by Donald Hamilton (1976)
"When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner -- a woman posing as his mistress -- was killed. Now Helm is mad, mad enough to blow the operation sky high."--Page [4] of cover.
Shannon Kirk
She isn't your typical teenage kidnapped victim. She's a 16 year old pregnant teenager and from the moment she is kidnapped, she feels a calm desire to not only save her unborn son but to also exact merciless revenge. Leaving nothing to chance, and secure in her timing and practice, she considers what her assets are and waits for the perfect moment to strike. Method 15/33 is what happens when the victim is just as cold as her abductors.
Alistair Maclean
PLOT Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.
Mark F. Davis
Disguised as a foreign exchange student from a well-to-do family, Sara Morgan presents herself as a young hopeful interested in her university studies, all the while keeping her true purpose secret. Set primarily in Washington State, Tigress tells the story of a woman's life in the world of espionage.
Ross Thomas
"It was while jogging along the beach just east of the Paradise Cove pier that Artie Wu tripped over a dead pelican, fell, and met the man with six greyhounds." Thus begins what may be the most popular of Ross Thomas's unique stories.