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One
LIKE THE LUXURY CO-OPS and five-star French eateries located in Manhattan's Silk Stocking District, Benchley East Side Parking was outrageously exclusive. Tucked side by side and bumper to bumper within its four temperature-controlled underground levels beneath East 77th Street were several...
Until eleven o'clock that morning in late Febmary, Sam Diamond had considered himself a reasonably happily married man. It was his thirty-ninth birthday and every year since they had met, Laura had spmng a surprise on him. Admittedly these had become less inventive since they'd had children, and...
Five Patients Michael Crichton was born in Chicago in 1942 and was educated at Harvard Medical School. As well as writing several works of fiction including the Number 1 bestseller, Jurassic Park, and many works of non-fiction, he has directed a number of films, including Coma, Westworld and The...
PROLOGUE
2 MAY 1945 NORTHERN ITALY
Major Angleton floated through the moonless heavens above Sant' Ambrogio, suspended in the night air by nylon cords and a canopy of black silk. He could see a line of fire burning along the forested ridge above the town, and wondered whether lightning or...
It was a peaceful night at the Brunetti home, and dinner progressed in harmony. Brunetti sat at his usual place, his son Raffi beside him; opposite Brimetti sat his wife, Paola, and beside her their daughter, Chiara. A plate of fritto misto to which vegetables, particularly Chiara's current...
Acknowiedg ments
Most of these words belong to David Koepp, though I've also borrowed a phrase here and there from some of the almost three hundred Shadow novels written by Walter Gibson throughout the thirties and forties. I've tried to be faithful to both visions.
First and foremost, thanks...
THE WORD
'Imagine darkness, if you will, and in that darkness bars of steel encnisted with the rust and filth of ages. The bars arc set in blocks of granite rock as ancient as the hills in which time forged them, and stacked above and mortared fast are yet another himdred feet and more, of...
Preface
In the midst of a war in Iraq, in a time of escalating global terrorism, when civil liberties are disappearing as fast as the ozone layer, when one out of three women in the world will be beaten or raped in her lifetime, why write a play about my stomach?
Maybe because my stomach is one...
Chapter One
Winnie's scream split the darkness like a knife being run over corrugated iron.
Grace Malloy stirred, groaned irritably and then dug her husband viciously in the back. 'Shut her up or I'll wring her sodding neck,' she snarled as she burrowed deeper into their feather bed and pulled...
Prologue
When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for filth of any kind.
It was because I couldn 't bring myself to believe that that perfect smooth expanse was no...
Prologue
'So tell me,' she said.
He was standing at the window, holding the yellowing net curtain to one side, staring out at the warm, wet night. It had grown dark while they'd talked and now the soft August rain fell like sparkling grains of amber around the sodium streetlight.
Just like...
Preface
Alcatraz, 11 p.m., August 28, 1942
With a crash, the steel gate slammed shut, a sound that seemed to bring finality to everything that life had to offer.
I walked into the small six-by-nine-by-seven-foot gray cell that was to be my home for years to come. I saw a steel bed, a straw...
Cry to Heaven Bom in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, Anne Rice is the author of the phenomenally successful Vampire Chronicles, of which Interview with the Vampire was a cult bestseller (and made into a record-breaking film starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt)....
1
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
Dr...
As usual, this book would not have been possible without tiie Mp of others.
First and foremost, credit and recognition must go to my dear friend and colleague, Clyde Snow, Ph.D. Clyde, you started It all. I thank you . The oppressed of the world thank you.
I feel tremendous gratitude for the...
This book aims to use the techniques of a növel to retell the true story of the Dreyfus affair, perhaps the greatest political scandal and miscarriage of justice in history, which in the 1890s came to obsess Francé and ultimately the entire world. It occurred only twenty-five years after the...
ONE
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession. I was a young teenager, clumsy, embarrassed by my awkwardness, frustrated with life, horrified of puberty, about to be shipped off to a military school by my father for...
Acknowledgements
I consider myself extremely lucky to have two wonderful editors working on my books and I want to say thank you so much to Georgina Hawtrey-Woore who has been so supportive and dedicated during the writing of The Baby Group and to Kate Elton whose early input was so important to...
Prologue
Late Nineties
'Man Plans - God Laughs/ Robin couldn't help thinking of that old Yiddish proverb as she listened to the discussion going on around her. For some reason, she'd always felt uncomfortable talking about 'the future'.
It was a mild evening in late May, and Robin and her...
