Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and dog-eared cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is separated at birth by accident. One brother grows up to be a war hero in Vietnam and a successful 1990s bank executive, while the other distinguishes himself as a lawyer and politician. Sons of Fortune is as much the story of the making of these two men—and how they eventually find each other—as it is the chronicle of a nation in transition.

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

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There was a time when the world was sweeter...when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heart -- and the joy and pain of living.

Desperation by Stephen King

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24 Declassified: Operation Hell Gate by Marc Cerasini

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages
Price: RM15

Within twenty-four hours a nightmare will be unleashed that could cause the death of untold millions and devastate a great nation. It's a plot being carried out by the unlikeliest of allies. A powerful mole within the deepest reaches of U.S. Intelligence has secretly conscripted the very criminals he's been charged with investigating -- former IRA terrorists, Latino and Asian gang members, Middle Eastern assassins and others -- creating one of the most insidious terrorist networks law enforcement has yet to take down.

One man stands between the destroyers and the death tide: Jack Bauer, lone wolf operative for America's brand-new elite Counter Terrorist Unit. But he's three thousand miles from the CTU command center without backup in a strange city, New York. He's been artfully set up and is being hunted by the FBI for the murder of two of its agents. And time's almost up . . .

24 Declassified: Vanishing Point by Marc Cerasini

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Good
Price: RM15

Area 51: America's top-secret advanced military testing ground, hidden away in the Nevada desert, where the awesome weapons of tomorrow are being developed. But a mole inside the impregnable facility has been leaking highly advanced killing technology to America's worst enemies . . . who intend to turn its destructive power on an unsuspecting nation before the day is out.

Agent Jack Bauer has a mere twenty-four hours to derail a horrific plot, as a deadly endgame takes shape in the neon glare of nearby Las Vegas. But to do so, the rogue CTU operative will have to lead an impossible assault on Area 51 itself—and expose a lethal string of betrayal and corruption that leads from the terrorists to the underworld and all the way into the heart of the U.S. government.

Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell

Book 1

Book 2

Two separate books.

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition:
Book 1; Wet mark on bottom front cover, slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Book 2; Yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10 (price for one book)

Creasy - a rugged, burned-out mercenary... When he takes the job as a bodyguard for the young daughter of an Italian industrialist he is awakened to new life by a beguiling human touch - until the unspeakable atrocity occurs... The child is kidnapped by violent terrorists and Creasy is thrown into a ferocious world of treachery and turmoil. Filled with a single-minded rage, he fights for their lives, whatever the cost - and is transformed, as never before, into the terrifying killing machine he was trained to be.

Snap Shot by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Among the dozen photographers from the world's press working in Vietnam, David Munger was outstanding. But why did he pack up, desert, vanish? No one knew. And what was his connection with the violence, vendettas and complex web of secrets that preceded the raid a decade later in distant Tammuz? Snap Shot is a story of murder and perversion, bribery and blackmail, and occasionally, of great love and courage. It is the story of a great photographer who descends into a nightmare, and of his struggle to climb back out.

In the Name of the Father by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly yellowed back cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

The Kremlin has decided to assassinate the Pope, and this time ensure an efficient job. In the Vatican, three Clerics learn of the threat and plan a pre-emptive strike. It becomes a game of poker between the KGB and the Vatican Secret Service. The single stake is the life of the Pope; or the Soviet President.

Not just faith against efficiency; but vengeance allied to finely honed skill. Can this combination breach the fortress Kremlin? Or will the cloistered Vatican give up the life of Pope?

The Perfect Kill by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, small tear on front cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

Three days before Christmas in 1988,a bomb blew Pan Am 103 out of the sky over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all passengers and crew. The wife and four year old daughter of Creasy were amongst the passengers. Seeking his personal vengeance, Creasy finds the backup of power-a US Senator, whose wife also died on Pan Am 103: and of youth-an eighteen year old orphan called Michael. Ruthlessly and relentlessly, Creasy trains Michael into becoming a man in his own image. Trains him...for the perfect kill.

