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Chasm City

by Alastair Reynolds

In a city overrun by a virus that attacks both man and machine, an agent pursues a lowlife postmortal-and uncovers a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget...

Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner, Soldier of Sidon , and his stunning Pirate Freedom , Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror. Set a hundred... (more)

Revelation Space: Book 5

The Prefect

by Alastair Reynolds

A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”( Locus ) Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His... (more)

The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse

The Gumshoe, the Witch, and the Virtual Corpse

by Keith Hartman

The truth has always depended on your point of view. By 2024, the great American melting pot has become the great media buffet. Step right up and take what you want! Are you a gay man? Great, you'll want to be sure and catch all the fun on the five channels of the Lambda network, now featuring the hit comedy My Three Dads, and The New Erotic Adventures of Superman. Oh, I'm sorry, you meant to say that you're... (more)

A Man Called Surf

by Raymond Embrack

A Man Called Surf collects 19 short stories, including seven featuring Peter Surf, private eye.

Gumshoe Gorilla

by Keith Hartman

2024 was a rough year for Drew Parker. His car broke down, his rent went up, and his partner was kidnapped by a revenge-crazed performance artist with a grant from the NEA. Worse, one of his clients had been tossed off a sky scraper—after being stripped naked, smeared in human fat, and painted with occult symbols. Drew himself had broken into the headquarters of the Christian Militia on a wild goose chase, and... (more)

KOP

by Warren Hammond

Juno is a dirty cop with a difficult past and an uncertain future. When his family and thousands of others emigrated to the colony world of Lagarto, they were promised a bright future on a planet with a booming economy. But before the colonists arrived, everything changed. An opportunistic Earth-based company developed a way to produce a cheaper version of Lagarto’s main export, thus effectively paupering the... (more)

Hardcore Hardboiled

by Todd Robinson

Drawn from Robinson's online magazine Thuglit , these 25 mostly solid crime stories will largely appeal to those with a taste for explicit violence. (For others, one description of mutilated genitalia is likely to be more than enough.) The best entries rely on subtlety and spare character portraits to make their point, like Mike MacClean's McHenry's Gift, the account of a drug runner's legacy with a vicious twist... (more)

Peel: A Surf Novel

by Raymond Embrack

A mysterious childlike woman gives private eye Peter Surf his strangest yet case when she hires him to recover her stolen sex fantasy. She is a mystery with a trail of bodies leading to Russian mobsters, a fat hitman, and an archvillain with a strange name, an island lair, and an international criminal operation. Meanwhile, Surf is a private eye so cool he gets a groupie, one who has her own deadly secrets to... (more)

The City & the City

by China Mieville

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and... (more)

Karate: A Surf Novel

by Raymond Embrack

A stylized hard-boiled private eye novel

Zex: a novel

by Raymond Embrack

Zex is the latest trend among the rich and trendy: designer sex. A couple hires a sex designer to remodel their sex life. The design takes them through elaborate erotic scenarios. But what happens when a sex designer goes out of control? Their design intersects the design of a killer.

Barracuda: A Surf Novel

by Raymond Embrack

In BARRACUDA, private eye Peter Surf goes on a vendetta against R.A.V.A.G.E., a terrorist group that only targets private eyes. With its martini mix of retro-cool, complex plot, ice-cold killers and red-hot ultravixens, BARRACUDA redefines the way of the eye.

Pulp Fiction : A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Pulp Fiction : A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

by Quentin Tarantino

Revelation Space: Book 3

Redemption Ark

by Alastair Reynolds

This stunning sequel to Revelation Space begins late in the twenty-sixth century. The human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger alien machines designed to detect intelligent life--and destroy it.

Running Blind

by Lee Child

Across the country women are being murdered by an extraordinarily clever killer who leaves no trace of evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. All the victims have in common is one thing: they each knew Jack Reacher. It's "spectacular" ( Seattle Times ) and "swift and brutal" ( New York Times ). Plan to stay up long past bedtime and do some serious... (more)

Echo Burning (Jack Reacher Novels (Paperback))

Echo Burning (Jack Reacher Novels (Paperback))

by Lee Child

Jack Reacher returns in Lee Child's new "rip-roaring thriller" ( Denver Rocky Mountain News ). This time, he's a hitchhiker picked up by a troubled beauty. And what happens between them has everybody talking. "Smashingly suspenseful...Child builds tension to unbearable extremes." ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review)

Persuader (Jack Reacher Novels (Paperback))

Persuader (Jack Reacher Novels (Paperback))

by Lee Child

Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever. But some unfinished business has now found... (more)

Jack Reacher Series: Book 6

Without Fail

by Lee Child, Dick Hill

The sixth novel in the acclaimed series featuring Jack Reacher. With the vice president's life in danger, the head of a high-level Secret Service security detail wants Jack Reacher to find the holes in her own system, and fast. A group of men already has the high-profile victim in their sights and will stop at nothing to realize their objective. What the assassins never planned on was Jack Reacher.

Killing Floor

by Lee Child

Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers, after a series of brutal crimes terrorizes tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. BOMC Feat Alt.

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