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I I I ¦ !' m A time came when my wife and my law partners were f convinced I was going crazy, and the best I could reply [y f was, 'I hope not.' That was a year ago. I was forty- ' f eight years old, I had worked hard, I had almost everything I wanted, and once the economy recovered I...

INTRODUCTION In a modern thriller the hero generally saves the world. Traditional adventure stories are more modest: The central character merely saves his own life, and perhaps the life of a faithful friend or a plucky girl. In less sensational novels—the middlebrow, well-told narratives that...

THE RENTED TOYOTA, DRIVEN WITH SUCH IMPATIENT exuberance by The Senator, was speeding along the unpaved unnamed road, taking the turns in giddy skidding slides, and then, with no warning, somehow the car had gone off the road and had overturned in black rushing water, listing to its passenger's...

chapter one June 22, 1911 n the day King George V was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London, Billy Williams went down the pit in Aberowen, South Wales. The twenty-second of June, 1911, was Billy's thirteenth birthday. He was woken by his father. Da's technique for waking people was more...

Prologue 1801, Kingsford, England Wdolfe Bumham moved quickly back into the shadows of the lilac hedge separating Kingsford Hall from the stables. With eyes far too old for a boy barely twelve, he watched Claudia Chastain hurry across the courtyard toward the open stable door. Raising her...

Prologue ¦ 1 ¦ By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953. In fact, he would have been hard put to remember it by the time he graduated from grammar school. And his mother and father never knew about it at...