Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=7107&N=7431+4294954568 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729364 Gill Underwood and his jewel-heisting partner Trudy Elwell have been set up, and Trudy has paid the ultimate price. Now Underwood, a former Naval intelligence officer, is holding $150 million worth of hot sparks, running from ruthless gangs of Serbians, Chinese, Israelis, and Cubans - and the Feds are closing in. With speed, technology, brains, and brawn, Underwood must turn the tables in a heart pounding game of cat-and-mouse that leads to the most deadly enemy of all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716081 A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that hed once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career. More than two decades later, Cage, now a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646913 Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate. He has a brain tumor ... and hes been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and they have secrecy, autonomy, and cash. Soon the unit is robbing Helsinkis mobsters blind. But Karis team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585940 A train on its way to northern Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers abandon the train for a nearby hotel, centuries-old and practically empty. With plenty of food and shelter from the storm, the passengers are safe - until one of them is found dead the next morning. With no sign of rescue, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, paralyzed by a bullet lodged in her spine, is asked to investigate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1536524 Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and a master of his profession. But one career simply cant support his luxurious lifestyle and his wifes fledgling art gallery. Then, at an art opening, he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also mentions that he owns a priceless lost Rubens painting ... and Brown happens to dabble in art theft. But Greve may turn out to be the worst thing thats ever happened to Roger Brown. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629487 Geiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it - an invaluable gift in the information retrieval business, where clients count on him to extract the truth from reluctant subjects. Unlike most competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood. But he never works with children. So when his partner, Harry, unwittingly brings in a client whose subject is twelve years old, Geiger rescues the boy from his captor and promises to protect him from harm. But how? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613995 It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after a suspicious suicide. Loyal young party member Maria Alexandrovna Lenskaya supposedly had an illicit intimate relationship with the party director. Korolevs instructions are to determine if her suicide was actually a cover-up for murder, and if so, to find her killer - but under no circumstances reveal her ties to the director. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615565 Gina fell for the wrong guy. Joe came into her life promising her everything, and he gave it to her, along with a world of hell. But Gina was stronger than Joe realized. After years of suffering the terror of being married to a criminal, she took the one thing he ever gave her that she wanted--her son, Luke. Then she turned the bastard in. With her husband behind bars, her father-in-law will stop at nothing for revenge. He wants his grandson back, the heir to his criminal empire. With a vast network that stretches across the country, every favor is called in to kill Gina and return Luke to his grandfather.--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669991 Selected as a jury member during a high-profile murder case, Rory reflects on the accident that ended her affair with a longtime friend while gradually realizing her dangerous connection to an unsolved case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676167 Lawyer David Sloane is desperate to get through to his teenage son, Jake, who has spiraled out of control since his mothers brutal murder. So when old friend Tom Molia suggests a guys-only camping trip, Sloane gratefully accepts. The excursion turns into a nightmare when the boys are arrested for vandalizing a general store while their fathers sleep. Before Sloane and Molia realize theyre gone, the boys are tried, convicted, and sentenced to a grueling ordeal: six months in Fresh Start, the county wilderness detention camp. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1581486 Former covert operative Ty Hunter, has become, almost by accident, the number one film star in the world. When he is recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, he must deploy every skill he has as an actor, soldier, and spy. Donning his fame as a disguise, Ty matches wits and muscle with the enigmatic billionaire Ian Santal and his nefarious protege Philip Frost-two supremely sophisticated adversaries- even as he falls in love with the entrancing young woman closest to them both-- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614955 Kate Moore is a working mother, struggling to make ends meet, to raise children, to keep a spark in her marriage...and to maintain an increasingly unbearable life-defining secret. So when her husband is offered a lucrative job in Luxembourg, she jumps at the chance to start anew. While Katie reinvents herself as an expat, her husband works incessantly at a job she has never understood. Then another American couple arrives, and Kate becomes suspicious that these people are not who they claim to be, and begins to peel back layers of deception. