Burke, the relentless urban mercenary, returns in this riveting new thriller by bestselling author Andrew Vachss. Two decades ago, Burke "recovered" a teenage runaway from a pimp. Now she's on the run, again. After seeing the man who hired him to find her gunned down by a professional hunter-killer team, Burke realizes he could be next. The master urban survivalist knows he has to finish the job to learn the truth, only now he's looking for a predator, not a victim. The search will force Burke to walk down the one dark alley that has always terrified him -- his past.From the Paperback edition.From Publishers WeeklyHard-boiled crime fans will enjoy the latest entry in Vachss's long-running Burke series (Down Here, etc.). The renegade New York City PI, who operates by an idiosyncratic private moral code, has been lying low since being shot in the face. But a longtime fixer, Charlie, soon sees past Burke's attempt to pose as his own brother and arranges a meeting with a prospective client, who wants to find a missing woman. What should have been a routine setup turns deadly when professional hit men gun down the client as he's attempting to retrieve Burke's retainer from his car. Burke, afraid that the gunmen may come after him and the data-filled CD the dead man gave him, uses his own network of allies and contacts to learn more about the missing woman, Beryl Preston, whom he happens to have saved from a pimp 20 years earlier. Despite a familiar plot, the sharp-edged prose and cutting insights into New York's underbelly elevate this above many similar crime novels.

A delectable prequel to the national bestselling Royal Spyness mysteries featuring Lady Georgiana Rannoch—thirty forth in line to the throne, and England’s poorest heiress. At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man—until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until she learns that the royal family intends to marry her off to a foreign prince, one reputed to be mad. When the prince, dressed as the devil, rescues her from an embarrassing situation at the ball, Georgie is surprised to find her unwanted suitor to be a dashing, charming man—especially when he pulls her aside and gives her the kiss of a lifetime. But as the time comes for the unmasking, Georgie’s rescuer vanishes and the party is thrown into chaos, making it clear that everything at Broxley Manor is not as it appears…Includes a preview of the latest Royal Spyness mystery, The Twelve Clues of Christmas, available November 2012.

Original as ever, Mr. Wheatley has produced a new type of hero in Robbie Grenn, a charming but mentally retarded young man who, owing to an injury when young, has never been to school, and is regarded by his family as almost a moron. Espionage would hardly seem to be his metier, yet, to prove that he is as good as other men, Robbie takes up the challenge that lands him many times in peril of his life. Interwoven with his adventures is the story of his relationship with the lovely Stephanie, the first girl with whom the chronically shy young man has ever had more than a passing acquaintance.As this is a Wheatley book, we need hardly add that the suspense is acute and the denouement remarkable. And, more unusual, Mr. Wheatley, with his flair for blending the exciting and the informative, has embodied in his narrative some stories from Greek mythology told in strict accordance with the chronicles, yet in an off-beat manner which presents the gods and heroes as human characters involved in tragedies and comedies as grim or humorously bawdy as any put upon the Restoration stage. These are revealingly counterpointed with the story of Robbie. Mayhem in Greece is another certain best-seller which will enthrall Dennis Wheatley's present readership and extend it, for he is still the 'discovery' of new readers all over the world.

Ērihs Marija RemarksMELNAIS OBELISKSNovēlotas jaunības stāstsRomāna darbība risinās pēckara (1.pasaules kara) Vācijā. Romāna galvenais varonis  Ludvigs strādā kapakmeņu firmā “Krolls un dēli”, līdztekus pasniedz privātstundas klavierspēlē, spēlē ērģeles psihiatriskajā slimnīcā un ir izbijis skolotājs.Ludvigs ir zaudējis savu mīlestību- Ernu, kura ir izvēlējusi materiāli nodrošinātāku dzīves veidu. Viņš ir iepazinies ar garīgi slimo Ženevjēvu  (Izabella/Ženija), šizofrēniķi, kurā arī iemīlas. Ludvigs ir karā zaudējis daudzus pilsoniskus priekšstatus, un to vietā bija nācis tikai cinisms un mazliet izmisuma, nevis pārākuma un brīvības sajūta. Viņš daudzreiz apzinās, ka naudai ir liela nozīme, tomēr tās dēļ nav ar mieru iesaistīties spekulācijās un milzīgās mahinācijās.No vācu valodas tulkojusi Anda PlēsumaRīga, Liesma, 1991Nerājiet mani, ka es runāju par veciem lai­kiem! Apokalipses blāvā gaisma atkal apspīd pasauli, vēl nav izklīdusi pēdējās sagrāves asins dvaka un putekļu grīstes, bet jau laboratorijas un fabrikas no jauna strādā ar pilnu jaudu, lai saglabātu mieru, izgudrojot tādus ieročus, ar kuriem var uzspridzināt visu zemes­lodi.Miers pasaulē! Nekad par to nav runāts vai­rāk un nekad tā labā nav darīts mazāk kā mūsu laikā; nekad nav bijis vairāk viltus praviešu, nekad vairāk melu, vairāk nāves, vairāk sagrāves un vairāk asaru kā mūsu gadsimtā - divdesmitajā gadsimtā, progresa, tehnikas, ci­vilizācijas, masu kultūras un masu slepkavību gadsimtā.Tāpēc nerājieties, ka es atgriežos tajos teik­smainajos gados, kad cerība pār mums vēl plīvoja kā karogs un mēs ticējām tik aizdomī­giem jēdzieniem kā cilvēcība, taisnīgums, iecietība un arī tam, ka ar vienu pasaules karu vajadzētu pietikt, lai viena paaudze gūtu mācību.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family. She’d know about her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.

This is the third volume in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy of novels. Set in the eighteenth century, they launched the career of Philippa Gregory , the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin's Lover. Meridon, a desolate Romany girl, is determined to escape the hard poverty of her childhood. Riding bareback in a travelling show, while her sister Dandy risks her life on the trapeze, Meridon dedicates herself to freeing them both from danger and want. But Dandy, beautiful, impatient, thieving Dandy, grabs too much, too quickly. And Meridon finds herself alone, riding in bitter grief through the rich Sussex farmlands towards a house called Wideacre -- which awaits the return of the last of the Laceys. Sweeping, passionate, unique: 'Meridon' completes Philippa Gregory's bestselling trilogy which began with 'Wideacre' and continued with 'The Favoured Child'.From Publishers WeeklyWith this elaborate tapestry of a young woman's life, the Lacey family trilogy ( Wideacre and The Favored Child ) comes to a satisfying conclusion. Meridon is the lost child whose legacy is the estate of Wideacre. She and her very different sister, Dandy, were abandoned as infants and raised in a gypsy encampment, learning horsetrading and other tricks of survival. They are indentured to a circus master whose traveling show is made successful by Meridon's equestrian flair and Dandy's seductive beauty on the trapeze. Meridon's escape from this world is fueled by pregnant Dandy's murder and her own obsessive dream of her ancestral home. After claiming Wideacre, Meridon succumbs for a while to the temptation of the "quality" social scene, but eventually she comes to her senses, and, in a tricky card game near the end of the saga, triumphs fully. The hard-won homecoming in this historical novel is richly developed and impassioned.