darkness probes the minds of both the hunter and the hunted in this powerful exploration of human behavior. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas exposes the chilling obsessions that compel the murderers, rapists, and stalkers.

The FBI's Legendary Profiler Probes the Psyches of Killers, Rapists, and Stalkers and Their Victims and Tells How to Fight Back

The best-selling authors of Mindhunter combine profiles of numerous well-know cases with practical advice on how to protect oneself and loved ones against violence in a study of the violent, interpersonal crimes committed against women and the elderly. 175,000 first printing. Tour.

Obsession

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Tom Grace

They call it Spyder: a supposedly undetectable intelligence-gathering computer program that can easily penetrate heavily-encrypted computer networks. When ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny discovers its existence, Spyder has already been stolen by three indusrial spies in a heist that quickly escalates to murder and treason. Suddenly, Kilkenny is leading the FBI and CIA in the search for Spyder... and is in the crosshairs of those who will stop at nothing to possess the ultimate spy weapon.

Former Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny leads a U.S. government hunt for a computer program that enables hackers to indulge in industrial espionage. Developed for the CIA, the program was stolen by an ex-KGB agent and now the Chinese are after it.

Spyder Web

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Allan Folsom

After the phenomenal success of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, Allan Folsom has created another dazzling thriller of heart-stopping action involving a chillingly credible int'l conspiracy. The Addison brothers, Harry & Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn't ignore him. Except it seems he is too late, as Danny was on board a tourist bus which was blown apart by a bomb. But when Harry arrives in Italy he is plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare, discovering that his brother is accused of assassinating the Cardinal Vicar of Rome and when he dares to suggest that Danny is still alive he finds that someone is willing to frame him for murder before he can start to clear Danny's name. Alone and vulnerable in a foreign country, Harry is sucked into the maelstrom of a conspiracy in the heart of the Vatican, where men of God are using the devil's hand to further the influence of the Catholic Church. A tense and absorbing thriller.

A heart-thumping whirlwind of action, suspense & murder that reaches deep into the highest levels of Vatican power & uncovers a demonic scheme to massacre hundreds of thousands of Chinese in an attempt to establish a new Holy Roman Empire on the Chinese mainland in the twenty-first century.

Day of Confession

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Petru Popescu

A thriller set in Africa starring American anthropologist Ken Lauder who has discovered a tribe which could be the missing link in human evolution. But Lauder might not be able to announce the find because he is pursued by killers. Who are they? He doesn't know. One possibility: a famous scientist wants him killed so he can claim the find.

Ken Lauder, an American paleoanthropologist, discovers a boy in Kenya who may be "the missing link," but must evade Bodibo, a poacher, and Cyril Anderson, an unscrupulous anthropologist eager to steal his discovery

Almost Adam

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Jacquelyn Mitchard

From the author of The Deep End of the Ocean, The Most Wanted bursts into life with the bright flash of a forest fire, in a story about the unreasoning power of love. Mitchard has fierce, brave & tender insights into the bonds of mothers & daughters. 

Relates the story of a Texas teenaged girl, her outlaw husband, and the lawyer who becomes her surrogate mother

The Most Wanted

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John McCain

Mark Salter

A Family Memoir

The author describes the military careers of his grandfather and father, his own experiences as a POW in Vietnam, and his political career

Faith of My Fathers

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Al Franken

The Truth (With Jokes) is an American book of political satire and humor by Al Franken, released in October 2005. The book's main focus is on the 2004 presidential election and Franken's research into the Republicans' strategy in their victory—as well as examples of subsequent political overreach which he predicts will be their downfall. Finally, he makes some predictions.

A work of political satire draws on a wide range of resources to expose the mendacity of the Bush administration and its conservative Republican supports.

The Truth (with Jokes)

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William Martin

He became the nation's first hero. ...But before that, George Washington was just a man. And in his youth, he was a man on the make. He wanted to serve the king, so he donned a red coat and fought the French. He loved another man's wife but yearned for status, so he married a rich widow. He dreamed of wealth, so he accumulated land and slaves. He accumulated enemies, too...

