coolreads# Retro Books# Buried Secrets

Buried Secrets

Author: Joseph Finder

Publisher: St Martin’s Paperbacks

ISBN: 9781250000361

Year Published: 2012

When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets a call to take on an urgent case even closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus – teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus, a close friend – has been kidnapped. But it’s no ordinary kidnapping – and it’s not even clear what the kidnapper wants. Alexa has been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas for help live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out.

coolreads# Retro Books# Arctic Drift

Arctic Drift

Authors: Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9780425233481

Year Published: 2009

Created in 1973, Dirk Pitt and his NUMA crew have travelled the seas of the world, battling some of the most devious villains ever encountered - all in defense of humanity and the world at large. Arctic Drift, their 20th outing, is a rollicking adventure set against the topical themes of global warming and the world’s oil and gas crisis.

coolreads# The Match @definitelybooks

The Match

Author: Harlan Coben

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529135497

Thirty-five years ago, Wilde was found living alone in the woods at an age doctors estimated to be between six and eight years old. He had no memory of his parents. After his rescue, Wilde was raised by foster parents. The book opens with Wilde who is over 40 years old.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Moscow Vector

The Moscow Vector

Authors: Robert Ludlum & Patrick Larkin

Publisher: Orion Books

iSBN: 9780752877020

Year Published: 2005

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, many believe that Robert Ludlum and other spy craft authors would quietly fade away, since they have no credible villain to frame a novel around. These sceptics forgot that evil always exists and that it merely takes on different forms.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Eden Prophecy

The Eden Prophecy

Author: Graham Brown

Publisher: Ebury Press

ISBN: 9780091949181

Year Published: 2012

In southern Iran in 1979, archeologists Ahmad Bashir and Peter McKenzie discovered a copper scroll similar to that which was found among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. Bashir believes this scroll could be 7,000 years old, but whatever secrets it may hold, they are lost as quickly as they were found as a sudden storm sweeps the scroll from Bashir's hand as he tried to escape the pursuing jihadists on the back of a lorry and within minutes, it disappears beneath the vastness of the desert sand.

coolreads# A Line to Kill @definitelybooks

A Line to Kill

Author: Anthony Horowitz

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529124316

British author Anthony Horowitz’s latest offering, A Line to Kill, is a sequel to The Word is Murder and The Sentence is Death. This third entry in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series follows narrator Anthony Horowitz as he accompanies former Detective Daniel Hawthorne to a literary festival.

coolreads# 1979 @definitelybooks

1979

Author: Val McDermid

Publisher: Little Brown

ISBN: 9780751583083

Val McDermid’s 1979, the first in a planned five-book series set at 10-year intervals up to the present, is the story of Allie Burns, a young woman from a working-class Fife family who has a job as a reporter on a Glasgow tabloid, Glasgow Daily Clarion. She has a degree from Cambridge, a clear moral compass and a boundless determination to succeed in a man’s world. She knows what she’s up against - a woman in a Neanderthal’s world.

coolreads# Retro Books#. The Cassandra Compact

The Cassandra Compact

Authors: Robert Ludlum & Philip Shelby

Publisher: Harpercollins

ISBN: 0007101694

Year Published: 2001

Robert Ludlum’s The Cassandra Compact with coauthor Philip Shelby, takes off after The Hades Factor, published in 2000, which was his first novel in the new exciting Covert-One series.

coolreads# Retro Books# The Man

The Man

Author: Irving Wallace

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9789997408730

First Published: 1964

When acting president TC dies due to a twist of fate, followed by the sudden demise of the House Speaker, the succession laws of the United States put Douglas Dillman, a black President pro tempore senator, in the hot seat by default, much to the disbelief and chagrin of racist America. The book is about how a nation, which professes equality and liberty as its cornerstones, lies exposed in its hollow shell.

coolreads# Call to Kill @definitelybooks

Kill For Me

Author: Tom Wood

Publisher: Sphere

ISBN: 9780751565720

Set in Central America, Tom Wood opens his eighth thriller with Victor the Assassin, now officially a gun-for-hire, having ended all previous relationships with the MI6 and CIA, in Guatemala for a gun purchase that ends up being a shakedown.