New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books 1999 Jan-March
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Pocket Books JAN-MARCH 1999

Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt Revealed Pbk published March 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671026224

A reference that brings together all the facts about Clive Cussler's fictional action hero, the debonair Dirk Pitt.

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Robert Ferrigno Dead Silent Pbk published January 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671005200

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.


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Linda Howard Kill and Tell Pbk published February 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671021885

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

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Eileen MacDonald The Infiltrator Pbk published March 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 067185268X

John Stockart has always been an ambitious man. He knows that when you are toying with people's lives, playing God with human genetics, potentially making a fortune from creating 'designer' babies, you keep it a secret. So when some critically sensitive information goes missing, he resolves to recover it at any cost.
Freelance journalist Sasha Downey has no idea where the initial leads will take her. But as she begins to pick up the threads of a devastating story - the clandestine experiments of a genetic scientist, the collusion of one of the country's most powerful government ministers, an undercover operation ready to silence all intruders - she knows she must expose the perpetrators.
But the killer's net is tightening around her. For a deadly race has already begun, as Stockart's agents close in on Sasha…
The resulting action is nail bitingly tense. Eileen MacDonald weaves together a devastatingly tense thriller, made all the more terrifying by the nagging thought at the back of one's mind that this might already be happening…
Acclaim for Eileen MacDonald
'An excellent read - I loved it' Martina Cole on The Sleeper
Elleen MacDonald, a freelance journalist and writer, has worked for a variety of national newspapers and magazines, including the Observer, Independent and GQ magazine. She is the Author of Shoot the Women First, a non-fiction work about female terrorists, and the novel The Sleeper. The Infiltrator is her second work of fiction.

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Ken McClure Donor Pbk published March 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671005286
Artwork by: Cover illustration: Fred Gambino/Sarah Brown Agency

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.

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John Templeton Smith White Lie Pbk published January 1999 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 06711016032
Artwork by: Cover design & illustration: Black Sheep

Ex-SAS operative John Winter has 'retired' to the more peaceful environment of academia as a lecturer in an American University. But when his wife is brutally murdered by drug runners, he knows his cover is blown. He is determined to take revenge and together with his previous partner-in-arms Charlie they hatch a seam so outrageous and daring that surely they will never return alive. Flying two stolen F4 Lightning jet fighters they plan to bomb the magnificently palatial home of Columbia's biggest and most powerful drug lord...
White Lie is essentially a portrait of the darker side of existence. While the rest of the world is content to experiment with drugs, complain about them soto voce, one man decides to do something about it.
John Winter is an Englishman. A mercenary. A man who kills for money, or in the instance of this story: revenge. It would seem he is no better than the brutal thugs of the Cali Cartel he has pitted himself against. Whereas the intervention of the world's only remaining superpower in the guise of the CIA (nobly assisted by a gentleman from the British SIS) appears highly credible.
Against a Columbian backdrop of enchanting tropical landscapes, political chicanery is very much alive and well. The Washington DC mandarins trade one evil for another in much the same way as the Columbian government conspires with the obscenely wealthy drug czars.

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.

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John Templeton Smith White Lie Pbk published January 1999 by Pocket Books at £6.99 ISBN: 0 6711 01603 2
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John Westermann Honor Farm Pbk published January 1999 by Pocket Books at £5.99 ISBN: 0671871234

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.

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John Westermann Ladies of the Night Published January 1999 by Pocket Books at £15.99 ISBN: 0671871242

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.

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