When his wife is taken hostage as a result of a well-planned heist of a California nuclear-power plant, Detective Sergeant Ryder, aided by his policeman son, launches an unofficial investigation and learns that a fanatical religious...
Adventure stories
- Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary:
- Author:INNES, HammondSummary:
Golden Soak is an old abandoned mine in the Pilbara at the height of the mineral boom.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
A sweeping drama that moves from the glitter of London society to the grandeur of Europe and the heat of Africa. Beautiful Isabella Courtney and her brothers are drawn into conflict with each other over the secret of the golden fox.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
A brutal tale of greed and lust set in the goldfields of South Africa.
- Author:Douglas CouplandSummary:
After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides to her boyfriend, Richard, of the dark visions she's been suffering recently. It's only a few hours later on that snowy Saturday night in 1979...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
The narrator and his wife Denise are rescued by the Cold Harbour lifeboat. Curiously, Zec Acland, the old lifeboat man, recognises their antique flying mascot. Zec begins to tell a secret long-kept tale of spell-binding intrigue.
- Author:FRASER, George MacdonaldSummary:
If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel ... Well, American history would have been different, a disastrous civil war might have been avoided, and...
- Author:BRANDO, MarlonSummary:
Anatole 'Annie' Doultry is in his early 50's, a man of imposing physical presence and a reputation on the high seas from the Philippines to Shanghai. In 1927, he is serving six months in a hellish Hong Kong prison where...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
Sean Dillon is an assassin. He will work for anyone as long as the money is right. British Intelligence has marked Dillon for death and send a killer to catch a killer; Martin Brosnan, a man with a passion for revenge.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
A powerful man and a beautiful woman fight against the forces of greed, evil and corruption as they attempt to save the native people and wildlife of Africa from extinction.
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
The new action-packed Sean Dillon novel where he is racing against time to prevent an assassination that would shock the world.
- Author:ARCHER, GeoffreySummary:
Middle Eastern thriller. For Abdul Habib revenge is an obsession which will prompt him to buy the deadliest weaponry known to man; stolen warheads from Russia's crumbling empire. HMS Eagle finds that it is the only force on hand to...
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
Reluctant MI6 agent, Alex Rider, is relaxing in France with his friend and her family. He is just trying to be a typical teenager when a chance encounter with an assassin launches him into danger. He must investigate a pop star whose...
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
David Morgan, the gifted heir to a family fortune, rebels and becomes a fighter pilot. Meeting Debra, a beautiful Israeli writer, he follows her to her homeland, and becomes involved in another country's war.
- Author:BUNN, A. G.Summary:
Steve wants to run the Coast-to-Coast race at all costs, to push himself to the limit and beat the clock. Kel also wants to enter but is battling a life-threatening disease. Together they must use all their strength to face what the...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
An Irish prisoner has, with the help of the Mafia, escaped from a high security prison and is thought to be en route to Ireland. His plans could blow the peace process out of the water. Both British and US premiers know how to avert...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
One by one, people are dying as they play with virtual reality. Rhonda, a loner with a sense of curiosity, draws her friend Preben into a dangerous world of technology, intrigue and mind games in an effort to find out just what is going...
- Author:Cussler, CliveSummary:
A bomber, carrying a third nuclear bomb to Japan in 1945, is shot down in the Sea of Japan. Now, terrorists want to restore Japan's former glory by taking out the United States economy by planting nuclear bombs. The only hope for...
- Author:BENSON, RaymondSummary:
From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond continues his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic consequence - but not without the help and hindrance of two mysterious femmes fatales.
- Author:MICHAEL, JudithSummary:
Two beautiful, elegant identical twins exchange their very different lives for one week. Everyone is fooled - even the husband of one twin.