Lunenburg
Published October 2000 by Headline Feature at £17.99
ISBN: 0747223203
Artwork by: Jacket photograph: Keith Baker
'Vivid and frightening ... an intelligent thriller'
Times Literary Supplement
'Breathtaking ... if you buy no other thriller this year, buy this one'
Irish Times
A journalist and broadcaster in North Ireland for 35 years, Keith Baker's first novel,
Inheritance, is now the syllabus book on the 'Modern Novel' course at Queen's
University, Belfast.
Keith Baker has built his reputation as a fast-paced thriller writer. In Lunenburg, his
fourth novel, the dark secrets of a small town in Nova Scotia are uncovered only to
bring about more mystery and intrigue.
Keith Baker has been a high profile journalist since 1962. A former Head of News
and Current affairs for BBC Northern Ireland, he now lives in County Down. He has
spent all his professional life in Northern Ireland journalism, most significantly with
the Belfast Telegraph from 1969 to 1982, and with the BBC from 1992 to the present
day. Through his experience Keith Baker has a background knowledge that makes his
novels stand out from others in the genre as frighteningly credible.
Irresistible
Pbk published November 2000 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747263736
Of course working alone in a cramped apartment typing up audio tapes the agency send can be dull, but it means that Nora Clay doesn't have to mix with people, especially men. And Nora Clay knows all about the kind of trouble you get from men.
One day Nora finds herself paying attention to what she is writing, to what the man is saying on the tape. And Nora knows she's going to have to do something about it. Otherwise the nightmares are going to come back.
For Detective Conrad Voort of the NYPD, the frenzied slayings of a series of men are a baffling unconnected puzzle, turning an oven-hot summer in the city into a cauldron of fear and horror. But Voort may not have to wait to long to find the killer. The killer may be about to find him.
Praise for Ethan Black's previous novel, The Broken Heart's Club, (which also featured the charismatic Detective Conrad Voort) :
'A very black, witty thriller' Daily Mirror
'Perversely Clever' The New York Times
Ethan Black is ajournalist living in New York.
Net Force
Pbk published December 2000 by Headline Feature at £6.99
ISBN: 0747266786
Form the bestselling creators of Op-Center, Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik. In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force. When cyber-terrorists sabotage mainframe computers across the country, causing famine, chaos and death, Alex Michaels, the director of Net Force, must find out who is responsible - before it is too late.
Previous titles in Tom Clancy's Powerplays series include Politika and ruthless.com, both available from Severn House.
The Travelling Vampire Show
Pbk published December 2000 by Headline Feature at £6.99
ISBN: 0747258295
When three teenagers see the flyers for The Travelling Vampire Show, featuring the onlv known vampire in captivity, they know they have to go. But defying parental curfews and sneaking into the show gets them into more trouble than they would have imagined possible....
Richard Laymon was bom in Chicago in 1947. He has worked as a schoolteacher, a librarian and a mystery magazine editor. He has published more than sixty short stories in magazines and anthologies. His novel, Flesh, was named Best Horror Novel of 1988 by Science Fiction Chronicle and was shortlisted for the Brain Stoker Award, as were Funland, a short story collection A Good Secret Place and his controversial account of life as an author, A Writer's Tale. His many bestselling novels include The Stake, Savage and Among The Missing and the three novels in the Beast House Chronicles: -The Cellar, The Beast House and The Midnight Tour. He lives in California.
The Sea Garden
Pbk published November 2000 by Headline Feature at £6.99
ISBN: 0747260060
Artwork by: Cover photograph: David Grogan
Already described as 'dazzling' (The Times) Sam Llewellyn's new novel marks a dramatic change of direction for an author previously renowned for his yachting thrillers. Part murder mystery, part family saga, part story of a 150-year-old garden, The Sea Garden launches Sam Llewellyn firmly into the best-selling territory of Nicci French and Robert Goddard.
