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It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end -- the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.
2) Prey
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment goes horribly wrong when a cloud of nanoparticles, programmed as a predator, escapes from the laboratory. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.
3) Airframe
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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. ... At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic...
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On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.
7) Disclosure
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The thriller that opened a new chapter in the sex wars. Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made when his high-tech company was floated on the stock market. What...
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC7
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2013
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James McGregor is a 39-year-old professional diver who, after suffering through numerous unsavory salvage jobs in New York and Miami, has relocated to sunny Jamaica. When a relatively straightforward and highly lucrative assignment -- to explore a luxury yacht that has inexplicably sank off the coast of Jamaica -- practically falls in his lap, McGregor readily accepts. But as he learns more about the mysterious sinking -- and about the yacht's enigmatic...
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Lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side in Victorian London -- and Edward Pierce easily navigates both worlds. Rich, handsome, and ingenious, he charms the city's most prominent citizens even as he plots the crime of his century, the daring theft of a fortune in gold. But even Pierce could not predict the consequences of an extraordinary robbery that targets the pride of England's industrial era: the mighty steam locomotive.
10) Zero cool
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC4
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While on vacation, American radiologist Peter Ross meets a beautiful woman on a Spanish beach and soon finds himself caught in a murderous crossfire between rival gangs seeking a precious artifact.
11) Scratch one
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC2
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To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt...Portugal...Denmark...France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down. But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world's deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?
12) Easy go
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC3
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Beneath the sands of the Egyptian desert lies treasure beyond imagining. And when a professor of archaeology finds clues to the location of a Pharaoh's lost tomb in ancient hieroglyphs, he hatches a plan to find the burial site - and plunder it. But can a five-man team of smugglers and thieves uncover what the centuries have hidden? And even if they find it, can they escape with it...and with their lives?
13) Drug of choice
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC6
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On a secret island in the Caribbean, bioengineers have devised a vacation resort like no other. But when Dr. Roger Clark investigates, he discovers a dark secret.
14) Odds on
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Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-MC1
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They thought their daring hotel robbery scheme was airtight, but three men are about to learn that nothing is that simple at the Hotel Reina . . . To rob the finest resort in fascist Spain, three Americans need to blend in among the Mediterranean elite. And to do so, they will each need a gorgeous girl as cover. They find a depraved millionaire, a drug-addled nymphomaniac, and an assistant hotel manager who enjoys mingling with her handsome guests...
15) Rising sun
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In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete for control of the international electronics industry.
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
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