April 198& American F-111 warplanes bomb the AI Azziyah compound where President
Gadhafi is residing. A 16-yea-old youth, Asad - Arabic for `lion' -loses his mother, two
brothers and two sisters in the raid. Asad sees himself as chosen to avenge not only his
family but his nation, his religion and the Great Leader - Gadhafi. An eye for an eye, a
tooth for a tooth.
Twelve years later. Asad arrives in New York, intent on killing all five surviving pilots
who participated in the bombing, one by one. Asad claims he wants to defect and John
Corey, NYPD homicide detective turned Special Contract Agent for the ATTF
(Anti-Terrorist Task Force) is waiting at Kennedy Airport to meet him. As he escapes
Corey and the ATTF at the airport, Asad knows that he must act quickly and decisively.
Like his namesake the lion, he must hunt and kill, before someone works out who his
prey is...
The Lion's Game is a thrillingly entertaining read from
a master storyteller.
`A compulsively readable thriller'- Publisher's Weekly
Nelson DeMille is one of America's most popular and bestselling authors, and a new book
from him is a keenly awaited event. A former US Army lieutenant who served in Vietnam,
he is the author of nine acclaimed novels, including the international bestseller Plum
Island and The General's Daughter, recently made into a film starring John Travolta.
He lives in Long Island, New York.
It's election time in Blackwater Bay.
But there's a dead man in Cotter's Cut who won't be casting his vote this year. Sheriff Matt Gabriel, reluctant to blow his own horn on the hustings, is faced with a murder without apparent motive. Circumstantial evidence leads him to arrest Frog Bartlett, but he's not happy about it. Frog Bartlett is the ugliest man in Blackwater County, and he has a nasty temper, it's true. But at least one person believes he is innocent - and has enough money to anonymously finance a strong defence.
The election hots up, tempers become frayed, a small riot occurs - and then somebody else is killed and Matt Gabriel himself is a suspect.
'Gosling plots fiendishly and writes angelically' Sunday Times
Once again, Paula Gosling brings her talent for zany characters and complex, suspenseful plots to the world of Blackwater Bay. The result is a delightful story of thrills, spills, and assorted cookies.
Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Mile Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of her patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Mile needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be.
As they slowly unravel the strands of their lives another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilation and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of Claire Argent's patients, apparently securely behind bars.
In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.
'Kellerman writes thrillers which nag the nerve ends' Literary Review
Mike Cullen has created the most effective PR agency in London. His client list comprises a veritable who's who from the FTSE 100, and the cream of the crop is Starwear, the world's leading sportswear manufacturer. Nathan Strauss, Chairman of Starwear, is respected throughout the business world for his straightforward ethics, and the business community is rocked when he commits suicide. So too is Chris Treiger, an analyst who has just been head-hunted by Cullen to head up a major piece of research for Starwear. Nathan's brother Jacob immediately steps in to Nathan's shoes, and it seems that the company will continue as before. However Chris realises that all is not right with either the company or the agency and his unease rapidly turns to fear when his erstwhile lover, an investigative journalist, turns up some highly damaging facts. But can he trust her? Or has the world of PR hype and its trick mirrors affected his judgement, perhaps his sanity?
A remarkable debut thriller of chilling authenticity.