When Victoria and Guy Blakeney-Jones inherit the tiny Cornish island of Trelise, it looks as if they have lucked into an idyll. The island is beautiful, the population friendly. And the sub-tropical Priory gardens await restoration to their former splendour. But there is more than a hint of the bizarre in the Priory gardens, laid out in 1845 on the site of an ancient monastery by Guy's ancestor, the herbalist Joshua Jones, and as restoration proceeds, Victoria realizes there are more than rare plants and philosophical notions hidden among the walks and terraces. Like a skeleton with a fractured skull, unearthed in the Sea Garden...
Sam Llewellyn was born in Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly, where his mother's family has lived for five generations. He admits that some of the characters in The Sea Garden are based on his ancestors. Close students of the book may detect strong resemblances between The Sea Garden and Tresco's world-famous sub-tropical gardens.
Previous novels by Sam Llewellyn have been translated into twelve languages. He regularly contributes to the Daily Telegraph, Country Living, yachting and horticultural magazines. He lives in a crumbling medieval house in the Welsh Marches with a huge garden of his own.
Revelation
Pbk published December 2000 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747259941
When British scientist, Dr Fred Findhorn, is offered a king's ransom by a Japanese
corporation to retrieve a briefcase from a Russian military aircraft that crashed fifty
years ago, he's naturally intrigued. Especially when the wreckage turns out to be in
a disintegrating iceberg off the coast of Greenland. But finding the briefcase is the
start of a deadly race against time as rival groups all stake their claim to its content
- the diary of Lev Petrosian, an East European wartime refugee who worked on the
development of the hydrogen bomb.
But Petrosian discovered something else - something that could change the course of
human history, or put a very sudden end to it...
Dr Bill Napier, born in Scotland, now lives in Northern Ireland and is an astronomer
at Armagh Observatory. He is an internationally recognized authority on the celestial
hazard issue and was one of the first modern astronomers to recognize that the Earth
is at risk from its interplanetary and Galactic environments, and that celestial
bombardment may even have precipitated the collapse of early civilisations. He has
co-authored three scientific books and about eighty research papers.
Roses are Red
Published October 2000 by Headline Feature at £16.99
ISBN: 0747263469
Artwork by: Jacket image: David Grogan
James Patterson makes his money from fear, murder and, sometimes, insanity. He's not a gangster, but gambled his hard-earned wealth and career when he gave up his prestigious position as chairman and creative director in New York of the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, to write. He joined one of the most hotly contested brands on the market - the thriller - and is now one of its top-selling authors. Only John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell outsell him in the paperback market, according to the Guardian's top 100. His most recent paperback, Pop Goes the Weasel, went into The Sunday Times bestseller list at number 2. Last summer When the Wind Blows was number 1 on The Sunday Times for four weeks, and in the top ten for 16 weeks.
'Pop Goes the Weasel is probably the finest outing yet for Alex Cross.'
The Times
'...a novel which makes for sleepless nights.'
The Express
His hero is Alex Cross, played by Morgan Freeman in the film of Kiss the Girls. Morgan Freeman is playing the same role in Along Came A Spider, now being shot by Paramount in the States. He's a black, single dad, whose life at home and romantic involvements are as much a part of the plot as the criminals he's hunting down. The five Alex Cross thrillers so far
Roses are Red is James Patterson's new Alex Cross thriller. It's another gripping read, psychology as much a part of the criminal hunt as the blackmail and death left in its trail, and the home life of Cross, beset with worry, involving the reader even more with his character. With James Pafterson's track record so far, it's set to be another instant bestseller.
Married recently, James Patterson became a father for the first time in his mid
50s and revels in parenthood. It's now one of his most valued recreations. That, and
playing golf three or four times a week at the Country Club near his home where he
and Sue also held their wedding reception. 'He lives in a big stone house in an idyllic
setting in Westchester County - 'the burbs'- 50 miles from Manhattan. With fabulous
river views of the Hudson and a pool, the Pattersons are regular hosts to friends from
New York City, Connecticut and Westchester. As far as daily routine goes, James is
up early, writing, and aims to go into the city just once a week for various meetings.
He still holds an executive role at J. Walter Thompson. The Pattersons also have a
home in Florida where they tend to live from October.
