Prologue Books imprint: 453 books

Quinn thought he had all the angles figured. After all, taking over the Organization should be a piece of cake for such a smart guy. But what he didn’t figure was that boss Ryder would stuff him in a large crate with enough food and water to sustain him - and ship him around the world. When the...

A broken cable, a useless speaker, darkness. Five frightened people huddled in a crippled elevator about to take its final plunge. And the old games are played out. A novel of shattering human revelation. It hurls five strangers - an aggressive businessman, a neurotic housewife, a pro-football...

Cade Cain was back in town after two years in a Communist prison camp. His first night home he’d been beaten by a sadistic hoodlum and warned to get out of town fast. Now someone had planted a bullet-riddled corpse on his doorstep. Three people in town hated him - his greedy ex-wife, her...

The vision of Liza Flynn was burned into my mind. My heart pounded. Here it was. Just what I had always been seeking. The big thrill. I was going to find who killed her husband and the prize would be the loveliest woman I had ever seen. A woman who’d never been touched, really. I could look...

Lady on the Make: She was a gorgeous Greek with a classic chassis. When she smoldered her way into a hot tumble with Peter Chambers, the fast-living private eye didn’t know whether he was in heaven, or tangling with a torrid she-devil.

The Lesson - According to Kicks... Heine pointed the knife at her. "O.K., Lady Godiva, take off the blouse." She stood motionless, unable to answer or move. "Go ahead," Heine said. "Take that piece-of-nothing off." The boy’s shoulders slumped and he began to groan. "Brace,...

On their first night Carrie had been nervous, and Slater had tried to think of some way to make it easier for her, to show her how fine and free it could be. But the moment they’d stepped into the cabin, she had undressed, matter-of-factly, a cigarette dangling from her lips. Her body was white...

Detective Sammy Golden was surprised to find her there—in the gaudy apartment of a dangerous diamond smuggler—standing of his dead body with a fortune in diamonds in her bag … and a pistol in her hand. She looked too pretty, and too nice, for the role. Besides, she was a widow—the widow of a cop who had been murdered just 48 hours before.

Andy Blake’s idea of a pleasant evening was to stretch out in a deck chair, wriggle his feet into a pair of old slippers, and sip an old-fashioned. For this recipe he had, unfortunately, one too many ingredients: his wife, Arab. Arab’s idea of fun and games was to be shot out of cannons,...

She lived fast...and she loved fast. Everyone who knew Helene Camden had a good reason for wanting her dead: Hal Camden - her husband, who knew she was two-timing him all over Florida Tom Ferris - who knew all the angles...and the curves Charlie Ames - who woke up in the dead woman’s...

Andy Blake is no sooner married to Arab that he realizes his home is not a love nest but an arsenal. True, the fragile, blonde Arabella had won prizes only in shotgun contests, but she didn’t discriminate against rifles and pistols. As Andy wistfully says, ''The worst thing about Arab’s guns is...

After 4 years, 10 months, 11 days, Larry Camonille got outside and ran. He ran as far and as fast as he could on his one rotting lung—all that was left after the misery of dank prison walls. He ran, but he didn’t quite know why. Maybe he was trying to outrace the cops, get down to Mexico...

Savagery prowls the back alleys of New Orleans while a gunpunk tries to pull the deal of his life.

She was hurrying past the field on her way home when the man stepped out from behind a tree and stood spraddle-legged in her path. Ginny Lee was uncommonly pretty, a small girl with unusually long legs for someone her size, good legs with finely molded ankles; and her breasts above the rounded hips...