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The New York Times–bestselling author presents five paranormal adventures featuring the lycanthropic British spy introduced in The Wolf's Hour.
Roaming the globe in a fight against Nazi Germany, shapeshifter Michael Gallatin stars in stories that are "tremendous fun as McCammon mashes 007 and the Wolfman in a League of Extraordinary Gentleman fashion" (SFcrowsnest).
"The Great White Way"
In 1927, the wife of the star wrestler in a Russian...
2) Gone South
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Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love can create. Gone South chronicles a desperate man's journey through a desperate land. Flooded by memories, poisoned by Agent Orange, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of fear and fury-and changes his life forever. Pursued by police and bounty hunters, Dan flees south toward the Louisiana bayous. In the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday,...
3) Boy's Life
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Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson-a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake-and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good...
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The year is 1703. The woman Matthew Corbett loves is rapidly deteriorating. A drug forced on her by criminal mastermind Professor Fell has destroyed her sanity. And, the one thing that could save her - a book of potions - was stolen, during an assault on the English village, where she has been living under another name, an attack directed by a deranged man known as Cardinal Black.
Matthew is a professional problem solver employed by an agency in...
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In 1702, Matthew Corbett is an apprentice problem solver for the Herrald Agency, currently tasked with accompanying serial killer Tyranthus Slaughter on a journey from a Philadelphia asylum to the New York City waterfront. But during the trip, Mr. Slaughter tempts Matthew and his colleague Hudson Greathouse with an unexpected offer-leading to catastrophic outcomes. This darkly compelling novel delves into both the mind of a murderer and the process...
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A search for a sorcerer's mirror may shatter a man's mind in this colonial-era thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cardinal Black.
In the year 1704, Matthew Corbett is about to go up against an antagonist completely different from any he has faced before. On a trip to Italy to track down Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro, Matthew and Hudson Greathouse find themselves marooned...
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Three novels of creeping horror from the New York Times–bestselling author who "delivers terror with skillful ferocity" (Publishers Weekly).
This collection from the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award–winning author of the Matthew Corbett novels includes:
The Night Boat
A scuba diver discovers a sunken Nazi U-boat. He dislodges it by detonating an unexploded depth charge, but back on the surface, he hears a strange sound from within...
8) The Listener
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Economic collapse. Crushing unemployment and breadlines crowding city streets as crime spirals out of control. The Great Depression has enough misery for all, and some to spare. But for angel-faced grifter John Partlow, the American South in 1934 is a land of opportunity. The small-time confidence man stumbles into the big leagues when he partners up with beautiful hustler Ginger LaFrance. Seduced into her high stakes plot to kidnap the young children...
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At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, has left New York for Charles Town on an assignment from his agency-and vanished. As his friend Hudson Greathouse, sets out to track him down, he has no idea that Matthew is across the sea in London's notorious Newgate Prison, accused of murdering a Prussian count and targeted by a masked vigilante. Now Hudson, accompanied by Matthew's beloved Berry Grigsby, must...
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The New York Times–bestselling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense.
From his first appearance in Speaks the Nightbird to his latest adventure in The King of Shadows, Matthew Corbett has faced enemies of all kinds, from serial killers to sorcerers. Now author Robert McCammon presents eight gripping stories featuring the professional problem solver and his associates...
11) The Border
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It happened one day in April. Huge explosions in skies across the world heralded the coming of the Gorgon ships, sparking a worldwide panic. Indestructible, they blasted Earth's greatest cities into rubble. Then, through portals opening in the air, came the skeletal Cyphers. And Earth became a battlefield in a war between two alien races bent on mutual destruction.
In Colorado, just over a hundred survivors have found sanctuary in the ruins of an...
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Two short novels featuring the vampiric gunslinger who seeks vengeance and justice across the Old West, from the New York Times—bestselling master of horror.
He was once a husband, father, lawyer, and Civil War soldier. Now he is a vampire struggling to hold onto his last thread of humanity-and to destroy the one who made him.
In I Travel by Night, Trevor Lawson handles matters from his lair at the Hotel Sanctuaire in New Orleans. When a prominent...
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"A colorful, action-packed tale filled with sinister doings and plenty of good old-fashioned heroics . . . An entertaining ride" set in colonial times (Criminal Element).
In the winter of 1703, Matthew Corbett's Manhattan neighborhood is shaken by explosions-and Matthew discovers his old nemesis, Professor Fell, will do anything he can to capture Matthew's attention and obtain his services as a professional problem solver. As a result, Matthew travels...
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A dirt farmer in Southern Indiana in the year 1924 chose to name his son after a famous baseball player who would someday enter the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Little did anyone know at the time, including that famous player, just how much that decision would mean to that son and the generations to follow. That was the beginning of a love affair with baseball that would identify this family, a love that would begin with the Washington Senators and...
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Accompanied by his new friend Magnus Muldoon, professional problem solver Matthew Corbett is in the Carolina colony, where three enslaved people have managed to flee their captors, one of them accused of killing the daughter of a plantation owner. Their quest to close the case will take Matthew and Magnus to the place known as "the River of Souls" as they encounter alligators and Native American warriors and a terrifying being, known as the Soul Cryer......
16) Leviathan
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The thrilling conclusion to the Matthew Corbett colonial-era mystery series by the New York Times–bestselling author of The King of Shadows.
Matthew Corbett barely escaped from the beguiling and sinister island of Golgotha, where he and his companions, Hudson Greathouse and Professor Fell, had searched in vain for a fabled sorcerer's mirror said to possess demon-summoning powers. The island instead pulled them ever deeper into its influence-with...
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Swans Song - Buch 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt Der legendäre Endzeit-Thriller. Düster, brutal und mit epischer Wucht erzählt. In diesem Endzeit-Thriller beschreibt der Bestsellerautor die Welt nach der atomaren Apokalypse. Die menschliche Zivilisation bricht zusammen und die wenigen Überlebenden werden in eine vorindustrielle Welt katapultiert, in der sie zu hungrigen Bestien mutieren. Der nukleare Winter senkt sich wie ein Leichentuch über die...
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Swans Song - Buch 2: Das scharlachrote Auge Eine erkaltete, hoffnungslose Welt. Heimgesucht von einer uralten bösen Macht. Er ist der Mann mit dem scharlachroten Auge, der Mann der vielen Masken. Er vereint die Kraft der menschlichen Gier und des Wahnsinns. Er durchstreift das nuklear verstrahlte Land auf der Suche nach einem Kind, dem Mädchen mit dem Namen Swan. Das Kind muss vernichtet werden, denn es besitzt die Gabe. Swan kann dem toten Boden...
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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier. Russian Emigr E Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France,...
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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier. Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France,...