Clark Howard
1) Summit Kill
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One man fights to foil a wild plot for worldwide destruction in this action-packed thriller.
Herr Inman has a plan and the resources to pull it off.
First there will be five assassinations of powerful world leaders-including the pope-then three atomic bombs aimed at major cities. In the resulting chaos, Inman will take over the world...
Christian Alsen is a mercenary hired by Inman to put the scheme in motion. Instead, he sets out in search of a...
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A team of professional stunt performers are likely to lose their livelihoods as a new law goes into effect, severely limiting their ability to take the risks that have made them who they are.
In the meantime, they have a plan to mark a spectacular end to their careers-and possibly their lives-in this action-packed thriller by an Edgar Award—winning author.
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The story of the infamous escape attempt and bloody siege at Alcatraz.
In 1946, six men attempted to break out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Their bloody siege lasted two days, and ended with five dead and fifteen wounded-plus two of the perpetrators executed for their role in the endeavor.
In Six Against the Rock-the basis for a TV movie-an award-winning crime writer tells...
4) The Wardens
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The decades-spanning saga of a woman's life in a family of prison wardens-and among the criminals they guard-by a Spur Award—nominated author.
Dru is the daughter of a warden, the first in a long line keeping watch over a local prison. This multigenerational epic follows Dru's relationships and conflicts with men on both sides of the bars through the early twentieth century, when convicts were often treated brutally and lawlessness still lurked...
5) The Arm
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He was known as Cully the Arm-the best crapshooter in Chicago. Life was a game of both skill and luck, and he'd made his way to the big city seeking his chance to be a winner.
Before long he was moving between bars, backrooms, brothels-anywhere a man could gamble. Then he met a seductive woman named Lorry, who was playing a game of her own, and she wasn't about to let any rules get in her way ... The inspiration for the film The Big Town, The Arm...
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A hit man tries to make a clean break from his murderous career in this chilling novel from an award-winning author.
He has no police record, not even a traffic ticket. But he's killed twenty-seven people during his career as a professional assassin. And sometimes it's not just the target who takes a bullet-if the bodyguard or mistress is unfortunate enough to be around. When the time comes, it happens fast: assemble the weapon, load, ditch the evidence.
Now...
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A gritty, action-packed novel about a World War II suicide mission that goes sideways from a "superlative storyteller" (Publishers Weekly).
In the midst of World War II, a Japanese submarine base must be destroyed. But someone needs to draw enemy fire while the goal is accomplished and the task would be a suicide mission. Only a certain kind of soldier can handle a job this risky. Now, six men have been chosen to serve as decoys, and a seventh has...
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When a topless dancer is beaten to death, police detective Joe Kiley strongly suspects her boyfriend, a mob kingpin's brother, is the killer. He isn't-but in the course of trying to track him down, Kiley's partner winds up dead during an unauthorized stakeout.
Now Kiley wants vengeance-if not for the dancer, then for his longtime fellow cop. Despite warnings from the department, he's about to be drawn deep into the world of gangs and organized crime,...
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After Sam Sheridan returns home from the World War I battlefront, he receives an odd inheritance from a man he's never met: a parcel of land in east Texas. With little to lose, he and his wife set off from Kansas City and find themselves in the dusty town of Dane-where they're met with inexplicable hostility.
When a wealthy local rancher attempts to buy Sam's hundred acres for an impressive sum, Sam decides to hold on to it instead. And in the years...
10) Quick Silver
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In the aftermath of World War I, three veterans-Mike, Jim, and Buck-meet a seductive woman named Ruby. Quick Silver follows all four over a span of decades, from Virginia City to Las Vegas, as their lives intertwine and intersect. It is a tale of marriage and infidelity, an orphaned boy and a forbidden passion, fortunes made in silver mining and the early days of casinos overrun by organized crime.
This absorbing tale of the American Southwest blends...