In Citizen Washington, one of those enemies--a newspaper publisher named Hesperus Draper--learns that Martha Washington has burned her husband's letters at his death. So Draper sets his nephew on a quest to find the truth about the letters and about the man himself. The younger Draper meets a dozen people, from Mount Vernon slaves and Iroquois Indians to Jefferson and Adams and the other giants of the era, and they tell their own stories as they tell Washington's: from his callow youth, through the harrowing battles of the Revolution, to the first American presidency.

What emerges is a remarkable, multi-faceted portrait of a society reeling toward rebellion, a nation rushing to be born, and a man rising to greatness.

A fictional account of George Washington portrays a man full of imperfections and limitations who overcame personal struggles to become one of history's greatest leaders

Citizen Washington

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Philip Kerr

Dave Delano has just finished serving a five-year prison sentence for a manslaughter crime he didn't commit. He spent his prison years wisely, plotting his revenge against the mob he took the fall for with his silence. The plot: a hijacking on the high seas. He knows the mob inside and out, especially its knack for money laundering by refitting U.S. yachts to hide dirty dollars that disappear into Russian banks; money that Dave feels is his. FBI agent Kate Furry is also out to settle a score for herself. The combustion of these two provides a funny romantic caper that keeps everyone guessing until the very end.

For the Colombian cartel, Europe is a magnet. But landing their coke is another matter. When FBI agent Kate Fury gets a hot tip that the stuff is being shipped in a hollowed-out yacht hull via transport ferry, she knows she's on to the biggest collar in her career, in this new thriller by the author of Esau.

A Five-Year Plan

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Dan Fesperman

do Petric is a homicide investigator in war-torn Sarajevo. When he encounters an unidentified body near “sniper alley,” he realizes that it is the body of Esmir Vitas, chief of the Interior Ministry’s special police, and that Vitas has been killed not by any sniper’s aim but by a bullet fired at almost pointblank range. Searching for the killer in this “city of murderers,” Petric finds himself drawn into a conspiracy, the scope of which goes beyond anything he could possibly have imagined.

A powerful literary thriller set evocatively in war-torn Sarajevo & infused with political intrigue, written by a journalist who has been there.

Lie in the Dark

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Judy Mercer

Struggling to regain her memory, Ariel Gold visits her grandfather on Kiawah Island, off the coast of South Carolina. There she discovers the deadly risks associated with remembering and is mistaken for her dead sister. 

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"It's midnight, and Ariel Gold has just arrived on Kiawah Island, a few miles southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. She's come to her grandfather's home for a break from L.A. - from gridlock and drive-by shootings and tremors - and from a problem that is uniquely her own: she is struggling to recover from a total and devastating memory loss. But the weekend will not be the restful hiatus she imagined. Late at night on a deserted stretch of beach, a chance meeting opens a door to the past she seeks." "The stranger appears from nowhere, and is stunned to encounter Ariel; he's mistaken her for her sister, whom he's known since childhood - and who he knows is dead. He tells Ariel of their special friendship and, in the telling, reveals himself to be a troubled man, haunted by demons at which Ariel can only guess. Then, as suddenly as he appeared, he vanishes into the night." "She couldn't know their brief exchange would pull her into a spiral of tainted old Southern money and family scandal with all the force of a coastal hurricane. For Ariel, following in her sister's shadow is both eerie and compelling, as she digs into the stranger's past in the hope she might learn more about her own. But the deeper she delves into a chilling legacy of high drama, low jealousies and bad blood, Ariel finds the truth can be twisted - and memories can be murder."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Double Take

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Jonathan Nasaw

A thriller featuring former FBI agent E. L. Pender who finds himself struggling through a morally ambiguous case involving imperiled women clients, a depraved perpetrator, and the unsettling price of justice. By the author of Twenty-Seven Bones.

