Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime.
This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.
In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life—connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to heroic acts at the Battle of the Bulge and finally to the high-stakes gambles and cutthroat players who ushered in the dawn of the American oil industry.
In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun and being unsure whether it hit its mark.
A fascinating insight into the people and times of South Boston in the 1970s and all the racial and class issues that were affecting the lives relationships between the characters.
“Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen King
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history.
In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to…
BAD BOYS IN BOSTON It’s just business, never personal.
Thirty years after fighting crime and corruption in the 1980s, Dale Hunter and Frank the Fixer are drawn into rescuing a niece abducted off the streets in Boston. Dale and Frank follow a treacherous trail into the dangerous and violent international sex trade that also reveals more of Frank’s tragic family history in Africa and leads them back to violent threats of abuse closer to home in Montreal.
They are drawn into the vicious competition between gangsters in the lucrative business of sex trafficking and illegal online pornography. A secretive Montreal crime figure is assassinated and deals are made between the Russian gangsters in Boston and the Mafia families of Montreal to extricate the young victims trapped in abuse. Frank manages his connections with organised crime and law enforcement and Dale applies high-tech spyware to find the innocent women. Tough tactics are required and more violence and murder cannot be avoided.
