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by Wu Ming
Hardcover: 3 Jul 2006
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| Set during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Cary Grant as a real-life spy dealing with Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly. |
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In The Shadow of The Law
by Kermit Roosevelt
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: 13 Jun 2006
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| In this complex, ambitious, and gripping first novel, Kermit Roosevelt vividly illustrates the subtle and stark effects of the law on the lives of a group of lawyers, and also on communities and private citizens. |
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The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
Hardcover: Oct 2005
Paperback: 1 Jun 2006
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| A stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as
gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers
Weekly has called "today's Dostoyevsky of crime literature. |
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Close Case
by Alafair Burke
Hardcover: Jul 2005
Paperback: 30 May 2006
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| Investigating the brutal murder of a hotshot journalist, Samantha Kincaid finds herself caught in the middle of an increasingly personal - and potentially dangerous - struggle between Portland's police and the DA's office. |
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At Risk
by Stella Rimington
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 30 May 2006
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| Drawing from her experience as the first woman director general of MI5, Stella
Rimington gives us a story that is smart, tautly drawn, and suspenseful from
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Alice in Jeopardy
by Ed McBain
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 23 May 2006
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| From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem. |
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Dead at Daybreak
by Deon Meyer
Hardcover: Aug 2005
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| Deon Meyer recreates the beauty, wildness, and danger of modern Africa with an immediacy and force no other writer has achieved. |
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Map of Bones
by James Rollins
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. As they flee the carnage they carry a prize that could reshape the world. The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri is assigned to lead the investigation with the help of SIGMA Force, an elite covert arm of the U.S. Defense Department. |
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