DescriptionJoe DeMarco is running out of time. Someone has made an attempt on the president's life, but the wrong man is dead. How could this happen when the president and those nearest to him are protected by a group of men known as the Inside Ring?
DescriptionFlorentyna Kane is the first woman president of the United States. At 7.30 one evening, the FBI learn of a plot to kill her - the 1, 572nd such threat of the year. At 8.30, five people know all the details. By 9.30, four of them are dead. FBI agent Mark Andrews alone knows the 'when'. He also knows that a senator is involved. He has six days to learn the 'where' and the 'how' - and six days to prevent the president's certain death.
DescriptionThe Studebaker household is in turmoil; the news that President McKinley has been assassinated is more than anyone can stand. South Bend, Indiana is not a hotbed of anarchist activity, but something is clearly going on. When McKinley's death is blamed on foreign-born anarchists, Hilda Johansson, a recent immigrant, is concerned that fellow immigrants might be swept up in a wave of xenophobia. Despite orders to mind her own business, she sets out to discover exactly what is happening, no matter what it might cost her.
DescriptionSweeping in scope and evocation of America at the turn of the 20th century, the time of Robber Barons, the World's Fair, immigration, yellow journalists, unions, and anarchists, The Temple of Music tells the story of real-life characters who embodied the Gilded Age. Among them are corrupt kingmaker "Dollar" Hana; candidate and media star William Jennings Bryan; sleazy, all-powerful newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst; morality czar Anthony Comstock, perpetually at war against pornography and contraceptives; William McKinley, who becomes the president and Leon Czolgosz, a Czech immigrant who assassinates him. As America becomes an empire and the industrial age booms and produces wealthy industry tycoons such as Carnegie, Gould, and Rockefeller, the workers, wretchedly poor and overworked, form labor unions, strikes, and the anarchist movement.
DescriptionA sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel, Masquerade, The Coil picks up several years later. Liz Sansborough, former CIA agent and now an academic, has managed to put the pieces of her life back together. But Sansborough has a dark…
DescriptionWhen the exuberant president of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old schoolmate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to persuade him otherwise. Consequently, on the night of the embassy's reception, the house and grounds are full of police. Nevertheless, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn finds he has no shortage of help, from Special Branch to a trial court, as well as a small black cat named Lucy Lockett who out-detects them all.
DescriptionThere is no such thing as a free lunch, but it takes Josh Redmont a while to figure that out. The first check arrived when Josh was 27, $1, 000, issued by "United States Agent" through an unnamed bank with an indeterminate address in Washington, D.C. The checks continued to arrive once a month, even when Josh changed addresses, with nary an explanation or a peep from the IRS. Seven years later, as he hastens to meet his family for a summer vacation, Josh is approached by a smiling stranger who greets him with, "I am from United States Agent." Dumbstruck, Josh feigns ignorance until he hears the words, "You are now active." Westlake fans will revel in his trademark swift pacing, meaty secondary characters, and tongue in cheek style.
DescriptionIn Blown, Caroline Carmichael returns in a white-hot tale of terror on the streets of Washington, where one woman must gamble her life to save her country. As thousands of runners line up for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., no one…
DescriptionOn July 22, 1992, Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous cease-fire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war with the Medellin drug cartel. Over the coming days and weeks, the United States launched a joint military and intelligence operation with the Colombian government, assembling a team of expert personnel and an arsenal of state-of-the-art weaponry and surveillance technology the likes of which the world had never seen. Their mission: to track down Pablo. But this time, they knew it would not be enough to just capture Escobar. This time, they would have to finish the job. This time, they were going to kill him.
