Saturday's Child

Author	Ken Bruen
ISBN	0863223230

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Síochána—the Guards, Ireland’s police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland’s...

Author

James Ellroy

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....

Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose...

Author	Stuart Neville
ISBN	1569476004

Sooner or later, everybody pays.

Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths.

From...

Author

Stuart Neville

Ein Killer, der sich selbst »der Nomade« nennt, streift durch die Straßen von Belfast. Alte Rechnungen sind zu begleichen, die Bull O’Kane, gewissermaßen der Pate der Stadt, ausgestellt hat. Die alten Konflikte zwischen Loyalisten, Republikanern und der Polizei drohen wieder auszubrechen....

Author	Ken Bruen
ISBN	0312304110

When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket,...

Author	Roger Hobbs
ISBN	0552169161

The main character from Ghostman makes some toast:

I went into the kitchen and put two pieces of sliced sourdough bread into the toaster. You can use any type of bread to make toast, but I prefer sourdough. Other professional toast makers use whole grain or even raisin bread, but I like the taste...

Author	Eleanor Clark
ISBN	0060887427

Winner of the National Book Award

“[Clark’s] fantastic blending of science and art, history and journalism, brings the appetite back for life and literature both.”  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English...

Author	George Pelecanos
ISBN	0446610747

A drifter named Constantine winds up back in DC after more than a decade of drifting and finds himself entangled in a plot to rob two liquor stores at the same time. But can he keep his mind on the job when the girlfriend of the man bankrolling it has her sights set on him?

Shoedog is a departure from...

Author	Dr. Seuss
ISBN	0007169949

It’s nice to have a zany sense of humour - most of the time!

Dr. Seuss, of course, was a master of zaniness. And If I Ran the Zoo takes Zany to new limits.

In it, a little kid named McGrew dreams of turning the town zoo into a home for mythical, magical beasts - who become more and more weird...

Author	Declan Hughes
ISBN	0060825472

After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean.

The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But...

Author

Rob Sinclair

Carl Logan was the perfect agent. A loner. No real friends or family. Trained to deal with any situation with cold efficiency, devoid of emotion. But Logan isn’t the man he used to be, or the asset he once was. Five months ago his life changed forever when he was captured, tortured and left for dead by Youssef...

Author

Rob Sinclair

Dark Fragments: an edge of your seat thriller from the best-selling author of The Enemy Series

Murder. Money. Revenge.

Outwardly, Ben Stephens appears to be a normal, hard-working family man. In reality, his life has been in turmoil since the murder of his wife, Alice, seven years...

Author

A.P. Bateman

Incarcerated in a prison hidden from society, an all but broken man has a terrifying secret. In a lifetime spent plotting against the West, former KGB General Vladimir Zukovsky has done many unthinkable things. His captors know what he has done, have tortured it out of him, but they do not know everything....