It is Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940’s, and a set of twins is separated at birth by a desperate nurse. Nat Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman. But his twin brother is to begin his days as...
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A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier.
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up...
The product of Colombia’s dirty war, the Viper is South America’s deadliest terrorist.
Cut off by former sponsors, and armed with one of the world’s most advanced weapon systems, the Viper embarks on a personal mission of revenge, intent...
The CIA employs contractors recruited from elite military units for bodyguard and security work in high risk environments and for deniable ops. The most skilled and lethal of these operatives are known as scorpions.
One of these scorpions is a...
This brilliant memoir brings to life an entire era through the sensibility of one of America's finest authors. Recollecting fifty years of love, desire and friendship, Burning the Days traces the life of a singular man, who starts out in Manhattan...
A sparkling, enchanting and staggeringly original debut novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters.
Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, precocious nine-year-old and an aspiring jazz singer. As she mourns the recent...
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America.
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my...
Training horses is dangerous-a head-to-head confrontation with a 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more importantly patience and smarts. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful...
For twelve generations, when the fish were plentiful and when they all-but disappeared, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement,...
Jon Michaels — a divorced, disinterested and fatigued editor living a nondescript life in North London — receives a sudden phone call from his brother, informing him that their estranged uncle Rey has been found dead in his caravan on Canvey...