New York: Late 1958 Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for an easier, safer life as a Private Investigator. Manhattan in the late Fifties is alive with new possibilities, new sounds and new faces, including young ...
Pamela Vale, aged 34, had died in the house fire. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured, and her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence.
Small-time crook Tim Kearney is given the chance to win his freedom by impersonating drug lord Bobby Z. But everyone seems to be after Bobby Z, including his partner and a Mexican drug lord - and after Tim too. Tim/Bobby flees from the assassins, but eventually finds the freedom he's looking for.
From the highly praised author of "The Life and Times of Bobby Z" comes a huge, sprawling, breakneck-paced novel about America's drug world--its devastations and deliriums, its complexities of alliances and betrayals, its life-shaping effect on all the pawns, the kings, and the law enforcers who inhabit it both willingly and not.
The author of "The Winter of Frankie Machine" is back with a razor-sharp novel as cool as its California surfer heroes, and as heart-stopping as a wave none of them sees coming.
A blistering new take on the Mafia story--and the basis of a forthcoming film starring Robert De Niro--comes from the author of "The Death and Life of Bobby Z."
Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula--and everyone wants to control, from the CIA to the Chinese government to the local bank. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with his research, grad student turned P.I. Neal Carey enters the picture. He thinks ...
Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troubled, tempestuous life paralleled the upheavals in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, and his desperate quest to prove his manhood was uncomfortably akin to the macho image projected by three ...
He's a grad student in the Ivy League. He's also a private investigator trying to find a runaway teen. Now, he's in over his head. Up against punk junkies, antique book thieves, and murderous betrayal, Neal Carey has his work cut out for him to save Allie--and get back above ground for good. Martin's Press.
Just a few months shy of his long-delayed master's degree and his wedding to longtime love Karen Hawley, Neal Carey gets a call from "Dad", Joe Graham, his mentor and boss. Joe wants Neal to pop down to Las Vegas, pick up a confused old man, and take him home to Palm Springs. What Neal doesn't know is that the old man witnessed arson, and the two ...
In Ironwood, the reader was invited to vist that unique enterprise, that singular institution where submissive young women were trained in the arts of love. Now, the story of Ironwood and narrator James continues as readers follow his rise to power in that garden of erotic delights.
From domestic war to ballroom brawls. grad student-turned-P.I..I. Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate. Graduate student Neal Carey's three-year confinement in Chinese monastery is finally over-but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They ...
Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client-- but he's tempted to do the job himself. Sometime student and ever-reluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun-- but his new assignment doesn't sound dangerous. ...
An ageing comic, Nathan Silverstein, saw two men commit arson in Las Vegas. Neal Carey arrives to take him home to Palm Springs but the arsonists have other ideas. Silverstein and Carey are hard-pressed not to drown in the desert as they flee.
Ironwood. The very name of that unique institution remains strongly evocative. In this, the third volume of the famous Ironwood trilogy, the reader is once again invited to share in the Ironwood experience--with selected scenes of unrelenting sensuality, of erotic longing, and of sometimes bizarre sexual encounters.
A set of stories, each describing in exquisite detail the sensual power and fascinating allure of a particular woman. Some are beautiful, some pretty in an ordinary sort of way, some exotic, and some appear commonplace, yet each one has her own seductive appeal. These memorable stories represent some of the finest examples of contemporary erotic ...
Welcome to the Ironwood Sportsmen's Club, specifically designed for the erotic entertainment of gentlemen. Seven lovely young women -- Charli, Robin, Kitteridge, Nikki, Annie, Diane, and Meredith -- are employed by the small and exclusive club and consider it their vocation to provide the members of Ironwood with the time of their lives. But even ...
In "Slave Girls of the Western World" we follow the adventures of Marcus, a lusty officer in the legions of Rome, as he is sent to guard the Northern frontier from the savage blond barbarians - proud Nordic warriors whose women were renowned throughout the empire for their startling beauty. War yields captives -- and captives in those less ...
High school senior Laura Jean is shocked when the school jocks are accused of gang-raping a retarded girl and her boyfriend Scott appears to be involved.
Meet the women of Claire's, the most glamorous -- and exclusive -- escorts in the world. Solicited by upper-class Park Avenue businessmen, these women have the beauty, style, and charm to seduce any man, and the willingness to fulfill his most lavish and extravagant fantasy.
Special Agent Mallory Channing has had to fight every inch of the way to forge a career in a male-dominated bureaucracy. Beautiful, intelligent, and well educated, Mallory is determined to prove herself by volunteering for the most dangerous assignments. But nothing in her training can prepare her for the peril she faces when she finds herself ...
When an overzealous, politically correct government goes on a crusade to stamp out sexy clothing, a group of fun-loving girls stumble upon a stash of the banned clothes and are delighted at what they find. The clothes work their seductive magic, and in no time the erotic contagion spreads, eventually corrupting the very officials who are publicly ...
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