The number of Inspector Montalbano fans will continue to grow with this ingenious new novel featuring the earthy and urbane Sicilian detective. Half the retirees in Vig'ata have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money. As Montalbano investigates this labyrinthine financial scam, he finds himself at a serious disadvantage: a hostile superior has shut him out of the case, he's on the outs with his lover Livia, and his cherished Sicily is turning so ruthless and vulgar that Montalbano wonders if any part of it is worth saving. Drenched with atmosphere, crackling with wit, The Scent of the Night is Camilleri at his most addictive. Views: 53
SPECIAL FORCES TRAINED THEM TO BE THE BEST—9/11 GAVE THEM A MISSION THEY WERE DETERMINED TO WIN...SUPERHAWKS:STRIKE FORCE DELTACall it Murphy's Law...Bobby Murphy, the diminutive Texan who has worked in some of the most clandestine U.S. strike forces ever designed and has poured his cunning, knowledge and fury into a force of his own: 36 personally motivated, elite rogue warriors aboard a rusty containership filled with the most cutting edge high-tech weapons in the world. Now Murphy's team is heading to West Africa to liberate a special Delta Force squad being held hostage by Al Qaeda...Murphy's team knows that if things go wrong, no one is coming to their rescue. But when they pull off an astounding operation, it's just the beginning of the fight. Because one of their own has come face to face with a crown prince of Al Qaeda—and with one stunning blow has opened up the door to an all-out, Superhawks... Views: 53
In 1942, with the outcome of the war very much in the balance, there was a pressing need for military success on mainland Europe. Churchill ordered Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ to take the war to the Germans. The Canadians were selected for the Dieppe raid, which, while a morale raiser, was a disaster. Over 3,000 men were lost. This authoritative account looks at the planning, execution and analyses the reasons for failure. Views: 53
A tale of revenge and technological endeavor set on our solar system’s most desolate stage. The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. The planet’s surface faces the sun for nearly sixty earth days at a time, and the only places that stay cool are the ice caches at Mercury’s poles. Views: 53
A small, northeastern town is crippled after a mysterious EMP strike sends its residents into a frenzy and one family onto a journey of survival. Views: 53
Since her mother's death, FBI Special Agent Cate Kowalski had to cope with the deep emptiness she felt--and the shocking revelation that she was adopted.The news came too soon after losing her fiancé and destroyed the very foundation of her identity. So now, the only way for Cate to find herself was to go in search of her birth mother. She didn't count on finding love on her path to self-discovery.It had been three years since Dr. Christian Graywolf's wife died and he still blamed himself for her death. As a result, he focused entirely on his work at Blair Memorial Hospital until his sister brought home colleague Cate Kowalski. The attraction was intense, immediate--and the truth was something neither Christian nor Cate expected: that all his life Christian had been searching for Cate. Views: 53
Dangerous to know... Marcus Flint had a reputation for being hard and ruthless. Women were supposed to be frightened of being alone with him. But Rebecca was different. No man had ever intimidated her, and interviewing Marcus was supposed to be just another job of work. There was something dangerously attractive about him, though, Rebecca had to admit. In fact, for the first time in her life she knew what it was to want a man. But wouldn't the dark truth in Marcus's past always stand between them? Views: 53
In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last.Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota--gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn't be more different. First it was Kerry McGrath, bubbly, sweet sixteen. And now Rachel Deese, strange, sexually charged, a wild child. The media hounds Stride to catch a serial killer, and as the search carries him from the icy stillness of the northern woods to the erotic heat of Las Vegas, he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions. And Stride finds his own life changed forever by the secrets... Views: 53
Book 3 in the Dream series. A moonlit night. Two strangers pulled together by an attraction neither one could resist and an innocent kiss that flares into a scorching blaze. Rourke Campbell would bet every one of his psychic senses the woman in his arms was the woman of his dreams. Problem-he's a psychic tracker, married to the Army. She's married to another man. A stolen kiss is all it can ever be… But fate can be as determined as she is ruthless. When one of Rourke's men comes down with a suspect case of Ebola Tai Forest, a simple kiss has the power to turn deadly and thrusts Rourke and Loren together into a mountain quarantine. While the clock ticks down, Loren finds fighting the temptation of surrendering to Rourke an overwhelming battle. When her estranged husband is murdered, the final blockade is removed. Except the threat of tomorrow-a deadly disease or a broken heart. Either way it's doomed to failure. Playing to win, and determined to make her his, Rourke uses every weapon in his considerable psychic and sensual arsenal to seduce her. But fate has one more hand to play… Views: 53
