Technothrillers

The new thriller from Michael Crichton, one of the most famous authors in the world, is sure to biggest book of Christmas 2006.   Is your loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? It's 2006: do you know who all your... More

The brilliant first novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers se... More

From the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." When the NSA encounters a code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer. What she uncovers sends shock waves throughout the corridors of power. Martin's Press/Griffin.When the NSA's invincible code-breaking ma... More

In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor.Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.What they find de... More

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the ... More

The bestselling author of "Pandora's Clock" returns with a riveting thriller set in the world of commercial spaceflight. The year is 2009, and when a micrometeorite punches through the wall of a just-launched spacecraft, killing the pilot, passenger Kip Dawson discovers he is truly alone.In this "he... More

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headq... More

On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown L.A. -- the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate -- a grand opening celebration is in full swing.On the forty-sixth floor, in an empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful young woman is discovered.The inve... More

Previously published as "The Miracle Strain," this riveting, retitled novel mixes adventure and spirituality in a story of a geneticist, who joins forces with an ancient religious brotherhood to save his dying daughter and unlock the mysteries of the most powerful healer in history. Reissue.At the m... More

Leela Zahir, Bollywood actress and temperamental star, is being catapulted from the fringes of fame into a million inboxes. Arjun Mehta, computer geek, looks up from his screen to find that he does, after all, have a role to play in the world. Guy Swift, marketing executive with his own agency, a be... More

Terrorists working to stop the building of a power plant threaten to trigger an earthquake on California's coast line. An FBI expert warns that the individual behind the threat is sane, capable and serious. If he causes the earthquake millions of lives will be at risk.... More

Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows that the dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violently shift, bolt, and shake down to its very core....... More

A shock wave is a phenomenon in the realm of fluid mechanics, characterised by a sudden change in the characteristics of the medium, such as pressure, temperature and speed. It may arise at explosions, detonation, supersonic movements of bodies, powerful electric discharges, etc. The scope of the re... More

A twentieth-century adventure that will plunge you into the heart of Africa with three intrepid adventurers, in a desperate bid to find the fabulous diamonds of the Lost City of Zinj. In it you will encounter the Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes, ferocious gorillas, and Amy. Cuddly, fluent in sig... More

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pi... More

The CIA take on Colombian drug lords in Tom Clancy’s fifth No 1 bestseller – now reissued with a new cover. Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by US law enforcement agents, have assassinated the American Ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI. Their message is clear: leave us a... More

A "New York Times" bestselling author and a master of the military thriller returns with another international epic in which Britain, America, and Russia are drawn into a battle for oil on a remote group of islands off South America.The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving . . . . . . and... More