The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large and very rare Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them are a great deal more extreme than others – as Virgil is about to find out. Forget a storm…this one's a tornado

Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide! In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series characters — such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhyme — in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos: • Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in “Red Eye,” by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly • John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in “In the Nick of Time,” by Ian Rankin and Peter James • Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in “Gaslighted,” by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child • Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in “The Laughing Buddha,” by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner • Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in “Surfing the Panther,” by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein • Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in “Rhymes With Prey,” by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford • Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in “Infernal Night,” by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson • Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in “Pit Stop,” by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay • Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in “Silent Hunt,” by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker • Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in “The Devil’s Bones,” by Steve Berry and James Rollins • Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in “Good and Valuable Consideration,” by Lee Child and Joseph Finder So sit back and prepare for a rollicking ride as your favorite characters go head-to-head with some worthy opponents in *FaceOff*—it’s a thrill-a-minute read

Fresh from his 'spectacular' (Cleveland Plain Dealer) debut in Dark of the Moon, investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling – and most alarming – case, in the new book from the #1 bestselling author. John Sandford's introduction of Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers was an immediate critical and popular success: 'laser-sharp characters and a plot that's fast and surprising' (Cleveland Plain Dealer); 'an idiosyncratic, thoroughly ingratiating hero' (Booklist). Flowers is only in his late thirties, but he's been around the block a few times, and he doesn't think much can surprise him anymore. He's wrong. It's a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, and Flowers is in bed with one of his ex-wives (the second one, if you're keeping count), when the phone rings. It's Lucas Davenport. There's a body in Stillwater – two shots to the head, found near a veteran's memorial. And the victim has a lemon in his mouth. Exactly like the body they found last week. The more Flowers works the murders, the more convinced he is that someone's keeping a list, and that the list could have a lot more names on it. If he could only find out what connects them all… and then he does, and he's almost sorry he did. Because if it's true, then this whole thing leads down a lot more trails than he thought – and every one of them is booby-trapped. Filled with the audacious plotting, rich characters, and brilliant suspense that have always made his books 'compulsively readable' (Los Angeles Times), this is vintage Sandford

Edited by Lee Child, this is the follow-up to FaceOff, but this time 11 female thriller writers with 11 male thriller writers. 

**Fan-favorite heroes Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers join forces on a deadly maritime case in the remarkable new novel from #1** New York Times **-bestselling author John Sandford.** An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It's a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean. None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed. They're federal officers killed on the job, which means the case is the FBI's turf. When the FBI's investigation stalls out, they call in Lucas Davenport. And when his case turns lethal, Davenport will need to bring in every asset he can claim, including a detective with a fundamentally criminal mind: Virgil Flowers. ** **Review** “Entertaining. . . Fans will enjoy seeing the two old buddies and their cohorts wading into dangerous [sic] wasters.”— *Publishers Weekly* ### **About the Author** **John Sandford** is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of twenty-nine Prey novels; four Kidd novels; twelve Virgil Flowers novels; three YA novels coauthored with his wife, Michele Cook; and three other books

From Publishers Weekly "Making his fiction debut, 'Sandford,' a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist using a pseudonym his real name is John Camp, has taken a stock suspense plot-a dedicated cop pursuing an ingenious serial killer-and dressed it up into the kind of pulse-quickening, irresistibly readable thriller that many of the genre's best-known authors would be proud to call their own," stated PW. From Library Journal Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, highly touted killer detective, invents intricate video games that he sells for cash. Called in to aid the Minneapolis team scrambling to stop a psychopathic serial woman-slayer, Lucas almost meets his match. The self-styled "mad dog" murderer views his rape/stabbings as a game as well, setting up obstacles for the police, carefully selecting his victims, and priding himself on clever moves. Despite his largely deja vu plot, debut novelist Sandford (also the author of The Fools Run due from Holt in September under the name John Camp; see Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/89) delivers tense action, chilling excitement, and thrilling suspense. Fast-moving prose and romantic sidelines add a little zest, too. BOMC featured selection

“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense

Alle Kurger was a nun, but she was also a psychologist, and when it became clear that the murders were the work of more than one man, Lucas Davenport went to her for advice

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner. “If you haven’t read Sandford yet, you have been missing one of the great summer-read novelists of all time.”—Stephen King,Entertainment Weekly  Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive.  Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he knows.      Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then—very troublingly—to the Minneapolis police department, then—most troublingly of all—to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen. No matter who gets in the way.  Filled with John Sandford’s trademark razor-sharp plotting and some of the best characters in suspense fiction, Silken Prey  is further evidence for why the Cleveland Plain Dealer called the Davenport novels “a perfect series,” and Suspense Magazine wrote, “If you haven’t read any of the Prey series, you need to jump on board right this second.”

