A madman abducts the daughter of President Keating, an ex-Navy SEAL, turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national security. So Keating decides to embark on a one-man special-ops mission.
Thrillers (Fiction)
- Author:Patterson, James, Clinton, BillSummary:
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message that may have dire repercussions for the president.
- Author:Lekich, JohnSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Henry Holloway isn't immoral, he's just hungry. His mother died when he was nine, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Andy and his friends, all amiable small-time crooks. When Uncle Andy is sent to prison, Henry takes...
- Author:Summers, CourtneySummary:
Lo Denham is used to being on her own. After her parents died, Lo's sister, Bea, joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo with an aunt. Thanks to its charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and...
- Author:Henderson, DeeSummary:
Jack O'Malley is a fireman who is fearless when it comes to facing an inferno. But when an arsonist begins targeting his district, his shift, and his friends, Jack faces the ultimate challenge: protecting the one lady who witnessed the...
- Author:Adler-Olsen, JussiSummary:
In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl...
- Author:Ignatius, DavidSummary:
The race to build the first quantum computer heats up in the newest high-tech spy thriller from best-selling author David Ignatius. A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb: whoever possesses one will be...
- Author:James, StevenSummary:
While investigating a double homicide in an isolated northern Wisconsin tonw, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers uncovers a high-tech conspiracy that twists through long-buried Cold-War secrets and targets present-day tensions in the...
- Author:Rice, AnneSummary:
In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to "save"...
- Author:Tevis, WalterSummary:
When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she...
- Author:Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
Cook's novel begins after the 9/11 attacks, when researcher Paul Crane sits down to interview elderly New York City resident Thomas Danforth. But Thomas' thoughts drift to a different era, when a conspiracy to kill Hitler led him to the...
- Author:Iles, GregSummary:
Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old secrets and older money. Upon learning that his father is being blackmailed, Penn finds himself reopening the most highly charged murder case in the town's...
- Author:Kosa, S. F.Summary:
Good girls keep quiet. But quiet girls can't stay silent forever-and the consequences are sure to make some noise. When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch things up with his new wife, Mina, he finds an empty wine glass in the...
- Author:Kepler, LarsSummary:
Ten little rabbits, all dressed in white Tried to get to heaven on the end of a kite. Kite string got broken, down they all fell, Instead of going to heaven, they all went to... It begins with a nursery rhyme. Nineteen minutes later you...
- Author:Sivendra, BrookeSummary:
They say time heals all wounds, but that's a lie. . . Seven years ago, Deacon Thomas's girlfriend was brutally murdered. Every single day, he lives with the crushing truth—they killed her to get to him. Time hasn't healed...
- Author:Alter, StephenSummary:
On India's frontier with Tibet, peace is just a facade and security a myth. The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie, near India's border with Tibet, is home to an eclectic mix of residents including Tibetan refugees and former...
- Author:Delany, VickiSummary:
RCMP Sergeant Ray Robertson has been serving with the United Nations, a job that takes him to South Sudan and Haiti, where he is training local police and assisting with investigations. However, murder seems to find him wherever he goes...
- Author:Graham, HeatherSummary:
Death comes for everyone. Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts....
- Author:Connolly, JohnSummary:
New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's The Reapers, featuring private detective Charlie Parker, is now available from Encore. As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his...
- Author:Jackson, HollySummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen's search for the truth about her...