David Morrell
1) Long lost
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[2002]
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Successful architect Brad Denning finds his perfect existence shattered when a man claiming to be his long-lost brother kidnaps his wife and son, forcing Brad to find his family before a dark secret from his past is exposed.
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Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 1
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[2013]
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Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined...
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It's Christmas Eve in Santa Fe. But among the revelers on Canyon Road, a decidedly unholy scene is taking place. A desperate man, dressed all in black, feverishly seeks refuge for himself and the squirming bundle he holds tightly against his breast. Agent Paul Kaganâs bundle is a baby who has the power to change the course of global events. His pursuers are his former colleagues-members of the Russian mafia who will stop at nothing to accomplish...
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[1996]
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"At forty, Steve Decker is one of America's most accomplished anti-terrorist operatives. Then a bungled covert operation kills twenty-three people in Rome and leaves Decker shouldering the blame. Embittered by the fiasco, he retires to the mountains of New Mexico and there meets an extraordinary woman named Beth Dwyer. She changes his life."--BOOK JACKET. "Suddenly Decker has the very things he had lived so long without: a beautiful, brilliant woman...
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c1994
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A reporter is about to commit suicide when his editor phones, assigning him to interview a millionaire. He arrives to find the man spirited away, follows him and breaks into a villa just as the man is dying. The next he knows, he's accused of murder and if convicted he'll get the electric chair--and now he wants to live, action having cured him of suicidal thoughts.
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[2003]
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A biochemist is being sought by lethal forces because of his knowledge of a powerful new drug. He seeks the services of Cavanaugh, a former Delta Force operator, who specializes in creating new untraceable identities for his clients. In this case, however, a brutal attack wipes out his entire team of agents and Cavanaugh sets out to find those responsible.
9) Scavenger
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[2007]
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Frank Balenger must play by the rules of a god-like game master, along with a handful of other unwilling players, to solve the puzzle of a time capsule, to save himself and the woman he loves.
10) Burnt sienna
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[2000]
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Painter Chase Malone is commissioned to paint Sienna, the beautiful wife of a powerful international arms dealer who had his last three wives murdered right after their portraits were completed.
11) The shimmer
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[2009]
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When a high-speed chase goes terribly wrong, Santa Fe police officer Dan Page watches in horror as a car and 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 trail to Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers...
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c1990
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Two masters of protection. One desperate mission. Savage, a former Navy SEAL and American state-of-the-art security specialist. Skira, Japan's most brilliant executive protector and a master of the samurai arts. Their mission: the retrieval of Rachel Stone, a beautiful American woman whose ruthless billionaire husband is out to destroy her.
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Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
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"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
14) Rosemary's baby
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As the happily married, innocent and childishly vulnerable Rosemary Woodhouse who gradually becomes a horrific travesty of her former self. Without indulging in gore, violence or gothic melodrama, the author creates the ultimate nightmare: a woman carrying the offspring of Satan. This is no humdrum tale of witches and warlocks, however. Levin brilliantly constructs a tantalizing psychological dimension whereby the reader can never be sure whether...
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[2021]
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"Dive into this collection of exquisite, classic horror stories-just make sure to have the lights on and the doors locked! First published in 1904, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary contains eight tales of supernatural horror by genre master M.R. James. Highly regarded as a masterwork of horror, this collection is a must-have for fans of the frightful. --
16) First blood
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A Vietnam vet takes on a small town cop in a life and death struggle though the woods, hills and caves of rural Kentucky.
17) Assumed identity
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The protagonist is Brendan Buchanan. He also goes by other names - Potter, Crawford, Block, Davis - in fact, over two hundred others. A member of a special-operations until so covert it may as well be run by ghosts, Buchanan is a master of impersonation, a specialist in assuming false identities. But now his unique gifts - and desperate pathology - threaten to destroy him. The beginning of his nightmare occurs in Cancun, Mexico, where Buchanan's latest...
19) Double Image
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[1998]
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The adventures in love and war of photographer Mitch Coltrane. In one adventure, he becomes the object of revenge by a Balkan war lord whose crimes he recorded on film, in another he searches for a beautiful woman he saw in a photograph.