More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USAFrom Publishers WeeklyVeteran McCarry (The Tears of Autumn) remains a compelling storyteller, as shown in his latest spy thriller, which chronicles the early career of his series hero, Paul Christopher. In 1939 Berlin, 16-year-old Paul struggles, with his American novelist father and German aristocrat mother, against the Nazi rulers of Germany. The Christophers are refined intellectuals and known to be sympathetic to the persecuted Jews. A sadistic SS officer, Major Stutzer, takes pleasure in harassing Paul, who has fallen into an impassioned but forbidden love affair with a Jewish doctor's daughter. As war breaks out, Paul barely escapes, while his lover meets a horrible fate at Stutzer's hands. Flash forward to 1959: Paul, now one of the CIA's top operatives, undertakes a clandestine operation in East Berlin, where the Soviets have recruited a certain ex-Nazi officer to train their Arab allies. Can Paul finally face his old nemesis and put the ghosts of the past to rest? The book speeds toward a satisfying, inevitable conclusion. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Bookmarks MagazineIn his tenth book featuring CIA agent Paul Christopher, Charles McCarry delves into Christopher's past, answering some of the questions which have tantalized readers for decades. Overall, the critics were pleased with this latest addition to Christopher's story. Though they claimed it was not McCarry's best work, they repeatedly cited his elegant writing, fascinating characters, and his ability to elicit the utmost tension from every scene. They disagreed over the two parts of the book-the first, set in Berlin in 1939, and the second, set in East Berlin in 1959. Some preferred the earlier, heartrending tale of love found and lost, while others favored the pulse-pounding adventure of the latter half. Both, however, will have readers on the edge of their seats.Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. Views: 7
James Parker Pyne is a retired government employee who considers himself to be a
"detective of the heart." Advertising his services in the "Personal" column of
The Times, he works
alongside his secretary Miss Lemon, novelist Ariadne Oliver, handsome "lounge
lizard" Claude Luttrell and disguise artist Madeleine de Sara.
The first six stories deal with Pyne solving cases in England, while the second six stories detail Pyne's
vacation, where he hopes not to have to detective work only to end up helping
others anyway.Contents1 The Case of the Middle-aged Wife2 The Case of the Discontented Soldier3 The Case of the Distressed Lady4 The Case of the Discontented Husband5 The Case of the City Clerk6 The Case of the Rich Woman7 Have You Got Everything You Want?8 The Gate of Baghdad9 The House at Shiraz10 The Pearl of Price11 Death on the Nile [unrelated to Hercule Poirot novel of same name]12 The Oracle at Delphi Views: 7
In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. “A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review)
A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire
needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing like
she expected. Claire agrees to become a decoy for a firm of
divorce lawyers. Hired to entrap straying husbands, she must catch them
on tape with their seductive propositions. The rules? Never
hit on the mark directly. Make it clear you’re available, but he has to
proposition you, not the other way around. The firm is after evidence,
not coercion. The innocent have nothing to hide. Then the game changes.
When the wife of one of Claire’s targets is violently murdered, the
cops are sure the husband is to blame. Desperate to catch him before he
kills again, they enlist Claire to lure him into a confession.
Claire can do this. She’s brilliant at assuming a voice and an
identity. For a woman who’s mastered the art of manipulation, how
difficult could it be to tempt a killer into a trap? But who is the decoy . . . and who is the prey?
Praise
“A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable
narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review)Praise for JP Delaney’s The Girl Before “A pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense.”—Lee Child “The pages fly.”—USA Today “The Girl Before generates a fast pace.”—The New York Times “Get hooked on this hair-raiser.”—Cosmopolitan “[A] must-read.”—New York Post “Almost unbearably suspenseful.”—Joseph Finder “A masterfully crafted spellbinder.”—Booklist (starred review) “Superior psychological suspense.”—The Bookseller “A sexy murder mystery.”—InStyle About the Author
JP Delaney is a pseudonym for a writer who has previously written bestselling fiction under other names. Delaney is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girl Before, which is being brought to the screen by Academy Award winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.
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The CIA knows the best way to insure that North Korea's nuclear weapons aspirations is slowed down considerably is to abduct leading scientist Dr. Sung Kwan from the rogue state. The snatch plan is perfect and the team succeeds in a grabbing Kwan; however, the CIA unit and the Korean scientist are killed during the escape. Someone from within the intelligence community sold out the mission. Agent Jennifer Exley is assigned to find out whom. Views: 7
A gypsy orphan, Heath Galloway adores Cathy Earnshaw, his childhood sweetheart. He would do anything to protect her from her drunken, abusive father—even push the man down a flight of stairs to stop him hitting her. But with her father dead, Cathy’s older brother Matt runs the Earnshaw farm and both of their lives. And Matt despises Heath. Forced to drop out of school and work the fields, Heath is separated from Cathy and the two begin to drift apart. When Cathy meets the rich, blond, and suave Eli Linton, she finds herself torn between Eli’s charm and Heath’s brute potency. Fiercely proud and stubborn, Heath doesn’t take well to being brushed aside. He’ll get what he wants, or he’ll get revenge. No matter how long it takes. Views: 7
In this exhiliarting sequel to Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Hellhole, the stakes on planet Hallholme have been raised to new heights. After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough. Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus. They expect resistance from the General's rebels, but who could possibly stand up to such a mighty fleet? Adolphus knows he's running out of time, but he still has some hope—the shadow-Xayans have banded together to defend their sacred planet with "telemancy," but can they discover new powers to protect all the stored alien... Views: 7
-a Night Stalkers 5E romance- The Night Stalkers 5E (5th Battalion, E Company) flies again, going where no one else can venture. NAME: Patty O'Donoghue RANK: Chief Warrant 3 MISSION: To rise above her past NAME: Mick Quinn RANK: Lieutenant MISSION: To honor his past Patty O'Donoghue left her life on Gloucester fishing boats to fly helicopters with the Night Stalkers. The one thing she's never caught before? Her match. Mick Quinn left his family's Alaskan crabbing fleet to join the very best fleet he could find. When they team up with 5th Battalion E Company, they fly where the U.S. military can never admit to. Their dangerous targets lie beyond the edge of policy. Out past that edge, they'll both find the Target Lock on Love! Views: 7
