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Nick Carter

Hood of Death

Killmaster

<p>DEATH TRAP FOR KILLMASTER</p><p>It was just another expensive call girl operation, catering to Washington's elite. Until AXE realized that too many of the high-ranking customers were beginning to die. A senator. A cabinet officer. A congressman. Suddenly dead — and all of natural causes.</p><p>It was one of Killmaster's hottest assignments. It called for a false identity, and lots of field work with the willing women in the dead men's lives.</p><p>But each encounter ended with an attempt on Nick's life. The "accident" on the deserted highway… the bullet whistling past his head…the sharp-honed knife in the hands of a butchering assailant. The assignment was heating up!</p><p>Nick knew what he had to find. The Chicom agent behind the whole terrifying set-up. The man who trained beautiful women into exquisite sex machines; the man who blackmailed top American officials into treason after his girls finished with them; the man who killed those who refused to co-operate — like Nick Carter.</p><

Nick Carter

Temple of Fear

Killmaster

<p>America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment</p><p>America's top agent, on a bizarre assassination assignment</p><p>Fragments of an incredible espionage plot; targets — the U.S. and Red China</p><p>The world in flames, or peace — depending on who won</p><p>Somewhere in Tokyo's espionage jungle, a shocking double cross warned that the plot was under way. America's supersecret espionage network, AXE, moved frantically to assign its top operative — Nick Carter — to Japan.</p><p>But agent N3 had disappeared; drugged and kidnapped through the oldest ploy of all — a beautiful woman with a body built for betrayal. And for the first time in his life, Nick Carter found himself helpless, weaponless, alone — and trapped into helping the enemy!</p><

Nick Carter

The Defector

Killmaster

<p>The scene was Hong Kong. The mission was to find Professor Loo, whose scientific knowledge could give the Red Chinese protection against any nuclear attack.</p><

Nick Carter

Rhodesia

Killmaster

<p>It began with a black man, a white woman and enough gold to ransom the world.</p><p>The man was consumed with race hate, driven to senseless slaughter by a single-minded plan for retribution. The woman was possessed by the need for every variety of sensual delight. The gold was mined secretly in Rhodesia, owned by a die-hard Nazi who had long ago sacrifice a soul and sanity to insatiable dreams of glory.</p><p>This was the terrifying trio that awaited Nick Carter in Rhodesia — on a brutal seek-and-destroy mission against an organization of assassins that had infiltrated every country of Africa.</p><

Nick Carter

The Black Death

Killmaster

Nick Carter battles a maniacal dictator and a brutal voodoo cult.<

Nick Carter

The Omega Terror

Killmaster

<p>Dr Damon Zeno: microbiologist… American defector… a dedicated and dangerous enemy. That was about all Nick Carter knew about the man he was hunting — except that Zeno was set up in a secret lab, perfecting a chilling new weapon for the destruction of the United States.</p><p>The weapon was the 'Omega mutation' — a microscopic bug. It multiplied quickly and it could not be destroyed. It would kill a man in a matter of days. Zeno planned to turn it loose in the United States — and Nick Carter had no choice but to destroy Zeno before 'Omega Day'.</p><p>Soon Carter was in Tangier, hot on Zeno's trail — with his automatic snug in its holster… a beautiful girl named Gabrielle close at his side… and a death trap waiting for him at every turn.</p><

Nick Carter

Assassination Brigade

Killmaster

<p>Nick Carter must stop a reign of terror that has gripped most of the civilized world. Sane men are being turned into kamikaze killers who hit like lightning and tell no tales!</p><

Nick Carter

The Death’s Head Conspiracy

Killmaster

<p>The deathmaker was a small device, no larger than a heart patient's pacemaker. But it had the power to kill millions.</p><p>Knox Warnow, ex-U.S. atomic scientist, knew this. He had the device implanted in his chest. He also knew that if his heart stopped beating, the bombs that he'd planted across America would automatically explode. New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, and L.A. would be wiped off the face of this world.</p><p>Nick Carter didn't know, and his assignment was to assassinate Knox Warnow. By the time Nick discovered Warnow's deadly secret, it was going to be much too late.</p><

