Великий инквизитор Торквемада сражается с опаснейшим еретическим трудом, британский агент вступает в схватку с немецкой контрразведкой из-за старинной рукописи, изощренные замыслы сталкиваются с еще более изощренными, что приводит к неожиданным последствиям, а в одном из рассказов читатель вновь погрузится в викторианскую эпоху и встретится с самим Шерлоком Холмсом...

The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award winner James W. Hall a "master of suspense," and this new high-stakes thriller shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his newfound son. Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These extremists take a "by any means necessary" approach to defending the planet. In the last decade ELF has been responsible for close to a hundred million dollars in damage mainly through arson. The FBI ranks them, along with other eco-radicals, as the number-one homegrown terrorist threat. Flynn Moss, Thorn's newly discovered son, has naively fallen in with...

Short Stories set in Florida. Dark, twisted, sexy and violent. The men and women in these stories are passionate and wild and unpredictable, and the writing is fast and muscular. Dutch Leonard meets James Lee Burke.

From an acclaimed 'master of suspense' (New York Times Book Review) comes a thriller in which Thorn must confront an assassin whose victims and methods are taken directly from the script of a popular TV show April Moss writes obituaries for the Miami Herald. Her son, Sawyer, also a writer, has been scripting a cable TV series called 'Miami Ops' and has been using his mother's work as a central element of the show's storyline. In 'Miami Ops,' a serial killer is using obituaries published in the local paper as a blueprint for selecting his next victims. But midway through the season, a copycat appears off-screen, a real-life killer who is using the same strategy to select victims. When...

Years after Thorn's real parents are killed by a drunk driver and he executes his own justice in the form of murder, his foster mother is found brutally murdered, and Thorn edges in among the suspects.

Based on real events, and newly declassified documents, Magic Citylike the films L.A. Confidential and Chinatownevokes a time in our nations history when powerful men were willing to do whatever they thought necessary to achieve their goals. A simple black and white photograph taken during the 1964 Clay-Liston fight on Miami Beach sets off a modern-day murder spree that reaches from the quiet neighborhoods of Miami to the back corridors of the White House. When the last remaining copy falls into Thorns hands, he and everyone he loves become the target of madmen and trained killers, each of whom has his own powerful motive to see the photograph destroyed forever and its secrets kept hidden.

When his boyhood friend, now an FBI agent, disappears, Thorn, a fisherman in Key Largo, becomes entangled in a web of violence and intrigue that takes him from seamy local bars to fancy ocean villas, and almost costs him his life.

Butler Jack tracks down his childhood sweetheart, Monica, the daughter of Morton Sampson, president of Fiesta Cruise Lines. When he offers her the chance to avenge her mother and humiliate her father, she jumps at it, not realizing his true motives until he begins to kill the passengers one by one.

Master of suspense James W. Hall's Hell's Bay sends Thorn deep into the wilds of South Florida, in a story with all the haunting atmosphere of Deliverance and the sheer terror of Cape Fear. Descended from pioneer stock, the Bateses are an aristocratic Floridian family with vast holdings in real estate and mining. When matriarch Abigail Bates is discovered drowned in the Peace River, a chain of events is set into motion, embroiling Thorn with a family he never knew he had and a fortune he doesn't necessarily want. Thorn is leading a fishing expedition into the isolated lakes and mangrove swamps of Hell's Bay when Abigail's son and beautiful granddaughter arrive, claiming Thorn as a...

Before Alexandra came into Thorn's life, there had been Anne Joy, a beautiful woman who, after escaping the violence of her past, found something like happiness in the languid life of the Florida Keys. But her past includes her sadistic brother Vic, now a wealthy rogue businessman who specializes in the hijacking of pleasure boats and who delights in cruelly murdering their owners. Vic is obsessed by his sister and will do whatever it takes to drive his sister's lovers away - even murder. When Vic decides that he must possess the land on which Thorn's beloved home is built, nothing will stand in his way - not even the life of a little girl, the daughter of Thorn's closest friend.