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Tom Bradby
Real Justice
Published May 1999 by Bantam at £15.99
ISBN: 0593042344
Tom Bradby has been a senior correspondent for ITN for more than a decade. As Ireland Correspondent, he covered the unfolding peace process before going on to become Political Correspondent. He then spent three years based in Hong Kong as Asia Correspondent, during which time he was shot and
seriously wounded whilst covering a riot in Jakarta. He is now the Royal Correspondent. He is the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer, The Sleep of the Dead and The Master of Rain.
Lee Child
Die Trying
Pbk published April 1999 by Bantam at £5.99
ISBN: 0553505416
Artwork by: Cover design & illustration: Blacksheep
Jack Reacher is back...
That redoubtable yet romantic hero, the 'wonderfully epic' Jack Reacher is back in Die
Trying, Lee Child's second thriller. With the same brutal page-turning non-stop action
and gritty suspense as the first book, Die Trying proves once again that Child is
that rare phenomenon: a new home-grown British author who can beat the very best of
today's American thriller writers.
A Chicago street in bright summer sunshine... Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere...an
attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches, alone Reacher stops to
help...he takes her arm, she gets steady on her feet, they turn together- into twin
handguns held level and motionless and aimed straight at their stomachs.
Chained to the woman, locked in a dark stifling van racing two thousand miles across
America, Reacher needs to know who he's dealing with...the kidnappers are saying nothing,
the woman's saying she's Holly Johnson, FBI agent. She's fierce enough and she's tough
enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote hostile
destination he knows they must team up and trust each other, one man and one woman alone
together well-matched and supremely resourceful, Fitting raw courage and cunning against
insane sinister violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds
more at stake.
Praise for Killing Floor:
'The best thriller I've read for years.' New Statesman
'An absolutely riveting thriller a remarkable debut, a book that you know simply has
to be made into a film, but definitely not for the squeamish - the body count is high '
Publishing News
'at least as good as any of Grisham ...with an ingenious plot, an extremely likeable
hero, a touch of romance...he's on to a winner ' Cork Examiner
'Page turner of the week: combines high suspense with nearly non-stop action... Jack
Reacher· is a wonderfully epic hero: tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable.., irresistible '
People
'a brilliantly-written first novel...' Playboy
'...great style and careful plotting...depicted with the kind of detail that builds
dread and suspense' New York Times
'a big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses
to make an undertaker grin ' Kirkus Reviews
... beautifully detailed action scenes... Child writes with a hand as strong and
steady as steel ' Publishers Weekly
Praise for Die Trying:
'Cunning and explosive...A thumping good read ' Time Out
'Tough, elegant and thoughtful' Robert B Parker
'It's unputdownable...a truly brilliant romp of a book with a real feel-good factor'
Ham and High
'Endlessly exciting and written with a fluent style and good rhythm ' Morning Star
Lee Child was born in the industrial Midlands of England. He studied law, married an American and worked for many years in commercial television. He has recently moved with his wife and daughter from Cumbria to New York State. His first two Reacher novels, Killing Floor and Die Trying, were both published by Bantam Press. Killing Floor has recently won the Anthony Award in USA for Best First Novel.
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Lee Child
Tripwire
Published April 1999 by Bantam at £9.99
ISBN: 0593043936
Artwork by: Jacket illustration: John Alexander
Lee Child burst on the scene with the Sunday Times bestseller Killing Floor which has so far been published in seventeen languages - including Braille - and in twenty-four countries including America, where it won two major debut-novel awards, including the Anthony Award and where a major Hollywood movie is currently being produced by Oscar-winner Mark Johnson, who made Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Since then Lee Child's 'wonderfully epic' hero Jack Reacher thrilled critics and fans alike a second time in Die Trying and now returns for his third action-packed adventure in Tripwire. Brilliantly conceived and tautly written, Tripwire is a powerful, nail-biting thriller which hooks the reader from the very first page, and which confirms Jack Reacher as a maverick hero of epic appeal.
Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, former military policeman Reacher is not
pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes asking questions about him. Determined
to keep out of trouble, Reacher hides who he is. But when he finds Costello dead with his
fingertips sliced off, he realizes it is time to move on - and move on fast. Yet two
questions worry him: who was Costello's client, the mysterious Mrs Jacob? And why is she
determined to find Reacher?
And, moreover, who is Hook Hobie, the vicious Wall Street manipulator who preys on other
people's assets? As Reacher follows the trail, it becomes clear that the stakes are high:
the livelihood of a whole community; the fate of the soldiers missing in action in
Vietnam; and, not least, the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past with
a key to his destiny.
