"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...

When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...

A suspense novel that blends elements of the political and social upheaval of the Middle East, Mafia intrigues, and the machinations of Saddam Hussein.

Quinn, the negotiator, is called in to resolve the plot to keep the U.S. President from signing a U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty.

A plot by Wall Street financiers to topple a liberal U.S. president by creating a crisis on world markets. The operation, which requires several murders, including that of the Federal Reserve chairman, is prompted by the president's proposal for a 90 per cent inheritance tax which the rich oppose.

A thriller featuring Hollis Fremont, a U.S. government employee tricked by her crooked director and former lover into helping a terrorist. Fortunately, a handsome counter-terrorist is on hand to save her and destroy the plot which involves a political assassination.

The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of The Edge of Honor.

First published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's debut novel takes us to St. Louis, Missouri--it is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Set in the mid-1980s, the story shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American...

The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.