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Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Carter. Turing's Delirium is an "award-winning literary thriller" about a "war waged electronically, in which computer viruses are the weapons and hackers are the revolutionaries . . . fighting the government and transnational companies." The author was awarded the 2002 Bolivian National Book Award. 293 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 /34". Jacket illustration by Vickor Koen.
Turing's Delirium
Paz Soldan, Edmundo
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
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This thriller really is about rocket science--the space race between the Americans and the Russians in 1958. Scientist Claude Lucas uncovers a plot by the Russians to destroy Explorer 1, set to launch from Cape Canaveral. Key to plot is a group of Lucas' friends from his Harvard days, all of whom are or have been involved in espionage. Lucas needs to figure out which of his friends might be the traitor. 358 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger.
Code to Zero
Follett, Ken
New York: Dutton, 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. 552 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket illustration by Craig White.
Treasure of the Khan
Cussler, Clive and Dirk Cussler
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.
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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. 392 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Debra Lill.
The Great Divide
Bunn, T. Davis
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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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. 391 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design and photograph by Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla.
Slipping into Darkness
Blauner, Peter
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006.
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Author's first book. Christopher Reich's years of experience in the Swiss banking industry lends verisimilitude to this novel set in Zurich. Nicholas Neuman is a former marine and Harvard MBA. He leaves his job on Wall Street to take a position with the Swiss bank for which his father was working at the time of his death seventeen years before. Nick finds evidence that the bank was implicated in his father's death, and is determine to find who was responsible. This proves difficult, until another banker has a nervous breakdown, a second defects to another bank, and a third dies. 485 pp. Jacket design by Craig DeCamps.
Numbered Account
Reich, Christopher
New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.
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The author's first novel. Three scientists at the Trudeau Research Center on the Arctic Circle are found dead on the ice. The cause of death is unknown, however, and epidemiologist Jessica Hanley is called in to investigate. A Russian submarine has disappeared in the Norwegian fjords, and retired commander, Admiral Rudenko is sent to locate it. Hanley's and Rudenko's searches will intersect, as they try to solve inexplicable events. Illustrated end papers. 402 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Greg Mollica.
The Trudeau Vector
Jurjevics, Juris
New York: Viking Press, 2005.
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Author's first novel, and winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. Burdon Lane is, to all appearances, a legitimate businessman, a vice president of UniArms, Inc. In truth, he's a gunrunner, and a transaction which should be routine turns into a disaster involving fires, shoot-outs, and police who don't act like police. Was this a set-up to mask a political assassination? Lane goes on the run to buy enough time to find out.
Run
Winter, Douglas E.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
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Faith is the first book in Deighton's third trilogy featuring Bernard Samson. Samson's wife Fiona has returned after many years separation, and Samson heads to Berlin to pick up a high-ranking East German who may be trying to effect. Then everything falls apart . . . 337 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye.
Faith
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
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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. 350 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8".
Death of a Thousand Cuts
D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2004.
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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. 469 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by George Cornell.
The Switch
Brown, Sandra
New York: Warner Books, 2000.
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Author's first novel. When Egyptologist Dan Rawlins sends his assistant to the Metropolitan Museum of Arts to find half of a broken ankh, he has no idea what he has released. The girl is found murdered at the base of Cleopatra's Needle, a monument in Central Park. Half-way across the world, a Mossad agent is on the run in Cairo after stealing the other half of the ankh. The man from whom she stole it, however, is a terrorist intent on using the ankh's power to wreak disaster. He's trailing the thief, needing to find her to reunite the two halves of this powerful object. 368 pp. 8 1/1" X 5 3.4". Jacket art by Cliff Nielson.
Cleopatra's Needle
Siebert, Steven
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 1999.
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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. 496 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Andy Carpenter.
The Alienist
Carr, Caleb
New York: Random House, 1994.
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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. 387 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Paul Buckley.
The 6th Lamentation
Brodrick, William
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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Winner of the 2005 Golden Dagger Award for Best.Crime Novel, and the 2006 Barry award for the Best British Crime Novel. A skeleton is discovered at a housing construction site. As Reykjavik police detective Erlendur Sveinsson searches for the skeleton's identity, he finds the answer buried deep in the area's past.
Silence of the Grave
Indridason, Arnaldur
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
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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. 406 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Hello, Darkness
Brown, Sandra
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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Kate Rashid holds British agent Sean Dillon, White House operative Blake Johnson, and President Cazelet responsible for their brothers' deaths. Having sworn vengeance against them, Kate sets in motion a series of events aimed at discrediting the President and killing Dillon. It's an international race against time to foil her plan. 289 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Rob Wood.
Midnight Runner
Higgins, Jack
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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University of Virginia law professor Ray Atlee is summoned home by his dying father. When he arrives in Mississippi, his father has already died, leaving a typed will and a pile of money of unknown origin. Atlee must determine where the money came from, and what to do with it. 341 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". Jacket design by Amy C. King.
The Summons
Grisham, John
New York: Doubleday, 2002.
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First St. Martin's Minotaur Edition. Young boys are disappearing, and the only link between them is an aviary, or bird yard, at an abandoned house. When a boy known to Detective Superintendent Parker of the Greater Manchester disappears, he knows he must find the killer before more tragedy occurs. 340 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket art by Mark Yanjus.
The Bird Yard
Martin, Julia Wallis
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 1998.
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Investment banker Edward Wozny is at first a bit miffed when he's sent to unpack and catalog a collection of rare books owned by one of his bank's clients. His ill-humor soon evaporates, however, when he learns that the collection includes a medieval codex, which sets him on a quest to learn its significance. At the same time, some friends introduce him to a virtual reality game called Momus. He soon becomes immersed in the game, which parallels the legend of the codex. 348 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews.
Codex
Grossman, Lev
Orlando: Harcourt, 2004.
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