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Amazonia
by James Rollins
Adventure through the Amazon rainforest to uncover a hidden power.
“Gripping…a first-rate nail biter.” —,Tampa Tribune, James Rollins—the author of, The Doomsday Key,, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order,, and other pulse-pounding,, New York Times, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Subterranean
by James Rollins
A team of scientists and soldiers descend into a dangerous underground world to uncover a deadly secret.
Travel to the bottom of the earth to a place you never dreamed existed. Beneath the ice a hand-picked team of specialist makes its way toward the center of the world. They are not the first to ... (Goodreads)
Map of Bones
by James Rollins
A thrilling adventure to unravel a hidden secret and save humanity.
The bones lead to ancient mysteries and present-day terror . . . To follow them means death. During a crowded service at a cathedral in Germany, armed intruders in monks' robes unleash a nightmare of ... (Goodreads)
Ice Station
by Matthew Reilly
A team of special forces soldiers on a mission to save an Antarctic research station from a mysterious enemy.
After a diving team at Wilkes Ice Station is killed, the station sends out a distress signal. A team of United States Force Recon Marines led by Shane Schofield , code named Scarecrow, arrives at the ... (Wikipedia)
Temple
by Matthew Reilly
A group of adventurers explore a mysterious ancient temple, fighting off deadly traps and challenges.
Professor William Race is a young linguist, working for NYU is approached by a retired Col. Frank Nash, a physicist from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA , to translate a ... (Wikipedia)
Relic
by Douglas Preston
Scientists investigate an ancient secret, hidden deep in the South American jungle.
In September 1987, Dr. Julian Whittlesey is leading an expedition through the Amazon Basin , in the Brazilian rainforest , in search of the lost Kothoga tribe. He hopes to prove that they still do ... (Wikipedia)
Area 7
by Matthew Reilly
A group of terrorists take over a military base in Antarctica, and it's up to a lone hero to stop them before they unleash a deadly virus.
The President of the United States is visiting America's most secret military installation , Area 7. Assigned to his protective detail is Shane Schofield and his team of Marines including Gunnery ... (Wikipedia)
The Codex
by Douglas Preston
A stolen ancient manuscript holds the key to a deadly virus. A race against time to find it before it falls into the wrong hands.
Maxwell Broadbent, an eccentric rich man with terminal cancer, has spent his entire life collecting valuable art and treasures from around the world. One day, he writes a letter to his three sons ... (Wikipedia)
Terminal Freeze
by Lincoln Child
A team of scientists and soldiers discover a prehistoric creature frozen in the Arctic ice, but it's not dead. It's hungry.
The events take place in Alaska , north of the Arctic Circle . A decommissioned military base located near the fictional Mount Fear, the Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation, is being used by a ... (Wikipedia)
The Templar Legacy
by Steve Berry
Archaeologists uncover a long-lost secret about the Templars, as a race against time ensues.
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden ... (Goodreads)
Timeline
by Michael Crichton
A group of scientists travelling through time to save their present.
In Corazon, Dan Baker and his wife are lost and driving through the Northern Arizona desert when they come across a man in his seventies who looks like a priest. They pull over to help him, then take ... (Wikipedia)
The Hunt for Atlantis
by Andy McDermott
Adventurer Nina Wilde and ex-SAS Eddie Chase search for the lost city of Atlantis, facing danger and betrayal at every turn.
Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she has found the ... (Goodreads)
Deep Storm
by Lincoln Child
A team of scientists and Navy SEALs descend to the depths of the ocean to investigate a mysterious illness. But what they find is beyond their wildest imaginations.
In the prologue, three workers – Kevin Lindengood, Fred Hicks, and John Wherry – are operating the rig on the Storm King oil rig in the North Atlantic , off the coast of Greenland . When the ... (Wikipedia)
Utopia
by Lincoln Child
A group of strangers embark on a mysterious journey, uncovering secrets of a strange and unknown world.
Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times ... (Goodreads)
Prey
by Michael Crichton
A swarm of nanorobots designed to self-replicate and evolve escape from a lab, threatening humanity's existence.
