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Die siebenjahrige Hailey spielt im Garten, als das Telefon klingelt und ihre Mutter kurz ins Haus geht. Eine Minute spater kommt sie zuruck. Und ihre Tochter ist verschwunden. Zwei Wochen spater verschwindet ein weiteres Madchen diesmal wird die Leiche gefunden, der Tater gefasst und auch mit dem Mord an Hailey belastet. Akte geschlossen. Aber Frank Decker, dessen Job es ist, Verschwundene aufzuspuren und zuruckzuholen, hat Zweifel. Er glaubt, dass Hailey lebt, irgendwo versteckt wahrend die Uhr tickt. Ein vager Hinweis fuhrt ihn nach New York. Sanft wenn moglich, hart wenn notig, folgt er Schritt fur Schritt der Spur, die ihn in die Holle lotsen wird.

The popular mystery from New York Times bestselling author Don Winslownow available as an ebookBook five of the Neal Carey mystery series: Babysitting an eighty-year-old comedian who acts like an eight-year-old is trying enough, but when the bullets start flying, PI Neal Carey wonders if maybe its time to explore new career opportunitiesIn the final entry of Don Winslows Neal Carey series, the PI must escort Natty Silver, an ancient legend of the Borscht Belt comedy circuit, from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Once again a seemingly easy job turns deadly complicated. When Silver isnt busy stealing Careys car and making off on his own, hes telling hilarious stories from the golden age of the stage. Silver has quite a past, and riding shotgun with the comedian makes for a road trip that just wont end: Extortionists, old flames, and actual arsonists are all out to burn the old man, with Carey caught in the middle.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Don Winslow, including rare photos from the authors personal collection.

The popular mystery from New York Times bestselling author Don Winslownow available as an ebookBook two of the Neal Carey mystery series: PI Neal Carey is back on the huntthis time on a chase across the back alleys and backwoods of China in pursuit of a missing scientist and his beautiful mistressAfter a case gone bad, all PI Neal Carey wants to do is drop off the face of the earth. Instead, hes asked to travel halfway around the world in pursuit of an AWOL scientist whos taken a lucrative chemical formula to China. When Carey learns the scientist has fallen in love and shacked up with a beautiful woman, he figures hell solve the case in no time. But in the twisting streets of Hong Kong and vast reaches of Chinas wilderness, Carey finds secrets that run deeper than a simple love affairsecrets that threaten to once again tear his life apart.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Don Winslow, including rare photos from the authors personal collection.

Probably the best cop novel ever written Lee ChildFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year comes The Force, a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as The Wire.Everyone can be bought. At the right priceDetective Sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years hes been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now hes caught in a trap and being squeezed by the FBI. He must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.

As cool as its California surfer heroes, Don Winslows new novel delivers a high velocity, darkly comic, and totally righteous tale of crime. Every morning Boone Daniels catches waves with the other members of The Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have real j-o-b-s; Boone, however, works as a PI just enough to keep himself afloat. But Boones most recent giginvestigating an insurance scamhas unexpectedly led him to a ghost from his past. He may have to miss the biggest swell of his surfing career, but this job is about to give him a wilder ride than any wave hes encountered.

Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific beach. Theres no surf, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force regardlessits what they do. Having no work to do, and no real reason to go to the office, Boone stays for the second shift on the daily surfing clock the Gentlemans Hour; and ends up taking on a hated matrimonial case. But that soon becomes the least of his worries. When The Sundowner, a symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, sees a murderous dispute between a young surfer and a member of the territorial Rockpile Crew, the painful truth that violence is seeping into the surf community can no longer be ignored. So when asked to help on the defence by current love interest Petra Hall, Boone knows there will be outrage from both the community, and the rest of Dawn Patrol. As the two cases overlap in unexpected ways, an isolated Boone finds himself struggling to stay afloat as the water gets deeperand more deadly.

