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Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and...

A NovelAndrew Vachss, the master of hard-boiled fiction, returns with a deeply revealing new novel about an assassin whose love forced him to kill his own conscience.Esau Till's race is almost run. After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, he sits on death row, awaiting lethal injection. And writing his life story. But his memoir is no...

A Young Black Man in AmericaExamining the complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an African-American journalist recalls his own troubled childhood, his rehabilitation while in prison, and his successful Washington Post career....

A NovelKobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in a large...

From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short-story writer, the author of 2008s universally acclaimed novel Peace (A brilliant one-act drama depicting the futility and moral complexity of combat The New York Times), eleven indelible new tales that showcase the electrifying artistry of a master. A husband confronts the power of youth and...

FBI Special Agent Ana Grey debuts in this electrifying thriller marked by psychological acuity and unfaltering suspense. After Ana Grey pulls off the most amazing arrest of the year, the squad supervisorwho doesn't like irreverent, tough-minded young womengives her a reprimand instead of the promotion she deserves. As a test, she is assigned a...