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Berkley/Penguin, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Tim Robinson DJ art. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Berkley hardcover (black boards) and dust jacket, first Berkley edition, first printing. Tim Robinson DJ art. CONTENT: British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent. When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price. His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers that London may consider him the most disposable piece in this operation.

Harper, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. B&W map. CONDITION: What makes this "As New" - remainder mark bottom edges. UNREAD 2020 Harper hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W map. CONTENT: An intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice, and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early twentieth-century America that eerily echoes our own time, The Cold Millions offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation grappling with the chasm between rich and poor, between harsh realities and simple dreams. The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more… Read More

Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Grand Central large hardcover (turquoise boards), first edition, first printing. Gold foil decorations and dragonflies front panel DJ. 2 lb book. CONTENT: At the height of World War II, a handful of idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the government, asking them if they are willing to fight for their country. The men and women from very different backgrounds -- a Texan athlete with German roots, an upper-crust son of a French mother and a wealthy businessman, a dirt-poor Midwestern fly fisherman, an orphaned fashion designer, and a ravishingly beautiful female fencer -- all answer the call of duty, but each for a secret reason of her or his own. They bond immediately, in a group code-named Dragonfly. Thus begins a dramatic cat-and-mouse game, as the group seeks to stay under the radar until a fatal misstep leads to the capture and the firing-squad… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Matt Cosby jacket photo. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Little, Brown hardcover (all white boards - ack!) and dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. There is one beautiful piece of artwork on the Title and facing page but no credit given that I could find. Cover art by Matt Cosby. Deckle-edges. CONTENT: One of Time Magazine's Must-Read Books of 2020. Early one August morning, millennial congressman Alexander Paine Wilson (R) receives a strange package in the mail. Inside is an enormous taxidermied aardvark. What does it mean? Well, everything. Hurtling from the beginning of the universe to present-day Washington, DC, this astonishing, edge-of-your-seat novel is at once a piercing look into the sick heart of our democracy and a profoundly moving meditation on the nature of love, power, and evil. In the end you will not only know the meaning of the aardvark, you will see our current reality through new eyes. "Jessica… Read More

Minotaur Books, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2019 Minotaur Books hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. The title is in embossed gold foil as is the eagle. Author's name embossed. This is a really nice book - well put together -font makes reading it easy and the DJ is outstanding. CONTENT: February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later. America is wrestling with whether to enter the growing war. Charles's estranged wife and six-year-old daughter, Emma, now live in a quiet… Read More

William Morrow, 2019. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. Serge Balkin cover art. CONDITION: LIKE NEW, UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2019 William Morrow hardcover (dark blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. What makes this book "like new?" - remainder mark bottom edges. Interior perfect. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young "society reporter" is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora "Lulu" Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of… Read More

Harper, 2021. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. As New/No Jacket Issued. No Illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new"? - short remainder mark bottom edges at spine. AS NEW 2021 Harper trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: "In real life, Mary Pinchot Meyer had a love affair with JFK, may have done LSD with him and was mysteriously murdered in 1964. Wolfe's riveting novel imagines what Meyer's diary--burned by the CIA after her death--might have revealed. Great fun for conspiracy theorists and romantics alike." - [People] She was a longtime lover of JFK. She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War. And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination. The diary she kept was never found. Until now. . . . [There… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 2020 Reissue 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No Illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Houghton Mifflin hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket. The only date in this book is 2004, however, note the HBO miniseries on the DJ and that would place the book in 2020 - a reissue or first thus edition, first printing. I'm totally confused on this. Sorry. CONTENT: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. For one boy growing up in Newark, Lindbergh's… Read More

Orbit Books, 2015. 1st American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2015 Orbit Books hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first American Edition, first printing. PROBLEM: Small remainder dot top edges at spine - that's it - all else perfect. CONTENT: Peter Higgins's superb and original creation, a perfect melding of fantasy, myth, SF and political thriller, reaches its extraordinary conclusion. The Vlast stands two hundred feet tall, four thousand tons of steel ready to be flung upwards on the fire of atom bombs. Ready to take the dream of President-Commander of the New Vlast General, Osip Rizhin, beyond the bounds of this world. But not everyone shares this vision. Vissarion Lom and Maroussia Shaumian have not reached the end of their story, and in Mirgorod a woman in a shabby dress carefully unwraps a sniper rifle. And all the while the Pollandore dreams its own dreams.

Putnam, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Putnam trade paperback, first PB edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit comes a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp administrator who snuck into the U.S. under the name Rudy Goodman in the 1950s and has at last been identified. Travis quickly learns that Goodman has powerful friends who will go to any length to protect the Nazi; what he doesn't know is that Goodman has furtively continued his diabolical work, amassing a congregation of followers who believe he possesses Godlike powers. Caught… Read More

Borzoi/Knopf, 2019. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. As New/New. None. CONDITION: What makes this "as new" - a small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine. UNREAD 2019 Borzoi/Knopf hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket, first edition, assumed first printing. CONTENT: A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE. Kevin Moore, once a high-flying Virginia attorney, hits rock bottom after a tumultuous summer leaves him disbarred and separated from his wife. Short on cash and looking for work, he lands in the middle of nowhere with a job at SUBstitution, the world's saddest sandwich shop. His closest confidants: a rambunctious rescue puppy and the twenty-year-old computer whiz manning the restaurant counter beside him. Kevin's determined to set his life right again, but the troubles keep coming, including a visit from a mysterious stranger who wanders into the shop armed with a threatening "invitation" to join a multimillion-dollar scam. Before long, Kevin will need… Read More

Minotaur Books, 2020. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. M. Ramirez cover photos. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Minotaur Books hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, 2nd printing. The DJ title is in gold foil and the title is in embossed whiter lettering. CONTENT: In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest Cotton Malone adventure, one by one the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, are disappearing from sanctuaries across the world. After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of them, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder?blackmail that both the United States and Russia want, but for vastly different reasons. The price of admission to that auction is one of the relics, so Malone is first sent to a castle in Poland to steal the Holy Lance, a… Read More