A suspenseful crime thriller, Martin's Voice is the story of a ruined reporter desperate to regain his footing in the world of big-time journalism. Torn over how many bodies he is willing to leave behind, Tom O'Shaughnessy follows the trail of two sinister men out to convince world leaders that China is on the brink of world domination. But the trail begins to follow him as he writes off China's alleged military takeover as a ridiculous scam to defraud untold billions from every nation wit...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-LevittIn the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the grou...

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref.The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolut...

Stephen Reid has grown old in prison and seen more than his share of its solitude, its vicious cycles, and its subculture relationships. He has participated in the economics of contraband, the incredible escapes, the intimacies of torture, the miscarriages of justice, and witnessed the innocent souls whose childhood destinies doomed them to prison life. He has learned that everything is bearable, that the painful separation of family, children, and friend is tolerable, and that sorrow must...

This gripping and trippy true account of international drug smuggling, the hippie underground, and the war on marijuana is a “wild, entertaining ride” (Kirkus Reviews).Richard Stratton was not what most people would think as a drug kingpin. He was a clean-cut young man from Wellesley who came from a normal, middle-class family.That all changed when, on a trip to Mexico, his search for a joint led to him smuggling two kilos of dope across the border...

True story: in 1954, Joe Baumann hit 72 home runs for the Roswell Rockets, the most exciting thing to happen to Roswell since the alien landing. Not to imply a causal relationship. Well, maybe a little one...in Harry Turtledove's The Star and the Rockets.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A gripping new novel in the three-time Shamus Award-winning Amos Walker series.The New York Times calls Amos Walker a "streetwise indestructible tiger with an ethical code that keeps him with the good guys." In a sharp new thriller, Detroit's most savvy private eye is up to his neck in international drug-smuggling, hit squads, double-identities, music-industry gangsters, and a client who's nothing but trouble.Gilia Cristobal is a singer with a complicated past. Her...

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriterWhat Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire is the second posthumous collection from Charles Bukowski that takes readers deep into the raw, wild vein of writing that extends from the early 1970s to the 1990s.

**ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARSThe debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of My Year Abroad and the highly anticipated A Tender Age**In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, ...

TO: UNIT 3 ChicagoFROM: DIRECTORIMPORTANCE: CriticalSUBJECT: Specimen RetrievalTARGET: Shadowy hunter-killer teams, ID'ed via signature kills worldwide. Identifiable only by skull-spine removal from victims. No witnesses, no forensics, no particular race targeted. On rare occasions, scraps of what appear to be playing cards found at murder sites.OBJECTIVE: Locate and capture any member of such teams. MUST be taken alive for study and observation.

**From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy“A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print.”—Entertainment Weekly**Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a...

The political humorist shares his transformation from dirty hippie to conservative middle-aged grouch: "An incorrigible comic gift" ( The New York Times Book Review).The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Give War a Chance was at one time a raving pinko, with scars on his formerly bleeding heart to prove it. In Age and Guile: Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut, P. J. O'Rourke chronicles the remarkable trajectory that t...