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Agatha Christie

**AGATHA CHRISTIE is the author of more than 80 novels and story collections. Her books have sold well over 400,000,000 copies and have established her fame worldwide as the foremost mystery writer of our time.** If Sir Stafford Nye had not accepted the beautiful young woman's challenge and let her steal his scarlet-lined cloak, they would not--together--have entered a sinister world of intrigue and death! "Suspenseful story-telling and character delineation....Consummate art." **--Best Sellers** This description comes from the 1972 Pocket Books edition.

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Francine Mathews

CUTOUT: A third person used to conceal the contact between two people. A pawn.They were partners -- lovers in a business WHERE betrayal is a heartbeat away. CIA analyst Caroline Carmichael lost her husband Eric when his plane was blown out of the sky by an elite group of terrorists known as 30 April.Now her dead husband has surfaced among those responsible for an explosion that rocks Berlin -- and the brutal kidnapping of the U.S. Vice President. Uncertain of Eric's motives and loyalties, the Agency plays its last, best card: Eric's wife -- the Cutout.Is Eric a rogue agent gone bad? Or has he thrown himself under deep cover to terminate a ruthless psychopath? Caroline is drawn into a dizzying maze where one wrong turn will mean certain death ... and in which the Cutout will be the first to fall.From the Paperback edition.

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Julie Parsons

For ten years, newly retired policeman Michael McLoughlin has been haunted by the case of a young woman who was brutally murdered, and by the love he felt for Margaret, the victim 's mother. A favour for a friend leads him to another woman who has lost a child ... her daughter Marina has been found drowned. An accident, suicide ... or murder?" "Margaret, too, has been tormented by her daughter Mary's death and the subsequent death of Mary's killer. She can find no peace. Anywhere. Finally she returns to Dublin to face her demons. A chance encounter with a young girl in a graveyard leads her back to a man she never thought she'd see again and to a mother with a grief to match her own.

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Richard Herman Jr

A futuristic war story featuring a group of American pilots who volunteer to fly for the rebels when civil war breaks out in China. The squadron is equipped with the A-10 tank killer, the Warthog of Desert Storm fame.