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When Micky DeWitt sails into Sydney, Australia, his only assets are a run down yacht, his wits, and the skills he’s picked up as a dedicated career criminal. Shiftless, cynical and dishonest, even with himself, Micky takes a job as a barman in Sydney's seedy red light district of Kings Cross. He’s...

The new Joe Hunter thriller from the best-selling author of DEAD MEN’S DUST. Who does Andrew Clayton turn to for help when his wife has been murdered, his child is in danger, and the police think he is responsible? Despite his mistrust of Clayton, Joe Hunter accepts the job of protecting...

Rafferty’s Rule 19: When you can’t tell the bad guys from the good guys, it’s time to get the hell out. It hurts to admit it, but Toby Wells played Rafferty like a bar-room fiddle, and Luis Ortega is dead. And while the cops know Rafferty didn’t pull the trigger, that cold comfort won’t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the...

Rafferty’s Rule 46: When in trouble, lie like a son of a bitch. Patty Akister wants Rafferty to find her husband, Sherm. He’s a secret agent. Sure he is. Rafferty soon discovers Sherm’s just a schmuck earning some extra cash as Manny Hinkston’s bagman, and lying to his...

Rafferty’s Rule 20: Any hunch so strong that it hurts just has to be right. It’s not a typical day when Rafferty gets mistaken for a hitman. Always the altruist, Rafferty tries to warn the intended victim, only to find someone has beaten him to it. Max Krandorff is dead and mutilated...

**Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page-turning murder mystery set on the sixteenth-century Oxford University campus.**Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for...

[Previously published as: I AM COWBOY]   Milos Vesely, aka Cowboy, kills Nazis. After the events of SecondWorld—a failed attempt by modern Nazi forces to carry out a worldwide genocide and claim the planet for the Aryan nation—he now hunts down the enemy, most of whom are running...

Receiving ten grand as down payment on a hit isn't that much of a surprise to Carlos Morales. After all, arranging contract killings is his business. But he never expected that someone might want his mother dead! What's equally troubling is the fact that the anonymous package arrived addressed to...

On a cross-country trip to California, two young women take an unscheduled detour into the Arizona badlands. Nothing has been heard from Jay and Nicole since. It's only been three days, and the cops aren't worried, but Jameson Walker is. He hires Joe Hunter to find his daughter, Jay, and bring...

“You will not sleep until you are finished with AGENT ZERO. A superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. The description of the action scenes transport us into a reality that is almost like sitting in a movie theater with surround sound and 3D (it would...

Who is more evil? The killer or his victims? A vengeful ex-CIA operative turned serial killer... A ruthless international VIP paedophile ring determined to keep their criminal activities secret... A British investigative journalist and her genius hacker teenage brother... A brilliant, incorruptible...

3 fast-paced thrillers packed with ancient artifacts, relics of power and adventure at the edge of the supernatural. ** From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author J.F.Penn ** MEET MORGAN SIERRA. Ex-Israeli military psychologist, specialist in religious cults at Oxford...

"Now Iceland has its own Mankell." ---Holger Kreitling, Die Welt (Germany) Last year Jar City introduced international crime-writing sensation Arnaldur Indridason to rave reviews and a rousing welcome from American thriller fans. And now, Silence of the Grave, the next in this stunning...