East of Desolation by Jack Higgins
Joe Martin had been on
many salvage operations, but his gut feeling told him this one was
different. The insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead
pilot had hired him to find out what he could about the crash, but some
things were best left alone. Before long, what should have been a
routine mission becomes a hair-raising adventure packed with danger and
betrayal. Then a batch of priceless emeralds are thrown into the
equation, and Joe's life is on the line.
The Disciple by Stephen Coonts
Iran is much closer to
having operational nuclear weapons than the CIA believes, and Iran’s
president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has a plan. Iran will become a martyr
nation, and Ahmadinejad will lead the united Muslims of the world in a
holy war against the non-believers.
But the Americans have a
secret weapon in a group of Iranian dissidents, including a brother and
sister determined to avenge the death of their beloved grandfather at
the hands of the religious police. They are funneling information to
Carmellini. They want to stop the attack before their leader launches a
new world war. But will the U.S. government believe the information they
are providing, and can the Americans prevent the Israelis from taking
matters into their own hands, which could prove disastrous?
Remote Control by Stephen White
Emma Spire is the
daughter of the assassinated Surgeon General of the United States. She
has been on the cover of every national magazine. Her beauty, her
brains, her bravery - all are public property. Everyone wants a piece of
her - and she must escape the feeding frenzy at all costs. But she
cannot, and the consequences are deadly. Thus the stage is set for Dr.
Alan Gregory's most stunning, brainteasing crisis yet. The
Colorado-based psychologist-sleuth must solve a case of twisted desire
and terror to save not only a golden girl pursued by the furies of fame
but also his wife, Boulder County D.A. Lauren Crowder, imprisoned on
suspicion of murder.
For it was Lauren who took Emma under her wing, and
it was Lauren who pulled the trigger on the mysterious stalker who
menaced Emma's safety and sanity. Step by step, amid accelerating acts
of terror, Alan Gregory suspects he may be dealing not with a sick mind
fixated on a fantasy of female perfection but with deadly greed fueled
by a high-tech prize that may be worth billions. Meanwhile, his
investigation is turned into a desperate race against time as a medical
emergency threatens to turn his wife's incarceration into a death
sentence.
Charade by Sandra Brown
A medical miracle gives
TV personality Cat Delaney more than a new heart. With her second chance
at life Cat trades Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a TV show
for children with special needs. Here she meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop
turned crime writer-and the first man to see her as a woman since her
surgery. But her new world turns sinister when fatal "accidents" begin
killing other heart recipients, and a mysterious stalker starts
shadowing her every move.
Soon Cat realizes Alex may-or may not-be her
most important ally and that her new heart comes at a terrible price: a
tangled web of secrets and someone determined to take her life.
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
Meeting an anonymous
client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But
trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty. Her client
says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He
says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out
that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon enough
-- the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why
has she been set up and sent out on a wild-goose chase?
By the time
she's got it figured, things are hotter -- and deadlier -- than Chicago
in July. V.I.'s in a desperate race against time. At stake: a
young woman's life.
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry (Western)
In Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer,
the first novel of a major four-volume work, it is 1830, and the
Berrybender family, rich aristocratic English, and fiercely out of
place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as
it begins to open up. At the core of the book is daughter Tasmin's
relationship with Jim Snow, frontiersman, ferocious Indian fighter, and
part-time preacher (known up and down the Missouri as the "Sin Killer"),
the strong, handsome, silent Westerner who captures her heart.
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry (Western)
In Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer,
the first novel of a major four-volume work, it is 1830, and the
Berrybender family, rich aristocratic English, and fiercely out of
place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as
it begins to open up. At the core of the book is daughter Tasmin's
relationship with Jim Snow, frontiersman, ferocious Indian fighter, and
part-time preacher (known up and down the Missouri as the "Sin Killer"),
the strong, handsome, silent Westerner who captures her heart.