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From the acclaimed author of Infected comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity’s secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its... (more)

Sphere

by Michael Crichton

In the middle of the South Pacific, 1,000 feet below the surface, a huge spaceship is discovered resting on the ocean floor. It is a craft of phenomenal dimensions, it seems undamaged by its fall from the sky, and it appears to be at least three hundred years old. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies imaginations and mocks their... (more)

The Traitor (Tommy Carmellini Novels (Hardcover))

The Traitor (Tommy Carmellini Novels (Hardcover))

by Stephen Coonts

The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure. Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other -- and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm... (more)

The Bear and the Dragon (Tom Clancy)

by Tom Clancy

Four Cassettes, 6 hours Time and again, Tom Clancy 's novels have been praised not only for their big-scale drama and propulsive narrative drive, but for their cutting-edge prescience in predicting future events. In The Bear and The Dragon , the future is very near at hand indeed. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at... (more)

Rainbow Six (Tom Clancy)

by Tom Clancy

Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy

The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set.

Prey

by Michael Crichton

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horriblywrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolvingswiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has... (more)

Vortex

by Larry Bond

As the forces of white supremacy make their last stand against South Africa's black majority, America mobilizes Operation Brave Fortune to prevent global chaos. Reprint.

Airframe

There's Danger in the Skies

by Michael Crichton

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control: 'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs Forty ambulances on the runway. But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they... (more)

Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store

Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store

by Robin Sloan

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Michael Crichton : A New Collection of Three Complete Novels : Congo/Sphere/Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton : A New Collection of Three Complete Novels : Congo/Sphere/Eaters of the Dead

by Michael Crichton

Fans of Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, the books and the movies, will want to own this collection of Crichton's earlier, technical suspense novels, which includes Congo, Sphere, and Eaters of the Dead.

Hammerheads

by Dale Brown

Bestselling author Dale Brown tackles the controversial subject on America's drug war. The U.S. government has created an all-new drug-defense agency--Hammerheades--that will never make the war against drugs the same.

Jurassic Park: Book 2

The Lost World

by Michael Crichton

In this sequel to Jurassic Park, Crichton delivers his trademark mix of speculative science and suspense.

Combat

by Stephen Coonts

s the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of a new age, policing not only its own shores, but the rest of the world as well. Spearheading this are the men and women of America's armed forces, the 'troops on the wall' who will go anywhere, anytime, and do whatever it takes to protect our nation and the rest of the free world. Combat brings together the best authors... (more)

The Elysium Commission

by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

L.E. Modesitt returns to SF with a whole new future world on the brink of destruction. A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ours --and a utopian city on one of the planets. The question becomes, though, an utopia for whom? And why is a shady entertainment mogul subsidizing the scientist? More critical than that, does this new universe require the destruction of... (more)

Moonfall

by Jack McDevitt

It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems. Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm.Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse. But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an... (more)

The Execution Channel

by Ken Macleod

It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on-line bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality lies. James Travis is a British patriot and a French spy. On the day the Big One hits, Travis and his daughter... (more)

Eternity Base

by Bob Mayer

A federal employee intent upon discovering the truth about her missing in action father stumbles upon a closely-held secret about an Antarctic military base - a base illegally constructed and which has been kept a secret by a serious of murders. When she and her reporter sister fly to the base for an in-depth probe, murder begins to stalk them in this tense novel. Unlike most military stories this will appeal to... (more)

Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San... (more)

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