Review?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.??Mel Gussow, Newsday ?For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer ali...
From Library JournalA mixture of American and British characters fill this living room style mystery in which a joker's increasingly dangerous pranks parallel the more interesting ...
Product DescriptionA trio of classic novels in the third omnibus from "the king of hard boiled crime fiction" (_USA Today_). "There's a kind of power about Mi...
SUMMARY: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous ...
SUMMARY:With The Magic of Recluce, L.E. Modesitt made his impressive hardcover debut, breaking out in wide scope and grand scale with a novel in the great tradition of the w...
A nameless couple meet, fall in love, move in together, and then the hard work of loving each other begins. Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover’s Dictionary is an int...
SUMMARY: The Lost Throne reigns supreme... A reclusive monastery is the scene of a brutal slaughter that sends Richard Byrd on a worldwide race to find a magnificent treasure. But ...
Amazon.com ReviewFor music lovers, perfectionists, and estheticians, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser (1983) poses an irresistible drama of failed excellence. In 1953 three friends, am....
Amazon.com ReviewJohn Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller __, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey...