Private Games

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Private the world's most renowned investigation firm has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest fastest and most technologically advanced in the world and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries.

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The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins Peter Knight is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee has been killed. It's clear to Peter that this wasn't a crime of passion but one of precise calculation and execution.

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Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. He promises to restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and to destroy all those who have corrupted the games with lies corruption and greed. Immediately Karen hires Private to examine the letter and she and Peter uncover a criminal genius who won't stop until he's completely destroyed the modern games. "America's #1 storyteller" (Forbes) delivers an exhilarating action-packed thriller that brings the splendor and emotion of the Olympics to a wildly powerful climax.[]

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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum No. 1) (Stephanie Plum Novels)

Meet Stephanie Plum a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion toxic waste rabid drivers armed schizophrenics and August heat humidity and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.

She’s a product of the “burg” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow cars are American windows are clean and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.

Now Stephanie’s all grown up and out on her own living five miles from Mom and Dad’s doing her best to sever the world’s longest umbilical cord. Her mother is a meddler and her grandmother is a few cans short of a case.

One for the Money is now a major motion picture starring Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum and Debbie Reynolds as Grandma Mazur.

From one of the most original voices in film and performance art—screenwriter and director Miranda July’s “wry wistful vulnerable tough and tender” ( Publishers Weekly ) collection.[]

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Never Buried: A Leigh Koslow Mystery

A young advertising executive finds her life in turmoil--she just lost her job she may or may not have a boyfriend and she's trying to help her cousin through a pregnancy. If that weren't enough she wakes up to find a strange man lying in her backyard hammock. The fact that he is dead and apparently has been embalmed for years doesn't exactly help. With lots of time on her hands and a knack for nosing around the young woman finds herself in the middle of a classic murder mystery. But can she solve the riddle before the killer puts her six feet under?.[]

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Zero Day

From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.

And Zero Day is where it all begins....

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth.

Now Puller is called out on a case in a remote rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town and no one in it are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

David Baldacci is one of the world's favorite storytellers. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries with over 110 million copies in print. David Baldacci is also the cofounder along with his wife of the Wish You Well Foundation a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com and his foundation at www.WishYouWellFoundation.org and to look into its program to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com.

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Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Stephanie Plum Novels)

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.
 
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead in a garbage can waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. And a ragtag collection of thugs and psychos not to mention the FBI are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.
 
Only one other person has seen the missing photo—Stephanie Plum. Now she’s the target and she doesn’t intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills she’ll need to watch her back.
 
Over at the bail bonds agency things are going from bad to worse. The bonds bus serving as Vinnie’s temporary HQ goes up in smoke. Stephanie’s wheelman Lula falls in love with their largest skip yet. Lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanie’s apartment. And everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii?
 
Morelli Trenton’s hottest cop isn’t talking about Hawaii. Ranger the man of mystery isn’t talking about Hawaii.  And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is . . . It’s complicated.

The hardcover edition of Explosive Eighteen contains a tear-out calendar inside! 

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