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SCUFFING, EDGEWEAR CHAFING AND DINGS ON COVERS & SPINE. SOME PAGES HAVE A TOP AND/OR BOTTOM CREASE, NOT AFFECTING READABILITY. PAGES SIGNIFICANTLY TANNED AND HAVE OCCASIONAL DISCOLORATION. GOOD READING COPY.

An elderly amateur detective visiting his family in the Hamptons over the summer becomes involved in a murder mystery.

I sat there, waiting in this dull Bronx back yard, the gun in my right pocket, safety off. It was simple... wait till he was on top of me, one shot in the heart... then run across the lot to the car. Sid had an ordinary looking heap; nobody would notice it, or the license number. The license number-that was one of the chances I had to take-one of the too-many chances. But this would work, if my luck held out. IF... IF... Damn, I hoped to hell he didn't have a wife and kids, looked too young for that, but even if he did-I had a wife and kid, too. God knows I didn't want to kill this detective, but I was caught in this web, had to do it. Had to... No point in thinking about that-more important to think of some way of disposing of the gun. Couldn't pull the same gag about losing it on Tony again. Well, have to work that out, somehow. Sloppy thinking on my part not to plan.... Hell with plans, no time for it. Not like the other one. Marshal Jameson, the promising young sculptor, sitting on his butt in a strange Bronx back yard on a sunny afternoon... carefully planning his second murder. I grinned, a sour, nervous grin-I was damn near bawling. Me, who'd never hurt a fly, waiting with a gun for a... I heard a car stop in front of the house. It was five to three. The dick was on time. I stood up and peered around the corner of the alley. He was alone. I waited: no running from this, no backing out. Or was killing the easy way out for me?

In "The Spirit Team" Wager focuses on the dangers of biological warfare and international terrorism. As far as the governments of the world are concerned, the men and women of the Spirit Team are all officially "dead." In the world of espionage, this is both a blessing and curse. If you're "dead, " your enemies have to work much harder to find you -- but if you get into trouble, you have to get out of it without any outside help. The Spirit Team's target: Barcelona Delta. A deadly, highly contagious microorganism, Barcelona Delta was created by America's biological weapons development program. But the bug proved to be too dangerous to handle, and the project was shut down. Now a North African dictator has smuggled Barcelona Delta and its creators out of the United States. Field tests show that scientists are well on their way to designing a stable, instantly fatal version of the microorganism. Once they succeed, the dictator will have the world under his thumb. A small amount of Barcelona Delta could destroy the population of an entire city in a matter of hours. Countries will pay any ransom to protect themselves. The Spirit Team's mission is simple: find the hidden biological-weapons lab. Penetrate its legion of armed guards and high-tech defenses. Kill the scientists. Destroy Barcelona Delta. Get out alive. Do it fast. Do it quietly. No one must ever know.

Clayton Biner had it all--swimming pools in California, haciendas in Mexico, blue evenings on the French Riviera, all the women he could use. But he wanted more. And he got it when he became involved with a vicious syndicate peddling heroin--the big H, the white Horse. Now he was really in the big money--a three-million-dollar bundle of danger and death. Ed Lacy is one of America's all-time best selling authors, with sales of his famous, nerve-chilling books in the millions. Shoot It Again is a powerful, haunting novel of an international crime syndicate and a man trapped by his own greed and passion. (Originally published as The Sex Castle.)

3 women can make a mess out of a man's life. The Right One--Michele, the dark-eyed French beauty who looked like she had just stepped out of a European movie. The Wrong One--Wilma, the red-headed temptress who came along at the wrong time with the right invitation. The Dead One--Francine, whose lifeless body was found in a rowboat in the middle of the bay. Ed Lacy's latest suspense novel is a hard-hitting story of fast-living men and women caught in a web of passion and violence, with a stunning surprise ending.

Miss Brown of X.Y.O. is a 1927 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. It was notable amongst thrillers of the time for its use of an everyday female character as heroine. Miss Edith Brown, a comely typist, stumbles upon the doorstep of the dying Colonel Dessiter who has just returned from a mission throughout Europe fighting against the forces of the Communist Internationale. After she transcribes his report, she is thrust into the massive intrigue and deadly conflict between forces trying to bring about a revolution in England, and the small organization known as X.Y.O. which is defending the realm.

SECRETS & SOVEREIGNSE. Phillips Oppenheim was the prince of storytellers. In his lifetime he published over 150 books-novels, story collections, plays, travel books and autobiographical works. But a handful of his stories were never published in book form. They appeared in magazines like The Strand, Windsor Magazine and Cosmopolitan in the early 1900's, and have never been reprinted since. Editor Daniel Paul Morrison has scoured libraries and resource centers, and has put together the first new collection of Oppenheim material in over sixty years--nineteen stories of mystery and political intrigue, duplicity and romance. Oppenheim could always be counted on to tell a good story, and this collection is guaranteed to keep you entertained.Secrets and Sovereigns also features the most complete bibliography ever published of the works of E. Phillips Oppenheim. Morrison has thoroughly researched this project, checking publication dates against his vast Oppenheim collection as well as a wide array of book sources, and can honestly say that this is the definitive list, even better than the "official" Oppenheim bibliographies that appear in the Little, Brown editions. His introduction is chock full of information as well.Whether you are a reader or a collector, there is something here for everyone. So pull up an easy chair, and let the prince of storytellers tell you a tale.

Dust jacket art by Bip Pares. The story of mystery and intrigue surrounding a German power grab prior to World War II.

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