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Title: Demolition Angel Author: Robert Crais File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:Detective Description:Amazon.com ReviewstrongPenzler Pick, strong Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPDs Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carols partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She cant bear to look in the mirror, and she hasnt been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that shes the one that got away. With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age. This edgy thrillers protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but shes got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles. --Otto PenzlerFrom Publishers WeeklyAcclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series (L.A. Requiem, etc.), Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot. Carol Starkey was a rising light in the LAPD Bomb Squad until, two years back, a bomb blew up in her face, maiming her and killing her loverpartner. Now Carols a bitter, chain-smoking alcoholic with the LAPDs Criminal Conspiracy Section, who gets drawn into a literally explosive conspiracy when a bomb kills Charlie Riggio, one of her former bomb squad colleagues. Forensic evidence points toward the bomb being the work of John Michael Fowles, aka Mr. Red, a coldhearted young bomber-assassin-for-hire and master of disguise. Much of the narrative concerns Carols pursuit of him, most excitingly on the Net through a secret mad-bombers site, aided by a saturnine federal (ATF) agent, Jack Pell. Intercut are scenes of Mr. Reds various mad plottings, which take a hairpin turn when he learns that the cops think he killed Riggio: for in fact he didnt. That murder pans out as a copycat crime for personal gain, and now Carol must pursue both Riggios killer and Mr. Red, who in turn has taken an intimate interest in this bomb-savvy female cop. The subsequent pas de deux between Carol and Mr. Red is too reminiscent of the dance between Starling and Lecter, but otherwise this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth. BOMC and Literary Guild featured selection; Mystery Guild main selection; author tour; film rights sold to ColumbiaTri-Star. (May) br 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Title: Doctor Who_ The Underwater Menace Author: Nigel Robinson File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who Description:meta charset=utf-8span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font class=minus1 style=font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; When the TARDIS lands on a deserted volcanic island the Doctor and his companions find themselves kidnapped by primitive sea-people. Taken into the bowels of the earth they discover they are in the lost kingdom of Atlantis.Offered as sacrifices to the fish-goddess, Amdo, the Doctor and his companions are rescued from the jaws of death by the famous scientist, Zaroff.fontfont class=minus1 style=font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; But they are still not safe and nor are the people of Atlantis. For Zaroff has a plan, a plan that will make him the greatest scientist of all time - he will raise Atlantis above the waves - even if it means destroying the world...fontspan

Title: RX for Chaos Author: Christopher Anvil File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction Description: Science and technology have made our lives easier, cured diseases, with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, the law of unintended consequences breaks loose. Christopher Anvil considers the two faces of technological innovation: Sometimes the result is a literal life-saver; but at other times a breakthrough may not break quite the way it was supposed to.   ·         A new wonder drug has the unexpected side effect of making people happy. Not a problem—everybody should want to be happy, right? But should people be happy *all* of the time? Suppose being happy required you *never* to disappoint anyone, no matter what they’re requesting. . . . ·         Then there was the energy source for every home that would free the country from its dependence on foreign oil—except that the prototype was rushed into production a bit too fast. ·         Back on the bright side, another device not only couldn’t possibly work by every known law of science, but didn’t have any obvious uses. Then alien invaders landed and suddenly the crackpot device was the world’s only hope.        The upside and downside of marvelous new gadgets, as told by a master of science fiction adventure with a prescription for fun.