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Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson

The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.

Beginning a new blockbuster series set in the "Honorverse"-the universe of Honor Harrington. The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Add to that the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controlled by hostile Mesans in Erewhon's stellar back yard, a problem which High Ridge also ignores. Finally, the recent... (more)

The Icarus Agenda

by Robert Ludlum

In Ludlum's most action-packed, powerfully told, suspenseful book yet, a murderous band of terrorist fanatics has seized the American embassy in the Arab city of Musqat, but an American congressman, working undercover, succeeds in lifting the deadly siege.

The Hollows: Book 2

The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

by Kim Harrison

It's a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two. But a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is definitely pressing the limits. Confronting an ancient, implacable evil is... (more)

Tinker (Baen Fantasy)

by Wen Spencer

Inventor, girl genius Tinker lives in a near-future Pittsburgh which now exists mostly in the land of the elves. She runs her salvage business, pays her taxes, and tries to keep the local ambient level of magic down with gadgets of her own design. When a pack of wargs chase an Elven noble into her scrap yard, life as she knows it takes a serious detour. Tinker finds herself taking on the Elven court, the NSA,... (more)

Blood Price: Victory Nelson Private Investigator: Otherworldly Crimes a Specialty (Victory Nelson)

Blood Books: Book 1

Blood Price: Victory Nelson Private Investigator: Otherworldly Crimes a Specialty (Victory Nelson)

by Tanya Huff

It began with blood and death. And Vicki Nelson, PI was at the scene. The victim had been brutally, inhumanly opened up. Messy work. She'd had to cover the corpse with her coat. It had sort of made her feel involved. Now Vicki is caught up in the deadly pursuit of a mass murderer with an inhuman appetite for mayhem and destruction. And her advisor on the case is doing nothing to dampen her growing sense of... (more)

Spin State

by Chris Moriarty

From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware... Spin State UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people... (more)

Havana: An Earl Swagger Novel (Earl Swagger Novels (Paperback))

Havana: An Earl Swagger Novel (Earl Swagger Novels (Paperback))

by Stephen Hunter

Outgunning all others in the arena of razor-edged action and sheer guts, New york Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter plunges Earl Swagger deep into a steamy underworld of power, politics, and blood... Cuba 1953: The island is on fire. The Mafia-run casinos are rolling, and it's just a 30-minute flight from Miami to a world of vice, gambling, sex, and drugs. The money is there for anyone who knows how to... (more)

R de Rebelde/R is for Ricochet (Coleccion Andanzas)

R de Rebelde/R is for Ricochet (Coleccion Andanzas)

by Sue Grafton

Private Investigator Kinsey Milhone is back on the job, hired by a privileged parolee's father to keep her out of trouble. It should be an easy assignment-until the parolee's past starts coming back to haunt her.

Tony Valentine: Book 4

Loaded Dice: A Tony Valentine Novel

by James Swain

When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine’s longtime pal then taps him to figure out how an amateur won $25,000 at his blackjack tables. But the job is full of land mines. For starters, the suspect bears a strong resemblance to his late wife. Upping the ante, a dead... (more)

Vertical Coffin : A Shane Scully Novel (Cannell, Stephen J)

Vertical Coffin : A Shane Scully Novel (Cannell, Stephen J)

by Stephen J. Cannell

A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine search warrant. His fellow deputies blame the incident on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, whom they angrily accuse of having failed to warn them that the... (more)

Bad Business

by Robert B. Parker

A cheating husband and a wayward wife provide Spenser with an unconventional and dangerous surveillance job. When Marlene Cowley hires Spenser to see if her husband, Trent, is cheating on her, he encounters more than he bargained for: Not only does he find a two-timing husband, but a second investigator as well, hired by the husband to look after his wife. As a result of their joint efforts, Spenser soon... (more)

Fire Logic

by Laurie J. Marks

Earth * Air * Water * Fire These elements have sustained the peaceful people of Shaftal for generations, with their subtle powers of healing, truth, joy, and intuition. But now, Shaftal is dying. The earth witch who ruled Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. Shaftal's ruling house has been scattered by the invading Sainnites. The Shaftali have mobilized a guerrilla army against these marauders, but every year the... (more)

The Body of David Hayes

by Ridley Pearson

ears ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years later, Hayes is trying to retrieve the money he hid for the Russian mob and contacts Liz to try to gain access to the bank's mainframe. Liz is torn between wanting to... (more)

Quantico Rules

by Gene Riehl

FBI agent Puller Monk's Special Inquiries (SPIN) team pulled what looked like an easy assignment: the background check of the highly respected first African American woman candidate for the Supreme Court. But what was supposed to be a routine turned into his worst nightmare when the lies surfaced -- and the bodies started to pile up. The President wants the candidate. Monk's boss wants results. An assassin... (more)

Man-Kzin Wars: Book 10

Man-Kzin Wars X

The Wunder War

by Hal Colebatch, Larry Niven

The first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid alien invaders called Kzin came and turned it into a hell for humans. Touched on in other accounts of the Man-Kzin wars, here for the first time is the decades-long saga of Wunderland: how the Wunderlanders first learned of the Kzin attacks on Earth by slower-than-light communications, barely in time to prepare to fight... (more)

Killer Hair: A Crime of Fashion (Crime of Fashion Mysteries)

Killer Hair: A Crime of Fashion (Crime of Fashion Mysteries)

by Ellen Byerrum

Home of the helmet hairdo and Congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C. is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless, doing her part to change this town-one fashion victim at a time... An up-and-coming stylist, Angie Woods had a reputation for rescuing down-and-out looks-and... (more)

The Mesa Conspiracy: A Department Thirty Novel (Department Thirty)

The Mesa Conspiracy: A Department Thirty Novel (Department Thirty)

by David Kent

David Kent unlocked the files of Department Thirty in his electrifying debut novel, "a thrill-a-minute ride" ( Mystery Scene ). Now he returns to the elusive government agency that erases criminal identities in exchange for lethal secrets -- in a heart-pounding new thriller. Raised by his tough but loving distant cousin Colleen, Eric Anthony never cared or asked what became of the parents who abandoned him early... (more)

Basket Case

by Carl Hiaasen

Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, themysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comebackalbum. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed withdeath since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yenfor our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him. Put them in the handsof a master like Carl Hiaasen, who... (more)

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