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William F. Buckley, Jr. recreates a pivotal moment in history through the eyes of young interpreter-interrogator Sebastian, whose fate is entwined with the lives and deaths of some towering figures in twentieth-century history.

When his wife finally left him and filed for divorce, Rick Fallon put his house up for sale and took the last two weeks of his vacation. Then he loaded his Jeep and drove straight to Death Valley, the one place he truly belonged. On his third day in Death Valley, Fallon comes upon a deserted car, and soon thereafter, the almost-dead body of Casey Dunbar.

This extrapolation from reality into terror explores how a carefree young German freelance journalist came to send an anonymous packet to the Ministry of Justice revealing the identities of former members of Hitler's dreaded SS.

A charismatic German aristocrat is rallying the country toward reunification, stirring panic on both sides of the Iron Curtain. When he becomes entangled with a beautiful KGB agent, Blackford Oakes faces a moral dilemma.

Five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them is Miernik, a Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that could set the Cold War aflame.

The mysterious deaths of two teenage girls from Duluth, Minnesota, takes Lieutenant Jonathan Stride from the north woods to Las Vegas, where he must decide which facts are real and which are illusions.

In this electrifying noir thriller, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved. But plagued by a heroin habit, things don't go as planned for Alex.

Blackford Oakes is Yale's answer to James Bond. In this Cold War thriller, Oakes is sent abroad to penetrate England's royal circle and save the new Queen, after the CIA traces the leak of vital military secrets directly to the Queen's chambers.

Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister.

It’s the scoop of the century, but too hot a potato — if Lou breaks the story, he risks exposing himself to the mercies of the Mafia. Instead, he shows the video to Green Party leader Margaret Blake. The video is leaked, and Margaret is sued by the minister for $50 million.

The High had a couple of hit songs in the late '70s and now they're back playing the nostalgia circuit at casinos. The bass player, Barry, and the lead singer, Cliff, have found a way to make the tour worthwhile: rob the drug dealers and the shylocks that work every casino. Their old manager, Frank, now works one of their tour stops, and the guys decide to go for one big score and get the millions he swindled from them.