Crime is the American preoccupation. And in this novel the author of the controversial, best-selling Death Wish continues his dramatic inquest into crime and retribution. Vigilanteeism: Does it solve any problems, or does it only create new ones?...
Somewhere in the desert a girl has only minutes to live. A freaked-out rock group, a tyrannical industrialist, a very clever Mexican cop — the ingredients of a highly explosive...
A powerful mob boss commits a crime — and Fred Mathieson is a witness. An honest witness. Despite threats to himself and his family, Mathieson testifies. The government gives him a new name and identity, and relocates Mathieson and his family. But...
Skimmer was the hotshot — handsome, smart, arrogant... He had everything: personality, looks, women. He was ready for success — regardless of the cost... And then he met a girl and a gangster — and something went wrong... Hotshot is...
He looked at her, at her fine grave face and too elegant gestures. He thought tiredly that this one was nearly gone, that she would go on drinking too much gin and sleeping in too many beds, that she would remember nothing between the beds and the...
Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia. Jumping ship at the African port of Lourenço Marques, Hanna decides to begin her life afresh. Stumbling across what she believes...
Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact,...
Small-town sheriff J. C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin — only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality...
When blonde, 16-year-old, Sonya Lang confronts real-estate man Graham Kirby with the fact that she’s pregnant by his sleazy half-brother Burwell, that’s bad. When it turns out that her condition is the result of a particularly degrading rape,...
Philip Kerr, who sold his four previous novels to Hollywood for thousands of dollars, has worked out the art of writing the book of the film. A Five Year Plan has the ingredients — drugs, girls, high-octane climax — and all in a single boat. But...