Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder.
Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
Tualatin, Oregon, September 27, 2010 – VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com) presents signed editions of the “Prince of Thieves” (2004 NY: Scribner) — the basis for Ben Affleck’s movie “The Town”.
Ben Affleck’s “The Town” got a terrific response when screened for Oscar voters over the weekend. Affleck wrote, directs, and stars in a thriller that brilliantly winds its way into the criminal mind.
Academy turnout for the screening was larger than normal and the response at the end very enthusiastic with loud applause at the end credits — something rarely seen at the Academy. Greg Kilday of the Hollywood Reporter said “The film, based on Chuck Hogan’s ‘Prince of Thieves’, is easily one of the best films to emerge in 2010. Affleck’s direction and the acting ensemble’s performance were superb.”
Chuck Hogan’s brash tale of four men — thieves, rivals, and friends being hunted through the streets of Boston by a tenacious FBI agent and the woman who may destroy them all — is a spectacular, stylish, heart-pounding thriller. “Prince of Thieves” won the Hammett Award for excellence in crime writing and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King.
“The men wear masks. Their guns are drawn on the bank manager. She nervously recites the combination and the tumblers within the huge vault fall. The timing and execution are brilliant. It could be the perfect heist. But as the huge sum of cash is stolen, so too is one man’s heart — and that man is the “Prince of Thieves”.
Just as “Prince of Thieves” hits the big screen, Chuck Hogan along with co-author Guillermo del Toro — the visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth — sees the release of their second novel in the knuckle-bleaching Strain Trilogy, “The Fall”. This bold, epic novel series is (more…)
Mitchell and I had the chance to catch up with Aaron Elkins recently. We were invited to a lecture by a friend who just happens to be Elkins’s sister-in-law.
The topic was anthropological history, and Elkins provided an entertaining evening with his wit and insight.
Elkins is a forensic anthropologist who still consults for police in his home state of Washington. He has been writing mysteries and thrillers since 1982 having won an Edgar for Old Bones and subsequent Agatha and Nero Wolfe Awards. His major continuing series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, “the skeleton detective”. Well worth the read.
We enjoyed visiting with him for a little while!
“Aaron Elkins is one of the best in the business and getting better all the time; when his new book arrives, I let the cats go hungry and put my own work on hold until I’ve finished it.” — Elizabeth Peters
Good Reading!
John
Norwood Press is pleased to announce, through special arrangement with the publisher, a deluxe limited edition of Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants.
This deluxe edition will be strictly limited to 100 copies.
This is a special leather bound edition, marbled boards and handmade endpapers in matching slipcase, signed and numbered. $200
Tualatin, Oregon – September 13, 2010 – VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com) presents signed editions of William Gibson’s Zero History (September 2010: Penguin).
The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook CountryNeuromancer was the first book in a provoking trilogy that has come to be considered a benchmark in the history of the genre. Since then, Gibson has gone on to create even more visionary science fiction, including The Difference Engine, a classic co-authored with Bruce Sterling, and ingenious cyber thrillers such as Pattern Recognition and Spook Country.
In Zero History, Hollis Henry worked for the global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience. But she’s broke, and Bigend never feels it’s beneath him to use whatever power comes his way — in this case, the power of money to bring Hollis onto his team again.
Milgrim is even more thoroughly owned by Bigend. He’s worth owning for his useful gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic – so much so that he spoke Russian with his therapist, in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of the addiction that would have killed him.
Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. Most recently he jumped off the highest (more…)
Tualatin, Oregon – September 1, 2010 – VJ Books (http://www.vjbooks.com) honors bestselling thriller writer John Sandford as September 2010 Favorite Author.
John Sandford was born John Camp on February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids. In 1966, Sandford graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies. John Sandford is widely recognized for his Prey novel series featuring Lucas Davenport. Sandford has written more than 30 fiction novels and two non-fiction books.
The Washington Post says that “John Sandford is at the top of his game”.
“In addition to the twenty novels featuring Lucas Davenport, he has written four in the Kidd series (two as Camp, two as Sandford), two showing us the razor-edge world of the Night Crew, and more recently four books featuring Virgil Flowers, a gun-totin’ cop who looks, dresses, and acts a lot more like a road-weary drifter than your stereotypical bullet-headed badge-wearer” says John Hutchinson of VJ Books. “John Sandford has been writing brilliantly suspenseful, consistently surprising thrillers filled with rich characters and exceptional drama since 1989, three years after winning the Pulitzer Prize as a features reporter for the Pioneer Press in St. Paul.”
Sandford’s latest novel, Bad Blood, is filled with the brilliant plotting and compulsively readable prose that are John Sandford’s hallmarks. Bad Blood is another masterpiece by one of our very best suspense writers.
A chronological list of John Sandford books and series is shown below.