Nick Carter

Death of the Falcon

Killmaster

Seeking to completely undermine the American influence in the Middle East, a Moroccan arms dealer unleashes his band of cutthroats to attack U.S. Seeking to completely undermine the American influence in the Middle East, a Moroccan arms dealer unleashes his band of cutthroats to attack U.S. allies.<

Nick Carter

The Aztec Avenger

Killmaster

<p>One of them was running the biggest heroin operation the world has seen. It was Killmaster's job to find out which.</p><

Ethan Canin

A Doubter's Almanac

<p>In this mesmerizing novel, Ethan Canin, the New York Times bestselling author of America America and other acclaimed works of fiction, explores the nature of genius, jealousy, ambition, and love in several generations of a gifted family.</p><p>Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, Milo gives little thought to his talent, and not until his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley does he realize the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is an initiation and a seduction, opening Milo’s eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman, and the rival, he meets there will haunt him always. For Milo’s brilliance is inextricably linked to a dark side that ultimately threatens to unravel his work, his son and daughter, and his life.</p><p>Moving from California to Princeton to the Midwest and to New York, A Doubter’s Almanac explores Milo’s complex legacy for the next generations in his family. Spanning several decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, A Doubter’s Almanac is a suspenseful, surprising, and deeply moving novel, written in stunning prose and with superb storytelling magic.</p><p>Advance praise for The Doubter’s Almanac</p><p>“I’ve been reading Ethan Canin’s books since he first burst on the literary scene with the remarkable Emperor of the Air. I thought he could never equal the power of his last work, America America, but his latest novel is, I believe, his best by far. With A Doubter’s Almanac, Canin has soared to a new standard of achievement. What a story, and what a cast of characters. The protagonist, Milo Andret, is a mathematical genius and one of the most maddening, compelling, appalling, and unforgettable characters I’ve encountered in American fiction. This is the story of a family that falls to pieces under the pressure of living with an abundantly gifted tyrant. Ethan Canin writes about mathematics as brilliantly as T. S. Eliot writes about poetry. With this extraordinary novel, Ethan Canin now takes his place on the high wire with the best writers of his time.”—Pat Conroy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini.</p><

Harry Crews

A Feast of Snakes

A small Georgia town, filled with a curious assortment of losers, anticipates the promise of bizarre new possibilities with the upcoming rattlesnake hunt.<

Tracy Canfield

Heist

<p>How far can internet scams go?</p><

Scott William Carter

The Android Who Became a Human Who Became an Android

People like having more options, but they do make things more complicated!<

Brenda Cooper

The Single Larry Ti, or Fear of Black Holes and Ken

Facts are not determined by consensus, but science interacts with people in a complex array of ways.<

Jack Campbell

The Hidden Masters of Marandur

Pillars of Reality

Evan C Currie

Heirs of Empire

<p>The Scourwind family legacy brought the empire to the height of its power and prosperity and defended it against all enemies. Now one man’s machinations aim to shift the balance of power—with violent and devastating consequences.</p><p>When the trusted General Corian launches a coup against Emperor Scourwind, he hurls the planetary kingdom into chaos. To secure his claim as ruler, Corian will need the strength of the Scourwind name behind him, and he will stop at nothing to bring under his grasp the young Scourwind heirs, twins Lydia and Brennan. Barely into adulthood, the two are thrust into the crossfire. Battling new obstacles at every turn, they eventually find refuge with Mira Delsol, pirate and former member of the elite empire forces.</p><p>As the stakes rise, loyalists, mercenaries, and political opportunists rally around the heirs in a desperate bid to unseat the usurper. But if their risky gambit fails, will the empire crumble into oblivion?</p><

