Bobby-Jack Billings is a beer-guzzling, gut-bulging slipshod. He's a drunk, a racist and a buffoon. He's also the President's brother-in-law. And he's missing. The list of suspects seems endless. America's number-one beer drinker and Presidential liability has been silenced, but by whom? The Bad Guys or the Good Guys? Terrorists or patriots? The Libyans or the Israelis? The Secret Service or the Mafia? The clock is ticking and the White House is grasping at straws. America's last lines of defence, Chiun and Remo, are on the case. But teasing apart the twisted strands of international intrigue may demand more subtlety than the Destroyer commands. Particularly when signs suggest the involvement of the Commander-in-Chief himself . . .Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless denouements. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat," 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece. His most unsettling horror story, "Le Horla" (1887), was about madness and suicide.

Miles to the west we could see the canyon widen to a spreading valley; the granite uplifts on which we stood sloped away to hilly rolling country. Behind us the snow ranges reared, a piled and awesome jumble. Still, it didn’t seem right. I should have recognized peaks, but they were strange.There were patches of timber below us, some spruce, but broadleafs too, in variety. They shouldn’t have been there. A small band of elk drifted across an open space. They were familiar enough, but out of place.“Denny,” I said, “You’ve flown across to Yakutat. Where are we?”“Vin,” he said, “I never saw those peaks. There’s no country like this west of the St. Elias.” He rubbed his nose and stared into the distance, into the west. “This is funny business.”

Gordon Dickson is a cosmic trailblazer, a true pioneer of science fiction as a literary genre. The subjects of his fertile imagination are as varied and as vast as the universe itself. In this vintage collection of six masterfully told short stories, Gordon Dickson will enlighten, confound, and mesmerize you with his projections of a post-holocaust America, the disintegration of technological society, forced emigration as a means of relieving overpopulation, and problems of legality that arise when dealing with various interstellar communities.A fascinatingly speculative excursion, In Iron Years presents science fiction as no other author has yet to see it: filled with intimations of a future that is already here.

A gripping new novel -nuclear blackmail threatens London

A woman rookie for the New York Rangers recounts her personal experiences as the first woman to play in the National Hockey League.Cleo Birdwell was born and raised in Badger, Ohio. Unfortunately, the author will not be able to tour because she will be leading the Rangers in their pursuit of the 1980-1981 Stanley Cup. " . . . Cleo Birdwell is a pseudonym for Don Delillo. Amazons was Delillo’s seventh novel, and it sold better than his previous books and doubled his income, all before he earned his reputation as one of America’s greatest writers."—Victoria Patterson, Salon

Cradled in swords, the war-child comes October. When the leaves turn blood and the wind turns bone: a time for doings dark and strange. The princess bears a child to the winged thing and the cries are heard far beyond the peaks of Dragon's Teeth, at the end of the world's Beginning, where Nepanthe and Mocker wait for the war that wizard's dread.

Chief Constable Piet Deventer, recently married and now a father, is thrown into turmoil by twin tragedies - a young woman is murdered at a music festival, only hours after Piet's own baby daughter is abducted.Forced to put aside his personal woes and focus on the murder, Piet finds himself in a seedy world of drugs and rock'n'roll. He meets Harriet, the dead woman's sister, who has a shocking confession - might the two crimes be connected after all.Racing against the clock, Piet must untangle the web that connects the dead woman, the festival and his daughter, before it's too late.Corruption runs deep in the second fast-paced mystery featuring Piet Deventer, from master of 1970s crime, J.R.L. Anderson.

Stephen R. Donaldson is one of America's acclaimed storytellers. But in the 1980s, he published three novels about private investigators Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari, as paperback originals under the pseudonym "Reed Stephens." In 2001, Tor published a fourth novel about these characters, The Man Who Fought Alone, this time in hardcover under Donaldson's own name. Now Donaldson has returned to the first three novels in the sequence, rewriting and expanding them. The Man Who Killed His Brother was the first, and this is the second of the three. Mick "Brew" Axbrewder is a P.I. who's seen better days. Deeply into alcoholism, some time back, he accidentally shot and killed a cop. Worse, the cop turned out to be his brother. Even worse, in a case not long after that, his partner Ginny Fistoulari blew off her own left hand, protecting him and others. Now Mick works mostly as hired muscle for Ginny. They don't talk much. But their latest client's story doesn't add up. They're going to have to start working better together. And Brew's going to have to face some of his own worst fears.