"A story in the manner of Jane Austen, of domestic comedy and love affairs." —Times Literary SupplementAn impetuous young lady and a fugitive nobleman…When spirited Eustacie stumbles into a band of smugglers, she is deli...

"Witty…a cheerful extravaganza." —The New YorkerHis exploits were legendary.…Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery...

"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last." —Chicago TribuneA past dispute…When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir ap...

The third book in Georgette Heyer's brilliant and highly acclaimed series of detective novels featuring the amiable Superintendent Hannasyde.One heir after another turns up dead....Silas Kane's sixtieth birthday party was marred by ar...

Venetia Lanyon, beautiful, intelligent and independent, lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire with her precocious brother Aubrey. Her future seems safe and predictable: either marriage to the respectable but dull Edward Ya...

If you think the wildest, wackiest stories that Carl Hiaasen can tell have all made it into his hilarious, bestselling novels, think again. Dance of the Reptiles collects the best of Hiaasen's Miami Herald columns, which lay bare th...

In this thrilling conclusion to The Annals of Drakis, it appears that the ancient prophecy of Drakis — the human warrior who will lead all the races conquered and enslaved by the elves of the Rhonas Empire to freedom — is about ...

Documents the story of the luxury liner that burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934, revealing how the Morro Castle's captain died under mysterious circumstances seven hours before the ship caught fire and how many of the crew aba...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, ...

A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be...

"Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years," wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Strand Magazine agreed: "With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Ja...

Intrepid British spy and soldier of fortune Owen Morgan leads a hard-nosed gang of commandos on a mission to destroy an island fortress of the Third Reich in the English Channel.

An edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride from the master of suspenseBaron Max von Berger was once a young aide to Hitler himself, and in the declining days of World War II, was entrusted with Hitler's diary. Over the years, von...

Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stav...

After a long night on the job, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller is on his way home – only to become the first policeman at the scene of a young women's mysterious suicide. What's odd is that it appears she tried to conceal her identit...

Mikhail Kelly's credentials were impeccable. Russian mother, Irish father hanged by the British. He could split an apple – or a head – across a large room with a handgun. And his special talent was acting. The KGB gave him the per...

The Organization was all-powerful, and the Baron's word was law. A sinister villain's network, raking profits from all fields of crime. But one man is ready to storm them, and bring 'Babylon' crashing down... For Harry Youngblood, it ...

On one side, the largest and most effective seagoing Task Force ever assembled. On the other an air force ready to die as they attack again and again despite the odds. A single deadly missile means the difference between winning and ...

In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers, fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys, Max and Harry Kelso have grown up ...

At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy l...

Mark Hagen's streak of bad luck left him broke, despondent, and barely able to eke out a living smuggling guns in Macao. But things begin to look up when Hagen gets a lead on a bounty of gold, lying untouched at the bottom of a lagoon...

On the eve of the Second World War, as German armies gather to invade Poland, Hitler has hit upon a master plan to distract the British while the blitzkrieg takes place. A German archeologist from Dahrein, Otto Muller, who has just ma...

Piano virtuoso John Mikali's flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he's left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman's father, a...

Ben Garvald is out of prison. After nine years in lockup, he's coming back to the old neighborhood. Back to his remarried ex-wife. Back for revenge. That's what the cops think.But Detective Sergeant Nick Miller isn't worried. His high...

Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond's career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight — a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can ...

When a naked girl runs into the lights of Jack Nelson's jeep, the freelance pilot finds himself submerged in the most perilous treasure hunt ever. On his side are the girl, Claire Bouvier and his best buddy Harry Turk, a tough fighter...

On the 30th of April, 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards ...

Many lives had already been sacrificed for the Irish cause, but legendary freedom fighter Colum O'More, aging and critically ill, was ready to gamble once more for a last devastating strike... Britain's most wanted political offend...

In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg is ordered by Hitler to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a mission which thrusts him into an unlikely partnership with a beautiful American woman and a burgeoning underground anti-Nazi movement.

Betrayed by his lover, beaten and almost broken by his captors, Ellis Jackson escapes from the Viet Cong with his best friend James Maxwell St. Clair. Dodging bullets, they finally break free from a living hell. Some years later, back...