"Art Keller e un poliziotto ambizioso, con una mentalita da crociato, deciso a combattere in prima fila la guerra che gli Stati Uniti hanno lanciato contro il traffico internazionale di droga. Miguel Angel Barrera e il boss della Federacion, il cartello che riunisce tutti i narcos messicani, e i suoi nipoti, Adan e Raul, smaniano all''idea di ereditarne l''impero. Nora Hayden, dopo un''adolescenza complicata, e diventata una prostituta d''alto bordo, sempre in bilico tra il cinismo piu spinto e un insolito senso morale. Padre Parada e un sacerdote nato e cresciuto in mezzo al popolo, potente quanto incorruttibile. Sean Callan e un ragazzo irlandese di Hell''s Kitchen che si e trasformato quasi per caso in un killer spietato, al soldo della mafia. Sono tutti, in modo diverso, coinvolti nel mondo feroce del narcotraffico messicano: una guerra senza esclusione di colpi, che coinvolge sicari senza scrupoli e politicanti corrotti, i servizi segreti americani e la mafia, tra inganni, tradimenti, vendette spietate. Una guerra dove non esiste innocenza possibile, e dove e sempre in agguato, pronto a esplodere, il male assoluto: quella demoniaca crudelta di uomini e cose cui una millenaria tradizione ha saputo dare un solo nome, evocativo quanto misterioso. Il potere del cane. "

"A sessantadue anni, Frank Machianno, alias Frankie Machine, e un tranquillo uomo d''affari, ancora nel pieno delle sue forze: proprietario di un negozio di esche sul molo di San Diego, agente immobiliare, rifornitore di pesce e tovaglie per ristoranti. Con una figlia da mantenere all''universita, una ex moglie cui pagare gli assegni, una fidanzata, giovane e bella, che ama divertirsi. E un amico poliziotto cui ha salvato la vita ma che sa tutto del suo passato, della sua lunga militanza in Cosa Nostra. Quando i suoi antichi ""datori di lavoro"" si fanno vivi e gli chiedono di intervenire come mediatore in una lite tra famiglie, Frank non puo rifiutare. Anche se cio significa precipitare di nuovo nel mondo della mafia. Per sopravvivere, a Frank Machianno non resta che tornare a essere il terribile Frankie Machine; e nel frattempo cercare nel suo passato, per scoprire chi, tra i suoi vecchi ""amici"", e cosi ansioso di vederlo morto. "

"1951, Tokyo. Nicholai Hel si trova in prigione per aver ucciso il suo padre spirituale, un generale accusato di crimini di guerra. È disposto a tirarlo fuori di li un agente dei servizi segreti, che ha bisogno di lui e della sua abilita per una missione segretissima. Hel naturalmente accetta, ma non sa che la sua missione e praticamente mortale: dovrebbe infatti uccidere un consigliere militare sovietico a Pechino, mettendo fine a decenni di amicizia tra Cina e Urss. A addestrare Hel nella missione mortale e la bellissima Solange, una ex prostituta francese che pero, partita da semplici favori sessuali, finisce con l''innamorarsi davvero di Hel. Ma le sorprese non finiscono qui... "

Edward Wallingham-Finch is an aristocratic connoisseur of sexual perversions, residing in baronial splendor at Rosedale Manor. At his side is his wife, the lovely Lady Penelope. Invited for a weekend visit, his friend James is amazed to discover that the Mistress of Rosedale is as cool and haughty as she is beautiful. James first sees her, and her equally appealing friend, Fiona, as the alluring females head to the showers following a vigorous game of tennis. When Edward finally makes the introductions, Lady Penelope defies James first impressions of the elegant lady. Despite her cool demeanor and natural reticence, she proves to be quite submissive to her husband and his demands. James is further surprised when Penelope begins to strip away her tennis clothes in his company, while urging her friend to do the same. When the two finally retreat to the showers, Edward takes James to a room adjacent to the bath, where, though a one-way glass, they watch the females in the shower, feasting on each others bodies until they arrive at an explosive end. Penelope continues to be a study in contradictions. Though she protests Edwards brazen sexual advances in front of James, she soon reveals herself to be an insatiable woman whose lustful demands know no bounds. While she has a natural inclination to dominate, its only when shes made to submit that she turns into a sexual tigress. She likes to crawl before a man and she likes it rough. When Edward gives her to James for the weekend, while hes off to the city with Fiona, James will see just how far the lovely female will go to please him. A masterfully told tale by one of erotic fictions finest authors.

