Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and international intrigue. For the past twenty-five years he has had an unbroken string of bestselling novels, selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide and setting a standard that has yet to be surpassed. With The Prometheus Deception, Ludlum's first new novel in three years, he is at the very pinnacle of his craft.
Nicholas Bryson was a deep-cover operative for a secret American intelligence group called the Directorate. After a mission went wrong he was retired to a new identity as a college professor in Pennsylvania.
Archive Contents: The Dark Tower Collection Books 1 -7 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon The Tommyknockers The Bachman Books Skeleton Crew The Dead Zone Thinner Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. He continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many of these were later gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. Note: I could have added more to this archive but I want to keep the file size down for dialup users. There will be 3 or 4 more archives to follow. REUPLOAD NEEDED
At 9a.m on 31st December a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. In the confusion, he escapes without being spotted. A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C. demanding $20 million. If no payment is made, the writer will instruct the gunman to strike again at 4p.m., 8p.m. and midnight. The mayor decides to pay up. But then a man is killed in a hit and run accident – his fingerprints match the prints on the note. With the brains behind the operation dead, there’s no way of stopping the gunman from killing again, and again, and again...
"Banker" by Dick Francis [UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK WITH TEXT]
Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a £5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing, but racing is riddled with dubious dealmakers - people to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood.
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster – Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn’t say why. Her only specific mention is ‘the incident of the dog’s ball’. However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication – it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste.
On arrival they discover that she has died, apparently of natural causes. But Bob, Miss Arundell’s devoted wire-haired terrier, knows better.
