Book Preview ELDRIDGE TYLER WAS DRIVING A LONG STRAIGHT TWO–LANE ROAD in Nebraska when his cell phone rang. It was very late in the afternoon. He was taking his granddaughter home after buying her shoes. His truck was a crew-cab Silverado the colour of a day-old newspaper, and the kid was flat on her back … Read more
Book Preview Prologue: A True Story August 30, 1889 The young doctor bid his wife good-bye on the Southsea platform, boarded the 4:15 express for London, and arrived three hours later at Victoria Station. Threading his way through the noise and bustle, he exited the station and flagged down a hansom cab. “The Langham Hotel, … Read more
Book Preview Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on … Read more
Book Preview The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child Random House Publishing Group (2017) Tags: FIC000000 Fiction / General, Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, General FIC000000 Fiction / Generalttt Fictionttt Thrillersttt Suspensettt Action & Adventurettt Mystery & Detectivettt Generalttt Hi, I am Travis McCrea and I am the founder … Read more
Book Preview The Pentagon is the world’s largest office building, six and a half million square feet, thirty thousand people, more than seventeen miles of corridors, but it was built with just three street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby. I chose the southeast option, the main concourse entrance, the … Read more
Book Preview 1 When the knock sounded, Constance Greene stopped playing the Flemish virginal and the library fell silent and tense. She glanced in the direction of Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast, sitting by a dying fire, wearing thin white gloves, having gone quite still while leafing through an illuminated manuscript, a glass of … Read more
Book Preview When you’re as big and rough as Jack Reacher – and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape – it isn’t easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn’t quit. And at last, he’s picked up by three strangers – two … Read more
Book Preview Cherryh, CJ – [Union-Alliance] – Finity’s End Finity’s End Caroline J. Cherryh A Union Alliance novel Chapter I Contents -Next A system traffic monitor screen showed a blip where none had existed in this solar system. The wavefront of presence which had begun far, far out above the star spoke a series … Read more
Book Preview They are not now, nor were then, the same. Nine hundred years in the past, in a tower, in a place called Galasien, a prince named Hasufin Heltain had an inordinate fear of death. That fear led him from honest study of wizardry to the darker practice of sorcery. His teacher in the … Read more
Book Preview To my editor, Caitlin, whose belief in this story carried it to print— To Jane, who patiently read and remarked, version after version— And to Beverly, who compiled the constantly growing lexicon out of all these pages— Thank you To my editor, Caitlin, whose belief in this story carried it to print— who … Read more
Book Preview Ages ago, before the time of Men, a place named Galasien grew to rule as far and wide as any records tell. Mauryl Gestaurien came from that time and that place. So did Hasufin Heltain, who may have been a prince of Galasien. Assuredly he was a wizard, as was Mauryl. Hasufin attempted … Read more
Book Preview Fortress In The Eye Of Time Fortress, Book 1 C. J. Cherryh 1995 There were lots of scanning errors. Some corrupt passages remain, mostly marked with emphasis style. The text has been spell-checked, but not proofread. For Lynn and Jane for a lot of hours … through the lightning strikes … Read more
Book Preview HUNTER OF WORLDS COPYRIGHT ©, 1977, BY C. J. CHERRYH All Rights Reserved. Cover art by John Pound. Frontispiece sketch by the author. To my mother, to my father, and to David. FIRST DAW PRINTING, AUGUST 1977 3456789 DAW TRADEMARK REGISTERED U.S PAT.OFF. MARCA REGISTRADA. HECHO EN U.S.A. PRINTED IN U.S.A. Chapter 1 … Read more
Book Preview DONALD A. WOLLHEIM, PUBLISHER 1301 Avenue of the Americas Endymion died soundlessly, a man-made star that glowed and quickly winked out of existence. Kurt Morgan watched her until there was no more left to see, eyes fixed to the aft scanners of the capsule. When it was over, he cut to forward view … Read more
Book Preview A 3S digital back-up edition 1.0 click for scan notes and proofing history |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12| |13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20| DONALD A. WOLLHEIM, FOUNDER 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 ELIZABETH R. WOLLHEIM http://www.dawbooks.com .=””>DAW Titles by C. J. CHERRYH THE FOREIGNER UNIVERSE FOREIGNER | INVADER | INHERITOR PRECURSOR | DEFENDER | EXPLORER DESTROYER | PRETENDER | … Read more
Book Preview It was an interesting little pile, the stack of wax-stained vellum that occupied the right side of Bren Cameron’s desk, in his office, in Najida estate, on the west coast of the continent. This stack of letters held treason. It held connivance. It held the intended fall of the whole coast. It also … Read more
Book Preview Spring was coming. Frost still touched the window glass of the Bujavid and whitened the roof tiles of Shejidan at sunrise, but it left daily by mid-morning. This was a sign. So was the letter, delivered by morning post, discreetly received by staff, and, understood to be important, delivered with Bren Cameron’s morning … Read more
Book Preview PRECURSOR DEFENDER EXPLORER DESTROYER PRETENDER DELIVERER THE ALLIANCE-UNION UNIVERSE FORTY THOUSAND IN GEHENNA AT THE EDGE OF SPACE Omnibus: Brothers of Earth | Hunter of Worlds THE FADED SUN Omnibus: Kesrith | Shon’jir | Kutath THE CHANUR NOVELS THE CHANUR SAGA The Pride of Chanur | Chanur’s Venture | The Kif Strike Back … Read more