Black Horn by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, yellowed pages
Price: RM10

In Zimbabwe a young American woman is shot dead by a sniper at her camp on the bank of the Zambezi River. In Hong Kong, Lucy Kwok, a Chinese air hostess, returns from Tokyo to find her father, mother and brother have been brutally murdered. The killings are linked - to Africa.

Ex-mercenary Creasy is hired to find the American women's killers, and when Lucy Kwok discovers that the truth behind her family's death also lies in Zimbabwe, a fateful meeting is set in motion.

Message from Hell by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Slightly worn and yellowed cover, browned pages
Price: RM10

The latest Creasy adventure takes our hero to Vietnam and Cambodia, ostensibly on a mission to rescue a US serviceman taken prisoner twenty-six years earlier during the Vietnam war. In reality, however, the mission is a decoy organised by a sadistic Eurasain woman, Connie Crum, who is a high-ranking officer of the Khmer Rouge. She has long harboured a grudge against Creasy who was responsible for the death of her father. A cat and mouse game between the two principles ensues, as each tries to out guess the other, resulting in a climactic shoot-out in a heavily mined and guarded Buddhist temple hidden in the Cambodian jungle.

The Blue Ring by AJ Quinnell

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Browned pages
Price: RM10

Creasy, a veteran mercenary, had found solitude on a small, Mediterranean island, far from the violent conflicts of his past profession. That solitude is broken when he is confronted by Juliet, a thirteen-year-old heroine addict whose life has been almost destroyed by 'The Blue Ring', a powerful, worldwide cartel dealing in drugs, prostitution and the use of Satanism to pursue their ends. Now Creasy has a new mission; to hunt down the evil men who trade in death and degradation... and destroy their paymaster, the evil genius at the sentre of an internation web of corruption.

A Stranger in the Mirror by Sidney Sheldon

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Toby Temple - Superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets ay woman he wants. But underneath the callous super-stud image is a lonely man, desperate for attention, greedy for love.

Jill Castle - Beautiful sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and an ambition even greater than Toby's.

Together they rule the glittering kingdom of Hollywood until lust, jealousy, revenge turn triumph to tragedy in a nightmare scenario that rolls relentlessly on to a stunning, sensational climax...

Morning, Noon & Night by Sidney Sheldon

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When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world, mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be the daughter of Harry Stanford and entitled to a share of the tycoon's estateis she genuine or an impostor? The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America, but behind the facade of fame and glamour is a hidden web of blackmail, drugs, and murder.Sidney Sheldons Morning, Noon, and Night sweeps from the splendors of the Italian Riviera to the fashion salons of Paris and New York, to the elite of Bostons Back Bay and the social register of Floridas Hobe Sound. His intriguing story twists and turns its way through smoke and mirrors until the ultimate Sidney Sheldon surprise ending.

Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Worn cover, browned pages, scribbles on inside back cover
Price: RM5

Kate Blackwell is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she;s a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of dead to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated and loved; the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil - her winnings in life. Is she the master of the game?

Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon

Category: Fiction
Type: Paperback
Condition: Worn cover, browned pages, scribbles on last page
Price: RM5

Shadowed by tragedy and burdened by amnesia, a beautiful woman desperately tries to return to reality. She is Catherine Douglas, destined to once again challenge the cruel, charismatic power of Constantin Demiris, the Greek shipping tycoon who murdered Catherine's husband. Now, in the glittering capitals and carefree playgrounds of postwar Europe, Demiris sets his deadly sights on Catherine - the single, treacherous secret whose shattering truth is known to her alone...

Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM20

Mirabelle is the "shopgirl" of the title, a young woman, beautiful in a wallflowerish kind of way, who works behind the glove counter at Neiman Marcus "selling things that nobody buys anymore..."

Slightly lost, slightly off-kilter, very shy, Mirabelle charms because of all that she is not: not glamorous, not aggressive, not self-aggrandizing. Still there is something about her that is irresistible.

