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2010
| From the international bestselling husband-and-wife team comes their first work of fiction. LUKE RULES chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Luke Wilde, former Marine Corps sniper turned wily and often contrary private investigator. What starts out as a routine peek-the-sheets adultery investigation escalates into a series of bizarre murders. As the bodies pile up, Luke knows that to crack this case, he'll have to toss the legal playbook into the crapper and play by LUKE RULES. With ple....[more] |
1970
| For Billy Hayes, 1970 was a horrifying year. It was the year when he tried to smuggle 4lbs of hashish from Istanbul back to his home in America. It was the year when he was arrested at Istanbul airport, tried, and sentenced to 30 in a Turkish jail. For five years he suffered the filth, brutality and degradation of imprisonment in an environment of hellish squalor, while his family fought in vain to secure his release. Finally in desperation, he made a daring escape bid and incredibly the bid suc....[more] |
1987
| In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape was to trust a dangerous underground smuggling organization. |
1988
| In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape was to trust a dangerous underground smuggling organization. |
1989
| The heart-stopping, real-life thriller by the international bestselling authors of Midnight Express and Not Without My Daughter. Air Canada Flight 143 was heading west into the evening sun--toward the majestic Canadian Rockies. Then the unthinkable happened . . . both engines failed and Flight 143 became a 132-ton glider. |
1996
| In their own words, Ron Goldman's family explains what happens when a beloved son and brother is murdered, when grief becomes a public spectacle, when lives continue to be shattered during the course of two lengthy trials. They speak, openly and candidly, in the first behind-the-scenes account of both the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases--including their personal reactions to all the major players. |
1997
| In their own words, Ron Goldman's family explains what happens when a beloved son and brother is murdered, when grief becomes a public spectacle, when lives continue to be shattered during the course of two lengthy trials. They speak, openly and candidly, in the first behind-the-scenes account of both the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases--including their personal reactions to all the major players. |
1975
| At 11:10pm on July 25, 1956 in the dense fog off Nantucket Island, the beautiful Italian passenger liner Andrea Doria was hit broadside by the Swedish liner Stockholm. Saved! recereates the events of that terrifying night and tells the spectacular story of the greatest sea rescue in modern history. The result is an unforgettable drama of courage and cowardice, of negligence and responsibility, of sensitivity and brutal indifference. |
1992
| Provides a provocative portrait of the life and career of Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, revealing the dark secrets, behind-the-scenes machinations, and other intimate details of one of America's most powerful senators. 250,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. |
1990
| After serving as the bodyguard and confidante of Bob Leuci, the real-life protagonist of Robert Daley's Prince of the City, Vincent Murano became a "cop hunter," a member of the New York City Police Department's Internal Affairs Division. He and William Hoffer, coauthor with Billy Hayes of Midnight Express have written a suspenseful, insightful, fast-paced and unsettling expose of Murano's nine-year tenure uncovering police corruption. |
1982
| In this fascinating book William Hoffer, literally, gets inside the mouth of Mount Vesuvius, climbing with members of the Alpine Club of Italy, to the bottom of the crater. He also tells of the horrors that Vesuvius has unleashed, beginning with its catastrophic eruption more than 1,900 years ago that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum. He provides details of the only surviving account of what happened that horrific day from Pliny the Younger, nephew of Pliny the Elder, commander of the Roman Nav....[more] |
1997
| The co-authors of Not Without My Daughter recount the incredible true story of a mother's six-and-a-half-year effort to rescue her children from their father, an Israeli extremist who kidnapped them. |
1993
| In middle life, Father Mariano Gagnon began working with the Ashaninka Indians in Peru's mountains and jungles. Anticipating the encroachment of "civilization," he recognized the importance of introducing healthcare, education, and job training in ways that would preserve the Indians' cultural integrity. He had not, however, anticipated the violent encroachment of drug traffickers and Shining Path terrorists. In this account, he (with the Hoffers, whose books include Midnight Express and Not Wit....[more] |
1996
| Born into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society and educated at the same school as Benazir Bhutto. Like all women of her rank, she was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him many children and lead a sheltered life of air-conditioned leisure. When she married Mustafa Khar, one of Pakistan's most eminent political figures, she continued to move in the best circles, and learned to keep up the public facade as a ....[more] |
1989
| By the time he was 21, Christian had risen to the rank of Army captain in the American forces fighting in Vietnam and had amassed considerable experience leading a reconnaisance unit whose missions were guerilla warfare, harassment and interdiction. Though something of a rebel, he was also a brilliant leader, admired by the men in the platoon, which had been dubbed "Christian's Butchers." In due course, he was badly wounded and hospitalized, returned to combat and then was seriously burned by na....[more] |
1991
| By the time he was 21, Christian had risen to the rank of Army captain in the American forces fighting in Vietnam and had amassed considerable experience leading a reconnaisance unit whose missions were guerilla warfare, harassment and interdiction. Though something of a rebel, he was also a brilliant leader, admired by the men in the platoon, which had been dubbed "Christian's Butchers." In due course, he was badly wounded and hospitalized, returned to combat and then was seriously burned by na....[more] |
1983
| The inside story of the investigation that exposed Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past discusses the high-ranking official who helped Waldheim perpetuate his lie, what Waldheim did in Hitler's armed forces, the investigators, and more. |
1991
| Randall Adams's story gained nationwide attention in the documentary film, The Thin Blue Line, which detailed how Adams had been convicted of the murder of a Texas policeman, due to the testimony of another man who probably was the real killer. Adam's was sent to death row for 12 years. But the film's success eventually led to his release.
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1991
| When Dennis Levine, an orchestrator of multi-billion-dollar Wall Street deals, was arrested on May 12, 1986, for insider trading, shock waves could be felt across the country, from the New York office of Ivan Boesky to the Beverly Hills office of junk-bond king Michael Milken. Levine reveals what really went on during Wall Street's most secret meetings, the real stories behind some of the Street's biggest deals, and why a man like him, one of the most powerful on Wall Street, would risk everythi....[more] |
1998
| It was a cold yet breathtakingly beautiful day in January 1995 when Mike Couillard, a United States Air Force officer on assignment in Turkey, took his son Matthew skiing. As they rode the T-bar to the magnificent peaks of the 7,300-foot-high Kartalkaya Mountain, there was nothing to foretell the nightmare that was to come.It was the middle of the afternoon when they reached the top and, although it had started to snow, they still had time to ski. An experienced skier, Mike made note of his surr....[more] |
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