Just when All Souls Legal Cooperative hands her a promotion that will tie her to an uninspiring desk job, Sharon McCone's main squeeze, Hy Ripinsky, disappears. An environmentalist, he seemingly consented to deliver a two million dollar ransom demanded by the kidnappers of a biotech biggie. Putting her career crisis on hold, Sharon discovers Hy's abandoned plane, wrecked rental car and the intrigues of a shady international security firm.

A "gripping [and] splendidly readable" portrait of the battle within the British War Cabinet-and Churchill's eventual victory-as Hitler's shadow loomed (The Boston Globe). From May 24 to May 28, 1940, members of Britain's War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. In this magisterial work, John Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical events at 10 Downing Street, where Winston...

Kurt Austin, leader of a National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) team, rescues marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco and becomes the target of Don Halcon, Texas industrialist. Halcon's scheme of carving a new nation out of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico hinges on Nina's discovery of an antiquity in the remains of the sunken Andrea Doria.

Simons begins a very much unauthorized investigation into the murder of a man she considered a friend, but who had far too many enemies.

"When Reuben Land's older brother Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family, the town is divided between those who see him as a hero and those who see him as a cold-blooded murderer. On the morning of the trial, Davy escapes and his family sets out in search of him. With Jeremiah at the helm, the family covers territory far more glorious than even the Badlands. By the time the journey is over, they will have traversed boundaries of...

Carrier Battle Group Fourteen - a force including a supercarrier, amphibious unit, guided missile cruiser, and destroyer - is brought to life with stunning authenticity in a high-tech thriller as explosive as today's headlines.