Mirabelle captures the attention of Ray Porter, a wealthy businessman almost twice her age. As they tentatively embark on a relationship, they both struggle to decipher the language of love -- with consequences that are both comic and heartbreaking. Filled with the kind of witty, discerning observations that have brought Steve Martin critical success, Shopgirl is a work of disarming tenderness.

How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, small tear on front cover
Price: RM20

Eight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living.

Reader's Digest: Select Editions 4

Category: Fiction (Condensed Version)
Type: Hardcover
Condition: As good as new
Price: RM20

1. The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
2. Sun at Midnight by Rosie Thomas
3. Echo Park by Michael Connelly
4. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.

Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood.

As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.

Reader's Digest: 4 Books by Frederick Forsyth

Category: Fiction (Condensed Version)
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM40

The Day of the Jackal

The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.

The Dogs of War

In a remote corner of Zangaro, a small republic in Africa, lies Crystal Mountain. At certain times of the day the mountain emits a strange glow. Only Sir James Manson knows why. The mountain contains ten billion dollar's worth of the world's most valuable mineral, platinum. "Not only exciting but truly surprising"--Atlantic. Now the only question is, how to get hold of it. Sir James knows how. Invade the country with a band of savage, cold-blooded mercenaries. Topple the government and set up a puppet dictatorship. Unleash the dogs of war.

The Negotiator

Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller, retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and a conspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only one man--Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the plan from succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.President Cormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer the president's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnappers like a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, he discovers that ransom was not their objection after all--and that he has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw upon his deepest strengths--to save not only the victim but the entire free world.

Avenger

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and shuffles around his dark, empty house, trying to forget about a life he has lost forever. Until, of course, Dexter reads something in the papers that sends him the necessary signal. Until one of the handful who know of Dexter's other life tries to contact him. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, few can settle a score like Cal Dexter can. But the game is changing, and this time CIA agent Kevin McBride must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trade-marks and is sure to be this fall's most suspenseful read.

The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Slightly yellowed pages, price sticker mark on back cover
Price: RM20

The Jukebox Queen of Malta is an exquisite and enchanting novel of love and war set on an island perilously balanced between what is real and what is not.

It's 1942 and Rocco Raven, an intrepid auto mechanic turned corporal from Brooklyn, has arrived in Malta, a Mediterranean island of Neolithic caves, Copper Age temples, and fortresses. The island is under siege, full of smoke and rubble, caught in the magnesium glare of German and Italian bombs.

But nothing is as it seems on Malta. Rocco's living quarters are a brothel; his commanding officer has a genius for turning the war's misfortunes into personal profit; and the Maltese people, astonishingly, testify to the resiliency of the human spirit. When Rocco meets the beautiful and ethereal Melita, who delivers the jukeboxes her cousin builds out of shattered debris, they are drawn to each other by an immediate passion. And, it is their full-blown affair that at once liberates and imprisons Rocco on the island.

In this mesmerizing novel, music and bombs, war and romance, the jukebox and the gun exist in arresting counterpoint in a story that is a profound and deeply moving exploration of the redemptive powers of love.

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

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Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . .

In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a relative known as the bonesetter. When headstrong LuLing rejects the marriage proposal of the coffinmaker, a shocking series of events are set in motion–all of which lead back to Ruth and LuLing in modern San Francisco. The truth that Ruth learns from her mother’s past will forever change her perception of family, love, and forgiveness.

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Category: Fiction
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Price: RM25

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.

The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else’s?

On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation—something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family’s crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorcé with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.

Now, some thirty years later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it—how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been—is the story told in this beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel.

Jeffrey Archer: Stranger Than Fiction by Michael Crick

Category: Non-Fiction/Biography
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Brown spots on pages edge, otherwise good
Price: RM25

A tale of burning ambition and yearning for power, of financial, political and sexual intrigue, yet also of great compassion and generosity. It sounds like the blurb for one of his novels. It isn't. It is the biography of Jeffrey Archer.