With the police hot on his tail, an infamous hit man flees to the United States to exact revenge in this “exciting [and] suspenseful” (The Washington Post Book World) sequel to the Edgar Award winner The Butcher’s Boy.“A bravura performance.”—Chicago TribuneHe came to England to rest. He calls himself Michael Shaeffer, says he’s a retired American businessman. He goes to the races, dates a kinky aristocrat, and sl...

After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide Jane Whitefield is back, in the latest superb thriller by award-winning author Thomas Perry. For more than a decade, Jane pursued her unusual profession: "I'm a guide...I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is." Then she promised her husband she would never work again and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in ...

A disgraced police officer’s request sends Jane Whitefield on a perilous adventure of sacrifice, betrayal, and vengeance—a “gripping” (The Washington Post Book World) novel from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.“A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.”—The New York TimesJane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness—not the tree-fil...

For ten years Jane Whitefield helped people escape from their enemies and become 'runners', creating new identities for them that would never be uncovered. Then she married and promised her husband that she would give up her dangerous job.When a bomb explodes in the middle of a reception, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young girl, who's pregnant and has been tracked across the country by a team of hired assassins. That night, regardless of the vo...

Jane Whitefield inadvertently becomes the target of two professional assassins in this “compelling [and] truly frightening” (Chicago Tribune) thriller from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.“[Thomas] Perry keeps the screws turned until the final page; suspense novels don’t get much more suspenseful.”—The Cleveland Plain DealerJane Whitefield is a name to be whispered like a prayer. A shadow woman who r...

A detective’s murder investigation takes a perilous turn when she becomes the elusive serial killer’s next target in this “bone-chilling [and] transfixing crime story” (The New York Times) from the award-winning author of The Butcher’s Boy.“A fast-paced thriller . . . tightly plotted, with a lot of action and plenty of twists.”—The Denver PostWhen the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found sho...

“[Thomas Perry is] a master of nail-biting suspense.”—Los Angeles TimesIn this explosive new novel from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Butcher’s Boy, Blood Money, and other novels of “dazzling ingenuity” (The New York Times Book Review), Thomas Perry gives us a thriller even more startling than his most recent bestseller, Pursuit. In Dead Aim, an unsuspecting man tries to help a young woman on the ed...

A fast-paced LA crime thriller from Edgar Award–winning author Thomas Perry; now a major motion picture starring Russell Crowe and Aaron Paul.Aging strip club owner Manco Kapak is ready to move on from his life on the edge of LA's criminal underworld. When he gets robbed at gunpoint, his house gets burgled, and two of his cars are destroyed, he is enraged. Kapak sends his men to scour the streets for the culprit. The search turns up Joe Carver, innocent of the susp...

This is a brief illustrated primer on Greek Portrait paintings. The discussion revolves around portraits found in ancient burial sites.

The Children of a King: Ridgecrest, Summer of 1950 follows eighteen-year-old Cordel Whitman as he leaves home for the first time. Hoping to do something different and worthwhile, he spends three months working on the summer staff of Ridgecrest, a large Christian conference center in the North Carolina mountains. He makes many friends (some of them lifelong friends) among the 330 college students who work with him, and also among others at Ridgecrest especially a lonely, troubled little boy...

**The outstanding new novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling grand master of adventure.Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery—the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people wo...

The Little Men by Megan Abbott: Rumors and strange experiences lead a washed-up actress in 1950s Hollywood to question the suspicious circumstances surrounding the alleged suicide of a former occupant of her low-rent bungalow.What's in a Name? by Thomas H. Cook: Rare books dealer and amateur historian Franklin Altman has always wondered how the world might have turned out if the First World War had ended differently. On the fiftieth anniversary of the Armistice Tr...