Webster defines compulsion as: A feeling of being irresistibly driven to perform some irrational act. This new collection of erotic short stories from acclaimed author Don Winslow presents lovers and strangers, ordinary men and women who are driven to the most extreme lengths by sexual fantasies whose terrible power they can neither understand nor control. Caught up in their unique dramas, they find themselves helpless, swept up in the awesome power of Eros. Compulsion: A bearded lecher... cave man mentality... just a few descriptions that come to mind for women who know professor Marcus Wolfe. And yet, hes appearing in their dreams, stirring erotic compulsions that they seem completely unable to shake, not to mention the surprising physical transformations. Could there be something in his emails eliciting such a wild response? In Clinching the Deal, unspoken orders have become firmly embedded in Jessicas subconscious, now on his summons, shell immediately drop everything, strip down to nothing but her high heels and wait for further instructions. In Justines Pride, this ponygirl is the Masters favorite, but when hes out of town, she finds herself tormented by her Mistress. Wednesdays With the Lady Judge brings together an older woman and a college boy. Hes just a kid, but he seems to have this horny judge clearly under his control. And in The Kiss, a terrified Barbara inexplicably finds herself captured, bound to a chair and at the mercy of The Collector. But then they kiss...

At loose ends after four years in the Royal Navy, young James Harrington stumbles on an advertisement for an Estate Manager and eagerly applies for the position. However, the job is not exactly what James expects. Navy Commander Hamilton Sterrett plans to completely refurbish an old estate and former girls school, Ironwood, which was left vacant for decades after rumors of prostitution and white slave trade forced its doors to close. In the spirit of Ironwoods salacious past, Sterrett intends to create an exclusive gentlemens club, a veritable pleasure palace for a select number of rich and influential men. Serving these men in their hedonist pursuits will be beautiful young women who exhibit the necessary sophistication, grace and charm required for their elite job. High class call girls, exotic dancers, escorts, even a few spoiled rich girls sign the generous six month contract. From there, James takes over, demanding a strict disciplinary regimen and holding a firm line against any show of rebellion. On his orders, initiates strip away their clothes before him and present themselves for intimate inspections. They masturbate on command, submit to disciplinary spankings, and perform whatever demeaning acts their trainer demands. James revels in his new occupation - what red-blooded male wouldnt when given free reign with such sexually attractive females? While most girls adapt to his demands with the proper persuasion, for the truly rebellious, the Commander has hired Katrina Kemp, a physical education instructor with a commanding presence whos eager to take on any willful brat. Her first task is poor little rich girl Allison. Arriving at the punishment session wearing form-fitting black patent leather, Katrina promptly hauls the girl over a padded gym horse and delivers a sound punishment with a blistering wooden paddle. However, while the formidable dominatrix gets results, she and James are sure to clash, since only one of them can be in charge at Ironwood. The Master of Ironwood features the explicitly detailed scenes of female sexual surrender that Winslow is known for. The Master of Ironwood story was originally published in 2000, and has been completely revamped for 2010.

From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel "The Power of the Dog" comes "The Cartel, " a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars. It s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adan Barrera, the head of El Federacion, the world s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller s partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice or is it revenge? becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington s corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico s drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera and himself that he always knew must happen. "The Cartel" is a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men and women who wage it."

From the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping true-to-life epic, ripped from the headlines, of power, corruption, revenge and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars. It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adan Barrera, the head of El Federacion, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away costs Keller dearly - the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice - or is it revenge - becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains and deserts of Mexico, to Washington's corridors of power, to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico's drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera - and himself - that he always knew must happen. The Cartel is a story of power, corruption, revenge, honour and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men - and women - who wage it.

Kirsten Meredith is a successful, rich and beautiful woman who seems to have it all. But she is also a woman haunted by her past which threatens to ruin her life - a lingering past of loneliness and rejection. And most dangerous of all, of burning vengeance.Lawrence McAllister is the man who walked out on her and broke her heart. Yet he is the only man who can help her fight her worst enemy - Dyllis Fisher, a woman who has vowed to destroy Kirsten''s life at all costs. And in a world where bitter vengeance will know no limit, Kirsten needs all the help she can get...

The popular mystery from New York Times bestselling author Don Winslownow available as an ebookBook four of the Neal Carey mystery series: Home at last, itinerant PI Neal Carey has trouble track him down for a change in the form of a dangerously clueless femme fatale PI Neal Carey has a talent for uncovering people trying to hide, but this time he has to help his mark stay lost. After Polly Paget, a ditzy actress from Brooklyn, is assaulted by her old boss, family friendly TV personality Jackson Landis, a motley assortment of sleazoids, paparazzi, and psychotic assassins are out to get Paget to either talk or shut up permanently. Neal Carey must scramble to hold Pollys lifeand his owntogether.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Don Winslow, including rare photos from the authors personal collection.