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Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger-until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that his legacy has... (more)

Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel

Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel

by Gayle Lynds

Robert Ludlum's exciting books of international suspense are enjoyed by millions of readers around the world while critics hail them as classics. Now comes the fourth volume in the bestselling Covert-One series-Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later, on the... (more)

The Winner

by David Baldacci

When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later she has become a wealthy woman determined to live a normal life. But it will take more than money to escape the attention of the FBI who may want her for murder, and the dangerous man... (more)

The Best Laid Plans

by Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon returns with a tale of two equally determined people headed on a collision course. One the governor of a small southern state, Oliver Russell is a man with a strategy to win the White House. The other is the beautiful and ambitious Leslie Stewart, a woman intent on seeing him lose everything. Soon they will both discover that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray--with deadly... (more)

The Hearing

by John Lescroart

Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession out of him. But there is more to this murder-much more. And as both Hardy and Glitsky risk their lives to... (more)

Rosata & Associates: Book 9

Courting Trouble

by Lisa Scottoline

Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered -- above her own picture. To find the killer, Anne's got to play dead -- if she wants to stay alive. Though she tries to go it alone, she quickly realizes she'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her, a homicide... (more)

Bad Company

by Jack Higgins

Never have the stakes been higher than in his new novel. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: a close relative of none... (more)

Crisis Four

by Andy McNab

He was ordered to track down a rogue colleague. Now British Intelligence agent Nick Stone and "runner" (and former lover) Sarah Greenwood have become the hunted, racing deeper into a dark, deadly conspiracy that will change the course of world events - and the lives of millions. With seventeen years of active service in the elite SAS force, Andy McNab writes from his own harrowing experiences. Packed with... (more)

Paul Madriani: Book 5

The Attorney

by Steve Martini

Paul Madriani is back--as both defense attorney and sleuth--in this riveting new legal thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Judge and Undue Influence . "Riveting . . . a suspenseful tale, right up to the satisfying climax," wrote Publishers Weekly in praise of The Judge . "Legal thrillers don't get much better than this." Kirkus Reviews hailed Undue Influence as "the courtroom... (more)

Standoff

by Sandra Brown

An ambitious female television reporter gets caught up in a deadly hostage drama while investigating the kidnapping of a Texas millionaire's daughter.

Amanda Jaffe: Book 2

Ties That Bind

by Phillip Margolin

Success is fleeting; nobody knows this better than lawyer Amanda Jaffe, She had been the undisputed rising star of Portland's legal community, but in a cruel twist of irony, the same case that put her on the map -- the Cardoni trial, which pitted Amanda against a brilliant sociopath (in the New York Times bestseller Wild Justice ) -- had left her traumatized, doubting her instincts, and shunning the... (more)

The Shadows of Power

by James W. Huston

A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, high-stakes dogfight and becomes an overnight hero in the eyes of his countrymen ... and the target of a zealot's revenge. Suddeny Stovic and his loved ones have been... (more)

The Tangent Factor

by Lawrence Sanders

The story of two men divided by greed and honor-but united by the one woman who loves them both.

Kingdom Come

by Jim Hougan

In a gripping novel that combines brilliantly imagined characters with the machinations behind this century’s greatest unexplained mysteries, Jim Hougan has created a stunning international thriller of psychology and intrigue, espionage and prophecy, hairbreadth escapes and endless suspense. After someone he has under surveillance is literally slaughtered, CIA agent Jack Dunphy is immediately ordered to leave... (more)

The Letter of the Law

by Tim Green

VALUE-PRICED at $4.99 while supply lasts! From the bestselling author and new host of TV's "A Current Affair." Young Texas attorney Casey Jordan is hired by law school professor Eric Lipton after the father of one of his students, who is brutally murdered, accuses Lipton of killing his daughter. Lipton maintains his innocence throughout the trial. Just as the jury finds him "not guilty," Lipton whispers a... (more)

The sea traders (The Emergence of man)ALLAN FOLSOM

The sea traders (The Emergence of man)

by ALLAN FOLSOM

The OathJohn Lescroart