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Doubleday, 1995. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0385475489. A top county prosecutor from Oregon is accused of murdering her estranged husband, Justice Robert Griffen, soon afte r the mysterious death of Griffen's female law clerk. Great legal thriller..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0684835983. 1st printing. "The Queen of Suspense" delves into the mystery of psychic powers and communication with the dead in Before I Say Good-bye. When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York harbor with him and several closed business associates aboard, his wife, Nell McDermott, is not only di straught at the loss but wracked with guilt . . ..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Fawcett, 1992. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0449906469. Enjoying a normal life of family, school, and a first love, sixteen-year-old Mariah Ebinger is unaware of the evi l intentions of someone who has sought her from another lifetime and cannot rest until she is dead. Novel that penetrates mysteries of innocence and guilt, justice and vengeance. The dustjacket spine top and both top outside corners are slightly bumped. Both of the outside corners are also rubbed, the back one has a 1/4" tear..

New York, NY: Signet, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. When a 17 year old model claims she was raped in the VIP room of a South Beach nightclub by 3 high profile men, it's up to Sam H agen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, to decide if they should be put on trial. Hagen's ambition to become the next state attorney outweighs his reluctance to be drawn back into the moral twili g ht of South Beach, where his own teenage son died the year before. When a key witness is found brutally murdered, Hagen is swept into a storm of suspicion that leads, in a shocking twist, back into hi s own shattered family..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1986. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0312111169. 1st printing. Who is running the United States of America? President Henry Hampton is shot, struck down in an assa ssination attempt at Gettysburg that turns into a bloodbath, with reporters, secret service agents, bystanders, and the assassin all falling victim to whizzing bullets.A must read Political Thriller..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1989. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0399134263. 1st printing. This is "The ultimate Washington thriller, as only Sanders can write it," taken from the book descri ption. He was a man of God, a bearded bear of a man with origins cloaked in mystery, but his present mission is clear: to take upon himself the transgressions of the wives of Washington, and his poli t ical influence over a new and emotionally unstable President is fast becoming a stranglehold..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: N A L, 1989. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 254 pp. Bob Leuci, whose NYPD career was the model for PRINCE OF THE CITY, has written and 'insider' novel about cops sworn to expose the "defenders" of the law turned lawless. A cop is not a law unto himself.Marjorie Butera, "Captain Butterfly" to her enemies, is assigned to investigate the notorious Brooklyn precinct where police terror rules and dirty tactics and personal vendettas make a mockery of law and order.A suspenseful tale of a woman cop stationed at one of the NYPD's most corrupt precincts who finds herself pitted against the male colleagues who are out to get her - literally..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Large Print Group, Incorporated, 1993. Hard Cover. As New/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:038542471x. 1st printing. The best selling author of "The Firm" repeats his masterwork of mystery in this book. Basis of 1994 Mo vie starring Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. When a kid is witness to a crime and learns more than he should know, everyone wants him to talk. or to be forever silent. The back outside top corner of jacket is slightly bumped..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0395537614. 1st printing. Basis for the film directed by Spike Lee and starring Harvey Keitel, and for which Price also wrote the screenplay. Murder mystery in the drug underworld of the inner city. 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0843941928. No disease was more deadly or enigmatic than the genetically engineered virus known as Saint Vitus. Within seconds after infecting its victim, the neurotoxin caused massive hemorrhaging, madness, convulsions, and inevitably.death. Tests showed the airborne virus was 400 times as lethal as conventional neurotoxin s - with characteristics that made it ideal for covert biological warfare. Since it's unauthorized 'birth', the virus known as Saint Vitus has been the U.S. Army's best-kept secret--until its theft. I n the hands of the Middle East's most dangerous terrorist, Saint Vitus became a terrible weapon with truly unlimited potential for destruction. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, a desperate President ordered all military resources directed at the virus's destruction - even if that meant unleashing a thermonuclear hell.. Read More