The best-selling author Carl Hiaasen takes the reins for the eleventh edition of this series, featuring twenty of the past year’s most distinguished tales of mystery, crime, and suspense. Laura Lippman introduces us to a suburban soccer mom who moonlights as a call girl and who has a fateful encounter with a former client at her son’s soccer game. Ridley Pearson traces a famous author of horror tales who becomes trapped in a real one after his wife vanishes while jogging. Joyce Carol Oates travels to a New Jersey racetrack where the animals that break down are of the two-legged type. Lawrence Block tells the story of Keller, a hitman for hire who happens to live in Greenwich Village, loves spicy food, and collects stamps as a hobby. And Scott Wolven plunges us into the world of an ex-con who takes a job at a private and very illegal Nevada racetrack where each day millions are won and lost. Mostly lost. As Carl Hiaasen notes in his introduction, “The stories in this collection would do honor to any anthology of short literature. More than transcending the genre of crime, they blow away its nebulous boundaries.” The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 is a powerful collection certain to delight mystery aficionados and all lovers of great fiction

A collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction selected by New York Times best-selling and Edgar Award — winning author C. J. Box

From Publishers Weekly Would that Sandford, creator of the marvelous and bestselling Prey thrillers, had heeded Thomas Wolfe's advice about going home again. Instead, he's resurrected a hero from his previous crime series (The Fool's Run, etc.) in his latest thriller, which begins when the infamous KiddAartist, computer expert and master criminalAis called in to investigate the mysterious death of a former colleague in Texas. Working with the victim's sister, Kidd slowly uncovers a massive computer conspiracy masterminded by St. John Corbeil, the president of a Texas microchip company, whose excesses spiral out of control when the company's product (after gaining a foothold in the world of intelligence) bombs in the commercial marketplace. At first Kidd is inclined to steer clear of the seamier side of the conspiracy, but when several members of his own high-powered criminal group are implicated and the National Security Agency begins scrutinizing his operation, he brings in his part-time partner and lover, LuEllen, to help with the investigation. Their probe turns dangerous when the corporate kingpin hires a pair of assassins to hunt down Kidd, eventually forcing him to focus on a mano-a-mano duel with Corbeil. Sandford pens plenty of stirring action scenes as Kidd's encore unfolds, and it's clear that the author likes playing with his hero's shady sensibility and the chemistry he enjoys with the versatile and erotic LuEllen. But despite his edgy and sometimes provocative narrative style, Sandford struggles to bring a sense of urgency to the narrative. Kidd's return will be welcome news for Sandford fans, but the tepid plot makes his comeback a pedestrian affair. 400,000 first printing

One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, talented fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home and was shot by cops, who had mistaken him for a purse snatcher. When the predictable cover-up starts, a group of black activists decide that the time has come for action against a corrupt city government. Marvel Atkins, their leader, links up with Kidd, the man with the plan to bring the city tumbling like the pack of Tarot cards he likes to consult. All he has to do is watch out for the Empress. The Tarot has warned him she is dangerous, but first he must find out who she is

A gripping ultramodern novel…fast-paced and suspenseful. – Chicago Tribune Con artists Kidd and LuEllen utilize state-of-the-art, high-tech corporate warfare to organize the technological takedown of a defense industry corporation, but their string of successes is cut short when the ultimate con artist gets conned

This series of techno-suspense novels featuring artist, computer wizard and professional criminal Kidd (The Fool’s Run; The Empress File; The Devil’s Code) and his sometime girlfriend, cat-burglar LuEllen, are far fewer in number and less well-known than Sandford’s bestselling Prey books. In this entry, Bobby, Kidd’s genius hacker friend (“Bobby is the deus ex machina for the hacking community, the fount of all knowledge, the keeper of secrets, the source of critical phone numbers, a guide through the darkness of IBM mainframes”), goes offline for good when he is hammered to death by an intruder. Bobby’s laptop is stolen, which is bad news for Kidd as several of his more illegal transactions may be catalogued on the hard drive. Kidd needs to find the computer, break the encryption and revenge Bobby’s death. The trail leads from Kidd’s St. Paul, Minn., art studio to heat-stricken rural Mississippi and on to Washington, D.C., where Kidd uncovers a government conspiracy that threatens the reputations and livelihood of most of the nation’s elected representatives. One of the joys of the series is learning the tricks of computer hacking and basic burglary as Kidd and LuEllen take us to Radio Shack, Target, Home Depot and an all-night supermarket to buy ordinary gear, including a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew, to use in clever, illegal ways. The action is as hot and twisted as a Mississippi back road, but the indefatigable Kidd eventually straightens it all out and exacts a sort of rough justice that matches his flexible moral code. The early entries in this series have aged badly because of the advances in technology, but this latest intelligent and exciting thriller proves a worthy addition to Sandford’s overall body of work

