coolreads # Retro Books # Treasure

Treasure

Author: Clive Cussler

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 0007205597

Year Published: 2005

The story starts off in the past when the great Library of Alexandria which housed the knowledge of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires as well as those little known civilisations that rose and fell far beyond the shores of the Mediterranean, was ransacked, burned and destroyed by some fanatics after being ordered by the Christian Emperor Theodosius in 391 AD.

coolreads # Retro Books # Agent in Place

Agent in Place

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkeley

ISBN: 9780451488909

Year Published: 2018

This is the seventh in the high-powered Gray Man series by Mark Greaney. The book opens with the Islamic State group about to execute Courtland Gentry, also known as the Gray Man and leave his body floating with others shot in the head in a bloody lake. Then the story backs up a week earlier to show how Gentry got into this unholy mess.

coolreads # Retro Books # Crescent Dawn

Crescent Dawn

Authors: Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9780241951316

Year Published: 2011

Throw in a band of mixed terrorists, Roman artefacts, with delusions of dynasty by deranged siblings and the irrefutable physical evidence that Jesus of Nazareth lived, then include water - from the Mediterranean Sea - and from this exotic mixture, you get another aquatic adventure starring Dirk Pitt and his colleagues at NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency).

coolreads # Retro Books # Dead Eye

Dead Eye

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9780425269053

Year Published: 2013

With Court Gentry also known as the Gray Man still on the run from US authorities, including a number of "handlers" whom he has burned, the CIA hires one of its most covert private operations, Townsend Government Services, to find and kill him. They turn to the one man who is just as skilled as Gray Man in order to do the job for them, a man code-named Dead Eye, which is also the title of the fourth thriller in this series by Mark Greaney.

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Conviction

Author: Jack Jordan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9781398505711

AS an ambitious lawyer, 38-year-old Neve Harper has been handed a controversial murder case which has made the headlines. Her new client, Wade Darling has been accused of killing his wife and children, and then burning down the family home, injuring himself in the process. But Wade professes his innocence, claiming a mystery man killed them all instead before leaving him to die in the fire.

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The Accomplice

Author: Steve Cavanagh

Publisher: Orion

ISBN: 9781409198741

The book opens with FBI agent Paige Delaney together with a SWAT team approaching a brick colonial-style house in upscale Old Westbury in New York State. They are there on an urgent mission. For 14 months and 12 days, a serial killer who calls himself The Sandman has murdered 17 victims. Now they are at his home to make the arrest.

coolreads # Retro Books # Gray Mountain

Gray Mountain

Author: John Grisham

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9781473613003

Year Published: 2014

Gray Mountain is set during the 2008 recession. The protagonist, Samantha Kofer, is a third-year associate in one of the major law firms in New York - Scully & Pershing.

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1989

Author: Val McDermid

Publisher: Little, Brown

ISBN: 9780751583113

Billed as the “Queen of Crime”, Val McDermid has a devoted readership base since her debut with 1979 in 2021. The new novel, 1989, showcases her as an author who likes to keep in touch wIth people and events. It chronicles the life of Scottish investigative reporter Allie Burns, as she navigates the ever-changing landscape of the newspaper industry, as well as highlighting major landmark events in both Scotland and the world at large.

coolreads # Retro Books # Hot Blood

Hot Blood

Author: Stephen Leather

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN: 9780340921692

Year Published: 2007

Hot Blood is Stephen Leather's 18th novel, the fourth in a series featuring undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. It is based on a formulaic rescue drama, centred on present-day Iraq.

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Escape

Authors: James Patterson & David Ellis

Publisher: Century

ISBN: 9781529125405

ESCAPE is the third instalment in James Patterson and David Ellis’ series featuring Billy Harney, a Chicago detective who works in an elite unit that focuses exclusively on what are  called "heater" cases, those high-publicity crimes that lead the evening news broadcasts.