New York,NY: Bantam Books, Inc. 1999. Mass Market Paperback. As New. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0553840274. A respected university professor, Anne waverly has a past known to a few: 18 years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and young daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty - alterantive relgious movements - have made her a brilliant FBI operative. 4 times she has inf ilterated suspect communties, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor her life once more, she has no intention of taking another assi g nment. Until she learns of more than 100 children living in the Change movement's Arizona compound.Anne presents herself to Change as the eager, pliable seeker, Ana Wakefield. But Anne soon realize s that this is no ordinary community and hers is no ordinary mission. For, far from appeasing the demons of her past, this assignment is sweeping her… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. In a Paris cafe', American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father 30 years before. In London, a gr izzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses.Neither American knows the link between the long-ago killing and the rece nt murders. But Paul's obsession to catch his father's killer will send him careening across Europe, his life in the balance. Shadowing his every move is the relentless McVey. And haunting them noth i s a secret organization larger and more embracing than any the world has ever seen, preparing for an apocalypse to begin..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Saint Martin's Press, LLC, 1997. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0312862644. 1st printing. Medical Suspense Thriller. Top of spine very slightly bumped. Back bottom outside corner of jacket has 1 " light crease diagonally across corner. Book combines medicine and political intrigue, dealing with Washington's escalating war against drugs. Vowing to make narcotics legal and to tax and regulate them to the brink of extinction, President Winston intends to take the billions of dollars generated, out of the hands of the drug cartels and move the money into the government's coffers. Crackpots and left-wingers have talked about it for years, but no one with any real authority has ever considered it. It would be political suicide..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1980. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0670270814. "A good, long-possibly prophetic-read, and exciting enough to make you sweat. "-The Daily Mail. "The Devil's alte rnative is the decision that has been forced upon the US President, a decision that will decide who dies and who lives, as the world stands on the brink of a nuclear war there are no other options. T h e dustjacket top & bottom of the spine and all 4 outside corners and outside edges are slightly bumped & rubbed. 4 small tears 1/16" - 1/8" long, 2 on the back cover top & bottom edge, two on front co ver top edge. Both inside flaps creased on corners..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0312859821. 1st printing. Top of spine slightly bumped. Riveting thriller about a young woman who stands between a powerful billio naire presidential candidate and the millions of Americans whose lives are at stake unless his secret is exposed..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 2000. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 751 pages. It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run.no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly. Martie and her husband, Dusty, a housepainter, are the usual Koontz protagonistshonorable, resourceful, and persevering. Martie's friend, Susan, suffers from agoraphobia. Martie visits her regularly and takes her to her appointments with noted therapist, Dr. Mark Ahriman. Dusty's younger brother, Skeet, has been in and out of therapy with the same doctor. When Skeet jumps off a roof while painting a house with Dusty, he claims that the angel instructed him to do so. Levelheaded video game designer Martie develops autophobia, a terrifying condition in which… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company, LLC, 1998. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0805051767. 1st printing. Dave Delano didn't spend five years in a Florida prison idling away hard time. "I believe in the redistribution of wealth," he told one of his guards. But redistribution for Dave was a strictly personal matter. His five year plan aimed to put a million five into his own pockets. In the former Soviet Union there are a million scams. Most lucrative is money laundering. Refitting U.S. yachts to hide dirty dollars and transporting them across the Atlantic on huge transport ferries destined for the European playgrounds of the international rich, the mob magically "disappears" the cash, moving it through Black Sea ports and inot Russian banks. Dave Delano thinks some of that money should be his . It's a simple matter of hijacking one of those yacht ferries on the high seas..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2002. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her husband, Radcliffe Emerson, long for just one season of excavation uninterrupted by homicide, but happily for mystery fans, they never seem to achieve it. It's New Year's Eve, 1917, and once again the Emerson brood is off to sift through ancient Egyptian fields. But derailment occurs almost as soon as Radcliffe can brandish his trowel and whiskbroom: The dead body inside the looted tomb is decidedly not a royal mummy. Amelia and her spouse begin poking around for solutions to the murder(s), while their son Ramses undertakes another dangerous assignment and daughter Nefret attempts to keep a secret. From the Publisher A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world shows no sign of abating. Answering the siren call of Egypt once more, Amelia Peabody and her family arrive at their home in Luxor to learn of a new royal tomb… Read More

New York,NY: Signet, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0451157036. General Steel faced the President. "We can direct our fighters to harass the Soviet flight in an attempt t o s top them or alter their course. If that doesn't work, do we have your permission to intercept them? Can we open fire first?" The President shook his head firmly. "No, we will not intiate a hostil e act. We will harass them only." The generals stiffened. Morrison blurted out, " Sir, we must intercept the Russians! There is no other way to stop them." "Yes there is." The Presidnet hal-smiled at h is generals. "We're going to invade Saui Arabia first." Bottom and outside corner rubbed on front cover. Some yellowing inside book along edges from age..

New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1999. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. V.I. Warshawski comes back again in this page-turner. Global Entertainment, a multimedia conglomerate, bought the newspaper, the Chicag o Herald-Star---a move that has employees hard-pressed to keep their jobs. A friend and sometime rival of V. I.'s for many years, reporter Murray Ryerson, gets a job on a television show on Global's n etwork. When returning home from a party celebrating Murray's debut, V. I. almost runs over a woman lying in the street . This event begins t he most sinister and emotionally draining case. V. I. ha s ever had as she tries to discover why a woman has been beaten up and thrown on the street..