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A billion dollars is a lot of money but not for Jim, a trading whizz kid. While buying into a new mine in Congo his broker has gone missing in the Jungle….
Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland and her four daughters – Frankie, Mags, Sharon and Roxie – with an iron fist….
An angry and mercilessly suspenseful novel about an ex-con’s attempt to negotiate the “straight world” and his swan dive back into the paradoxical security of crime. It is airtight in its construction, almost photorealistic in its portrayal of L.A. lowlife and utterly knowledgeable about the terrors of liberty, the high of the quick…
Oceanview, Los Angeles, 1962. Stark is a rat and a con-artist. Nobody’s friend. The kind of guy Eddie Bunker met in San Quentin. Stark thinks he can beat the suckers and outsmart the cops. When a big score comes his way, he’s lucky to escape with his life. Four others are not so lucky….
James Grady revolutionized thrillers with his first novel ‘Six Days of the Condor’. Now Grady breaks out of all genre limitations with ‘Mad Dogs’, a stunning novel launched from a totally original creation: the CIA’s secret insane asylum for retired agents….
Sadie, Nicky, Poppy and Kate. Four women who are on the surface sexy, confident and wealthy – but each of them is trapped in a loveless and sometimes violent marriage to four of the most feared London gangsters….
As the international team of scientists at the spectacular Trudeau Research Center prepares for six months of unrelenting winter, three of their colleagues are found dead on the ice, their pupils missing, their bodies contorted in ghastly, unnatural positions, hardened from the inside out. Cause of death: unknown. Dr. Jessica Hanley,…
Jimmy Jenner has been working as a private detective since a terrorist bomb caused him to lose a leg, and his job on London’s police force. He is hired to work on a straightforward divorce case, but the stakes are soon raised….
The chance discovery of a 30 year old blue movie leads back to the film’s maker, Tim Purdom, and the London of the late fifties and early sixties. Purdom was a pioneer of the B&W British porno film and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed eight films…but who was directing him and what was their hidden…
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations…. It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it’s the axis around which this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel spins, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art…
Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder of a possibly imaginary character that took place more than 10 years before. The chief suspect is the narrator of the novel who may or may not have committed the crime – even he isn’t sure….