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New York: Dell, 1966. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Dell 5610; a novel of international intrigue and suspense by an underappreciated British master of the genre; one-reader text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-tanned; black pictorial wrappers show small indentation (less than dime-size) near outside edge… Read more about this item

New York: Del Rey/Random House, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first book in this award-winning Australian author's "Without Warning" alternate fiction trilogy. On March 14, 2003, a wave of immense, inexplicable energy obliterates most of the continental U.S., Mexico and southern Canada. Nations around the world must face a new reality without… Read more about this item

New York: The Library of America, 1997. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Five outstanding classic crime novels from mid-20th century, works that evolved out of the hardboiled pulp fiction of the 1930s and '40s to transcend the noir genre -- Jim Thompson, "The Killer Inside Me;" Patricia Highsmith, "The Talented Mr. Ripley;" Charles Willeford, "Pick-Up;"… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The second novel from a writer still new to the crime-thriller ranks. Her first, "In The Forest of Harm," won critical praise for its complexity of characters and credibility of plot, and "A Darker Justice" delivers more of the same. It features Assistant District Attorney… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. After his bestselling crime-thriller series featuring PI Leo Waterman and rogue journalist Frank Corso, this is Ford's first free-standing novel. Found near death in a railroad car, a man with no name and no past he can remember has spent the last seven years in a group… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The second novel in Ford's bestselling crime-thriller series featuring rogue journalist, Frank Corso, now a reclusive true crime writer. This time Corso is attending the closed-court trial of West Coast crime boss, Nicolas Balagula, charged with sixty-three counts of murder and likely to beat the charges until… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton Penguin, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The bestselling White's fourteenth novel is this suspense-thriller featuring Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory facing a man who's playing a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse,slowly revealing a progression of deadly secrets while trying to control how the game will end. Boards and text are clean and unmarked,… Read more about this item

New York: Villard Books, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fifth of Diehl's thrillers is this historical spy-thriller set in the months just prior to World War II. The Nazis have recruited an actor whom they believe is the perfect spy for a mission known only as "27." Hunting the perfect spy is… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1963. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. About Very Good/Good Plus. This Australian journalist's second novel will have the flavor of a modern western for American readers. Set in the Australian outback, it features Dick Maitland, an American geologist prospecting for oil, who runs head-on into a cattle rancher playing dictator.… Read more about this item

New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Pelecanos' thirteenth crime-thriller novel is set like his others in the Washington, D.C. It features Lorenzo Brown, a Humane Society officer on probation and trying hard to stay out of trouble, and his probation officer, Rachel Lopez, who spends her days helping Lorenzo and… Read more about this item

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Chesbro's seventh novel is this spy-thriller set in the near future. It features Veil Lendry, whose childhood brain infection left him with the ability to dream with perfect clarity into the minds of other men. Lendry left his work with the CIA to pursue… Read more about this item

New York: The Dial Press, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair To Good/Good. A late novel from the legendary author of "Double Indemnity" and "The Postman Always Rings Twice," a suspense-thriller featuring Clay Lockwood, a business executive who finds himself in a love-hate relationship with Sally Alexis, the wife of a professional magician and the daughter… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. The third novel in Spiegelman's mystery-thriller series featuring New York City private detective John March, the black sheep of a conservative merchant banking family, hired this time by his older brother to cover up his adultery and stop the woman who's threatening to wreck his marriage… Read more about this item

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in the award-winning Estleman's mystery-crime series featuring hit man Peter Macklin, now retired and recently married, his big worry being getting along with his new mother in law. But his mother in law's boyfriend is the spotter for a gang of… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Gardner's ninth addition to the James Bond canon features 007 on vacation in San Francisco only to find himself tricked by M into tracking down Brokenclaw, the half-Blackfoot Indian, half-Chinese ruler of the city's underworld, who is now believed to be the mastermind behind… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. The sequel to Higgins' bestselling WWII thriller, "The Eagle Has Landed," the story of a Hitler plot to kidnap or kill Winston Churchill that was very nearly successful. Now it's learned the German Colonel who led the failed attempt, thought to have been killed,… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1976. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An early World War II adventure from the author of "The Eagle Has Landed" featuring the crew and passengers of a 19th century sailing ship, the Deutschland, leaving Brazil in August, 1944, for a roundevous with destiny a month later in… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 10th novel by this acknowledged master of the spy-thriller genre features the disappearance of Paul Christopher, legendary CIA intelligence officer, now 70 and retired, from his home in Washington, D.C., followed by the return of his ashes from China some months later. However, his… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2002. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A re-issue of Littell's first novel, originally published in 1973, which won a Gold Dagger Award and established Littell as a master craftsman of the spy thriller, confirmed by his subsequent work including "The Company," "The Amateur" and "Walking Back The Cat." Boards and… Read more about this item

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Erdman combines history and fiction in this spy thriller set in Switzerland during World War II as U.S. spymaster, Allen Dulles, trying to block the withdrawal of Nazi gold from Swiss banks, sends a team of agents on a near-suicide mission into Bavaria.… Read more about this item