The Prey Series: Rules of Prey (1989), Shadow Prey (1990), Eyes of Prey (1991), Silent Prey (1992), Winter Prey (1993), Night Prey (1994), Mind Prey (1995), Sudden Prey (1996), Secret Prey (1998), Certain Prey (1999), Easy Prey (2000), Chosen Prey (2001), Mortal Prey (2002), Naked Prey (2003), Hidden Prey (2004), Broken Prey (2005), Invisible Prey (2007), Phantom Prey (2008), Wicked Prey (2009), Storm Prey (2010)
The Virgil Flowers Series: Dark of the Moon (2007), Heat Lightning (2008), Rough Country (2009), Bad Blood (September 2010: Putnam)
The Kidd Series: The Fool’s Run (1989), The Empress File (1991), The Devil’s Code (2000), The Hanged Man’s Song (2003)
Standalone Novels: Dead Watch (2006), The Night Crew (1997)
Review by John
Living the life of a nomad suits Jack Reacher just fine. No bags, no baggage and with just the clothes on his back, he boards a bus loaded with elderly travelers heading south through the Dakota Territory when a near collision with a car sends the bus sliding on ice and snow into a ditch.
With the weather growing more intense, Reacher, in a borrowed coat, gets drawn into the drama of another small town. Once again the locals need his special insight, logic, and sharply honed skills to face a situation growing more severe than the storm.
As Reacher watches his ride pull away it becomes clear to him that “South Dakota is the place you go when you run out of alternatives.” He stays to “serve and protect,” working with… (more…)
Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers and is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA).
Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood now bring us the action-packed Lost Empire featuring treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo who first appeared in Cussler’s Spartan Gold (2009: Penguin).
In Lost Empire, Sam and Remi Fargo come upon a relic belonging to a long-lost Confederate ship. An anomaly about the relic sets them off chasing a mystery-but unknown to them, a much more powerful force is engaged in the same chase. Mexico’s ruling party, the ultranationalist Mexica Tenochca, is intent on finding that artifact as well, because it contains a secret that could destroy the party utterly. Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, the Fargos and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt-but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.
Clive Cussler’s books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. See below for a chronological list of Clive Cussler books and series.
The Dirk Pitt Adventures novels
Pacific Vortex (this is the first book that Cussler wrote but it was published in 1983), Mediterranean Caper (1973), Iceberg (1975), Raise the Titanic (1976), Vixen 03 (1978), Night Probe (1981), Deep Six (1984), Cyclops (1986), Treasure (1988), Dragon (1990), Sahara (1992), Inca Gold (1994), Shock Wave (1996), Flood Tide (1997), Atlantis Found (1999), Valhalla Rising (2001), Trojan Odyssey (2003) and Black Wind (2004), Treasure of Khan (2006), and Arctic Drift (2008). Crescent Dawn, the latest of The Dirk Pitt Adventures, is set to release November 2010.
The NUMA Files novels
Serpent (1999), Blue Gold (2000), Fire Ice (2002), White Death (2003), Lost City (2004), Polar Shift (2005), The Navigator (2007), and Medusa (2009)
The Oregon Files novels
Golden Buddha (2003), Sacred Stone (2004), Dark Watch (2005), Skeleton Coast (2006), Plague Ship (2008), Corsair (2009), and The Silent Sea (2010)
The Isaac Bell Detective novels
The Chase (2007), The Wrecker (2009), and The Spy (2010)
The Fargo Adventure novels
Spartan Gold (2009) and Lost Empire (2010)
Clive Cussler has also written single books in Non-Fiction and Children Classics. His Non-Fiction books include The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed. His stand-alone Children Classics include The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2009) and The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy (2010).
Grant Blackwood has written three espionage thrillers including The End of Enemies, The Wall of Night, and An Echo of War in addition to co-authoring Spartan Gold and Lost Empire with Clive Cussler.
The brutal slayings of a string of her patients in New York and a horrific attempt on her own life leave Hailey Dean down, but not defeated. After a yearlong respite back home in the Southland, former violent crimes prosecutor Hailey Dean finally returns to her apartment in the sky overlooking Manhattan.
Hailey’s determined to rebuild a normal life and settle back into her growing practice as a therapist. But in a twist of fate, Hailey agrees to follow her heart and fight crime once again, this time in a new arena, in front of a camera! Under the hot lights of a TV studio, Hailey learns the TV industry’s not so glamorous. In fact, it’s downright deadly!
New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey thrills readers with the mesmerizing tale of a small-town sheriff who must confront the worst violence that man and nature possess.Bruner, Wisconsin, is really two different towns. On one side are the magnificent summer estates of wealthy families who value their privacy and privilege above all else. A few miles away, but a world apart, are the homes of the working men and women who cook, clean, and tend to the needs of the summer visitors. It’s a place of staggering natural beauty, but where death can come unexpectedly and with no regard for a person’s bank account or family tree. A place of steadfast loyalties and friendships, but where the long and brutal winter can make even the most intimate friends turn on each other with frightening intensity.