Showing posts with label David Morrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Morrell. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2020

TH - 754/1 | The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis #1) by David Morrell

Chris and Saul were orphans - raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them sweets. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins.


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TH - 754/2 | The Fraternity of the Stone (Mortalis #2) by David Morrell

Drew Maclane was a star agent--until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses. Someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played....


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TH - 754/3 | The League of Night and Fog (Mortalis #3) by David Morrell

David Morrells international thrillers have no equal. Among his classic novels, this story stands as one of his most exciting and brilliant works a globe-spanning tale that brings together two generations of men and women bound by one murderous legacy.  

From the Vatican to the Swiss Alps, from Australia to the heartland of America, the two masterful operatives known as Saul and Drew are being drawn together to solve a violent riddle: Why have ten old men been abducted from around the world?


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Thursday, April 30, 2020

TH - 705/1 | Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey #1) by David Morrell

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.

The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.



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TH - 705/1.5 | The Opium-Eater (Thomas De Quincey #1.5) by David Morrell

From bestselling thriller author David Morrell comes a brooding Thomas De Quincey short story about the coldest of deaths and their heartbreaking aftermath.

Thomas De Quincey--the central character of Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mysteries, Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead--was one of the most notorious and brilliant literary personalities of the 1800s.
His infamous Confessions of an English Opium-Eater made history as the first book about drug dependency.


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TH - 705/2 | Inspector of the Dead (Thomas De Quincey #2) by David Morrell

The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible daughter, Emily, and their Scotland Yard companions, Ryan and Becker, De Quincey finds himself confronted by an adversary who threatens the heart of the nation.


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TH - 705/3 | Ruler of the Night (Thomas De Quincey #3) by David Morrell

Thomas De Quincey is beginning to control his opium addiction when the excitement of his current case threatens to unravel his grip on reality once and for all. On their way home to the Lake District, the De Quinceys become unwitting witnesses to a truly historic murder: the first to take place on one of England's newly constructed railways.


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TH - 704/1 | Creepers (Frank Balenger #1) by David Morrell

David Morrell’s Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre. A New York Times best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves.  
 
On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.


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TH - 704/2 | Scavenger (Frank Balenger #2) by David Morrell

David Morrell’s Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre. A New York Times best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves.  

Scavenger, Morrell’s latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction: a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule. 


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TH - 703/1 | The Protector (Cavanaugh #1) by David Morrell

Cavanaugh is a former Delta Force operator who now works for Global Protective Services - a private firm catering to those in the direst of circumstances. They offer security and deliver results. Even if it entails forging official documents and laundering money to create a new untraceable identity, they will safeguard a client from any legitimate threat.


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TH - 703/2 | The Naked Edge (Cavanaugh #2) by David Morrell

Once they were boyhood best friends, playing in the woods near their homes, pretending to be soldiers surviving behind enemy lines. Grownup, they belonged to Delta Force and later worked as protectors for the world's best security company.

Now their lives have taken drastically different paths, pitting them against one another, forcing them to play their boyhood game again, this time to learn who dies.


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TH - 702/1 | First Blood (First Blood #1/Rambo #1) by David Morrell

First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the pages of FIRST BLOOD to take his place in the American cultural landscape. 

This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small-town cop who doesn't know whom he's dealing with -- or how far Rambo will take him into a life-and-death struggle through the woods, hills, and caves of rural Kentucky.


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TH - 701 | Burnt Sienna by David Morrell

The ultimate showdown...
Famous artist and ex-marine Chase Malone is asked by an emissary of mysterious businessman Derek Bellasar to paint a portrait of Bellasar's wife. He politely refuses, but when he finds his home bulldozed and his gallery sold, he has little choice but to take the job.


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TH - 700 | Black Evening: Tales of Dark Suspense by David Morrell

A collection of tales that delve into the weird, uncanny terrors that lurk just beneath the comforting surfaces of daily life. 

Fear of loss, fear of pain, fear of madness, fear of being trapped, fear of the inescapable, unspeakable horrors that fester deep within the soul.... No matter who or where you are, fear is always with you, always ready to attack from behind the masks of thought and dream.



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TH - 698 | Desperate Measures by David Morrell

This story begins as Matt Pittman, a once famous journalist whose life has fallen apart because of overwhelming personal tragedy, prepares his own suicide. 

Suddenly, what was to have been the final act of Matt's ruined life is interrupted by a phone call. Matt's editor has an assignment for him: write an obituary of a man who is not dead yet.


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TH - 697 | Extreme Denial by David Morrell

An American intelligence operative, Steve Decker suddenly moves to Santa Fe after a tragedy on his 40th birthday. There he finds peace of mind and a beautiful, sensual woman named Beth Dwyer. Steve will soon discover, however, that Beth harbors heinous secrets. Is she the love of his life--or his most deadly enemy?


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N - 33 | Fireflies: A Father’s Classic Tale of Love and Loss by David Morrell

In the bestselling novels of suspense master David Morrell, fear is the main subject. But Morrell himself had never known genuine terror until he watched his 15-year-old son wage a heroic but doomed struggle with cancer.

This is one father’s powerful and unforgettable story of fierce love, impenetrable loss, and an unexpected, breathtaking encounter with the miraculous.


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TH - 696 | Nightscape by David Morrell

In each of the stories in this collection there is a theme: obsession and determination. 
A character gets an idea in his head, a hook on his emotions, a need that has to be fulfilled, and he does everything possible to carry through, no matter how difficult.

Written with the haunting emotional intensity and lightning pace that has made David Morrell the master of high-action suspense writing, this collection of stories will leave you dazzled.


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TH - 695 | The Covenant of the Flame by David Morrell

In the Amazon basin, the widow of a rubber-tree tapper who was assassinated for opposing destruction of the rain forest receives a gruesome gift -- the head of the financier who ordered her husband's death. 

In Australia, a tanker captain responsible for a massive oil spill is blown to pieces and top oil executives are drowned or poisoned.


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