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Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.’s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multi-billion-dollar corporations. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder’s son, Peter Morgan, his father’s old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goliath, embracing bankruptcy and merger divisions that Archibald Morgan had deemed ungentlemanly. As Peter…
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Death’s Little Helpers
“John March has been hired to find missing Wall Street analyst Gregory Danes. Once ubiquitous on television, Danes’s star went into steep decline along with the stock market: now he’s best known for his volatile temper and his obsession with restoring his tattered reputation.” “His ex-wife, a fashionable painter, wants to know why the alimony…
Judge & Jury
Bestselling author James Patterson returns with the #1 blockbuster thriller of the summer, an unstoppable novel of law and revenge.Senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante is closing in on the notorious mob boss “The Electrician,” when the scheduled sting goes spectacularly awry. Two FBI agents are dead, the boss is wounded, and Pellisante vows the Electrician’s…
Messenger
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer – photographs that lead Israeli…
And Then There Were None
First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will…
Forsaken: A Vampire Huntress Legend
The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy—one that not even Damali will anticipate—has been developed. There is only one entity…
In a Glass Darkly
This remarkable collection of stories, first published in 1872, includes Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr. Justice Harbottle, The Room in the Dragon Volant, and Carmilla. The five stories are purported to be cases by Dr. Hesselius, a ‘metaphysical’ doctor, who is willing to consider the ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. The reader’s…
Dark Water
The water, and whatever nightmares lie beneath its cloudy surface, control reality in this frightful collection of short stories. The first of four torments follows a mother and daughter who move into a haunted apartment complex-the source of its downpours of horror is the spirit of a young, angry girl. Their story gives way to…
Whispers
He’s back–the terror that stalked Hilary Thomas as a child is back in her life, in her house, at her bedroom door. She killed him once. But he keeps coming back. Again. And again… It is a chilling thriller that will send shivers up your spine. I wondered if it had been turned into a…
Twilight Hunger
He is every woman’s fantasy, yet he remains alone and untouched. His world is one of secrecy and solitude, darkness and danger. Now one woman has found his journal. She has told his secrets. He must stop her, and there is only one way . . . When struggling screenwriter Morgan DeSilva uncovers the ancient…