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| The Winner by Baldacci, David LuAnn Tyler is an unwed mother striving to escape a life of endless poverty. Then a mysterious Mr Jackson makes her an offer he thinks no one can refuse: a guarantee to be the winner of the $100 million lottery. | $5.00 |
| The Wrong Side of the Sky by Lyall, Gavin Jack Clay, an ex-Royal Air Force military transport makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights of dubious legitimacy around the Mediterranean and other parts of Europe in an old Douglas DC-3. His dreams of having his own airplane and own charter company are rapidly fading due to age and lack of money, but at least he is flying. While in Athens, Greece he has a chance encounter with an old wartime friend and rival pilot, Ken Kitson, when he lands in a luxurious private Piaggio P.166. Kitson is personal pilot to the immensely wealthy former-Nawab of Tungabhadra in Pakistan, who is searching the world for his family's heirloom jewels, which had been stolen by a British charter pilot during the Partition of India. However, the Nawab is not the only one looking for the missing jewels, and is not the only one who would cheat, steal or murder to find them first. | $4.50 |
| The Uncanny by Klavan, Andrew The ominous and melancholy ruins of an ancient abbey.... A silent, cowled spectre moving with awful majesty among the headstones..A persistent, rhythmic, spine-chilling sound... | $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 Sirius Crossing by Creed, John Jack Valentine has been in the intelligence game too long and it is starting to show, but he accepts one more mission. He always does. It seems like a simple task but it throws up deadly questions and he doesn't know the answers. What were American Special Forces doing in Ireland twenty-five years ago and why does it matter now? What is the thread that leads from a deserted mountainside to the offices of the White House? | $5.00 |
| The Sisterhood by Forbes, Colin Paula Grey 'witnesses' the murder of Norbert Engel, key German statesman, in Vienna. A veiled woman entered and left the building. Is she a member of the insidious Sisterhood? In a leaderless Europe, its few strong men are assassinated. Tweed fears an Eastern power - not Russia - is planning to take over the Continent. Tracking the mastermind, he suspects Captain Wellesley Carrington, Dorset landowner, his neighbour Amos Lodge, eccentric strategist, and Tina Langley, Carrington's 'friend' | $5.00 |
| The Red Room by French, Nikki Psychologist Kit Quinn is a young woman doing a dangerous job. She inhabits a world of gruesome crime scenes, tense interrogations and violent insanity. On returning to work after a brutal attack, she is asked by the police to advise them on an apparently simple murder inquiry. The body of a young woman has been found by a London canal. The prime suspect is the man who attacked and scarred Kit. | $6.00 |
| The Safe House by French, Nikki Samantha Laschen, a doctor specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex Coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life, or so she thinks. Fiona McKenzie barely survived the savage, murderous attack which left her parents dead. Now she is in need of sanctuary and the police see Sam as the ideal person to offer her a safe house. Already overburdened with the demands of a new job and her mercurial lover Danny, Sam reluctantly agrees to take her in. But as Fiona makes her way into the hearts of her hosts, Sam discovers that the risks she has foreseen are nothing compared to the terrifying danger she actually faces. | $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 Janson Directive by Ludlum, Robert The spy game cost Paul Janson everything that was most important to him, so it would take a lot to lure him back into it. But there is one person to whom Janson owes a huge debt - and he's calling in his marker..... Peter Novak has been kidnapped and faces execution at the hands of terrorist extremists. Janson leads a tam to extricate him - but something goes horribly wrong and Janson is the only survivor. It appears that the operation had been compromised from the start and the intelligence services are convinced Janson is responsible. | $6.00 |
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