fiction / thrillers

"For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons--designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world's most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world's most dangerous weapons. Within days there are outbreaks of mass slaughter and murderous insanity across the American heartland. Can Joe Ledger stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from turning the Land of the Free into a land of the dead? "--.

Rachel and Clara have been friends since high school, now in their late twenties Rachel has the television career, the apartment, and the boyfriend, while Clara's life is spiraling out of control. When Rachel's news editor assigns her to cover a police press conference, and she is shocked to learn that the subject is Clara, reported missing.

"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben, a heart-pounding thriller about the ties we have to our past...and the lies that bind us together. It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at her is her ex-fiance; Jeff, the man who shattered her heart-and who she hasn't seen in 18 years. Kat feels a spark, wondering if this might be the moment when past tragedies recede and a new world opens up to her. But when she reaches out to the man in the profile, her reawakened hope quickly darkens into suspicion and then terror as an unspeakable conspiracy comes to light, in which monsters prey upon the most vulnerable. As the body count mounts and Kat's hope for a second chance with Jeff grows more and more elusive, she is consumed by an investigation that challenges her feelings about everyone she ever loved-her former fiance;, her mother, and even her father, whose cruel murder so long ago has never been fully explained. With lives on the line, including her own, Kat must venture deeper into the darkness than she ever has before, and discover if she has the strength to survive what she finds there"--.

Former American spy Pilgrim races against time to stop an enemy and save the United States by linking the murder of an unidentified woman in New York, a public beheading in Mecca, the killing of a Syrian biotech expert, and burning of human remains in a remote part of Afghanistan.

"The tenth entry in the NUMA Files series, by the author of ZERO HOUR and THE STORM"--.

"Joseph Barkely gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to authenticate the original manuscript of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and personally transport it to Romania"--Provided by publisher.

"Gabriela McKenzie's daughter has been kidnapped. In exchange for her safe return, her abductors demand two things: $400,000 in cash, and a document known only as the October List."--Provided by the publisher.

The United States and a coalition from Russia, India, and Brazil, race to reach an unknown space object hurtling toward Earth and claim it as their own, but they arrive to discover the object is an alien spacecraft sent out on a mission to find help for its civilization.

"No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create"--.

Seventeen-year-old Andrew Taylor is sent to the Harrow School, an esteemed institution where Britain's best families send their children, but when danger begins to follow Andrew, leading to the death of one of his classmates, Andrew finds himself an outcast and vows to uncover the truth about the mysterious school and its rumored haunting.