Book Preview One eye open, the other frozen shut. He knows what an eye is, but that other “I” remains a mystery. Mind scooped out and left in ice. Words slowly return. Blue sky, that’s what he sees. The sun twinkling like a diamond. Tundra, there’s another recalled word. Packed snow on all sides as … Read more
Book Preview Praise for Runaway Train “An engaging ’90s pastiche with an earnest heart beating at its center.” —Kirkus Reviews “Raw. Riveting. Runaway Train stays true to its title as it explores the deep pain of a teenager desperately trying to find peace in a world full of pain. Lee Matthew Goldberg is a master … Read more
Book Preview Chapter One: Sensurround Chapter Two: On the Yellow Brick Road Chapter Three: This is the City, Los Angeles, California Chapter Four: The Lights Are Much Brighter There, You Can Forget All Your Troubles, Forget All Your Cares Chapter Five: Going Nowhere Fast Chapter Six: A King Without His Throne Chapter Seven: The Mythic … Read more
Book Preview Esther Radcliff was trying to pull a fast one on Father Time, Mother Nature, and the human eye. And was failing. One morning five months ago Esther looked in the mirror and saw a wrinkled, gray-haired, sixty-eight-year-old widow with age spots staring back at her. That day she declared war. She enrolled in … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR LEE GOLDBERG PRAISE FOR GATED PREY “The seamy side of California dreaming . . . Goldberg not only ties up . . . but links some of Eve’s investigations in ways as disturbing as they are surprising.” —Kirkus Reviews “Lively descriptive prose enhances the tight plot of this episodic crime novel, which reads like a TV show … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR KILLER THRILLER “Killer Thriller grabs you from page one with brilliant wit, sharply honed suspense, and a huge helping of pure originality.” —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author “A delight from start to finish, a round-the-world, thrill-a-minute, laser-guided missile of a book.” —Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of … Read more
Book Preview Contents PART I: CRITIQUE 1. The New Church Ladies 2. Torch Mobs For Tolerance 3. Hating The Haters (In The Name Of Love) 4. The Tolerance That Is Only Skin Deep 5. How To Deal With The Brainwashed 6. How The Free Speech Movement Stopped Moving 7. Am I A Racist? Depends On … Read more
Book Preview “It’s not allowed, Artyom. “Open it. Open up, I tell you.” “The station master told us … He said not to let anyone out.” “Do you take me for some kind of idiot? Anyone—who’s that? Who is this anyone?” “I have my orders! For the protection of the station … Against the radiation. I have my orders. Got that?” “Sukhoi gave you the order? My stepfather gave you the … Read more
Book Preview The entire world lies in ruins. The human race has been almost completely wiped out. Radiation renders half-ruined cities uninhabitable, and rumours say that beyond the city limits there is nothing but boundless expanses of scorched desert and dense thickets of mutated forest. But no one knows what really is out there. As … Read more
Book Preview ‘Who’s there? Artyom – go have a look!’ Artyom rose reluctantly from his seat by the fire and, shifting the machine gun from his back to his chest, headed towards the darkness. He stood right at the edge of the lighted area and then, as loudly and threateningly as he could, he clicked … Read more
Book Preview To two friends, brave American soldiers, Private First Class Stephen J. Weiss and the late Colonel Alfred E. Baker During the Second World War, the United States awarded Private Weiss a Bronze Star, three U.S. battle stars, a Second World War Victory Medal, a Southern France D-Day Landing Citation, a Combat Infantry Badge … Read more
Book Preview THAT NIGHT my mom took me to dinner at this French restaurant downtown. It was a cosy little place on a back street. The guy came over and spoke to her in English but she answered him in French, giving me a little look just to make sure I was listening. He took … Read more
Book Preview The excerpts from the treatise the precocious ten-year-old Liv reads in chapter 20 are drawn partly verbatim from Hans Gross’s 1911 Criminal Psychology. Huge thanks are due to my editor, Eric Raab, for invaluable comments and support, and to my agent, Howard Morhaim, without whose efforts this wouldn’t be here, and to Sarah, … Read more
Book Preview First and foremost, I’d like to thank my loyal readers—from Atlanta to Rio to Warsaw and everywhere in between—for making my job both meaningful and fun. Talking with you on Facebook and Twitter and meeting you on my book tours gets me through every painful bout of writer’s block and reminds me why … Read more
Book Preview WHISTLEBLOWER By Tess Gerritsen Her hands were bloody. Cathy flinched as he inspected them. Looking down, she saw the bloodied scratches, the flakes of rust embedded in her skin. “I guess I’m a mess,” she murmured. Victor smiled and stroked her face. “You could use some washing up. Go ahead. I’ll get us … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My deepest thanks to my guiding light and literary agent Meg Ruley, to Jane Berkey and Don Cleary of the Jane Rotrosen Agency, to Linda Marrow and Gina Centrello at Ballantine Books, and to Selina Walker at Transworld. You all made it happen. My deepest thanks to my guiding light and … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I owe a very special thanks to: Bruce Blake and Detective Wayne R. Rock of the Boston Police Department, and to Chris Michalakes, M.D., for their technical assistance. Jane Berkey, Don Cleary, and Andrea Cirillo for their helpful comments on the first draft. My editor, Linda Marrow, for gently pointing the way. … Read more
Book Preview THESINNER TESS GERRITSEN BALLANTINEBOOKS• NEW YORK To my mother, Ruby J. C. Tom, with love. The Sinner is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. A Ballantine Book Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 2003 by Tess … Read more