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Most of the things Pillow really liked to do were obviously morally wrong. He wasn't an idiot; clearly it was wrong to punch people in the face for money. But there had been an art to it, and it had been thrilling and thoughtful for him. The zoo was also evil, a jail for animals who'd committed no crimes, but he just loved it. The way Pillow figured it, love wasn't about goodness, it wasn't about being right, loving the very best person, or having the most ethical fun. Love was about being alone and making some decisions. Pillow loves animals. Especially the exotic ones.

Graham Marshall looked upon himself as one of the winners in the rat race, comfortable and content, with a secure future. At forty-one, he discovered that a rosy future was a mirage, and he committed his first, almost accidental, murder. At work and at home, his circumstances had begun to look less rosy and he wanted to take revenge on those who had humiliated him

Three former judges are in prison. They call themselves the Brethren and organize a pen-pal scam. The money is pouring in But then the Brethren contact the wrong pen-pal - a powerful... man with dangerous friends.

Bartholomew Lampion is born in Bright Beach, California, on a day of tragedy and terror, when the lives of everyone in his family are changed forever. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. And in San Francisco a girl is born, the result of a violent rape. Her survival is miraculous, and her destiny is mysteriously linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer.

Description When Gavin Penfold finished work that evening, he was thinking only of looking forward to an evening drink with his wife before dinner at their beautiful home in the country. But his journey was soon brutally interrupted by men who hijacked his car, gagged and blindfolded him, before wedging him in the back well. One of these mysterious captors drove Gavin's car while the other two guarded him on the journey to he knew not where. On the way, the car hit and seriously injured a woman who then inevitably became involved in the kidnappers' plans.

A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.

When Felinski, a British agent, is parachuted into Germany three months before the end of World War II, his brief is to reorganize a small group of Russian agents abandoned by Moscow. In the chaos of Germany's impending collapse a friendship is formed that reaches into the events of the present day. The Networks shows with frightening authenticity the organization of a major subversive operation to bring industrial and social chaos to Britain, and the combined efforts of America's and this country's special intelligence services to uncover and destroy the Soviet plan.

With a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling, Crummey vividly depicts the stark Newfoundland backcountry. He shows the agonies of the men toiling towards the caribou slaughtering yards of the Beothuk; of coming upon the terrible beauty of Red Indian Lake, its frozen valley lit up by the sunset like “a cathedral lit with candles”; then retreating through rotten ice that slices at clothing and skin as they flee the disaster.

Fiendish al-Qaeda terrorists are planning to rescue their imprisoned WMD expert during the chaos they create with their July 4th destruction of all bridges and tunnels to Manhattan Island. Now it's up to ex-SEAL Scot Harvath to stop these evil-doers and neutralize the diabolical three-foot tall Troll who supplies their intelligence.