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Pages: 168, Hardcover, Interlink Pub Group Inc

Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage. An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured...

"Smooth prose, psychological depth and crafty plotting lift bestseller Iles's latest suspense thriller, which puts a fresh twist on a familiar theme — the cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a fiendishly-clever serial killer. One personal tragedy after another has struck Alexandra Morse, a rising star in the FBI who specializes in hostage negotiation: her father's shooting death in a robbery, her mother's diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer, and a misstep on the job that left her face scarred...

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After successfully—but bloodily—dismantling a complicated hostage situation at a bank in the suburbs of Stockholm, Detective Paul Hjelm is faced with the requisite investigation by Internal Affairs. It is a potentially career-ending inquiry, but he is plucked out of it by the National Criminal Police commissioner, who drops him into an elite task force of officers assembled from across the country to find an elusive killer with a sophisticated modus operandi and even more sophisticated tastes.

An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured passenger, secret government agent Cameron Sumner, separated from the group. Together they follow the hostages, staying one step ahead by staying one step behind.

When Jenner Redwine wins a lottery jackpot, she can’t imagine ever finding a place in the world of the wealthy. Seven years later, though, she finds an ally—and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege—in the kind-hearted heiress Sydney Hazlett, who invites Jenner on a charity cruise aboard a luxury liner. But what Jenner gets is more like a Hitchcock movie than a Love Boat episode. Taken hostage by a menacing stranger, with nowhere to run, Jenner is drawn into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing...

<B>&#8220;One of our most original and entertaining thriller writers&#8221; (<I>The Denver Post</I>), Greg Iles holds readers hostage in this electrifying bestseller of Southern small-town suspense.</B> <P>In the span of twenty-four hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered&#8212;if she survives a terrifying ordeal. The day begins with the jarring discovery that, soon after ending an affair, Laurel is pregnant. But when she returns...

Pages: 336, Paperback, Pegasus

Edition: abridged edition, Audio CD, AudioGO Ltd.

On December 17, 1996, fourteen MRTA revolutionaries stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru in the middle of a party celebrating the Japanese Emperor's birthday. The siege was deadlocked for 126 days. Ann Patchett has fictionalized this dramatic and true event in her novel, Bel Canto. Bookclub-in-a-Box shows how Ann Patchett sets the stage and has the players act out the drama of this hostage-taking incident. What should be narrated as a tense and terse action-filled tragedy turns out to be a human...

The world was stunned by the hijacking of Air France flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris on June 27, 1976. Among the Jewish hostages from Israel, Europe, and the US is ten-year old Choni Binder, who is at the center of an escalating dispute between two families. Flying alone to France to meet unknown relatives, his plane is overtaken by Arab and German terrorists and diverted to Uganda. Fearing for his life, he discovers the shocking secret of his life – and wonders who he can ever trust again...

Pages: 240, Paperback, Berkley Trade

Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new introduction by the author and a message that is more relevant today than when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than five million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 -- originally published in 1953 -- remains his most acclaimed work.Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 4...

Hell Hostage explores the world of EmmaJean MacNeal – a woman who turns the tables on two murderous kidnappers by brutally beating them and giving them months of agonizing household chores. But as a lonely woman, she needs love; and as a psychotic, she hunts for it. So, with the availability of her severely beaten kidnapper, she forces her dreams to come true and makes a desperate serial killer cry out to God.

Beverly Hills 90210 A Novel: PB Book/1991 [Jason Priestley & cast]

Publisher: TSR, Inc. Publisher Year: 1988 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: 0 Binding: Soft Cover Publish Place: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Notes: 0