false 8213 13133 0316117366 9780316117364 740 <![CDATA[The Quickie]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166543074m/13133.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13133.The_Quickie 3.67 4819 In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she's paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren's desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood--and her life.

Patterson takes us on a twisting roller-coaster ride of thrills in his most gripping novel yet. This story of love, lust and dangerous secrets will have reader's hearts pounding to the very last page

]]> 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 45169 0316013943 9780316013949 364 <![CDATA[Step on a Crack]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170274955m/45169.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45169.Step_on_a_Crack 3.79 4383 Bennett--father of ten--is pulled into the fray. As the danger escalates, Michael is hit with devastating news. After fighting for many years, his wife has succumbed to a terrible disease. As New York descends into chaos, he has lost the great love of his life and faces raising his ten devastated children alone--and rescuing 34 hostages.

Day after day, Bennett confronts the most ruthless man he has ever dealt with, a man who kills without hesitation and counters everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him with impunity. As the entire world watches and the tension boils to a searing heat, Bennett has to find a way out--or face responsibility for the greatest debacle in history.

]]> 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 3188186 0316018740 9780316018746 263 <![CDATA[Run for Your Life]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255710460m/3188186.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3188186.Run_for_Your_Life 3.69 1584 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 2235597 0316002925 9780316002929 440 <![CDATA[The Dangerous Days of Daniel X]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2235597.The_Dangerous_Days_of_Daniel_X 3.30 1718 <div>Daniel's secret abilities -- like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses -- have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone's imagining.</div>
<div>From the day that his parents were brutally murdered before of his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List, bequeathed to him in his parents' dying breath, he is closing in on the killer.</div>
<div>Now, on his own, he vows to take on his father's mission--and to take vengeance in the process.</div><div></div></div>]]> 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 651267 0743442857 9780743442855 2 <![CDATA[Before the Devil Knows You're Dead]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176756034m/651267.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651267.Before_the_Devil_Knows_You_re_Dead 3.38 8 In the full-throttle, noir-soaked tradition of Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, the acclaimed young author of Bad Connection unleashes an ambitious and edgy new thriller pulsating with raw, urban energy.

Decorated NYPD Officer John Coglin always thought his picture on the front page of the newspaper would be one for the scrapbook.

That was before he had the bad luck to be forced into a witness-free, kill-or-be-killed confrontation with a drug-dealing thug. It's of no help to him that the incident took place during the run-up to a bitter mayoral election campaign, and that his adversary was sixteen years old and black.

Now, instead of another commendation, Coglin is staring down the barrel of a media- and politics-stoked murder rap.

But on the eve of his sure conviction arrives a fateful telephone call.

It's not the governor, but his long-lost uncle, Aidan O'Connell.

A veteran of the IRA and a recently released guest of San Quentin Penitentiary for armed-to-the-teeth robbery, Aidan offers his nephew a pardon that has nothing to do with lawyers.

Coglin is about to find out that the type of amnesty Uncle Aidan is proposing is the kind that involves a beautiful but dangerous Mafia widow, a car trunk full of M-16s, and thirty million dollars in jewels smack dab in the middle of Rockefeller Center.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a highly entertaining, deliciously gritty, super-fast thriller that takes us on a cutthroat ride into an urban realm where criminal intent collides head-on with the vagaries of fate and the inscrutabilities of the human heart.

]]> 8213 3.66 13042 1944 6455256 0316036226 9780316036221 2 <![CDATA[Worst Case]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6455256-worst-case 4.25 4 Best case: survival

The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are fatal.

Worst case: death

Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation. With ten kids of his own, he can't begin to understand what could lead someone to target anyone's children. As another student disappears, one powerful family after another uses their leverage and connections to turn the heat up on the mayor, the press--anyone who will listen--to stop this killer. Their reach extends all the way to the FBI, who send their top Abduction Specialist, Agent Emily Parker. Bennett's life--and love life--suddenly get even more complicated.

This case: Detective Michael Bennett is on it

Before Bennett has a chance to protest the FBI's intrusion on his case, the mastermind changes his routine. His plan leads up to the most devastating demonstration yet--one that could bring cataclysmic devastation to every inch of New York. From the shocking first page to the last exhilarating scene, Worst Case is a non-stop thriller from "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes).]]> 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 4704254 1594839247 9781594839245 1 <![CDATA[The Quickie: 5 CDs]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4704254.The_Quickie_5_CDs 2.62 8 1245462 2.62 8 1 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 651268 0743405943 9780743405942 0 <![CDATA[Bad Connection]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176756035m/651268.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651268.Bad_Connection 2.67 3 Penzler Pick, April 2001: Michael Ledwidge follows his exciting debut, The Narrowback, with another edge-of-the-seat thriller. Sean Macklin is a telephone repairman in New York City. While dealing with a problem on a line, Sean inadvertently plugs into a conversation that he should not be hearing--but he does. Sean's wife is disabled and they desperately need money, and the conversation is about a merger about to take place. Sean knows that inside information like this can pay off big, so he invests, making a handsome profit.

But Sean can't leave well enough alone. He knows that he risks his job tapping into the line of a CEO in a large investment bank, but he also knows that if he does this just a few times, he will have enough money to move his wife to Florida. But then he hears something he really shouldn't. The CEO, in a conversation with an overseas associate, suggests something that Sean knows is more than illegal--it's immoral. Outraged, he contacts his brother Ray, who is a cop, and lets him listen to a tape of the conversation. Sean would like to see the CEO busted and out of a job, but Ray has other ideas for the tape and he's not about to share those ideas with Sean. He asks an old street friend, Scully, to help him out, and between them they place in jeopardy everybody they know. By the time this story is finished we have been treated to a fable about greed that is about as dark as it can get. --Otto Penzler

]]> 8213 3.66 13042 1944 651266 0743403541 9780743403542 0 <![CDATA[The Narrowback]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176756034m/651266.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/651266.The_Narrowback 3.33 3 Tom Farrell is a working-class Irish-American from the Bronx, a "narrowback" who masterminds the heist of a ritzy midtown Manhattan hotel. His well-executed scheme unravels when one of his gang claims more than his share of the loot -- and suffers a brutal fate. But the dead man's IRA ties have made Farrell a marked man.... On a violent crash course in a dangerous Gotham underworld, fleeing from terrorists, the NYPD, and his own criminal past, Farrell will survive the way he always has in his hard-luck life -- by the skin of his teeth -- and fight to be the last man standing.

]]> 8213 3.66 13042 1944 6976577 9722338374 9789722338370 0 <![CDATA[SEQUESTRO DE ALTO RISCO]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6976577-sequestro-de-alto-risco 0.0 0 3780 3.79 322590 25005 8213 3.66 13042 1944 2941366 0.0 0 0