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| The Million-Dollar Wound by Collins, Max Allan From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney Ross) to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the '40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller's blocking out. What he can't block, though, is the wound he received - the 'million-dollar wound', the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss' last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions. | $5.00 |
| Jack Higgins Omnibus: 'Edge of Danger' and 'Pay the Devil' by Higgins, Jack Edge of Danger': In this action packed adventure Sean Dillon is thrown into a desperate race against time to prevent an assassination that would shock the world. Confronted by foes old and new, Dillon embarks on a deadly game of cat and mouse that will take him from Ireland to the USA, and from the heart of the English countryside to the deserts of Hazar......and the very edge of danger. 'Pay the Devil': A heart-pounding thriller set in rural Ireland, with swashbuckling Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald. At the end of the American Civil War, Clay escapes to Ireland, only to discover further conflict. The struggle between wealthy landlords and impoverished tenant farmers is intensifying, and after witnessing the atrocities that are visited upon the people, Clay is unable to stand by......... | $6.00 |
| Carl Hiaasen Omnibus: 'Native Tongue' and 'Striptease' by Hiaasen, Carl Native Tongue': PR Man Joe Wilder didn't believe the theft of the last two blue-tongued voles on Earth from a billionaire's Florida theme park. He just wrote the story. Asking questions later was his biggest mistake. Before he could say Robbie Raccoon, he was hiding out in the Everglades with a one-eyed man and a gun-toting granny in pink curlers - and ready to put the skids on the craziest crime con in the history of the state...... 'Striptease': Welcome to the Eager Beaver....not just a topless fun palace in the heart of southern Florida's deadliest human swamp, but the mega-sleazy backdrop to the juiciest scandal in Miami's entire colourful history. It's enough to say it begins with the sex-addled political fixer 'Molly Moldwoski', Erin the beautiful stripper and a champagne bottle...and ends in a riotous cocktail of blackmail, comedy and cover-ups starring grotesques great and small. | $7.00 |
| Carl Hiaasen Omnibus: 'Stormy Weather' and 'Lucky You' by Hiaasen, Carl Stormy Weather': Madison Avenue adman Max Lamb is a disappointed man. A prime-time hurricane debastates southern Florida at the start of his honeymoon......and he can't even use his camcorder. Fortunate, really, as the results would not make family viewing back home in New York. Within hours the ruins are alive with Mobsters, crusaders, temptreses, presidential aides and escaped wil animals. Even a crucifixion, previously unheard of in these parts, can't halt the mayhem. For the inhabitants of Dade County, the hurricane is the second gold rush - the year's hottest scam. Everyone wants a piece. And Max, he just wants to go home...... 'Lucky You': Saturday afternoon in Grange, Florida. Virtually unnoticed, JoLayne Lucks stops by the Grab'n'Go tp play the same numbers she's played every week for five years. 17-19-22-24-27-30. Each lotto number marking the age she dumped a tiresome lover. She doesn't know it yet, but the discarded men in JoLayne's life have finally amounted to something. $28 million and a whole swamp of trouble........ | $7.00 |
| Jeffrey Archer Omnibus: 'Not a Penny More. Not a Penny Less' and 'Shall We Tell The President?' by Archer, Jeffrey Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less': Four men: the heir to an earldom, a Harley Street doctor, a Bond Street art dealer and an Oxford don - find themselves penniless overnight. They band together and formulate a plan to sting the crook who robbed them for exactly what they lost. To the penny. 'Shall we tell the President?': The tale of a plot to kill the first woman President of the United States. Only one man stand between her and certain death, and the clock is ticking..... | $6.00 |
| Warriors of the Dragon Gold by Bryant, Ray The Golden Dragon, ancient banner of the Saxons, was never carried through a more turbulent era than the years preceding the Norman Conquest. While the greedy tore at England's bleeding heart, eight kings assumed the heavy crown, and many died contesting it. This was a dark time of battle, royal family quarrels and marriages of convenience, or treachery and brutal murder. Through the years of turmoil lived Princess Aelfgifu: though sent into exile she was never far from the intrigues of her homeland. Behind the scenes she played a dangerous game and tasted a forbidden love.... | $5.00 |
| The Pirate Queen by Gold, Alan Grace O'Malley commanded the obedience of thousands of men. Feared and loved on land and at sea, her empire stretched from Connaught on the Irish coast to the cobalt waters of Africa. Through the daring of her piracy, Grace nearly bankrupted the English treasury; she caused nothing but trouble for Elizabeth I. Yet the lives of these two amazing women were inextricably intertwined. | $4.00 |
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