A drug-smuggling ring gains power in post-Cold War Europe. At its helm is a mentally dexterous Englishman named Roper. Former British soldier Jonathan Pine has an old score to settle with Roper, and he's willing to infiltrate the group to destroy his enemy.

Flame Bennett is an advertising executive who has successfully resisted the weakening lure of love--that is until the irresistible Chance Stewart walks into her life and tries to steal her heart. As if that isn't bad enough, things are further complicated by his jealous lover, tempestuous opera singer Lucianna Colton.

The first in a new series by Agatha Award winner Jeanne M. Dams features spunky Swedish-American immigrant Hilda Johansson. When Hilda discovers the body of a pious neighbor woman on the edge of the estate where she lives and works as a domestic, she fights a corrupt police force, a strict, class-conscious butler, and her own religious prejudices to catch the killer.

In this, the second volume of the Bitterbynde series, Imrhien adopts a disguise in order to tell the king-emperor of the treasure she uncovered in THE ILL-MADE MUTE. Arriving at court though, she finds the land under attack, her liege absent, and herself to be the target of assassins.

DeLillo puts his own memorable spin on the Kennedy assassination, bringing to life with plausibility and wit all the major characters in the unsolved drama. A "work of imagination," according to DeLillo, the novel presents Lee Harvey Oswald as an intensely realized, highly conflicted character who is recruited not to kill the president but to make an unsuccessful assassination attempt that will ultimately be blamed on Castro."

Captain Ann Campbell is well-known in the army. Not only is she the daughter of General "Fighting Joe" Campbell, but she is sexually rapacious--behaviour that ends in tragedy when she is discovered nude, bound, and dead on a firing range. Paul Brenner of the undercover investigative unit and rape specialist Cynthia Schell investigate the murder that closed the tragic, secret life of Ann Campbell. Director Simon West brought THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER to the silver screen in 1999. John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, and James Cromwell played leading roles.

This highly critical view of the George W. Bush administration is by one of the key figures of the Watergate scandal, Nixon's former counsel John W. Dean. Now a respected columnist and author, Dean deplores what he sees as the Bush administration's strong-arm tactics and its penchant for secrecy, and he faults Bush on both domestic policies and international relations.

In Germany, the lives of brothers Peter and Pauli Winter take different but interconnected paths against the backdrop of World War II.

Peter Julius, a young physician whose wife recently died following a battle with cancer, is head of a home for the terminally ill--a place from which few patients emerge alive. The psychological environment created by Dr. Kevorkian (who practices assisted suicide elsewhere in Michigan) creeps into the hospice and the staff begin to question the ethics that guide the place. Meanwhile, Peter falls into an affair with Rebecca, a pro-euthanasia enthusiast, and one of the nurses falls for an AIDS patient. A close look at life, death, and ethics.

When Claire Raphael begins to earn more than her husband, he charges her with neglect of family and sues for divorce, requesting sole child custody and alimony. Although she supported him while he built his career and she cared for the children, she knows that the courts are unsympathetic to successful women. With the help of her business partner, Brody Parth, Claire finds the strength and love to face the biggest battle of her life.

This thriller by bestselling author Nelson Demille mingles fiction with fact. Recurring characters ex-cop John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, members of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, probe the real-life 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, NY. Although several witnesses to the plane's destruction are certain that they saw a ground-to-air missile strike the plane, the crash's cause was ruled to be a mechanical failure. But Kate thinks differently, and in the summer of 2001, she and John attempt to find out the truth. Their best lead seems to be an adulterous couple, who recorded the plane's explosion as they videotaped themselves having sex on the beach.

In this witty autobiography, Esther Williams, the most celebrated swimming star of Hollywood's Golden Age, recalls her entire career, explaining how her underwater athletics caught the eye of an MGM talent scout. Although she lacked acting experience and desired to pursue a modest career in women's clothing, MGM launched Williams into Hollywood fame, where she bumped elbows with numerous movie stars, including Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. In a candid voice, Williams relates her personal victories, disastrous marriages, and financial battles. She also shares entertaining anecdotes about unforgettable members of Hollywood's elite, like Lucille Ball and Lana Turner.