When Boston attorney Brady Coyne's client Walt Duffy, a noted naturalist paralyzed in an accident the year before, is found murdered in the backyard of his Back Bay brownstone, and Walt's son Ethan's mysteriously vanishes, Coyne races against time and matches wits with a notorious ecoterrorist group to save his own and Ethan's lives.
Cussler's most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt's most dangerous adventure.Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet—the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated ...more
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn,...more
The Hermit of Gully Lake is a thought-provoking, intimate and respectful look at the life and times of American-born but Nova Scotia-raised Willard Kitchener MacDonald (1916-2003), better known as the Hermit of Gully Lake. For sixty years, MacDonald endured hardship and extreme isolation, living as recluse in a cave-like shelter six feet by nine f...more
"Respected television news journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell asks a probing, disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us?What kind of monster would do this? When journalists break the story of a child who's been kidnapped, a young woman who's been brutally raped, or a family who's been s...more
Using the facts and family tales of the terrible Halifax Explosion, James and Rowena Mahar have created a compelling story of loss and grief and the triumph of faith over great obstacles. Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award, 1999.
More of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer experimenting with style and narrative, time and perspective. Fans looking for a skin-crawling, page-turning fright or an undead bloodbath will be disappointed, but a patient reader willing ...more