Amazon.com Review Anna Batory's evening starts with a frenzied animal rights raid and then moves quickly to the site of a suicide jump. It's all in a normal night's work for Anna, who leads the Night Crew, a freelance video team out to make a quick buck on sensational footage they can sell to L.A. news stations. But this night is different: the jumper is a teenager named Jacob Harper, and Anna's cameraman Jason beats a strangely hasty exit after filming the jump. A few hours later, Jason too is dead: shot and knifed. Jacob Harper's father is an attractive former cop who works out the connection between his son's death and Jason's. The two young men share a drug dealer-and when Harper finds said dealer dead as well, he calls Anna to the scene and shows her a creepy knife wound on the dealer's body: the name "Anna" carved into his chest. From that moment on, Anna knows she's chasing down a killer who's got a thing for her-but who is it? A series of heart-thumping encounters between Anna and her shadowy stalker keep this thriller moving at the dizzying clip that Sandford's fans expect. Those who love the Prey series for the quirks and contradictions of its antihero, Lucas Davenport, will find a kindred creation in Anna: an attractive loner, taciturn and tough-minded, a classical pianist with the fighting reflexes of a wild animal. Will Sandford keep bringing her back? Time will tell

Having spent the past two years in hiding following a daring and successful heist, a big -time robber is back in Minneapolis, having spotted the opportunity for an even greater steal. It's a couple of weeks before the big Republican party convention: thousands of people spending cash, which is flowing into a relatively inadequate Brinks warehouse, protected by only three or four armed guards. The robber's plan is to distract the cops by manipulating and alerting them to a possible assassination attempt. Lucas Davenport meanwhile has problems of his own, targeted by a psychopathic pimp, who blames Davenport for the fact he's in a wheelchair. Only it's not Davenport he's going after; it's his innocent daughter, Letty

Майкл Беккер, опасный убийца и психопат, снова на свободе. Перебравшись в Нью-Йорк, он продолжает убивать. Нью-йоркская полиция не способна найти его, и к делу подключают детектива Лукаса Дэвенпорта, того самого человека, который поймал Беккера в первый раз. У Дэвенпорта личные счеты к преступнику, который жестоко убил его подругу. И теперь детективу предоставляется второй шанс навсегда покончить с кошмаром по имени Майкл Беккер…

В течение нескольких месяцев сотрудники полиции под началом Лукаса Дэвенпорта «пасли» двух грабительниц банков — Кэнди и Джорджи Лашез. При совершении ими очередного дерзкого налета полицейские взяли вооруженных до зубов женщин в кольцо. В перестрелке обе налетчицы погибли. Конец дела?… Нет, только начало. Потому что отбывающий наказание в тюрьме Дик Лашез, которому Кэнди приходилась женой, а Джорджи — сестрой, поклялся отомстить участвовавшим в операции полицейским и убить их близких, чтобы они поняли, каково это — терять тех, кто тебе особенно дорог. Дик сбежал из-под стражи и развязал «войну мести». И главная его цель — невеста Дэвенпорта…

Лицо Карло Друза было изуродовано в детстве, лицо Майкла Беккера поражало своей красотой. Эти двое прекрасно дополняли друг друга в совершении дерзких и жестоких убийств. Их дьявольский союз обеспечивал каждому безупречное алиби. Они чувствовали себя недосягаемыми и неуязвимыми. Но все изменилось, когда расследование этого дела было поручено детективу Лукасу Дэвенпорту, которого оно могло вернуть к жизни — или подтолкнуть к пропасти…

Тяжелая работа детектива, полицейского, спецагента – чисто мужская, так считалось издавна. Женщины уже давно с этим не согласны. В век равноправия полов и развития высоких технологий на первый план стали выходить интеллект, технические навыки и профессионализм, заменяя собой грубую силу и умение быстро стрелять. Кто же все-таки лучше в этом деле? Чтобы получить ответ, автор мировых бестселлеров Ли Чайлд собрал в одну команду своих самых известных собратьев по перу и разбил их на пары – мужчина против женщины. Своих героев свели в профессиональной дуэли Кэти Райх и Ли Чайлд, Вэл Макдермид и Питер Джеймс, Сандра Браун и Си Джей Бокс, Диана Гэблдон и Стив Берри, Лиза Скоттолайн и Нельсон Демилль…

Жители штата Миннесота потрясены страшным известием: сексуальный маньяк похитил известного врача-психиатра и двух ее дочерей. Полиция в растерянности: по обычной схеме действовать нельзя, поскольку противник — не просто психопат, а талантливый программист, умело навязывающий представителям власти «свою игру». За помощью обращаются к бывшему полицейскому, владельцу компании по производству компьютерных игр, — Лукасу Дейвенпорту. Сможет ли он разгадать изощренные замыслы сумасшедшего и избавить от смертельной опасности попавших в беду людей?

