Criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck finds himself involved in a complicated cover-up that spans fifty years and the globe.

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This novel provides an intimate look behind the closed doors of a prominent New York law firm.

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"As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father's sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica." "But Malone isn't the only one after the truth. Twin sisters Dorothea Lindauer and Christl Falk are fighting for the fortune their mother has promised to whichever of them discovers what really became of their father - who died on the same submarine that Malone's father captained." "The sisters know something Malone doesn't: Inspired by strange clues discovered in Charlemagne's tomb, the Nazis explored Antarctica before the Americans, as long ago as 1938. Now Malone discovers that cryptic journals penned in "the language of heaven," inscrutable conundrums posed by an ancient historian, and the ill-fated voyage of his father are all tied to a revelation of immense consequence for humankind." "In an effort to ensure that this explosive information never rises to the surface, Langford Ramsey, an ambitious navy admiral, has begun a brutal game of treachery, blackmail, and assassination. As Malone embarks on a dangerous quest with the sisters - one that leads them from an ancient German cathedral to a snowy French citadel to the unforgiving ice of Antarctica - he will finally confront the shocking truth of his father's death and the distinct possibility of his own."--BOOK JACKET.

A TV writer puts aside her career to have a baby and take care of the sumptuous L.A. home of her legendary husband, while scratching a seven-year itch with a rock star.

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Kay Scarpetta becomes involved in the most bizarre case she has ever encountered.

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"At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket - until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he's diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it's his only hope, and it's dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all ... his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life." "One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear - a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me." "In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She's the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan's own chest. And she's come to take it back."--BOOK JACKET.

Set in the 17th century, a slave at a plantation in Maryland offers up her daughter to a relatively humane farmer as debt payment from their owner.  The affects of this choice spread to the inhabitants of Jacob's farm.

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Gideon discovers that teams of hired assassins are after him.

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"A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming ... a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia ... a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war ... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man - and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them."--BOOK JACKET.

"When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, off-duty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report?" "Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy's disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband into action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn's loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee's underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel's gritty and stunning conclusion." "The Bodies Left Behind is an epic cat-and-mouse chase, told nearly in real-time, and is filled with Deaver's patented twists and turns, where nothing is what it seems, and death lingers just around the next curve on a deserted path deep in the midnight forest."--BOOK JACKET.

Confessions of a Fiftysomething.

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Since Dr. Robert Ballard and his team located the Titanic's wreckage in 1985, there had been nothing new to report.  Until now.  Get ready to unearth one of the greatest historical cover-ups of the twentieth century.

Matsen's new book can take its place as the definitive answer to the world's most unanswerable question:  Why did Titanic sink as quickly as she did?

In 2005, deep sea detectives Chatterson and Kohler stacked their finances and reuptations on the report of one man who claimed to have seen new evidence that the majestic ships' last hours were not at all what we had imagined and that it did not sink exactly as we have come to believe.  David Concannon had seen "rebbons of steel that looked like they had been peeled from the ship" in titanic's debris field.  He had no real proof, only what he had seen.  Chatterson and Kohler tood a plunge in and effort to discover, once and for all, how and why Titanic sunk.

Divided into three sections:  "Shipwreck," "Dreams," and "Secrets," Martsen weaves the mystery effortlessly.

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