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charles-a-ray's picture
Aug.29.2010
Buster Mayweather and his wife Alma, while on vacation in West Virginia, witness what they think might be a murder.  The militia who are involved, later kidnap Alma and Sandra Winter, Al Pennyback's girl friend, to keep Buster from exposing a plan more dastardly than mere murder.  Al, who is...
david-bergsland's picture
Nov.20.2009
Cinco de Mayo has new meaning: Aztlan arises! What has been talked about for decades has come to pass. Southwestern United States is invaded and a reborn Aztec nation is born. This is no idle threat for the invaders have nukes and the latest in air and naval power delivered by a pair of highly...
matt-beynon-rees's picture
Aug.16.2009
When Omar Yussef travels to New York for a UN conference, he's eager to visit his youngest son, Ala, who lives in Bay Ridge,  a Brooklyn neighborhood with a large Palestinian community. He arrives at Ala's apartment to find the door ajar and a headless body in one of the beds. He's initially...
chester-d-campbell's picture
Jul.29.2009
Molly Saint hires the new private investigations firm run by Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit, with Jill soon turning up a close family connection. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a...
deborah-teramis-christian's picture
Jul.07.2009
Reva, an assassin, can pick her way across different realities branching out from her "Now," allowing her to choose an alternate "line" where she can take advantage of gaps in a victim's security system. Once Reva has switched one line too many, however, she has no way of...
geri-spieler's picture
Dec.03.2008
"I'm not sorry I tried...if successful, the assassination...just might have triggered the kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." --Sara Jane Moore in 1976 President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office. One by a young woman in...
daniel-curzon's picture
Feb.13.2008
A fictional account, set in San Francisco, of an attempt to assassinate the assassin of a gay Supervisor REVIEWS:       "An excellent book."                                         — Herb Caen                                              "A  tense drama around a small group of...
john-kelin's picture
Jan.11.2008
Finely written and meticulously documented, this book describes how—very early on—a small group of ordinary citizens began extraordinary efforts to demonstrate that the JFK assassination could not have happened the way the government said it did. In time, their efforts had an enormous impact on...
james-patterson's picture
Dec.27.2007
The most terrifyingly efficient hit man alive stalks his biggest prize yet—the country’s leading African-American citizen, the mayor of Nashville. In a desperate race against time, one Southern reporter must dog him across six states to get the story of a lifetime and stop a July 4th assassination...
norman-mailer's picture
Dec.27.2007
Mailer opines that Lee Harvey Oswald was a sincere Marxist, a nihilist and an inveterate liar who was motivated to assassinate John F. Kennedy in order to shake up the world, to create the conditions for a new kind of society superior to American capitalism or Soviet-style communism. Oswald, he...