'Fitzhugh is in fine comic form and zanier than ever... The Organ Grinders is a laugh-out-loud read... an awe-inspiring feat' Washington Post
'If Michael Crichton and Carl Hiaasen collaborated on a book about the organ transplant and genetic engineering industries, the result might look a lot like this very bizarre book.' Booklist
Environmentalist Paul Symon is out to make the world a better place. But he's overwhelmed by too much disjointed information, too much public apathy, too much talk and not enough action. Not to mention the opposition of successful and greedy venture capitalist Jerry Landis, who is dying of a rare disease. Landis cares about only two things - making even more money, and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. He'll go to any lengths to do either.
That brings Landis and his fortune to the wild frontiers of biotechnology, cross-species transplants and genetically altered primates. Paul is on the trail of this clandestine research, but there's also an eco-terrorist on the loose bent on teaching Landis and his likes some very hard lessons. These forces, together with 50,000 extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder.
Bill Fitzhugh was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. Among many other jobs, Bill has worked as a DJ on radio and in nights clubs, as a deck hand on a squalid freight-charter boat, and as a paralegal. He has also written Pest Control. He is married and has two horses, two dogs, and a cat. They all live in California where Bill is working on his next novel.
In his tenth novel John Grisham will once again confirm his reputation as the master storyteller of his generation as he expertly mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure story. Brought together by the startling secret of The Testament are: an eccentric, reclusive billionaire looking for a way to die, a burnt-out Washington litigator just out of rehab for the fourth time and trying to hold it together, and a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the jungles of Brazil.
John Grisham's previous nine novels A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner and The Street Lawyer have all been number one bestsellers, and there are over 60 million copies in print in the English language. Five have been made into blockbusting movies and Grisham is widely believed to be the most popular author writing in the world today. Praise for John Grisham's previous novels:February 1806, and Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho carries the news of Trafalgar to southern Africa, where he is to aid the ground forces in any way he can, to retake Cape Town from the Dutch.
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Fred Travis's, leader of the Repeal 98 movement, has one burning wish: to get the
permissive society repealed. But when he is found with his throat cut, clutching Private
Eye Dave Cunane's card between his fingers, things turn nasty for the Manchester
detective.
Add a religious cult, an aspiring journalist, an iffy copper and academic skulduggery down
at a Manchester university, and the result is trouble with a capital T.
But trouble is Dave Cunane's business...
'What the English thriller has needed for years. Sharp, hip-shooting prose with a refreshingly nasty twist' Arena
Frank Lean was born in Bolton but has worked for most of his career in South Manchester. He is the author of three other novels, Nine Lives, Red for Rachel and The Reluctant Investigator.
For Commissario Guide Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act
of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger
through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon Brunetti finds out that
the perpetrator is no petty criminal intent on some annoying anonymous act. For the
culprit waiting to be apprehended at the scene of the crime is none other than Paola
Brunetti, his wife.
As Paola's actions provoke a crisis in the Brunetti household, Brunetti himself is under
pressure at work: a daring robbery with Mafia connections is then linked to a suspicious
accidental death and his superiors need quick results. But now Brunetti's own career is
under threat as his professional and personal lives clash - and the conspiracy which Paola
had risked everything to expose draws him inexorably to the brink...
'In her detective novels with Commissario Brunetti, Donna Leon can paralyse the reader with a joyful suspense, lost in the environs of Venice and hopelessly in love with her central character and his wife' Mail on Sunday
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years. Her previous novels to feature Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed, most recently Acqua Alta, The Death of Faith and A Noble Radiance, and regularly top the bestseller lists in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Fatal Remedies is her eighth novel and she is currently completing her ninth.
By the international bestselling author of Kilo Class and Nimitz
Class
In Iraq the President awards his country's highest honour to the man known as Eilat
One. Hours later, in the dead of night, he tries to have him killed.
In Iran one of the world's deadliest terrorists offers his services to the regime
and promises to continue the fight against the United States and bring down America's
anger and military might against their common enemy, Iraq...
In England, just off Plymouth Sound, the Upholder-class submarine HMS Unseen is
undergoing its final sea trials before being commissioned. Unbelievably, mysteriously, HMS
Unseen disappears.
In Washington Admiral Arnold Morgan begins to suspect that one of his deadliest and
most skilful enemies is behind the disappearance of the submarine, the same enemy who is
now beginning a series of spectacular strikes against the West. Morgan knows of only one
man who could possibly be capable of doing all this. And Morgan know he must be captured,
or stopped, at all costs.
Praise for Nimitz Class
'An absolutely marvellous thriller, one of the best things of its kind I have read in
years' Jack Higgins
'Fast, sharply-focused, engine-driven action' Express
New England. The night of August sixth, 1887. Millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered, shot dead in the front room of his grand house by a lake. The only witness to the killing, his young grandchild, mysteriously disappears...
Eighteen years later, in Switzerland, a man with no memory is 'recognised' as Richard Knight, the missing child.
Thus begins a masterpiece of historical suspense, as one man's obsession leads him towards a shattering truth - and to a killer, still at large...
'Stunning... Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors' New York Times Book Review
'Has all the ingredients of a juicy novel: greed, suspicion, love, madness and amnesia. Sarah Smith pulls it all together with a rare talent for telling a complex story in beautifully simple language.' San Francisco Chronicle
'A cornucopia of Gothic elements - murder, abuse, amnesia and sexual repression' New York Daily News
'Well constructed and ingenious... The sense of period and place is most impressive' Charles Palliser, bestselling author of The Quincunx
Sarah Smith has lived in Japan, London and Paris. A Harvard Ph.D., she has taught film and eighteenth-century literature and she now writes and designs documentation for advanced computer products. She lives with her husband and children near Boston.
She worked for one of the most powerful men in government. She trusted him completely.
That was her mistake...
'She does not sense a thing until a nightmare has melded seamlessly into wakefulness.
Before she can summon a scream from her diaphragm, thick duct tape is across her mouth.
She screams, but the sturdy, unyielding tape silences her, and the scream is choked off;
the acrid taste of adhesive is on her tongue.
Louisa's panic is animal... She is terrified and enraged and she knows she is going to
die.
Louise Shidler is thirty seven. She is a US ambassador, a mother and a convicted traitor.
Betrayed by a faithless husband, a government, and a former mentor, Louisa Shidler is
abandoned by all except her daughter, Isabel. But when Isabel is taken from her, she
learns that there is no limit to betrayal's reach - and no limit to what one woman must do
to survive it.
As the action moves relentlessly from Washington to Geneva's old town, from Dubai to
Paris, and back to the American badlands; it becomes evident that Shidler and her daughter
are mere pawns in an international conspiracy of unprecedented proportions. But when the
pawns refuse to fall, the bigger pieces begin to topple...
The intrigue churns at a high level, at ease in the heart of Frederick Forsyth
territory... A gut-grabber of a thriller' Lorenzo Carcaterra
'The pace moves from fast to breakneck... Like John Grisham at his best, Willett delivers
a tense, clever, tightly woven plot... Take The Betrayal to the beach. Start
reading early in the day. You won't want to go to sleep before you finish' USA Today
Sabin Willett is a partner with the Boston law firm Bingham Dana LLP The Betrayal is his second novel. He graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School and lives outside Boston.