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682329 Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646912 While Butch and Marlene work to convict the parents of a deceased boy whose health was neglected in favor of a charismatic faith healer, Karp struggles to prevent a violent attack on New York City with the help of an imprisoned Russian assassin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1587400 Deep in the Arctic, a long-forgotten Soviet military base enshrouds a Cold War doomsday device with the power to obliterate the planet. When a mysterious and brutal terrorist group known as the Army of Thieves seizes control of the remote base to unleash the weapon upon an unsuspecting world, there is only one team close enough to stop them: a ragtag band of Marines and civilians led by Captain Shane Schofield, call sign Scarecrow. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685392 Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. Across town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. With nowhere to go, she finds herself on the run. Without knowing each other, with lives that couldnt be more different, Kate and Emily head to the same point on the map. Owned for generations by Birdie Burkes family, idyllic Heart Island has a terrifying history of its own -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577901 It is Americas worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city, killing thousands. Many more will die. Threats of more attacks spread panic. National security advisor Sean Falcone is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Powerful forces in the Capitol point the finger at Iran, but Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden among the upper echelons of Washingtons elite. Will the President - or the American people - believe him? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1273089 On a quiet afternoon in Houston, four-year-old Joey Warner is lured from a sandbox by a stranger looking for his runaway dog. When his mom, Crystal, discovers he has disappeared, her reaction is odd. Meanwhile, on a cattle ranch outside the city, Texas Ranger and profiler Sarah Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the side of a slaughtered prize-winning bull, a figure dating back to sugarcane and slavery. Before long, the two investigations converge... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477723 Sam Capra is a brilliant CIA agent, loving husband, and soon-to-be father. But in one horrifying moment in London, he will lose everything that matters to him. Targeted by an unknown enemy and branded as a traitor by the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt to find a killer and save his kidnapped wife and child. And thats just the beginning: The destruction of Sams life was only step one in an extraordinary plot ... and now Sam must become a new kind of hero. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251050 Hollis Henry worked for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience, but shes broke. Milgrim is thoroughly owned by Bigend. Hes worth it for his gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting. Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. He isnt owned by Bigend, but he has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that Bigend sometimes needs. Like now, when a Department of Defense contract turns sideways and he finds himself outmaneuvered in a seriously dangerous world. - Taken from cover p. 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1426379 Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddys already given her the sports car and the apartment, now she wants excitement. So her father signs up Autumn and five friends for an ultimate urban reality game: a simulated drug deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. Edge Adventures alerts the San Francisco PD, so they can ignore the squealing tires and cries for help. Which is convenient for the real kidnappers zeroing in on their target. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1432574 1994: Professor Richard Aldiss is teaching a night class...from a prison cell. In 1982 he was convicted of killing two female grad students with an axe and decorating their bodies with the novels of recluse Paul Fallows. The class is asked to uncover Fallows identity using the Procedure, a game that reveals clues inside his novels. Alex Shipley, now a Harvard professor, had succeeded, leading to Aldisss acquittal. But the crime has just been repeated . . . http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1238597 When Detective Inspector Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover, Marie McKenna, and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. Lennon has no intention of following orders that may endanger the only family he has. Meanwhile, an assassin stalks Belfast, tying up loose ends for a vengeance-driven old man. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480687 Glen Garber is left with a daughter to raise and a head full of questions when his wife dies in an accident - one that the police say she caused. Sheila wasnt a drinker - she wasnt even supposed to be on the road where she died. A conspiracy is forming around Glen, one that involves virtually everyone he knows and makes him wonder how well he knew the woman he married. Now hes going to have to seek a truth that could get him killed ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1373854 Years ago the Butcher Boy was betrayed by the Mafia, exacted his revenge, and disappeared. Justice Department official Elizabeth Waring is the only one who believed he ever existed. Now the professional killer finds his peaceful life threatened when a Mafia hit team finally catches up with him. He knows they wont stop coming, and decides to take the fight to their door. Soon Waring, now high up in the Organized Crime Division, receives a late-night visit: if shell tell him whos behind the hit, hell help her crack an unsolved murder -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1264238 Under a clear blue September sky, Americas financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nations history. It was September 16, 1920. War veteran Dr. Stratham Younger and his friend Captain James Littlemore of the NYPD are caught on Wall Street on the fateful day of the 1920 bomb blast. With them is Colette Rousseau, a French radiochemist Younger met in the war. A series of inexplicable attacks on Rousseau and a mysterious trail of evidence lead the trio on a thrilling international and psychological