Не так давно Джон Мэйл был помещен в психиатрическую клинику и проходил там курс принудительного лечения. Ему удалось бежать и скрыться в окрестностях Миннеаполиса под чужим именем. Но больной рассудок и жажда мести не давали Джону покоя. И тогда, завзятый поклонник ролевых игр, он решил начать свою игру – максимально реалистичную. Похитив своего бывшего психиатра и двух ее дочерей, он запер их в сельском доме и бросил открытый вызов знаменитому сыщику Лукасу Дэвенпорту, приступившему к расследованию этого дела. Помимо службы в полиции, Лукас был широко известен как создатель ролевых игр. И Мэйл навязал ему состязание, ставка в котором – жизнь трех женщин. Безумец считает, что победит, – ибо именно он выстраивает сценарий игры. Но Дэвенпорт хорошо знает: игру определяет тот, кто устанавливает ее правила…

Маленький городок на севере Висконсина скован смертельным страхом: впервые за много лет здесь произошло зверское убийство. Кто-то проник в дом Лакортов и раскроил череп главе семьи, затем застрелил его жену и дочь-подростка, причем девочку перед смертью пытал. А после этого предал дом огню. Местный шериф обращается за помощью к детективу из Миннеаполиса Лукасу Дэвенпорту, который проводит зиму в своем домике на берегу озера. Изучая место преступления, Дэвенпорт начинает подозревать, что убийца совершил поджог, чтобы уничтожить какие-то улики, способные вывести на него. А значит, это кто-то из местных жителей. Круг подозреваемых сужается… Впервые на русском языке! Новый супербестселлер из серии романов о детективе Лукасе Дэвенпорте

Опытный взломщик-грабитель и маньяк-убийца в одном лице — в практике детектива Лукаса Дэвенпорта подобных случаев еще не встречалось. К тому же преступник физически необычайно силен и дьявольски изворотлив. Он не оставляет никаких зацепок, не совершает ошибок. У него есть только одна слабость: он страстно влюблен в женщину которую недавно обокрал… Впервые на русском языке! Новый супербестселлер из серии романов о детективе Лукасе Дэвенпорте

В центре событий этого леденящего кровь триллера — серийный маньяк-убийца по кличке Бешеный. Он умен, интеллигентен, работает адвокатом. Но он психически ненормален и понимает это. Его потребность убивать непреодолима, и, чтобы удовлетворить ее, Бешеный вынужден идти на все новые преступления. Свою жизнь он превращает в смертельную игру, для которой сам придумывает правила, ставя на кон собственную жизнь. Попытки полиции поймать убийцу ни к чему не приводят. И только детективу Лукасу Дэвенпорту удается разгадать психологию преступника. Он приходит к выводу, что уничтожить Бешеного можно, лишь играя по правилам этой дьявольской игры…

Убийца безжалостен и изобретателен. Он превращает каждое убийство в изощренную игру. Этот человек прекрасно осознает, что его нельзя назвать вполне нормальным, но это его даже устраивает. Он вывел для себя некие правила – правила убийцы – и оставляет на каждой жертве записку с очередным правилом, подписываясь кличкой Бешеный. Однако детектив Лукас Дэвенпорт не уступает ему по части изобретательности. Он навязывает убийце свою собственную игру, в которой может быть только один победитель. "Правила убийцы" – первый роман из серии супербестселлеров о детективе Лукасе Дэвенпорте

Любознательный человек часто задается вопросами, ответов на которые не существует. Просто потому, что проверить, «что будет, если…», невозможно. Кто победил бы в битве — Александр Македонский или Чингисхан? Кто быстрее и изящнее разобрался бы в тайне преступления — Шерлок Холмс или Эркюль Пуаро?.. Но на сей раз звезды современного мирового детектива и триллера воплотили в жизнь уникальную задумку — свели под одной обложкой главных персонажей своих романов. Впервые фантазии авторов сталкивают лицом к лицу Джека Ричера и Ника Хеллера, Грея Пирса и Коттона Малоуна, Линкольна Райма и Лукаса Дэвенпорта — кумиров миллионов читателей по всему миру. Противостояние героев — и их создателей… Кто победит?

Преступление, совершенное много лет назад двумя полицейскими, осталось безнаказанным. С тех пор один из них сделал головокружительную карьеру и стал директором ФБР. Он славится своей непримиримостью в борьбе с преступностью. Однако те, кто пострадал когда-то от его действий, ничего не забыли. Они решают наказать высокопоставленного негодяя. Но как подобраться к чиновнику такого ранга? И тогда у этих людей возникает дерзкий и кровавый план… Роман «Тень убийцы» входит в серию супербестселлеров о детективе Лукасе Дэвенпорте