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Bobbie Rayburn is a baseball player extraordinaire. Gil Renard is a fan who will do anything to support his team. Anything. This is the book on which the movie starring Robert de Niro and Wesley Snipes was based.
The Fan
Abrahams, Peter
New York: Warner Books, 1995.
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The Camel Club is a group of four conspiracy theorists who keep an eye on current political events in Washington, DC. When they witness a murder, they find themselves smack dab in the middle of intrigue. They team up with Secret Service agent Alex Ford to prevent an international disaster.
The Camel Club
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2005.
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Members of Baldacci's Camel Club return, investigating the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare book room. Decorated endpapers.
The Collectors
Baldacci, David
New York: Warner Books, 2006.
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When Detective Francis X. Loughlin was new on the police force, a young doctor was murdered and Julian Vega, her apartment manager, was convicted and sent to prison. Twenty years later, Vega is released from prison on a technicality. Another doctor is murdered, and fingers point to Vega again. The DNA test is a shocker--the blood under the new victim's fingernails isn't that of Vega, but of the woman murdered twenty years before. Peter Blauner won the 1992 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Slow Motion Riot.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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Dangerous Ground
Bond, Larry
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2005.
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A powerful weapon is stolen from Iraq and brought to the United States. The planned use of this weapon is concealed behind another plot, and CIA agent Ryan Kealy must operate outside the usual channels in a race for time to prevent this disaster.
The Assassin
Britton, Andrew
New York: Kensington Books, 2007.
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The author's first novel. An elderly man asks Father Anselm for asylum in Larkwood Priory in England. Father Anselm later learns that the man is Eduard Schwermann, a former Nazi. Agnes Aubret lived in occupied Paris during World War II, part of a group that smuggled Jewish children to safety until the group was exposed--by Eduard Schwermann. When she learns that Schwermann is still alive, Agnes confides her past to her granddaughter Lucy. Lucy and Father Anselm each try to understand what happened more than fifty years before.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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This is Dan Brown's first novel. It was inspired by an event that happened to one of Brown's students at Phillips Exeter Academy. TRNSLTR is an NSA supercomputer that cracks encrypted codes. Former NSA programmer Ensei Tankado creates an unbreakable code, then dies in Spain wearing a golden decoder ring. Will the ring be lost forever, or retrieved in time to prevent the loss of national secrets?
Digital Fortress
Brown, Dan
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1998.
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Late night DJ Paris Gibson is accustomed to hear about her listeners' secret thoughts. But then one of them calls to tell her that within 72 hours, he plans to kill his ex-girlfriend, and then Paris. Paris teams up with psychologist Dean Malloy to find the caller before he can carry out his threats. Sandra Brown has been honored as a Thrillermaster by the International Thriller Writers.
Hello, Darkness
Brown, Sandra
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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A prank perpetrated by identical twins Gillian and Melina Lloyd turns deadly when Melina is found murdered--with threats intended for Gillian written on the wall.
The Switch
Brown, Sandra
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
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After the death of his children in a car accident, attorney Marcus Glenwood leaves his law firm and moves to rural North Carolina. There, he is asked to assist a couple whose daughter Gloria disappeared while investigating human rights abuses in a Chinese factory owned by the American company New Horizons. When Marcus probes the company's operations, he finds nothing but greed and lies. But Marcus perseveres, relentless in his search for Gloria, and the truth.
The Great Divide
Bunn, T. Davis
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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In turn-of-the-century New York, Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (the alienist) joins forces with Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt and a New York Times reporter to investigate the murders of boy prostitutes. The book was nominated for the 1994 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and was Winner of the 1995 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Black cloth over brown boards. Copper ink on spine. 8vo. 496 pp.
The Alienist
Carr, Caleb
New York: Random House, 1994.
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Sculptor Danny Cray supplements his meager income with a little private investigation on the side. When he's offered some good money to find out who's trashing the reputation of a mysterious billionaire, he jumps at it. Alas, he soon learns that if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. His investigation leads him from Washington, DC, to Rome to Istanbul to Silicon Valley.
The Eighth Day
Case, John
New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
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Kay Scarpetta's tenure as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner has come to an end, and she's now a forensic consultant. While working on a case in Louisiana, she's contacted by the evil Jean Baptiste Chandonne, who had relentlessly pursued Scarpetta in a previous book, The Last Precinct. Thought to be safely ensconced on death row, Chardonne escapes from prison and resumes his pursuit of Scarpetta. Then it appears that there's a connection between the Wolfman and the Louisiana case.
Blow Fly
Cornwell, Patricia
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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An abridged reading by Joan Allen on four audiocassettes. Kay Scarpetta, State of Virginia medical examiner, is working on a series of deaths that occurred as part of arson. Her old nemisis, Carrie Grethren, seems to be calling the shots.
Point of Origin
Cornwell, Patricia
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A Supreme Court justice has been murdered, and the FBI husband and wife team of Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are called in to investigate. They're joined by DC police investigator Ben Raven and Washington Post investigative reporter Callie Markham, who is also the judge's step daughter. Then they discover a link between the judge's death and a thirty year old murder.
Blow Out: An FBI Thriller
Coulter, Catherine
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2004.
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Carol Starkey is a former L. A. police bomb squad technician who has been working as a Detective in the Criminal Conspiracy Section after a bomb killed her partner. When a series of explosions takes out a number of bomb technicians, Carol is called in to take the case. Demolition Angel was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award for best novel.
Demolition Angel
Crais, Robert
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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Dirk Pitt returns to take on the descendants of Genghis Kahn in an adventure that ranges from Siberia to Mongolia. Maps on end papers. Cussler has been honored by the International Thriller Writers with the Thrillermaster Award.
Treasure of the Khan
Cussler, Clive and Dirk Cussler
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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Signed by the author on title page. The staff and former residents of now-closed The Hawthorne House School for the Treatment of Autistic Children gather for a reunion. The shocking death of the school's founder, Dr. Jay Schermerhorn, brings Chicago detectives Emily Folkstone and Ollie Park to investigate. They discover hidden characteristics behind Dr. Schermerhorn's professional facade.
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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Cairo, Egypt, in 1942 was a hotbed of intrigue. It was filled with people from all over Europe and northern Africa, and was also full of spies. Captain Bert Cutler, former Glaswegian policema, was sent to Cairo to find the leak in British intelligence that is fueling Rommel's advances. But even Bert Cutler isn't who he seems. Maps on endpapers.
City of Gold
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
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