A first wife is for life, not just for Christmas
Letting out an ever-so-pretty little sigh that didn't cause her bosom to erupt from her corseted dress, Alison cast her eyes up and dov^n the top table, letting her gaze linger on the eye-catching arrangement of lilies from one of London's top...
The man lay still, as still as a piece of meat on a slab, as still as death itself. Though the room was cold, his only covering was a thin cotton sheet that left his head and neck free. From a distance, his chest rose inordinately high, as though some sort of support had been wedged under his...
Chapter 1
Modern women don't believe in love. Believing in love carries roughly the same stigma as wearing court shoes. It's as old-fashioned as going on a diet (as opposed to a detox). It suggests you have no sense of irony and you like Meg Ryan films. A modern w^oman cannot accept that Father...
chapter 1
DON'T NOTICE ANYTHING
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Her detached gaze, the secret smile. Something.
We were living in a two-room apartment over the dance floor of a nightclub. My father was performing in...
Chapter 1
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The jaguar stood in a corner of the shop between a ,
statue of some minor Greek deity and a jardiniere. Ej jj ' '
Inez thought it said a lot about the world we lived in : j | that to most people when you said 'jaguar' they took it to mean a car and not an animal. This...
CHRIST THE LORD Anne Rice spent ten years researching this book, studying ancient texts and the work of scholars, and has visited Nazareth, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. She is the internationally bestselling author of cThe Vampire Chronicles', including Interview with the Vampire (filmed by Neil...
Acknowledgements
With thanks once again to Georgina Hawtrey-Woore and everyone at Arrow for all their hard work on my behalf. Also to Magna Books. Thanks also to the creators of the beautiful book cover designs which I am sure go a long way towards selling my books. Also to my late mother and...
Prologue
Johanna could hear cat's paws madly thudding on the bathroom door, and the animal was crying in a human way -so frightened. Or was he merely hungry.^ She had fed the poor beast, but how long ago.? No matter. The cat's cries receded, as though her front room had decamped from the hotel...
1
If the bodies were there, I couldn't find them.
Outside, the wind howled. Inside the old church, just the scrape of my trowel and the hum of a portable generator and heater echoed eerily in the huge space. High above, branches scratched against boarded windows, gnarled fingers on plywood...
AUTHOR'S NOTE
I've always wanted to write. But not until I discovered the old pulp science-fantasy magazines, at the age of sixteen, did this general desire become a specific urge to write science-fantasy adventures.
I took a lot of detours on the way. I discovered s-f in its golden age : the...
PROLOGUE
Sunday, 11 February 1996
Northern Ireland
There was a moment when Ray Bledsoe might have escaped with his life. If he had trusted his instincts at that moment - if he had reached for the Walther PPK and emptied the magazine through the side windows of the black taxi as it pulled into...
Donna Leon has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver...
Part One
Morgan was alone with the headlights and the screen wipers, following the trackless ribbon of fresh snow into the mountains. He had been comfortable with the daily routine of research and report in Lefievre's tidy Swiss office. Monotony was safe. Now a telex had set him adrift and he...
Chapter 1
The custodian at St. Mark's had just scraped three inches of snow off the sidewalks when the man with the cane appeared. The sim was up, but the winds were howling; the temperature was stuck at the freezing mark. The man wore only a pair of thin dungarees, a sunmier shirt, well-worn...
Chapter 1
The shots that fired the bullets that entered Pumpkin's head were heard by no less than eight people. Three instinctively closed their windows, checked their door locks, and withdrew to the safety, or at least the seclusion, of their small apartments. Two others, each with experience...
PROLOGUE
As a general rule, Admiral Arnold Morgan did not do state banquets. He put them in the same category as diplomatic luncheons, congressional dinners, state fairs, and yard sales — all of which required him to spend time talking to God knows how many people with whom he had absolutely...
Chapter One
1939
'Well I never, if it isn't our Miss Wainwright! Sorry, I should have said Mrs Sheridan, of course. Good gracious, it must be all of two years since you popped into Gowns to say hello. And this will be your little girl; why, she must be seven or eight and this is the first time...
Chapter One
Sylvie died without knowing why. In the instant when she had realised his intention and before the blow fell, when it was already too late to make the smallest effort to escape, she had experienced not only a paralysing fear but profound astonishment. It is said of some who die by...
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Friends and Family Julia Junilla Laeitana M. Didius Falco
Helena Justína
Nux
Falco's mother Anacrites
L. Petronius Longus Arria Silvia D. Camillas Verus
Julia Justa Camillus Aelianus Camillus Justinus
Claudia Rufina
Gaius LolHus
Marina...