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Dick Francis · 252 pages
Brett Checkov was a fleet street racing corresponsdent with an unnerving talent for tipping non-startersfor big races.But the advice he give James Tyrone ,a few minutes before he fell to his death was of a completly different nature..... Not one for the quiet life,Tyrone has a bloodhounds nose for trouble and pretty soon he'scaught up in an incresingly dangerous game. One that threatens him ,hi
The Firm (Penguin Readers, Level 5)
John Grisham · 76 pages
The Striker
Clive Cussler, Justin Scott · 397 pages
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible.
Crossfire
Dick Francis, Felix Francis · 354 pages
Tom Forsyth returns to his childhood home after being badly wounded in Afghanistan. Never having seen eye to eye with his racehorse trainer mother, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome, but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him.
The Shanghai Factor
Charles McCarry · 304 pages
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown. Status: Sleeper. Just when he thought life had settled into a pleasant routine, he is called back to Washington. His assignment: go undercover as the American ambassador for a massive Chinese multinational conglomerate, and learn the secrets of their powerful CEO Chen Qi, whom HQ believes to be a front man for the nearly uncrackable Chinese Intelligence, kn
Hunter's Moon
Karen Robards · 431 pages
While investigating racetrack fraud, FBI agentLyman leaves $5,000 as bait for a crooked trainer. Instead, the money is stolen by Molly Ballard, a stablegroom with four siblings to support. Lyman offers topardon her in return for helping him catch the crooks andso begins a steamy romance. By the author of WalkingAfter Midnight.
At Risk
Kit Ehrman · 298 pages
"Stubbornness has its price. So does pride. And Stephen cline will pay heavily for both when he drops out of college against his father's wishes and lands a job as barn manager at Foxdale Farm, one of Maryland's premiere equestrain facilities. Though Steve's just twenty-one, years of solitude and summers at a dude ranch have seasoned himlike a veteran."--Jacket.
I Am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes · 612 pages
"The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mounta
Even
Andrew Grant · 400 pages
David Trevellyan is a Royal Navy intelligence operative who usually works undercover, sometimes with the approval of his masters—and sometimes not. On a seemingly normal evening, he takes a lonely late-night walk between a restaurant and his New York City hotel. A familiar huddled shape in the mouth of an alley catches his eye—a homeless man has been shot to death. Trevellyan steps forward…and a c
Puppet on a Chain
Alistair MacLean · 320 pages
Boy Nobody
Allen Zadoff · 337 pages
Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.
Derailed
James Siegel · 400 pages
A fateful encounter with a married woman on the Long Island Railroad leads to disaster for middle class ad executive Charles Schine after a rendezvous at a sordid hotel leads to a brutal attack, blackmail, a would-be hitman, and murder.
Live Wire
Harlan Coben · 384 pages
Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth? Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client’s interests so fiercely that he can’t help but jump in to save th
Say Nothing
Brad Parks · 440 pages
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions.
Persuader
Lee Child · 496 pages
Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever. But some unfinished busin
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
John le Carre · 240 pages
*The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer. It serves as a sequel to le Carré's previous novels *Call for the Dead* and *A Murder of Quality,* which also featured the
Airs Above the Ground
Mary Stewart · 256 pages
Lovely Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, did not think it was a strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. She never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near
Skeleton Key
Anthony Horowitz · 327 pages
Alex Rider has been through a lot for his fourteen years. He's been shot at by international terrorists, chased down a mountainside on a makeshift snowboard, and has stood face-to-face with pure evil. Twice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. The desperation of a man who has lost everything he c
Aurora Floyd
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 198 pages
Aurora Floyd, motherless since infancy and indulged by her father, returns from finishing school in Paris. Reticent about her past Aurora nevertheless inspires the love of two men with her beauty and vivacity. When her choice is made, it is not long before she must face the consequences of her actions, and risk the exposure of her secret. Deceit, blackmail, even violence disturb the usually tranqu
One Fearful Yellow Eye
John D. MacDonald · 226 pages
Travis McGee #8 How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he lik