Download or read book A Quiet Vendetta written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic novel of gangland intrigue from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] When Catherine Ducane disappears in the heart of New Orleans, the local cops react rapidly - she is the daughter of the Governor of Louisiana after all. But the case gets very strange, very quickly. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated in the trunk of a beautiful vintage car and when her kidnapper calls he doesn't want money: he wants time alone with Ray Hartmann, who works for a Washington-based organised crime task force. All Ray wants to do is get this over with quickly, and go home to try and repair his broken marriage. Instead he must listen to the mysterious kidnapper, an elderly Cuban named Ernesto Perez, who wants to tell him his life story. It's only when he realises that Ernesto has been a brutal hitman for the Mob since the 1950s that things start to come together. But by the time the pieces fall into place, it's already too late...

Download or read book A Quiet Vendetta written by R.J. Ellory and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-Katrina New Orleans, a detective spars with a mafia hitman to find the governor’s daughter in “the best Mafia novel since The Godfather” (Booklist, starred review). When Catherine Ducane disappears in New Orleans, the cops react fast—she is the Governor’s daughter, after all. But the case quickly grows very strange. Her bodyguard turns up horribly mutilated, and when the kidnapper calls, he doesn’t want money: he wants time alone with a minor government functionary. By the time the pieces fall into place, it’s already too late . . . A Quiet Vendetta is both the epic story of one mobster’s life—following him from Cuba to Chicago—and a powerful thriller of rage, love, and loss.

Download or read book The Hope Vendetta written by Scott Mariani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest international thriller from the author of "The Mozart Conspiracy" raises the stakes as ex-SAS operative and hero-for-hire Ben Hope returns to prevent an attack of biblical proportions.

Download or read book City Of Lies written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb, powerful thriller from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he was just seven years old and he was raised in New York by an aunt he barely knew. He never even made his father's acquaintance - a man who died shortly after he was born. After leaving the Big Apple as soon as he was old enough, his life consisted of one moderately successful book, a collection of affectionately received newspaper columns and a comfortable existence in Miami. Then everything changes. A liquor store heist goes wrong - and turns John's existence on its head. It seems that his father didn't die all those years ago. In fact, he has thrived in the New York underworld. But now the man himself lies critically injured in a Manhattan hospital and it's time for father and son to meet at last . . .

Download or read book Candlemoth written by R.J. Ellory and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “searing . . . harrowing” novel from a “prose master,” a white man reflects on the murder of his black best friend that brought him to death row.(Publishers Weekly) Daniel Ford and Nathan Verney were six years old when they first met by a South Carolina lake and became best friends against all odds?Daniel was white, and Nathan was black. Thirty years later, Daniel is convicted of Nathan’s murder, and he now faces the long, lonely walk to the electric chair. With time running out until his execution, Daniel tells a sympathetic priest his story, sweeping through first loves, Vietnam, and, finally, the pair’s flight from the draft, which ended in Nathan's brutal murder. A powerful vision of the American South in an age of upheaval, Candlemoth is a stunning suspense novel?and an unforgettable tale of lost friendship. “The storytelling’s beckoning quality and the conclusion’s welcome twist easily bury [all] grievances. For fans of Tom Franklin, John Hart, and, remarkably, even Pat Conroy.” —Booklist

Download or read book The Paris Vendetta written by Steve Berry and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Berry offers his twistiest thriller yet, in a new adventure starring Cotton Malone and a secret conspiracy dating back to Napoleon. A Cotton Malone adventure involving a sinister conspiracy, a quest for vengeance, and a secret treasure linked to Napoleon... 12.40 a.m. Copenhagen. Cotton Malone wakes up to find a stranger in his house, bearing bad news: Malone's closest and most dangerous friend, Henrik Thorvaldsen, is in serious trouble - and the men who want to kill Thorvaldsen are on Malone's doorstep. Thorvaldsen has been tracking a shadowy group called the Paris Club. Not only does he believe that they are about to trigger a global financial meltdown, but also that one of the club's members murdered his son, Cai, two years ago. Thorvaldsen won't rest until he has avenged his boy's death. Dragged into his friend's schemes and secretly under pressure from the US government to stop both Thorvaldsen and the Paris Club, Malone soon discovers that the key to defeating the conspiracy and saving his friend's life - and his own - lies in the past, and an astounding treasure that Napoleon took to his grave.

Download or read book Saints of New York written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most cops are trying to right grievous wrongs. Few, however, have to deal with the horrific crimes of their own father... Frank Parrish had a famous father: a Saint of New York, an NYPD detective who helped rid the city of Mafia control in the 1980s. John Parrish is a tough act to follow - a legend in his own right - and Frank already has an insubordination rap to beat. Summoned for daily Police Department interviews, he's also trying to work out how the death of a young heroin dealer might connect to his innocent teenage sister, who's just been found dead. There are more questions than answers, not just as the homicides escalate, but as Frank battles with his own demons. He must find the truth, and bring the trail of murder to an end.

