From Publishers WeeklyNoesner, a former FBI hostage negotiator for 23 years, was the first person to run the bureau's Crisis Negotiation Unit. Looking back, he recalls some major s...
SUMMARY: Secret instructons written in invisible ink. Cigarettes that fire bullets. Covert communications slipped inside dead rats. Subminature cameras hidden in ballpoint pens. If...
SUMMARY: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because...
E-book exclusive extra: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Sparkling Cyanide. Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. A sprig of rosemary -- ...
A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist John J. Ratey, MD.D.....
Ascend the lofty La Sagrada Familia, then track down Gaudi's superb, lesser-known worksRow vigorously over the lake at Madrid's Parque del Buen RetiroRelax with Basque tapas and wh...
Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subje...
Amazon.com ReviewThomas Pitt prefers the grim routine of murder investigations to the riskier probing of Victorian governmental intrigues. Yet Anne Perry's Southampton Row again f....
SUMMARY: In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call "South of Heaven," and the worst thing you could be doing there was laying a gas ...