Starred Review. Set in 1176, Franklin's excellent third Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after The Serpent's Tale) finds Adelia Aguilar, a qualified doctor from the School of Medicine in Salerno, in the holy town of Glastonbury, where Henry II...
1942. Entrenched in the searing sands of Libya, a group of soldiers uncover a tomb. Buried in the ancient dust they find a macabre crown of thorns and the devastatingly powerful Spear of Destiny. They've discovered the last resting place of...
In the wake of the 1995 Oslo Peace Accords, a wave of Palestinian terror hits Jewish targets. Israel responds with a clandestine war in Paris, Zurich, and Tel Aviv. When a beautiful Mossad agent is critically wounded in Amsterdam, master spy...
On the pavement, Hannah Bernstein was trying to haul herself up, clutching at the railings as Dillon got to her. “You're all right, just hold on to me.” But there was blood coming down her face, and he was afraid. In Jack Higgins’ acclaimed...
Meet the fighter jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan — in a novel of supersonic air combat so powerfully real, it could only have been written by a former Navy pilot.
The Gulf War has been over for...
Jack Lennox is broke and fleeing both himself and the wrath of his ex-wife. He is traveling on an interstate bus, and when the driver finds that he is riding on an expired ticket, he is put off at Del’s Oasis, a way stop in the middle of a great...
The richest prize in racing. The perfect motive to commit a crime…
Jeff Hinkley, a British Horseracing Authority investigator, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole...
A police chief betrays his code of honor to the Mafia and tries to persuade fellow officers to accept money from the Mob. Those who refuse are killed.
Through all his miles along the hellfire trail, the Executioner has always looked on the...