Dave Creek

Midwife Crisis

Old job descriptions can change drastically under new circumstances…<

Hal Clement

Critical Factor

James Craig

Man of Sorrows

Inspector Carlyle

Gary Corby

Death Ex Machina

Athenian mystery

James Craig

Nobody's Hero

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

Time of Death

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

Shoot to Kill

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

Acts of Violence

Inspector Carlyle

Philippa Carr

The Miracle at St. Bruno's

Christian Cameron

Salamis

Long War

Stephan Eirik Clark

Sweetness #9

<p>Fast Food Nation meets The Corrections in the brilliant literary debut T.C. Boyle calls "funny and moving."</p><p>David Leveraux is an Apprentice Flavor Chemist at one of the world's leading flavor production houses. While testing Sweetness #9, he notices that the artificial sweetener causes unsettling side-effects in laboratory rats and monkeys. But with his career and family at risk, David keeps his suspicions to himself.</p><p>Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener-and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his daughter is depressed, and his son has stopped using verbs. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition?</p><p>An exciting literary debut, SWEETNESS #9 is a darkly comic, wildly imaginative investigation of whether what we eat makes us who we are.</p><

Ion Creangă

Amintiri din copilărie

Peter Carey

Collected Stories

A volume containing the stories in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda.<

Kim Church

Byrd

<p>"Brilliant writing — lively and heartbreaking at every turn.”—Jill McCorkle, author of </p><p>In this debut novel, 33-year-old Addie Lockwood bears and surrenders for adoption a son, her only child, without telling his father, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives. Told through letters and spare, precisely observed vignettes, is an unforgettable story about making and living with the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices.</p><

Javier Cercas

The Anatomy of a Moment

<p>In February 1981, Spain was still emerging from Franco's shadow, holding a democratic vote for the new prime minister. On the day of the vote in Parliament, while the session was being filmed by TV cameras, a band of right-wing soldiers burst in with automatic weapons, ordering everyone to get down. Only three men defied the order. For thirty-five minutes, as the cameras rolled, they stayed in their seats.</p><p>Critically adored novelist Javier Cercas originally set out to write a novel about this pivotal moment, but determined it had already gained an air of myth, or, through the annual broadcast of video clips, had at least acquired the fictional taint of reality television. Cercas turned to nonfiction, and his vivid descriptions of the archival footage frame a narrative that traverses the line between history and art, creating a daring new account of this watershed moment in modern Spanish history.</p><p>The Anatomy of a Moment caused a sensation upon its publication in Spain, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. The story will be new to many American readers, but the book stands resolutely on its own as a compelling literary inquest of national myth, personal memory, political spectacle, and reality itself.</p><

Max Allan Collins

Mourn The Living

Nolan

Collins provides a vivid portrait of college-town life in the Vietnam years as Nolan does a favor for an old-time Mafia friend and tries to find out how his daughter was killed. Was it really a suicide like the police say? Or was she involved somehow in the circle of drugs that was so pervasive in the college scene? Nolan risks his life investigating a Mafia family's involvement in the girl's death to help out his old pal.<

Leslie Charteris

The Saint And The Fiction Makers

Saint

Amos Klein was the name of the ingenious thriller-writer and S.W.O.R.D. (Secret World Organization for Retribution and Destruction) was the ruthless institution Amos Klein had created in fiction. Who was this brilliantly imaginative writer? One man was determind to find out, and when he did, a simple kidnapping would set his destructive plan in motion. His gang had already created a real-life S.W.O.R.D. — all they needed now was its creator. Neat? Very. Successful? Almost. Because they made two small but fatal mistakes. The beautiful, brainy Amity Little wasn’t Amos Klein’s secretary, and the man who accompanied her wasn’t Amos Klein — it was Simon Templar.<