A Thriller

The author ofTwenty-Seven BonesandThe Girls He Adoreddelivers another nailbiting thriller featuring former FBI agent E. L. Pender. Breathtaking and suspenseful, yet leavened with a perverse and quirky humor,When She Was Badexamines the terrifying relationship between two hot young lovers who also happen to be coldblooded killers. "Multiples in love: imagine the possibilities," said one of the twisted couple's earlier victims. Lily DeVries and Ulysses Maxwell have quite a few things in common. Both were horrifically abused as children, then diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, and eventually incarcerated in the same Oregon mental institution. There, they fell into the hands of the well-meaning, genially sinister director, Dr. Al. When the ingenious lovers engineer a bloody escape, the only people who have a chance of stopping them are the rumpled, endearingly flawed E. L. Pender and Dr. Irene Cogan, a brilliant psychiatrist who loves Lily almost as much as she fears Maxwell. With the aid of a private investigator, Pender and Cogan take on a pair of killers who win hearts as easily as they slit throats. A sexually charged thriller of undeniable originality and page-turning suspense,When She Was Badmoves at a rapid clip from the inner recesses of two twisted psyches to a terrifying climax and brilliantly realized finale. Emotionally taut and difficult to put down, this tale of sex, romance, madness, and murder will not disappoint.

When She Was Bad

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Lionel Davidson

The story is about Johnny Porter, a polylingual academic who has to break into a super-secret laboratory in Siberia in order to discover its deadly secrets, using his linguistic skills.

Book has water damage on 2 pages (see pics) and slipcover has scuffs and residue from price tag. Otherwise in good condition. 

"Mysterious, coded messages have come from the remotest, most dreaded former gulag in northern Siberia. They plead for a certain man to be sent to carry out the most astounding Russian secret of all." "The man is Johnny Porter - fierce rebel, Rhodes scholar, loner outdoorsman, cynic, genius - the most memorable fiction hero of this decade. The account of how he gets in, finds the man - and woman - who sent for him, and tries to get their secret out is a masterpiece of wrenching excitement, shredding suspense, and immensely intelligent storytelling, with twists that continue until the very last page."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Kolymsky Heights

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Joan D. Lambert

In a saga that begins more than a million years ago, three wise women named Zena, born thousands of generations apart, experience romantic and spiritual adventures, from the African savanna to the Red Sea to the caves of the Pyrenees.

The story of three wise women, each named Zena but born eons apart, ranges from the African savanna of more than one million years ago to the shores of the Red Sea to the limestone caves of the Pyrenees mountains.

Circles of Stone

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Tom Topor

When a late businessman's will reveals the existence of a war child to whom he has bequeathed fifty million dollars, renegade private detective Adam Bruno is hired to find the missing heir and encounters a web of deception.

The Codicil

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Philip Shelby

A political thriller featuring Holland Tylo, a woman agent of the U.S. Secret Service. Just before a senator whom she is protecting dies from an assassin's bullet, he gives her a computer disk with damaging information on other senators. Tylo goes after the killers, only to become a target herself when an assassin is hired to silence her and retrieve the disk.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Landing the most promising assignment of her career, Secret Service agent Holland Tylo is charged with protecting Senator Charles Westbourne, whose untimely death locks Holland in the vise of a conspiracy. 200,000 first printing.

Days of Drums

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Annie Proulx

The novel begins in the nineteenth century, as a Sicilian accordion-maker comes to the United States in search of better opportunities. He is shot by an anti-Italian lynch mob, and his accordion falls into the hands of several other owners, many of whom meet painful ends themselves.

A button accordion brought to New Orleans in 1890 by a Sicilian immigrant finds its way into the lives, dreams, fantasies, sorrows, and intimacies of men and women of other immigrant groups in South Dakota, Texas, Montana, Maine, and elsewhere. 350,000 first printing.

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