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Action & Suspense

The Emperor's General by James Webb
"The Emperor's General" is an epic novel of Douglas MacArthur's ruthless ambition in the tumultuous final days of World War II, of the Japanese Imperial government's ingenious conspiracy to maintain power, and of a young captain faced with the conflicting demands of duty, honor, and love.

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Rules of Engagement by Joe Weber
Avenging the deaths of two friends shot down by the Vietcong, Marine fighter pilot Brad Austin makes a successful--but forbidden--strike on an enemy aitfield. Now he must defend himself, his honor, and his Corps against a Senate committee out for blood.

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Finnegan's Week by Joseph Wambaugh
Fin Finnegan is a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor who's passing midlife crisis and heading straight for midlife meltdown. The last thing he wants when he's gearing up for a TV audition is a routine truck theft case. The last thing he needs after three messy divorces is a sexy female investigator assigned to the case. Fin's abysmal luck is holding out - he's got not only the theft investigation but an uneasy alliance with two strong-willed women, each working a separate angle of his once-simple case.

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The Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh
California's Gold Coast is the home of boat parades, middle-aged women in bikinis, and Winnie Farlowe, a 40-year-old ex-cop with a strong interest in drinking. But when a beautiful and spirited three-time divorce e introduces him to her world of clubs and mansions--and the mystery of her father's death--he soon finds himself running for his life.

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The Delta Star by Joseph Wambaugh
The cops of Rampart Station try to solve the connections between a Nobel Prize, a Russian submarine, a useless credit card, a dead hooker and a similarly deceased sleazy private eye.

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Floaters by Joseph Wambaugh
With the arrival of the America's Cup regattas, San Diego Mission Bay cops Fortney and Leeds find their hands full and pursue cup contender Blaze, who sets off a bizarre criminal trail.

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Playing With Cobras by Craig Thomas
Former British spy Patrick Hyde comes to the aid of British secret agent Philip Cass, who languishes in a dark Delhi prison, accused of brutally murdering an Indian cinema star.

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Boomer by Charles Taylor
Wayne Newell, the competent, confident commander of the attack submarine USS Pasadena , is a Russian agent, planted in the Navy 20 years ago. Claiming knowledge of a masking device that makes Soviet subs indistinguishable from American ones and supported by bogus communications, Newell directs his crew to torpedo two American nuclear submarines called boomers. Navy chiefs, knowing only that the boomers have vanished, order in the USS Manchester , a twin of Pasadena , to fill the defense gap.

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Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker
Journalist Molly Cates, the heroine of The Red Scream, finds herself in the midst of a bitter standoff between the police and a fanatical madman who has taken a busload of people hostage.

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The Last High Ground by Robin White
In Hiroshima, a dying crime czar releases his power, his mistakes, and his money. . . . In Washington, a lawyers investigator uncovers the truth about the worst U.S. aviation disaster in history. . . . And 40,000 feet above Utah, an airline pilot feels a sudden shudder and knows the impossible is about to happen--again. Now three men from different worlds must infiltrate a vast conspiracy that is wreaking havoc in the skies. Shig Onishi is a Japanese accountant turned cop. Brian MacHenry is a dogged ex-marine investigating a string of horrible airline crashes. And Roger Case is a lawyer who specializes in aviation litigation. All three men are following a trail of money, power, and shocking criminality that stretches across the Pacific and into the halls of U.S. industry and politics. The questions Onishi, MacHenry, and Case are asking are more than enough to get them killed. But the answers are enough to rock the world. . .

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Capital Crimes by Stuart Woods
When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no suspect in sight. And two more seemingly different deaths might be linked to the same murderer. From a quiet D.C. suburb to the corridors of power to a deserted island hideaway in Maine, Will, his CIA director wife, Kate, and the FBI will track their man, set a trap-and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for...

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Light Source by Bari Wood
In grade school, brilliant Emily Brand wins "The Game," an exercise in establishing dominance over a group, and classmate David Lucci vows revenge. Thirty years later, in 1990, Emily discovers a process that makes fusion reaction feasible, thereby solving the energy crisis. However, the change threatens David, now the son-in-law of an oil billionaire, who sets out to kill Emily.

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Ladies of the Night by John Westermann
Inside the corrupt world of Long Island politics, in the final days of a cutthroat campaign campaign, the disappearance of top GOP aide Elizabeth Lucido is big news. The case is a time bomb for Police Commisioner Frank Murphy -- an honest man facing a political power machind fueled by dirty money and dirtier deals -- and he puts his two best detectives at the head of a twisting investigation. But their search for justice becomes a hunt for a deadly predator when they discover the chocking truth: Elizabeth Lucido is not the first woman in the Nassau County GOP to vanish into the night -- and she won't be the last.

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An Unpardonable Crime by Andrew Taylor
Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses. A man is found horribly mutilated on a building site and an heiress flirts with her inferiors. All the while, Poe's young schoolmaster struggles to understand what is happening before he and his loved ones are destroyed. But the truth, like the youthful Poe himself, has its origins in the New World as well as the Old -- in a bitter episode of corruption during the War of 1812.

