From Publishers Weekly\nHouston oil magnate Theodor Scoville Churcher has a rather unholy alliance with Soviet minister of culture Aleksei Deschin: Churcher provides U.S. military secrets and the Russian pays in priceless works of art from the Soviet archives. Churcher discovers a couple of Soviet secrets too: One, they're still deploying missiles in the Caribbean and, two, they're paying him in fake paintings. He confronts the minister aboard a Soviet submarineand is soon reported missing at sea. Navy intelligence begins to detect signs of the missile deliveriesbut superpower arms talks may conclude before the damaging news can be confirmed. On a personal level, choreographer Melanie Winslow learns she is the wartime child of the Soviet minister. Thus the scene is set for Andrew Churcher to search for his father and the elder Churcher's secrets, Winslow to seek her father, the U.S. to protect its interests and the Soviets, naturally, to protect theirs. For all the carefully intersecting subplots, screenwriter Dinallo's first novel unfolds like an unexceptional TV movie, its Texans talking tough and its Russians often speaking as though they were reading Western Union telegrams to each other. Of interest in this era of detente is that the book's stakes are not nuclear destruction but a good deal at the negotiating table. 
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Rockets Red Glare

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dinallo, Greg

Thrillers & Suspense

st.martins press

Michael Murphy is a field archaeologist who fearlessly hunts down and authenticates ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing - but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavations and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of greatest evil.

Babylon Rising

Literature & Fiction

LaHaye, Tim F.

Dinallo Gregory S. Lahaye

Contemporary

Hodder Hb

Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy. Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today. Babylon Risingintroduces a terrific new hero for our time. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing—but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For the latest secret uncovered by Michael Murphy accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.

Religion & Spirituality

LAHAYE, Tim

Christian Books & Bibles

Random House, Large Print

Southern California's lethal fire season consumes tinder-dry hills, torches homes, and destroys dreams. But now one woman is about to awake to a living nightmare. . . . Lilah Graham--brilliant research scientist by day, driven to link violent behavior to a mutant gene; sexual compulsive by night, desperate to release the demons of her soul. Why is she suddenly the target of an ingenious firebomber? Arson investigator Dan Merrick knows what makes the twisted mind of a pyromaniac tick. Overwhelmed by the raging brushfires, he finds himself drawn to the seductive Dr. Graham like a moth to a flame--where, in the heat of passion, a killer plots to strike with a burning vengeance. . . . An inferno of sex and danger, action and desire, TOUCHED BY FIRE is a taut, fast-paced thriller that races to a final, fiery climax.

Touched by Fire

Fawcett

Purpose of Evasion

A desperate plan to save seven Americans held captive by the Abu Nidal terrorist group involves sacrificing two American pilots, but when one pilot survives, the mission is threatened

Random House Value Publishing

Random House Publishing Group

Bantam]

Greg Dinallo's previous novel, Final Answers, earned him accolades as a "suspense pro" from the Chicago Tribune; The New York Times heralded his "sharp insight into character," proclaiming, "Mr. Dinallo makes us believe." Now, in a breathtaking novel of suspense and intrigue, Dinallo introduces his most memorable characters yet: an unlikely Russian-American pair of investigators pitted against the world's newest axis of international organized crime. Their chase will lead them from Moscow to Washington; from small-time scams to greed of unparalleled magnitude.... When onetime dissident jounalist Nikolai Katkov is tipped off to the murder of a highly placed government official, he doesn't count on the trail twisting into the lurid world of Moscow mafiya casino-owner Arkady Barkhin. After Katkov's relentless digging almost gets him gunned down, he receives an unexpected appeal for help from the striking Gabby Scotto, a U.S. Treasury Special Agent. She's been tracking laudered money flowing out of the U.S. - an investigation that has led to Barkhin's casino, and a similar dead end. But then Katkov obtains a sensitive government document that could shatter Russia's fragile and newly free economy - and joins Scotto in Washington to pick up the trail. Katkov's tenaciousness in pursuit of a story has been honed by decades of KGB harassment, and his survival instincts - notwithstanding a penchant for vodka and American cigarettes - by a few hard years in the Gulag. He senses a kindred spirit in the vivacious Brooklynite whose bravado is matched by her investigative savvy - and who leaps at the chance to lead some down-and-dirty field work. Scotto has doubts about sharing privileged information with a journalist, but they are squelched when Katkov makes a critical discovery about a shipping container heading south on I-95 - one that they suspect is filled with $2 billion badly in need of laundering. As Katkov and Scotto's pursuit races from freeways to freight cars, from Baltimore to Miami, they are shadowed by American entrepreneur Michael Rubineau, a man intent upon seeing the container safely to its ultimate destination. A frequent VIP guest at Arkady Barkhin's Moscow nightclub, Rubineau has devised a scheme of stunning brilliance and unprecedented greed and venality. But as Scotto prepares to take him down, and Katkov composes his front-page headlines, they're forced into a gambit of extreme peril. Heading into the last oupost of communism, Katkov is about to discover that love of country and lust for money can crumble even the fiercest loyalties....

Red Ink

United States

Pocket_Books

Mystery

Ulverscroft Large Print Books

Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy.Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today. Babylon Rising introduces a terrific new hero for our time. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing—but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For the latest secret uncovered by Michael Murphy accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.From the Hardcover edition.

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