The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics but was fired and blackballed for discovering an internal ... (Wikipedia)
The Sanctuary
by Raymond Khoury
A thrilling adventure through the Vatican's secret archives, uncovering a conspiracy that could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the bed chamber of the Marquis de Montferrat. Their leader, Raimundo di Sangro – the Prince of San Severo – accuses him of being ... (Goodreads)
The Amber Room
by Steve Berry
A thrilling adventure to uncover the lost Amber Room, a priceless treasure stolen by the Nazis during WWII.
The story is about judge Rachel Cutler and her husband Paul, a divorced American couple caught up in a treasure hunt for the long-missing Amber Room. A couple of competitive professional treasure ... (Wikipedia)
Point of Origin
by Patricia Cornwell
An FBI agent investigates a string of arson cases, uncovering a mysterious criminal.
Dr Kay Scarpetta, Virginia Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF , is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia that has been destroyed by fire. In ... (Wikipedia)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
A collection of interviews recounting tales of the zombie apocalypse.
It has been nearly twenty years since the start of the apocalyptic worldwide pandemic known as the Zombie War, and about ten years since the war has ended in humanity's victory. The framing device ... (Wikipedia)
The Venetian Betrayal
by Steve Berry
A thrilling adventure through the streets of Venice, as protagonist Cotton Malone races to uncover a deadly conspiracy.
In 323 BC Babylon, Alexander the Great executes his physician for failing to save his friend Hephaestion using a mysterious draught, and reveals that he has a fever that could well kill him without ... (Wikipedia)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
by Diana Gabaldon
A time-traveling story of loss and redemption, as characters confront the past and the future.
Claire is the wife of Jamie Fraser, her 18th century husband, and facing the politics and turmoil of the forthcoming American Revolution . The preceding novel,, The Fiery Cross, , concluded with ... (Wikipedia)
From Potter's Field
by Patricia Cornwell
Dr. Kay Scarpetta investigates a string of murders in New York City, leading her to a homeless woman with a dangerous past.
The story begins as a rotten Christmas for Scarpetta: Temple Gault has struck again, leaving a naked, apparently homeless woman shot in Central Park on Christmas Eve; Scarpetta, as the FBI 's ... (Wikipedia)
The Body Farm
by Patricia Cornwell
A thrilling crime mystery, uncovering the truth behind a series of gruesome murders.
Kay Scarpetta is called in to assist in the investigation of the brutal murder of 11-year-old Emily Steiner in rural North Carolina , whose murder resembles the handiwork of a serial killer who has ... (Wikipedia)
The Lost World
by Michael Crichton
Explorers uncover a prehistoric world and use science to battle its inhabitants.
In 1993, four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm – who is revealed to have survived the events of the previous novel , despite being declared dead ... (Wikipedia)
Brimstone
by Douglas Preston
A thrilling mystery that takes the reader on a journey of suspense and suspenseful action.
FBI Special Agent Aloysius X.L. Pendergast and Sergeant Vincent D'Agosta , now working for the Southampton Police Department, investigate a series of unusual deaths—deaths that appear to be the work ... (Wikipedia)
Further Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
A series of witty and interconnected stories set in the vibrant city of San Francisco.
The residents of 28 Barbary Lane are back again in this racy, suspenseful and wildly romantic sequel to Tales of the City and More Tales of the City. DeDe Halcyon Day and Mary Ann Singleton track ... (Goodreads)
Hard Eight
by Janet Evanovich
Adventure with a con artist, a hitman, and an FBI agent, on a wild mission of suspense and deception.
Stephanie is asked by her parents' next-door neighbor, Mabel Markowitz, to find her granddaughter, Evelyn and great-granddaughter, Annie, who have disappeared. During a messy divorce with her ... (Wikipedia)
The Mermaids Singing
by Val McDermid
A psychological thriller about a serial killer and the profiler who must hunt him down.
Val McDermid stunned readers and critics alike with the publication of her brilliant thriller, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, which was a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Award. Now, in THE MERMAIDS ... (Goodreads)
Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven
A cataclysmic comet strikes Earth, leading to a fight for survival.
When wealthy soap company heir and amateur astronomer Tim Hamner co-discovers a new comet , dubbed Hamner-Brown, the documentary producer Harvey Randall persuades Hamner to have his family's company ... (Wikipedia)
Tales of the City
by Armistead Maupin
A warm and comedic exploration of 1970s San Francisco and its colorful inhabitants.
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts ... (Goodreads)