Praise for Killing Floor:
'The best thriller I've read for years.' New Statesman
'An absolutely riveting thriller a remarkable debut, a book that you know simply has
to be made into a film, but definitely not for the squeamish - the body count is high ' Publishing
News
'at least as good as any of Grisham ...with an ingenious plot, an extremely likeable
hero, a touch of romance...he's on to a winner ' Cork Examiner
'Page turner of the week: combines high suspense with nearly non-stop action... Jack
Reacher· is a wonderfully epic hero: tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable.., irresistible ' People
'a brilliantly-written first novel...' Playboy
'...great style and careful plotting...depicted with the kind of detail that builds
dread and suspense' New York Times
'a big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses
to make an undertaker grin ' Kirkus Reviews
... beautifully detailed action scenes... Child writes with a hand as strong and
steady as steel ' Publishers Weekly
Praise for Die Trying:
'Cunning and explosive...A thumping good read ' Time Out
'Tough, elegant and thoughtful' Robert B Parker
'It's unputdownable...a truly brilliant romp of a book with a real feel-good factor' Ham
and High
'Endlessly exciting and written with a fluent style and good rhythm ' Morning Star
Lee Child was born in the industrial Midlands of England. He studied law, married an American and worked for many years in commercial television. He has recently moved with his wife and daughter from Cumbria to New York State. His first two Reacher novels, Killing Floor and Die Trying, were both published by Bantam Press. Killing Floor has recently won the Anthony Award in USA for Best First Novel.
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Michael Cordy
Crime Zone
Published June 1999 by Bantam at £9.99
ISBN: 0593042794
See Review by
Michael Jecks
- author of the highly acclaimed Furnshill & Puttock series
The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death -penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effective ... Until now.
Project Conscience promises to be the solution. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, politicians and senior law-enforcement personnel to use gene therapy to treat criminals and cure violent crime. But among their number are those with a more sinister agenda, who would go further and turn the dream of Project Conscience into the nightmare of Crime Zero.
Luke Decker, an FBI criminal psychologist, and Dr Kathy Kerr, the geneticist behind the original Project Conscience, must put aside their ideological differences to fight a scheme so ruthless in intent and so vast in scope that it will irrevocably change the evolution of mankind itself.
The Miracle Strain:
'Jurassic Park meets the quest for the Holy Grail meets Raiders of the Lost Ark.' Mail on Sunday
'A taut, gripping thriller.' The Times
Michael Cordy worked for ten years in marketing before giving it all up to write The Miracle Strain, which has since sold in over twenty-five countries; the film rights have been bought by Disney. He lives in London with his wife Jenny.
Denise Mina
Garnethill
Pbk published May 1999 by Bantam at £5.99
ISBN: 0553506943
See Review by
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
See Review by
Andrew Taylor
- author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
Denise Mina was born in 1966 in Glasgow. She worked as an auxiliary nurse in geriatric and terminal care nursing homes before studying law at Glasgow University. As an academic researcher she has written extensively on the medicalization of deviant women, and until recently she taught Criminology and Criminal Law. She lives in Glasgow, where she now writes full time. She is the author of four novels, Garnethill, which won the John Creasey Award for Best First Crime Novel, EXile, Resolution and Sanctum.
Lincoln Preston
Riptide
Pbk published May 1999 by Bantam at £5.99
ISBN: 0553811894
Artwork by: Water photograph: Photonica/Deborah Davis
'A saga that sweeps the reader over the falls and makes him wish he was truly along for the ride. A great read. Clive Cussler
More than 200 years ago, a teenage boy exploring a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia discovered a mysterious, back-filled pit. But when diggers tried to excavate it, they discovered a booby trap which flooded the pit with sea-water. Over the subsequent two centuries, explorers and investors, believing that the pit contained treasure, have tried to plumb its depths. But thanks to an ingenious system of secret traps and tunnels that have kept the pit flooded, all attempts have failed. To date the search has cost millions of dollars and claimed at least six lives.
In his new novel, Riptide, Lincoln Preston, inspired by this and other accounts
of hidden treasure, brilliantly fashions a story of the attempt to reclaim a vast pirate
horde from beneath a Maine island. The story is infused with fascinating details of
high-seas piracy, Renaissance spies, codebreaking - along with an amazing look at the high
technology equipment used by treasure hunters today.
The Relic has sold over 1.5 million copies and was the basis for the Paramount
movie of the same name.
Film rights to Riptide have been optioned by Arnold Kopelson (The Fugitive,
Outbreak) and Twentieth Century Fox.
Lincoln Preston is in fact two authors, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
In addition to co-writing The Relic and Reliquary with Lincoln Child,
Douglas Preston is a former editor at the American Museum of Natural History and the
author of several other fiction and non-fiction books. Cities of Gold was based on
his 1,000 mile horseback journey retracing the Spanish explorer Coronado's search for the
Seven Cities-of Gold, while Jennie was a bestselling novel about an anthropologist
who raises a chimpanzee as a scientific experiment. In 1988 he wrote an article for the
Smithsonian magazine about 'the Money Pit', in Nova Scotia which was to be the inspiration
for Riptide.
He now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and pursues a full-time writing career.
Lincoln Child's early career was as an editor for a New York publishing company, St.
Martin's Press, where he worked on a wide range of books, both fiction and non-fiction. He
became an expert in horror fiction, creating his own division within the firm. He met
Douglas Preston when he commissioned him to write a history and behind-the-scenes tour of
the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
The two subsequently worked together as authors and their first book was the best-selling
techno-thriller, Relic, which has been published in a dozen countries worldwide.
