Penguin Books

Paulo Coelho is one of the world's best-loved storytellers, bringing joy and wisdom to milions. In this collection of extracts from classic book that have inspired him, Coelho explores the emotions and reflections in works as diverse as The Art. Of War, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Frankenstein....

A brilliant new thriller from the Francis stable....

Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him - and everyone he loves - a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence......

Detective Isaac Bell engages in his most dangerous case yet when he must intervene with a violent-tempered husband on a quest for vengeance. Josephine Frost is competing to win $50,000 by flying across America in less than fifty days. Her husband, Harry, has already killed her More...lover, and he's tried to kill her, too, but failed. Bell must...

It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges toward war. When a brilliant American battleship-gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell...

The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a sadistic killer known as the Emir. Masterming of countless horrific attacks, the Emir has eluded capture by every law enforcement agency in the world. And he is about to unleash a monumental strike at the heart of America.But...