Ed McBain's astonishing 87th-Precinct series continues with a hard look at what passes for love in a city grown used to crimes of passion. When a beautiful blonde tells Detective Steve Carella that her husband's former chauffeur has made two...
In Santa Felicia County, California, Cully Paul King, the attractive Caribbean captain of a private yacht — a black man, a ladies’ man — is on trial for first-degree murder. Madeline Pherson, a married woman whose body was found in the ocean,...
Nick Carter must obey the whims of a beautiful, sadistic enemy spy to stop the traitor who could blow the U.S. sky high!
The scene was Hong Kong. The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese...
It begins in Sweden. A low-level defection by a Russian sailor in Stockholm coincides with the theft of critical tapes at a high-level Soviet-American conference in Malmö. At stake is a sophisticated computer virus potentially more lethal...
London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead at a London hospital. An obituary describes him only as a 'resourceful career diplomat'. But Crane was much more than that – and the circumstances surrounding his death are far from...
Trapped at a desk job, Charlie Muffin uncovers a deadly KGB plot Charlie Muffin is too good to be working a desk. His rumpled clothes, worn-down visage, and ceaseless drinking may not make him look like a secret agent, but though the Secret...