Download or read book Ghostheart written by R.J. Ellory and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a “master of the genre,” a psychological thriller about a woman lured by curiosity about her dead father into her family’s dark past. (New York Times bestselling authorClive Cussler) Annie O’Neill has it all: a cozy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop, and a network of supportive friends?but her father died in her childhood, leaving a hole she has yet to fill. When a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father’s oldest friend, she jumps at the chance to discover more. But Forrester seems much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a decades-old betrayal. A betrayal that, she will realize far too slowly, has something very much to do with her. Praised by Alan Furst as a “uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer,” R.J. Ellory, the bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels and City of Lies, is back with a novel packed with mystery, betrayal, and shocking family history. “It’s a bravura performance for readers of literary suspense from a writer whose prose often sings.” —Booklist “This compelling novel, with its shock denouement, is both beautifully written and skillfully crafted and confirms Ellory as one of crime fiction’s new stars.” —The Sunday Telegraph

Download or read book The Quiet Game written by Greg Iles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCING PENN CAGE... From the author of Cemetery Road comes the first intelligent, gripping thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Penn Cage series. Natchez, Mississippi. Jewel of the South. City of old money and older sins. And childhood home of Houston prosecutor Penn Cage. In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, this is where Penn has returned for solitude. This is where he hopes to find peace. What he discovers instead is his own family trapped in a mystery buried for thirty years but never forgotten—the town’s darkest secret, now set to trap and destroy Penn as well.

Download or read book The Doomsday Prophecy written by Scott Mariani and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for second grade learning success by experts in elementary education, Complete Early Skills for grade 2 features four core subjects in a single volume. This workbook provides in-depth practice in early learning skills required for school success. Thorough grade-specific instruction designed for Canadian school children introduces, practises, and reviews: *Reading (consonants, vowels, blends, compound words, contractions, suffixes, and prefixes) *Reading Comprehension (following directions, sequencing, similes, fact and opinion, making inferences, deducing, fiction and nonfiction) *English (synonyms, antonyms, homophones, nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentences, ownership, tenses, and dictionary skills) *Spelling (family, animals, opposites, time, and joining words) *Math (addition, subtraction, place value, fractions, money, time, graphs, measurement, geometry, and patterns)Step-by-step instructions and straightforward and easy-to-understand directions support independent learning and thinking. Complete Early Skills also features fun, interactive games and activities for parents to provide young learners with the key to total school success! 352 full-colour perforated pages and an answer key.

Download or read book Three Bullets written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT WAS THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD On 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza. He and his wife Jackie greeted the crowds on a glorious Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. BUT WHAT IF IT MISSED? Mitch Newman is a photojournalist based out of Washington, D.C. His phone never rings. When it does, a voice he hasn't heard in years will tell him his former fiancée Jean has taken her own life. WHEN THE TRUTH IS BIGGER THAN ALL THE LIES Jean was an investigative reporter working the case of a lifetime. Somewhere in the shreds of her investigation is the truth behind her murder. WHO WOULD BELIEVE IT? For Mitch, piecing together the clues will become a dangerous obsession: one that will lead him to the dark heart of his country - and into the crossfire of a conspiracy...

Download or read book Cat in a Vegas Gold Vendetta written by Carole Nelson Douglas and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entreated by a B-movie actress to investigate the suspicious death of a handyman, Temple Barr discovers that the actress's wealthy aunt is planning to leave her estate to her resident cats, much to the chagrin of greedy humans.

Download or read book Connections in Death written by J. D. Robb and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (February 2019) Lieutenant Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York in Connections in Death, the gritty and gripping new In Death novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.D. Robb. Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward dangerous crossroads—and with this new project, they hope to nudge a few more of them onto the right path. For expert help, they hire child psychologist Dr. Rochelle Pickering—whose own brother pulled himself out of a spiral of addiction and crime with Rochelle’s support. Lyle is living with Rochelle while he gets his life together, and he’s thrilled to hear about his sister’s new job offer. But within hours, triumph is followed by tragedy. Returning from a celebratory dinner with her boyfriend, she finds Lyle dead with a syringe in his lap, and Eve’s investigation confirms that this wasn’t just another OD. After all his work to get clean, Lyle’s been pumped full of poison—and a neighbor with a peephole reports seeing a scruffy, pink-haired girl fleeing the scene. Now Eve and Roarke must venture into the gang territory where Lyle used to run, and the ugly underground world of tattoo parlors and strip joints where everyone has taken a wrong turn somewhere. They both believe in giving people a second chance. Maybe even a third or fourth. But as far as they’re concerned, whoever gave the order on Lyle Pickering’s murder has run out of chances...

Download or read book Whiskey and Roses written by Bradley Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Simple Act of Violence written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington has a new menace... a serial killer whose victims don't exist... Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.

Download or read book Bad Signs written by R.J. Ellory and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb thriller from the acclaimed author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS. Orphaned by an act of senseless violence that took their mother from them, half-brothers Clarence Luckman and Elliott Danziger have been raised in state institutions, unaware of any world outside. But their lives take a sudden turn when they are seized as hostages by a convicted killer en route to death row. Earl Sheridan is a psychopath of the worst kind, but he has the potential to change the boys' lives for ever. As the trio set off on a frenetic escape from the law through California and Texas, the two brothers must come to terms with the ever-growing tide of violence that follows in their wake - something that forces them to make a choice about their lives, and their relationship to one another.

Download or read book V for Vendetta Book Mask Set written by ALAN. MOORE and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. The inspiration for the hit 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, this amazing graphic novel is packaged with a collectable reproduction of the iconic V mask.