NELSON DEMILLE

Welcome to the Custer Hill Club--an informal men's club set in a luxurious Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to gather with old friends, hunt, eat, drink, and talk off-the-record about war, life, death, sex and politics. But one Fall weekend, the Executive Board of the Custer Hill Club gathers to talk about the tragedy of 9/11 and what America must do to retaliate. Their plan is finalized and set into motion.That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is reported missing. His body is soon discovered in the woods near the Custer Hill Club's game reserve. The death appears to be a hunting accident, and that's how the local police first report it, but Detective John Corey has his doubts. As he digs deeper, he begins to unravel a plot involving the Custer Hill Club, a top-secret plan known only by its code name: Wild Fire. Racing against the clock, Detective Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, find they are the only people in a position to stop the button from being pushed and chaos from being unleashed.

After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess seems to be acting suspiciously, and an old, dangerous foe reappears. With Russia resurgent and a clear and present danger in his own back yard, suddenly Corey's life hits the fast lane once again. Please note: A Quiet End is published in the US under the title Radiant Angel.

Sono passati dieci anni da quando Susan Stanhope, appartenente a una ricca e aristocratica casata della Costa d'Oro di Long Island, a New York, ha ucciso con tre colpi di pistola il suo amante, il boss mafioso don Frank Bellarosa. Il marito di Susan, il brillante avvocato John Whitman Sutter, mago di Wall Street e consulente legale di Frank Bellarosa, dopo quei burrascosi eventi è partito per un viaggio in barca a vela durato tre anni, stabilendosi infine a Londra, dove ha ripreso la sua attività. Di nuovo a Stanhope Hall per partecipare all'imminente funerale di un'anziana domestica della tenuta, di cui cura il testamento, John si insedia nella vecchia portineria. In seguito al suo arrivo viene a sapere che anche Susan, ancora bellissima e affascinante, è tornata lì. Il primo incontro dopo anni è sufficiente a far scoprire a entrambi che il tempo non è bastato a consumare il loro legame: astio e risentimento sembrano scomparsi e la passione tra i due ex coniugi si riaccende. Ma Susan non è l'unica persona a riemergere dalle nebbie del passato. Anthony Bellarosa, il figlio del defunto boss, vive vicino a Stanhope Hall e sembra avere due soli obiettivi: farsi largo nel mondo del crimine e cercare vendetta nei confronti di chi gli ha ucciso il padre. Decisi a uscire definitivamente da questa situazione, ma stavolta insieme, John e Susan dovranno dimostrare di aver imparato dal passato per districarsi in un ambiente in cui i rapporti di potere sono ancora una realtà dura a morire.

John Corey, detective della Squadra omicidi della polizia di New York, si trova a Long Island per un periodo di convalescenza. Il suo riposo viene pero interrotto: lo sceriffo locale lo assolda come consulente per il duplice omicidio di Tom e Judy Gordon, una coppia di ricercatori che lavorano a Plum Island, un'isola che ospita il Centro di ricerche sulle malattie degli animali del Ministero dell'agricoltura degli Stati Uniti. I Gordon sono stati uccisi perche avevano sottratto dai laboratori un prezioso, nuovo vaccino o addirittura un pericoloso virus?

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion''s Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion." Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the US only to unleash the most horrific reign of terrorism ever to occur on American soil. While Corey and his partner, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, chased him across the country, Khalil methodically eliminated his victims one by one and then disappeared without a trace.Now, years later, Khalil has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. "The Lion" is a killing machine once again loose in America with a mission of revenge, and John Corey will stop at nothing to achieve his own goal to find and kill Khahil.

Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, have been posted overseas to Sana''a, Yemen-one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he''s wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders-and the U.S. government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. As latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate don''t know the rules, the players, or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignment than meets the eye-and that the hunters are about to become the hunted.Filled with breathtaking plot turns and told in John Corey''s inimitable voice, THE PANTHER is a brilliant depiction of one of the most treacherous countries in the world and raises disturbing questions about whether we can ever know who our enemies - or our allies - really are.

The present volume deals with the influence of the English lexis on other European languages in various fields of discourse, social attitudes towards this phenomenon and its reflections in recent lexicographical work. It contains some of the papers read at the conference Anglicisms in Europe 2006, which took place at the University of Regensburg, Germany. It links linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political and cultural issues, tracing relationships and differences between the respective research interests and findings. Its aim is to put the influx of anglicisms into languages other than English into a wide perspective encompassing the European heterogeneity of cultures, traditions and developments.The volume is divided into four parts, which reflect the particular foci of interest in the recent research on anglicisms in the languages of Europe: ''Cognitive and Semantic Approaches to Anglicisms'' - comprising articles that deal with the cognitive, communicative and semantic motivation for contact-induced innovation; ''Attitudes Towards the Influx of Anglicisms'' - with contributions about various national attitudes towards anglicisms and their reflection in the respective languages; ''The Use of Anglicisms in Specialized Discourse'' - with articles focussing on particular practices and domains such as business, sports, the sciences, and on language varieties used in communication within particular subcultures; and ''Anglicisms in Dictionaries'' - comprising articles that deal with the existing dictionaries of anglicisms in European languages and provide a future-oriented perspective by making suggestions and recommendations regarding future lexicographic works.

Mankind's greatest mystery lies in wait...Civil war rages in Ethiopia. A priest waits to die in a parched prison cell; he has not seen daylight for four decades. But then a mortar shell hits the compound, and the prisoner and his secret are free. Two reporters and a beautiful photographer save this wounded man, who tells them something too incredible to believe: the location of the Holy Grail. Thus begins an impossible quest that will pit them against murderous tribes, deadly assassins, fanatical monks, and ultimately, themselves. The Quest is a breakneck search for an ancient legend amid a dangerous jungle war - and no one's coming out unscathed.