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A sequel to ANGELS & DEMONS, THE DA VINCI CODE starts off with a bang and doesn`t quit, leaving the reader gasping to keep up with the twists and turns of this amazingly popular academic thriller. The naked, spread-eagled corpse of a senior curator is found in the Louvre`s Grand Gallery, next to a mysterious message written in his blood. The discovery and the subsequent investigation plunge Harvard professor Robert Langdon into the heart of a centuries-old religious conspiracy. Assisted by the brilliant and beautiful Sophie Neveu, a French police cryptologist who also happens to be the curator`s granddaughter, Langdon races to gather clues about an ancient goddess-worshipping cult--purportedly once led by Da Vinci himself--whose members hold the key to one of the most sacred legendary objects, the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, the couple must dodge both the police, who believe Langdon guilty of the curator`s murder, and an albino assassin from an extremist Catholic sect who is desperate to prevent Langdon and Neveu from uncovering a secret that could rock Christianity to its very foundations. THE DA VINCI CODE is a blockbuster bestseller that has gained legions of fans around the globe; the extremely obsessed can even take a special tour in Paris that points out all the key locations in the storyline. The book also has many detractors who say they have found significant flaws in the religious and historical research upon which it is based. The debate reached such a fever pitch that the Vatican even appointed a Cardinal responsible for refuting the book`s claims. The controversy has only increased the book`s popularity, producing a whole host of imitators as well as several books and videos purporting either to further explicate or to poke holes in the THE DA VINCI CODE`s plot and historical background.

A series of communications from a deranged killer in which he is offered a number of devastating choices and deadlines draws Bill Wile into a confrontation with pure evil as his life becomes a downward spiral into a nightmare in which he must risk everything in a desperate race against time.

A man must wrestle with a dreadful fate in this supernatural thriller by master of psychological suspense Dean Koontz. What if you knew which days in your life would be the most pivotal--and the most perilous? Well, pastry chef Jimmy Tock knows. While Jimmy was being born, Jimmy's grandfather, lying on his deathbed, predicted that five terrible days would come in Jimmy's future--not including that particular day, during which a clown massacred several people in the very same hospital where both Jimmy and his grandfather were patients. The book charts the course of Jimmy's horrifying destiny over each of those five days, all of which occur in Jimmy's early adulthood.

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A photographer travels to an island off the coast of New Hampshire where two women were murdered more than 100 years ago. As she becomes obsessed with these crimes, she also becomes convinced that her husband is having an affair with another woman. Unable to work, she is driven to an act of horror.

This classic 1959 Cold War-era thriller inspired both a fairly faithfully adapted 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, and a more loosely based, updated 2004 Jonathan Demme remake with Denzel Washington. Raymond Shaw, a lonely, bitter American, is brainwashed by Chinese and Russian communists during the Korean War to become the perfect assassin, utterly unaware of the dreadful deeds he is ordered to perform. Several years later, the Communists are prepared to unleash their secret weapon...but who is Raymond's projected target? And how will that plot affect the political aspirations of Shaw's stepfather, a buffoonish but extremely influential anti-Communist Senator entirely ruled by Shaw's mother Eleanor, a ruthless woman prepared to use any tool available--including her son--to fulfill her ambitions? Although the linchpin of the plot--that it's possible to psychologically program someone to enact a series of morally repugnant tasks--seems somewhat fantastical, it is a fact that the Chinese, the Russians, and the Americans experimented with brainwashing during the latter half of the 20th century.

Private investigator Ed London is having a busy week since he agreed to help his brother-in-law get rid of the dead body of his mistress. First he has a corpse and no clues. Then he has a corpse with too many identities and too few clues. Then he has the cops on his back--which might not be so bad since the thugs who murdered the corpse seem to be trying to kill him.