In a remote corner of the Russo-Chinese border, home to a frozen city called Yelingrad, satellite cameras pick up a suspicious new Soviet missile complex. Flying a defector's MiG-28D at treetop level, Quiller goes in to investigate. But it's a one-way ticket for the superagent. . . . Previous publisher: Dell. Views: 66
BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
The Poseidon Adventure was not only a major best-seller but a major motion picture. Unlike the book, the picture ended with the Poseidon still afloat. Determined to send the ship to its inescapable fate, Paul Gallico has written a new novel that combines the characters he made famous with the dramatic flair for which he is noted. The result is a sequel that stands completely on its own—a breathtaking adventure of the horrors of impending disaster and of the danger from those modern-day pirates of the sea: scavengers.
Sixteen hundred people died in the Poseidon when the luxury liner was capsized by a tidal wave. Only six were saved by the French helicopter that swept over the wreckage. And those six had gone through all the tortures of hell in the eight hours they spent working their way out of the inverted ship.
Now their leader, Rogo, the tough New York cop, is demanding at gunpoint to be returned to the Poseidon to see to the secret shipment he had aboard to guard. He finds himself with unexpected company when Manny Rosen, whose beloved wife died trying to help the others to safety, and James Martin, the little haberdasher who had just had the one adventure of his life, determine to join him.
Back the three go, aware they will be reentering a chaotic world in which everything is literally upside down, with death and debris everywhere. And they quickly find things even worse than when they left. For others have come to the site, not to rescue but to plunder, and these newcomers are not afraid to kill for what they want.
Paul Gallico takes his original adventure and makes of it the prelude to a novel that is as dramatic as it is vivid. Views: 66
Abducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie there would be no escaping the harem of the wealthy and powerful Sultan Selim. But from the moment the handsome ruler spied his breathtaking "Cyra," was captivated — by the fiery desire that coursed through his veins. She belonged to him, body and soul -yet it was he who was enslaved.Praised for her keen sense of history and remarkable storytelling powers, the bestselling author of The Spitfire displays the passionate magic that has made her a national favorite -sweeping the reader into the romantic past, from the magnificence of Renaissance Europe to the perfumed splendor of a Sultan's court. Views: 65
A sinking British ship, her crew and passengersmen and women alikeruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer. This is the nightmare Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon while engaged in a sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica. Supported by his men in a thirst for righteous vengeance, Ramage sets sail to bring the murderers to justice. Views: 65
Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting pot. Views: 64
On Gor, the other world in Earth's orbit, the term beast can many any of three things: First, there are the Kurii, the monsters from space who are about to invade that world. Second, there are the Gorean warriors, men whose fighting ferocity is incomparable. Third, there are the slave girls, who are both beasts of burden and objects of desire. All three kinds of beasts come into action in this thrilling novel as the Kurii establish their first beachhead on Gor's polar cap. Here is a John Norman epic that takes Tarl Cabot from the canals of Port Kar to the taverns of Lydius, the tents on the Sardar Fair, and to a grand climax among the red hunters of the Arctic ice pack. Views: 63
Lovely Amanda Trent hadn't known, when she came to the decaying Monteigne mansion to give her cousin Amelia a valuable family heirloom, that her cousin had recently died under mysterious circcumstances. Nor did she know that sheh so strongly resembled the deceased.But soon after her arrival, strange things began to happen to her. Inexplicable things that couldn't happen. And suddenly Amanda realized that she was slowly begin guided from beyond into a dead woman's life, a dead woman's romance - and, quite possibly, a dead woman's grave... Views: 63
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! A forbidden attraction... No woman can resist the powerful attraction of Piers Sinclair. Sophisticated, experienced and dangerously exciting, his very presence unsettles Leigh Stanton. Especially since he happens to be her boyfriend's father! There might be a big age difference, but Leigh can't help falling for his charismatic charms. Leigh knows she should try to avoid Piers—their chemistry might be sizzling, but they mustn't succumb to the temptation of the forbidden... Yet with a matchmaker at play, forgetting Piers is no longer a possibility! Originally published in 1978 Views: 62
'Deplorably readable' Observer Everyone knew about the kind of films they showed at the Calliope Club – once the Residents' Association and the local Women's Group had given them some free publicity. But when Peter Pascoe's dentist suggests that one film in particular is more than just good clean dirty fun, the inspector begins to make a few discreet inquiries. Before they bear fruit, though, the dentist has been accused of having sex with an underage patient, the cinema has been wrecked and its elderly owner murdered. Superintendent Dalziel expects no more from professional men who watch blue films. But Pascoe has a hunch that this time Dalziel is way off target... Views: 62
Emma had to admit that she was curious Jordan had said the matter was one of life and death, but since she wouldn't agree to meet him she would never know. Emma's hands trembled as she hung up the receiver, the familiar resentment she felt toward Jordan Kyle enveloping her. To ring her up like that--after all this time? Well, thank goodness she had refused him. At least she'd shown him he couldn't drop her and then pick her up again when it suited him. Unfortunately, she couldn't seem to get him out of her mind... Views: 62
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MANMAYHEM IN MANHATTAN
STUPENDOUS! Of course it’s stupendous. It’s ol’ Spidey himself in his first—yes, first—full-length novel.
SINISTER! When a baddie drops out of a sky-high window (Did he jump—heh heh—or was he pushed?), Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson wants Spider-Man to take the rap. Has the wall-crawler come to the end of his rope? Does his life hang by a slender thread?
GLOBAL! To swing clear of this one, he’s got to snoop on an international oil conference. There’s blackmail! Radioactivity! And a welcoming committee of death-dealing arch villains!
DIABOLICAL! Who’s behind it all? Think hard, ’cause we’re not telling. But it just might be that too much tendril looms large in Spidey’s formidable future!
AN INSTANT COLLECTOR’S ITEM: SPIDEY’S FIRST FULL-LENGTH NOVEL! Views: 61
THIS WAS THE NIGHT OF THE CRAWLING TERROR!
SQUIRM is the blood-curdling shocker calculated to make you writhe with horror. A sleepy Southern town doesn’t know what’s hit it when a freak nightmare of a storm brings down the overhead electric power lines which then direct a massive electrical charge into the wet mud. And that’s just the beginning. For the slimy, oozing, crawling horror which results—an angry, rampaging mass of carnivorous superworms—is the most terrifying threat ever to be unleashed on (or under) the surface of the planet . . . Views: 60
“She commands her material so well that we are made to believe that her fiction—her plot—is no stranger than our lives.” --Ms. Magazine Listening to Billie is a brilliant portrait of a contemporary woman adventurously, decisively embarked on her own life.We first glimpse Eliza Hamilton Quarles as a blonde boarding-school student, sitting in a sophisticated New York club, listening to Billie Holiday. She is on the brink of her marriage to her older, worldly date. Twenty years later, a mother, divorced, she, tentatively begins a new life, with new lovers, new interests, new strength, even a new, more comfortable identity. Views: 60
