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| Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, John George and Lennie are itinerant farm workers - one of nimble wits, the other of huge physique - whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. Labouring from dawn until dusk they both have a dream to keep them going. That one day, they'll have enough money to buy a small ranch of their own and keep cows and chickens and rabbits. But even his best friend and mentor can't save Lennie from his worst enemy - his own strength ... | $4.00 |
| Paid and Loving Eyes by Gash, Jonathan When times are slow in the antiques, divvies have to make ends in unusual ways. Such is Lovejoy's fate driving for Gazza Gaunt's disreputable assignation service. But when one of his customres, the beautiful Fiona, discovers his eye for the genuine article, he finds himself the toast of a rich set whose vices and interest in danger extend way beyond a casual tryst in the back of Lovejoy's van. Advising the rich on valuables is never easy, but when he discovers that this set's previous advisors have ended up in hospital or worse, Lovejoy decides to flee with horse mad Almira to France. Little does he realise that Almira is part of the plot, and that France is the centre of the biggest antiques scam in history. | $4.00 |
| Sleepers by Carcaterra, Lorenzo Lorenzo, Michael, John and Tommy shared everything– the laughter and the bruises of an impoverished childhood on New York’s violent West Side. Until one of their pranks misfired and they were sent to a reformatory school. Twelve months of systematic mental, physical and sexual abuse left the boys transformed for ever. Eleven years later, one of them had become a journalist, one a lawyer – and the other two killers for the mob. In a chance encounter they came face to face with one of their torturers and shot him dead in front of several witnesses. The trial that followed brought the four friends together again in one last, audacious stand – and a courtroom climax as gripping as any John Grisham novel. | $4.00 |
| Dark Peril by Creasey, John Department Z's in the dark. Our leading industrialists are suddenly struck blind. Z agents themselves are affected. Can this be the beginning of a new Dark Age? The antidote must be found. | $6.00 |
| The Rule of Four by Caldwell, Ian Tony Sullivan, about to graduate from Princeton, is haunted by the violent death of his father, an academic who devoted his life to one of the rarest, most complex books in the world. Coded in seven languages, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an intricate mathematical mystery and a tale of love and arcane brutality, has baffled scholars since 1499. Tom's friend Paul is similarly obsessed and when a long-lost diary surfaces they finally seem to make a breakthrough. But only hours later a fellow researcher is murdered and the two friends suddenly find themselves in great danger. Working desperately to expose the book's secret, they slowly uncover a Renaissance tale of passion and blood, a hidden crypt, and a secret worth dying to protect..... | $6.00 |
| The Lucifer Network by Archer, Geoffrey A deadly secret whispered by a dying gunrunner on a lonely road in Zambia sets MI6 agent Sam Packer on a frantic race against time. A terrorist gang has acquired a horror weapon but before Packer can discover more, the man dies. Packer is on his own, faced with sceptical colleagues and the gunrunner's daughter, Julie, who may hold the key to the secret but who also suspects it was Packer who engineered her father's death. | $7.00 |
| The Burma Legacy by Archer, Geoffrey Fifty-five years after the end of World War Two, Tetsuo Kamata is a wealthy businessman, but he was once an interrogator in a Japanese Prisoner of war camp. One of his victims, Peregrine Harrison, recognizes him. Harrison never got over his maltreatment at Kamata's hands and has dreamed of killing him ever since. Now he has his chance. But if Kamata dies, so do the livelihoods of hundreds of car factory workers. MI6 officer Sam Packer is diverted from his hunt for an ex-SAS drug trader in Thailand and given the order to stop Harrison. The search takes him deep into Harrison's past and to the poppy fields of The Golden Triangle. To save Kamata from execution, Packer must penetrate an alien and hostile world, a quest which brings him face to face with the very drug lords who have sworn to kill him. | $5.00 |
| The Rainmaker by Grisham, John Rudy Baylor is a newly qualified lawyer: he has one case and one case alone, to save himself from his mounting debts. It is a bad faith case against a giant insurance company which could have saved a young man's life, but has instead refused to pay the claim until it is too late. The settlement could be worth millions of dollars, but there is one problem: Rudy has never argued a case in court before, and he's up against the most expensive lawyers money can buy. | $5.00 |
| The Chamber by Grisham, John Adam Hall is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentant and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? | $4.00 |
| The Brethren by Grisham, John Trumble is a minimum security federal prison, home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals - drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, and three former judges who call themselves The Brethren. They meet each day in the law library where they handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a licence, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it's really starting to work. The money is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim. | $5.00 |
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