Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a ... more

When Dirk Pitt of NUMA is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases - but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet?
Of course there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There, he and NUMA colleague Al Giordino must battle for survival against the hostile elements and an evil megalomaniac who is about to plunge the North American continent into war.

Some time after midnight, on a moonless October night turned harsh by a fine, windswept rain, one of the men I liked least in the world was murdered . . . The detectives went looking for suspects - people whose histories with Jefferson were adversarial and hostile. At the top of that list, they found me.

Private investigator Lincoln Perry was once a rising star in the police force. But his career as a cop came to an abrupt halt when he assaulted prominent attorney, Alex Jefferson - retribution for Jefferson's affair with Perry's fiancee, Karen. Now Jefferson is dead, the victim of a vicious murder. Convinced Perry has no connection with her husband's killing, Karen asks him to find ... more