The Runner
Pbk published October 2000 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747266247
July 1945. For Germany the war is over. But in POW Camp B on the outskirts of
Garmisch, one man refuses to believe that his duty to the Fatherland is finished.
Erich Seyss, former sporting hero, the White Lion of the 1936 Olympics, now awaits
trial for a series of war crimes committed as an officer in the SS. But he has no
intention of answering these accusations. Instead, he is determined to do his duty as
he sees it and run one last race for Germany.
Devlin Judge, a lawyer sent to Europe to try Nazi war criminals, takes Seyss's escape
personally. It means the man who shot his brother in the back in a muddy field will
now avoid the hangman's noose. Unless he can find him...
Given seven days to track the Nazi down, Judge faces an impossible task. Not only
must he outwit an inhumanly disciplined and fanatical killer, but he must also fathom
the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key.
A conspiracy that could change the face Europe forever.
Acclaim for Christopher Reich's previous novel, Numbered Account:
'Astonishingly powerful' Daily Telegraph
'Wonderful' New York Times
'Compelling... will keep you flipping pages into the night' Maxim
'Excellent stuff' Financial Times
'.... keeps things moving at breakneck speed' Wall Street Journal
'Compelling, suspenseful ... fast-paced' San Francisco Chronicle
Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo in 1961. He worked in banking in
Switzerland before returning to the United States to pursue a career as a novelist.
He lives in Texas with his wife and children, returning frequently to Switzerland.
He is the author of the bestselling thriller, Numbered Account, which spent eleven
weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Nine Mil
Pbk published October 2000 by Headline Feature at £5.99
ISBN: 0747261202
Artwork by: Cover photograph: © Photonica
Praise for Underdogs:
'a hardboiled tour-de-force, I doubt whether there's going to be a better first crime novel this year' Independent on Sunday
'a wonderfully exhilarating novel, combining a cinematic narrative drive with winning characters particularly Alice, as pert as her 19th century namesake - and a brilliantly imagined dreamlike subterranean landscape' Sunday Times
'a dazzling first novel set in the underground tunnels that lie beneath Seattle...[an] always unpredictable tale that combines the sheer giddy pace of a road movie with a touch of Lewis Carroll' Time Out
Ed Behr is a man trapped in a nightmare. As a kid running wild on the streets of New Jersey, he and his crew used to play some rough games. But one game involving concrete blocks and a bridge over the freeway resulted in tragedy - and an early introduction to the living hell known as the Penal Correction System. Ten years later, Ed scrapes a living as a taxi driver, his youthful dreams gone, his one lonesome obsession to find the girlfriend he lost all those years ago - a girl called Honey. Then one day Ed gets a fare with a familiar face, a tanned and healthy and wealthy face he remembers from long ago. Billy, the one who got away, while the rest of them all paid the price. Suddenly Ed can see a way of redeeming his life, of getting revenge. It's time to play the game one more time...
Rob Ryan was born in Liverpool in 1951, although his inability to master either the tricky accent or the legendary scouse wit eventually say him exiled to the south, specifically London. He lectured until the mid-1980's, when he stumbled into a bar in Soho and decided that he, too, would join the media. His first articles were published in The Face, Arena, American GQ and The Sunday Times. He joined the staff of the latter· in 1990 as Deputy Travel Editor. In 1997 he left to help launch Conde Nast Traveller. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London with his wife and three children, one of whom has the uncanny ability to speak in a scouse accent.
High Water
Published October 2000 by Headline Feature at £17.99
ISBN: 0747274800
The Colorado River, artificially tamed in the 1930s, has been resurrected in the early 2000s. The Colorado, a battered WWII destroyer, serving her last days as a coastguard vessel, waits with her crew for the final farewell but the millennium's weather systems bring the full power of the river to life. As Richard Mariner, stuck in storm-shaken Las Vegas, battles to get free, Robin Mariner waits, already aboard the ship and all too aware that the new waterway was never designed to handle the floods coming southward - increasingly certain that only Colorado can make the vital difference when the power of the river finally, fatally, hits high water. .