journey to uncover the shocking truth behind the bombing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1253585 When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante whos been targeting random victims because they dont respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480678 Maggie Silver is solidly middle class, with a mortgage to pay and an ill mother to support. Doing her best to scramble up the ladder at an elite Southern California PR firm, Maggie tackles her toughest client yet: Senator Henry Paxton, who also happens to be the father of Maggies estranged best friend. Senator Paxtons young female aide has been found murdered, and Maggie must run damage control to prevent the scandal from growing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533849 In the affluent community of Pacific Heights, the wives of two powerful San Francisco businessmen are unknowingly having affairs with the same man. Attractive and cunning, Ryan Kroll is known for his creative and often violent ways of obtaining information for a powerful corporation. Then the womens therapist discovers that he has stolen their files. The job of stopping Kroll before its too late falls to Marten Fane, a retired SID detective. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195597 Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group, while her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1189054 Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is in a meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center, where they discover that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the US nuclear defense system, and is threatening unfathomable destruction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1536749 When her brother goes missing after contacting her from the site of an Icelandic rescue mission, Kristin is pursued by vigilantes from the U.S. Army and discovers a conspiracy involving a crashed World War II plane and the fate of its survivors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1131116 After an unsavory art dealer is found dead in his hotel room, violinmaker Giovanni Castiglione must search for an instrument once owned by famed violinist Niccoli Paganini--and solve a mystery that has gone unanswered for over a century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215835 Awaiting trial in the Tombs is Sharif Jabbar, the demagogic founder of a Harlem mosque. Charges against his terrorist attack on the city were dismissed once, and New York District Attorney Roger Butch Karp is determined to bring him down on new allegations. Outside the criminal courts, Karps wife, Marlene Ciampi, is pursuing her own investigation - one in which her sole ally is David Grale, the charismatic but deranged leader of the Mole People. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1192568 When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victims role in her demise as well as the murders relevance for the president. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212609 Its early morning in Cape Town and Benny Griessel, homicide detective with the South African police service, has a bad feeling. Hes been sober for 156 days. But day 157 is going to be very tough. A teenage girls body has been found on the street, her throat cut. Griessel has been assigned to mentor a young detective on the case. It turns out the girl was American - a P.R. nightmare in South Africas #1 tourist destination - and she wasnt alone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023650 Whisper Ridge is a multimillion-dollar piece of architecture that once housed a unique program for paroled murderers. The passion of Alexandra Sanabria, the daughter of a deceased Mafia don, the program never got off the ground. Uninhabited for twelve years, the home remains a strange monument to dangerous secrets. PI Lincoln Perry first gets involved with the house and its legacy when a former tenant asks him to find Alexandra, who has disappeared. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020976 When a high-speed chase goes terribly wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page watches in horror as a car and a gas tanker explode into flames. Torn with guilt that he may be responsible, Page returns home to discover that his wife Tori, has disappeared. Frantic, Page follows her to Rostov, a remote town in Texas with unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers from every corner of the globe - Tori among them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998079 Against all advice, the president rushes across the South Lawn in a pounding thunderstorm to fly to Camp David for a late-night meeting only three people in the administration know about. Fighting its way through the storm, Marine One crashes into a ravine in Maryland, killing all aboard. Investigations and accusations abound as Mike Nolan, a Marine Corps reserve helicopter pilot and trial attorney, is hired to defend the European manufacturer of the helicopter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=809926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=821826 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804868 A woman has to quickly piece together disturbing events--one of which is the murder of her psychologist--before her past comes to claim her future and her daughter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=817637 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816865 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=816871 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804867 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=804869 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684696 On the vacation of a lifetime in Egypt, an elderly French couple is brutally murdered. Days later, Amelia Levene, the first female chief of MI6, disappears without a trace six weeks before she is due to take over as the most influential spy in Europe. Desperate not only to find her, but to keep her disappearance a secret, Britains top intelligence agents turn to one of their own: disgraced MI6 officer Thomas Kell is given one final chance to redeem himself. (Bestseller)