The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

The Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

Jeffery Deaver

Mystery / Fiction / Thriller

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. **The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers . . . ? Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme’s net. Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme’s health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front—and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most . . .
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Lucky Bastard

Lucky Bastard

Charles McCarry

Literature & Fiction / Espionage / Thriller

The KGB grooms a charming young American to run for president Although in the mid-1940s no one had ever heard of JFK, Jack Adams's mother insisted her new son be christened John Fitzgerald. Years after his parents' death, Jack learns the reason for his name: a packet of photos showing his mother in bed with young John Kennedy. As a student at Columbia University, Jack demonstrates that he inherited more than JFK's good looks. His irresistible charisma and political instinct make him a natural campus leader, but he has his sights set on something bigger than the student council. Young Jack Adams wants to be president of the United States, and the Soviet Union is prepared to help.   A KGB spy named Dmitri recruits Jack, promising him the presidency in exchange for treason. Dmitri guides Jack for decades, putting him in a position to become the largest intelligence coup in history—unless the candidate's libido derails him first.
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Children of the Earth

Children of the Earth

Anna Schumacher

Young Adult / Paranormal / Thriller

Seven signs warned them. Now it's time for Carbon County to fight back. In End Times, Daphne lost herself in love with Owen, only to discover the dark secret that puts Carbon County at ground zero for the end of days. . . . All thirteen of the Children of Earth have arrived and taken root in town. Together at last, they can perform the series of rituals necessary to awaken their father, a wrathful entity known as the God of the Earth. Daphne protects their identities from Pastor Ted and the God-fearing locals out of love and allegiance to Owen. But when people start disappearing from town and Daphne begins receiving visions from God, her allegiance—and even her love—is brought into question in this astonishing companion novel to End Times.
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Lightning Strike to the Heart

Lightning Strike to the Heart

M. L. Buchman

Thriller / Romance / Science Fiction

-a Delta Force romance story- Hal Waldman's next assignment: skydive through a storm into hostile territory. The mission's greatest risk? His own jump partner. Teresa Mann, on special assignment to assist Delta Force, must make a leap of faith. Nothing prepares them for when they both take a Lightning Strike to the Heart.
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Hollow

Hollow

Maggie Shayne

Thriller / Paranormal / Romance

She's empty inside...While celebrating her engagement with her fiancé in Africa, a bomb in a marketplace steals Kira's life away.Kira wakes from a coma with a steel plate in her head, and not a lot else. And it's too easy to let herself flow in the current of her mother's tender care. Her wedding plans go merrily on and she can't work up the least bit of entusiasm about it.In fact, she only starts to feel alive again in the presence of her gorgeous wedding planner.Eventually she goes in search of her old life and finds a wardrobe of denim and leather, and a small arsenal.Who was she, before the bombing? She asks it of her reflection. And suddenly there's a bad-ass version of herself looking back at her, and she wonders if she really wants to know."Maggie Shayne's books have a permanent spot on my keeper shelf. She writes wonderful stories with page-turning thrills, and I highly recommend her." —NY Times Bestselling Author, Karen Robards
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Something Deadly This Way Comes ma-3

Something Deadly This Way Comes ma-3

Kim Harrison

Urban Fantasy / Thriller / Young Adult

Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels — all itching to kill someone. Madison Avery's dreams of ever fitting in at her new school died when she did. Especially since she was able to maintain the illusion of a body, deal with a pesky guardian angel, and oh yeah, bring the reaper who killed her to his untimely end. Not exactly in-crowd material. It's amazing that her crush, Josh, doesn't think she's totally nuts. Now Madison has learned that she's the dark timekeeper, in charge of angels who follow the murky guidelines of fate. Never one to abide by the rules, she decides it's time for a major change to the system. With the help of some unlikely allies, Madison forms a rogue group of reapers who definitely don't adhere to the rules of the heavens. But as she grapples with the terrifying new skills that come with being a timekeeper, Madison realizes she may not be prepared for what lies ahead — unless she gets some seriously divine intervention.
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Right to Die

Right to Die

Jeff Mariotte

Thriller / Horror / Fantasy

A young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass?A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is th...
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Never Never: Part Three (Never Never #3)

Never Never: Part Three (Never Never #3)

Colleen Hoover

Fiction / Romance / Thriller

New York Times bestselling authors Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher are back with the much-anticipated final installment in the Never Never novella series. Together, Silas Nash and Charlize Wynwood must look deeper into the past to find out who they were and who they want to be. With time ticking down, the couple are in a race to find the answers they need before they lose everything. Can they regain what they once had? And will it restore who they once were? **
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Baptism of Rage

Baptism of Rage

James Axler

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics / Thriller

The end of the world arrived in a nuclear rush, forging the agonized remains of past and present into a new reality known as Deathlands. Now life is a simple series of rules of survival, where having is better than not having--and anything is worth killing for. But in a world that has seemingly turned against mankind, the possibility of miracles can exist....Of all the resources Ryan Cawdor and his group struggle to recoup, hope for escaping the grim daily life-and-death struggle has suffered most. But now reports of a ville holding the mythical waters of rejuvenation, a fountain of youth, appear to be true, luring Doc and the others on a journey inspired by promise, tainted by mistrust. Hiring on as sec men with a convoy headed to the healing waters of Babyville, the survivors discover the deadly price of immortality.In the Deathlands the future looks like hell--and delivers far worse...
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