Agatha Christie

4.50 från Paddington

När mrs McGillicuddy tar 4.50-tåget från Paddington för att hälsa på sin väninna Jane Marple inträffar något hemskt! Hon blir vittne till hur en man stryper ihjäl en kvinna i ett förbipasserande tåg. Men det finns varken ett lik, andra vittnen eller misstänka gärningsmän. Och ingen tar mrs McGillicuddy på allvar ingen förutom miss Marple.<

Agatha Christie

16.50 Treni

Miss Marple (tr)

<p>Sıradan bir günde, her şeyin olması gerektiği gibi olduğu bir anda inanılmaz bir olay yaşanır.</p><p>Yan yana gelen iki trende ancak korku filmlerinde rastlanacak türden bir cinayet vakası yaşanmaktadır. Ve tüm bunların tek tanığı bir kadındır.</p><p>Elspeth çaresizlik içinde baktığı vagonun penceresinden bir adamın bir kadının boğazını hunharca sıktığını görür. Zavallı kadının bir süre sonra cansız bedeni yere yığılır ve o anda tren hareket eder.</p><p>Bu düğümü çözebilecek tek kişi Jane Marple’dan başkası değildir. Ve belki de Elspeth’e inanacak tek kişi… Çünkü ortada ne şüpheli, ne başka tanık, ne de ceset vardır.</p><

Agatha Christie

Le train de 16 h 50

Miss Marple (fr)

Allant dans la même direction et presque à vitesse égale, les deux trains semblaient disputer un match. Mrs McGillicuddy, pour se distraire, regardait les occupants qui s'offraient à sa vue, mais ce qu'elle vit lui arracha un petit cri. Debout, le dos tourné, un homme serrait la gorge d'une femme ; il l'étranglait. Le hasard voulu que le « 16 h 50 » ralentît et que le train « parallèle » le dépasse, disparaissant dans la nuit.<

Agatha Christie

Le Noël d'Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot (fr)

<p>Est-ce une très bonne idée de réunir, à l’occasion des fêtes de fin d’année, des enfants qui ont tous de bonnes raisons de vous haïr ? Surtout quand il s’agit de leur annoncer que vous modifiez votre testament ?</p><p>Toujours est-il que, le 24 décembre, Simeon Lee, vieillard aussi riche que cynique, est sauvagement assassiné dans sa chambre. Et voici Hercule Poirot s’interrogeant sur Alfred et sa femme, tyrannisés depuis longtemps par leur père et beau-père ; sur Harry, qui ne lui pardonne pas les humiliations que sa mère a subies ; sur Pilar, la petite-fille espagnole, devant qui le vieil homme a peut-être imprudemment étalé ses diamants…</p><p>Beaucoup de monde. Et pour finir, un coupable présent dès le début, mais bien difficile à soupçonner…</p><

Philippa Carr

The Drop of the Dice

<p>Clarissa Field</p><p>Beautiful, spirited love child of a nobleman's dalliance with a tempestuous lady, Clarissa is only twelve when she first encounters the dashing officer, Lance Clavering. But she is not too young to fall in love, nor to become the pawn in a deadly game of power and passion which are both her heritage and her destiny. The time is 1715, the place an England rife with civil discontent threatening to explode into revolution. Clarissa is caught up in events which will alter England's history - and lure her into a strange, shadow box future.</p><p>Is the dashing Lance what he pretends - a heroic, charming lover - or is he the agent of an evil cabal sworn to strip Clarissa of her fortune, her dignity ... perhaps even her life?</p><p>Is the mysterious young rebel, Dickon Frenshaw - first her jailer, then her salvation - watching over her out of devotion ... or spying on her for those who would see her destroyed?</p><p>As her dreams of romance and peace first seem to be realized in marriage, then ever more gravely thratened by that same marriage, with only herself to trust, Clarissa must penetrate the long-buried mysteries of her own legacy - and risk a heartbreak more painful than betrayal.</p><

Bill Crider

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Vol. 131, No. 1. Whole No. 797, January 2008

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