A reference that brings together all the facts about Clive Cussler's fictional action hero, the debonair Dirk Pitt.
.
The new compelling noir novel from the author of the bestselling The Horse Latitudes - his most suspenseful novel yet
A single-hit ex-rock star, Nick Carbonne has settled into a comfortable married life in a scruffy-but-chic section of southern California. When a former friend and fellow band member shows up unannounced with his hot girlfriend, Alison, old memories and older jealousies are stirred. But Nick in no way anticipates how his life will be shaken when he returns home with Alison to find his wife and friend naked in his hot tub and oh-so-dead. With an unerring sense for character and for haunting dark secrets, Robert Ferrigno creates a living hell in which Nick and Alison take turns as both suspects and targets.
Born to Italian-American parents, Robert Ferrigno spent his twenties playing poker for a living in Seattle, before moving to California to become a journalist. He is the author of three other novels - The horse Latitudes, The Cheshire Moon and Dead Man's Dance.
A blistering novel of suspense and sensuality
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she
receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen
since his return from Vietnam over twenty years ago. Karen packs the notebook away,
putting it out of her mind, until she receives a shocking phone call. Her father has been
murdered.
Homicide detective Marc Chastain considers the murder nothing more than street violence,
and Karen accepts his judgement. But when Karen becomes the victim of some strange
'accidents', both Marc and Karen realise that whoever killed her father is now after her.
Winner of many awards, Linda Howard has captivated her vast audience with bestselling romances such as Shades of Twilight, Dream Man, After the Night and Now You See Her
Set in the world of a pioneering transplant hospital, Ken McClure's ninth medical thriller brings to our attention a fictional scenario that accurately reflects the dangers of transplant surgery.
When seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is admitted to hospital with acute renal failure
there is little hope she will survive unless a donor can be found and quickly. But when
Amanda is accepted as an NHS patient at Glasgow's state- of-the-art new hospital, Medic
Ecosse, things begin to look up. They have the best dialysis machines, and will be able to
keep her alive until a suitable donor is found. But the lavish hospital corridors, private
rooms and friendly staff hide something much more sinister.
Dr Stephen Dunbar, sent to Medic Ecosse undercover to look into seemingly inexplicable
complaints by two ex-members of staff, begins to lift the lid on a horrifying conspiracy -
one that might put Amanda's life in terrible danger.
But will he get to the truth in time? Before the supposedly life-saving operation takes
place?
Ken McClure was born and brought up in Edinburgh. He studied medical sciences and
worked in several hospitals before joining the Medical Research Council at Edinburgh
University to study molecular genetics.
In 1980 he won the DIFCO triennial prize for research in medical microbiology and has been
a visiting researcher at universities in France, Spain, Israel, India, Japan and the
USA.
In 1983, after a particularly adventure strewn trip to Israel, Ken McClure starting
writing and hasn't stopped since. His first thriller Pestilence reached over a
million readers and his subsequent books have been translated into over eighteen different
languages establishing him as one of Europe's leading thriller writers.
He lives and works in Edinburgh, a city he loves with weather he hates.
John Templeton Smith started his career in the RAF, and then had a brief stint as
an airline pilot. His main area of flying experience was many years as a ferry pilot,
delivering scores of different types of aircraft worldwide.
He began writing seriously twenty years ago when he wrote his first article for PILOT
magazine. He has been an occasional contributor to that magazine ever since.
The (late) author Desmond Bagley was very much instrumental in guiding John through the
pitfalls of his first novel in the early 1980s. The book Skytrap - was published in
1983 followed by Patterson's Volunteers, Rolling Thunderand and The Fifth
Freedom.
In the late 1980s John began lecturing on Creative Wring at Oklahoma City University.
After five years of this he returned to writing with a fresh voice and a more critical
eye. His fifth book White Lie is the first in the John Winter Trilogy. It will be
followed by Saigon Express and Sibelius One.
John Templeton Smith is the holder of the World Airspeed Record for the fastest solo
transatlantic crossing (Guinness Book of Records, April 1978). He leads a nomadic life
following the settings of his stories. He occasionally returns to his home in Guernsey.
When officer Orin Boyd unknowingly targets a top senator and his aide, it's not the first wrong move he has made. This time Police Commissioner David Trimble sentences Boyd to the Honor Farm, a mansion turned-prison for dirty cops. Only Boyd is undercover to investigate an alleged suicide.
.
A top aide in Nassau County's government office goes missing during a cut-throat campaign, it comes out that she was having an affair with the Democratic candidate. The Police Commissioner calls in his toughest detectives and they descend into a sinister world of political ambition and violence.
.