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Love and Honor by Randall Wallace
Virginia cavalryman Kieran Selkirk is summoned to a clandestine meeting in the winter of 1774. There he finds none other than Benjamin Franklin, who reveals the brilliant soldier's assignment: He is to travel to Russia disguised as a British mercenary and convince Catherine the Great not to join the British in their war with America. It is not a quest for the weak of heart, for to succeed, Selkirk must survive savage terrain, starving wolves, secret assassins, marauding Cossacks, a court of seductive young women, and even a dramatic romantic face-off with the legendary Tsarina herself.

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Silent Snow by Steve Thayer
Rick Beanblossom is the Twin Cities' top investigative reporter. He has a devoted wife. A brand-new son. He is contented. But on the March 1st anniversary of the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping, all that will change-when history repeats....

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The Blighted Cliffs by Edwin Thomas
Not many men emerged from Trafalgar with not an ounce of credit to their names, but through an over-reliance on rum and his habitual bad luck, Lieutenant Martin Jerrold managed it. In February 1806, he comes to Dover with one final chance to redeem his reputation. Before he has been there a day, however, he finds himself standing over a body that is too far from the cliffs to have fallen accidentally. To his horror, Jerrold is suspected of murder. Somewhere in Dover’s twisted streets, someone must know something. But Jerrold soon discovers that nothing is it seems in a town where smuggling is a way of life. And all the while, Jerrold is gaining sympathy only in the less-than-respectable arms of Isobel, the girl who seems without any great effort on his part — to be becoming his mistress. Distrusted by his superiors, set upon by intriguingly well-informed smugglers, and attacked by the French at sea, Jerrold has two weeks to save his skin — or perish in the attempt.

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Mirage by F. Paul Wilson & Matthew Costello
Julie Gordon is a leading research scientist who has helped create the most exciting virtual reality program ever. It's a computer-enhanced 3-D voyage into a subjects mind that turns memories into a landscape of people, places and events from the past. When Julie suddenly learns that her twin sister is in a coma of unknown origin, Julie rushes to her. Little by little, Samantha is losing brain function, and Julie is determined to help. She'll attempt to penetrate the fractured maze of Samanthas mind with her program. What she learns from her voyage into her twins memories is that someone tried to murder her and Julie could be next . . .

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Shoot Him If He Runs by Stuart Woods
Sent by the CIA to a beautiful Caribbean island where they are to track down murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the team of Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Dino Baldachetti finds their mission thwarted by corrupt local politicians and secretive American expatriates.

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The Godfather's Revenge by Mark Winegardner
An American crime boss pursuing the mantle of legitimacy... A former top man on the run... The ambitious brother of a galvanizing young President... A New Orleans capo out for revenge... An Irish consigliere plunged into mortal peril. Five lives on a collision course with tragedy that will make history and shock the world-an unforgettable capstone to Mario Puzo's great American epic.

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Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh
For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with some of the most desperate criminals anywhere. Now the violent robbery of a Hollywood jewelry store quickly connects to a Russian nightclub and an undercover operation gone wrong, and the sergeant they call the Oracle and his squad of quirky cops have to make sense of it all. From an officer who dreams of stardom, to a single mother packing a breast pump, to partners who'd rather be surfing, they'll take you on a raucous ride through a gritty city where no one is safe. Especially not the cops.

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The Chrysalis by Heather Terrell
Haarlem, Holland, seventeenth-century: The city’s chief magistrate commissions a family portrait from Dutch master painter Johannes Miereveld. But when the artist sees the magistrate’s daughter, Amalia, an illicit love affair begins. Miereveld creates a captivating masterpiece, The Chrysalis–a stunning portrait of the Virgin Mary, full of Catholic symbols, that outrages his Protestant patron and signals the death of his career. New York, present day: Mara Coyne is one high-profile case away from making partner at her powerful Manhattan law firm, and now the client that is sure to seal the deal has fallen into her lap. The prestigious Beazley’s auction house is about to sell a lost masterwork, The Chrysalis, in an auction that is destined to become legendary. Standing in the way, however, is the shocking accusation that the painting belongs not to Beazley’s client but to Hilda Baum, the daughter of a Dutch collector who lost his paintings–and his life–to the Nazis. The case brings an unexpected surprise when Mara discovers that Beazley’s in-house attorney is Michael Roarke, a man for whom she once had an intense attraction. But the same skills that make her a brilliant litigator also make Mara suspicious, and she begins to believe that Hilda’s tragic family story might be more than just heartbreaking–it might be true. And the man she’s come to love might not be who she thought he was at all. Spanning centuries and continents, The Chrysalis is a brilliant, intelligent, fast-paced thriller that melds art and history into a provocative work of fiction. From the underground Catholicism in seventeenth-century Holland to the unspeakable crimes of the Nazis and the repercussions that reverberate to this day throughout the art world, Heather Terrell has created a fascinating story that will entrance readers to the very last page.

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