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ONE NIGHT STAND
This sexy, action-packed thriller, set on the streets and in the courthouses of Los Angeles, is an explosive literary mix of contemporary urban authenticity and classic old-school crime fiction by the author of Damaged Goods and the cult classic The School on 103rd Street.
How did a street hustler, in and out of jail since he was ten, beat a murder rap -- no matter whether he did the crime or not? Meet Myra Cross, a thirty-one-year-old redheaded beauty with a take-no-prisoners reputation as a public defender. She confounds her colleagues and clients alike as she not only wins acquittal after acquittal for her clients but poses for Playboy spreads in her spare time. She has the face of an angel, the body of a goddess, and a mind like a steel trap -- but with secrets and demons, she neither pretends to be a Girl Scout nor to have all the answers. But this time, when she's once again assigned the defense of Napoleon T. Booker, aka Little Dog Nine, who's charged with another homicide, she gets much more than she bargained for. |
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DAMAGED GOODS
“No one, not even Crane, was prepared for the sight that greeted them. The doors opened slowly to a ferocious wall of freezing water hidden in darkness and wrapped in a swirling cloud of thick black smoke visible only in the short narrow beams of helmet lights. In the faint distance, over the hiss of sprinklers, high-pitched bare of battery-operated smoke detectors, they could hear the feeble shouts and screams of fear and panic…”
And so begins Roland S. Jefferson’s suspenseful, immensely compelling hard-boiled crime thriller about three desperate people on the fringes of society, drawn together to pull off a risky, near-impossible heist. But its lethal aftermath of greed, treachery and betrayal prove just as deadly as the vengeful mob that will stop at nothing to hunt them down.
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559 TO DAMASCUS
Terrorism is virtually an everyday occurrence in the modern world. Terrorist acts take place in all societies, in every part of the globe with frightening speed, little warning, excessive media attention and predictable public outcry. Worse, terrorism breeds counter-terrorism. Imagine what would happen if an extremist group was in a position to purchase enough fissionable material to make a nuclear device? This is exactly the question posed by Roland S. Jefferson in this chilling tale of international blackmail, political intrigue and unparalleled suspense.
In the pages of 559 to Damascus, you will meet men determined to bring about a new order. Men like Fouad Rakha, so hardened by years of strife in the Middle East that all he wants is victory for the Islamic Revolution-no matter the cost. And you will meet the people who became inexorably drawn into his plan. Kelly Davis, a young black woman on the run from her past, was having a secret love affair in Trinidad when she came across a photograph that changed her life forever. Dennis Tamarkin, CIA agent and Kelly’s long-time lover, is assigned to recover a missing operative in Europe and finds himself on an unscheduled ride aboard the 559 to Damascus. Alexander Kussoff, a Russian KGB agent, was headed for the top until this mission. And Yuri Kostikov, the Russian scientist, starts everything off by letting it be known that, although he was in a French prison for twenty-six years, he had not been idle.
Everything comes together on the 559 to Damascus. Some are on the train by plan, others by coincidence. But all are on the same ride to destiny. You won’t soon forget what happens on the 559, and you will never stop hoping that the forces of reason will somehow prevail in the end.
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A CARD FOR THE PLAYERS
He was known as Karajian, or at least that was the name he went by. To say that he was a wheeler-dealer would only describe a fragment of his personality-“manipulator” would be the more appropriate description. Yes, in hindsight, it would indeed seem that he wore the label well. To Karajian, Las Vegas was a giant bank with twenty-four hour window service, his scheme nothing more than the usual procedure required for making a withdrawal. But he would not be using a checkbook this time. Instead he had carefully developed a scheme whereby to win, he would have to lose. He would have to lose six million dollars at fifteen casinos over a period of seventy-two hours-without getting caught.
Bizarre? Yes. Unrealistic? No. Workable? For Karajian, very. Just pick a card-any card-and wait for the call…”a card for the players!”
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SCHOOL ON 103rd STREET
| When Dr. Elwin Carter is confronted in his Watts clinic by two boys terrified by the brutal murder of their friend, his investigations lead him far beyond the usual suspicions of drugs and gang violence to an apocalyptic discovery of just how far the government will go to keep the lid on the country's riot-torn cities. Combining action and suspense with political insight, this 1976 novel presents a frighteningly prophetic and disturbing picture of the subterranean war between the races in America. |
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