Sports agent Myron Bolitar returns after a six-year hiatus to star in his eighth thriller.. Myron hears his girlfriend’s teenage daughter, Erin, and her friend, Aimee, talking about getting in a car with a drunken driver; hoping to avoid a tragedy, he tells them that he’ll pick them up wherever, whenever they call him--and he won’t tell their...more
No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-ho...more
For most of her life, Amy Wilensky wondered why she repeatedly twitched and fidgeted, couldn't throw things away, had to step on manhole covers with both feet, and felt compelled to engage in hundreds of other pointless rituals. Since she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal" life, she couldn't imagine that there was something profoundly...more
John Wells is the only CIA agent to ever penetrate al Qaeda. While living in the mountains of Pakistan, he became a Muslim, convinced of the decadence and shallowness of the United States.
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Why are people in Delhi more helpful than Londoners?
How can you tell when someone is lying?
Why do incompetent politicians win elections?
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Some stories can be told again in endlessly different ways. Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian combines a search for the historical Dracula with a profound sense that Stoker got some things right--that the late Mediaeval tyrant kills among us yet, undead and dangerous. From Stoker, she also takes a sense that the supernatural seems more real when em...more
There is only one truth left in your world. They want you. And they want you dead — the new stand-alone thriller by crime-writing’s rising star.John Meron, a happily married father of two, who’s never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life forever. His friend, Jack Calley, a high-flying city lawyer, is sc...more
A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending president...more