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Penguin Group (USA). Key Mass Market Titles. Nora Roberts – The Circle Trilogy. Morrigan’s Cross Mass Market/Jove 0-515-14165-8/$7.99 August. Dance Of The Gods Mass Market/Berkley 0-515-14166-6/$7.99 October. Valley Of Silence Mass Market/Jove 0-515-14167-4/$7.99 November.
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Penguin Group (USA) Key Mass Market Titles
Nora Roberts – The Circle Trilogy Morrigan’s Cross Mass Market/Jove 0-515-14165-8/$7.99August Dance Of The Gods Mass Market/Berkley 0-515-14166-6/$7.99October Valley Of Silence Mass Market/Jove0-515-14167-4/$7.99 November • A new trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. The Circle Trilogy has all the magic and romance that fans have come to expect from Roberts, plus an exciting new paranormal element.
Sue Grafton – S Is For Silence – IE • Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she’d run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter Daisy she left behind, Violet’s absence has never been explained nor forgotten. Now, she wants the solace of closure. • Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone mystery series has produced many New York Times bestsellers. S Is For Silence Sue Grafton Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21087-1 Available September 2006
Clive Cussler – Dark Watch – IE • Juan Cabrillo is the CEO of the good ship Oregon. On the outside it looks like a rusty old cargo ship. However, looks can be deceiving. The Oregon is actually a high tech spy vessel, which does work for several western governments. • The first book in this series, Golden Buddha, has received strong reviews and excellent numbers in trade, and the second book, Sacred Stone, was a New York Times bestseller for seven weeks. Dark Watch Clive Cussler Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21092-8 Available September 2006
Tom Clancy – Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell #3 •Sam Fisher is a special operative of the National Security Agency. He uses high-tech gadgets to protect America from terrorist threats.•This is the third entry in the New York Times bestselling series.• The Splinter Cell series is based on the #1 bestselling computer game of the same name. The computer game has an incredibly high profile thanks to a national ad campaign. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell #3 Tom Clancy Berkley Mass Market $9.99 0-425-21278-5 Available November 2006
Christine Feehan – Conspiracy Game •In the jungles of the Congo, GhostWalker sniper Jack Norton is in a tough situation, but the last thing he expects is to find Briony Jenkins, a woman who has his abilities, but who has no idea what she is. Their enemies will chase them to the wilderness of Montana -- where they will discover her secrets or die trying.• The fourth Game book in the New York Times bestselling paranormal romantic suspense series from Christine Feehan.• Feehan’s books include Mind Game, Dark Demon, and many other New York Times bestsellers. Conspiracy Game Christine Feehan Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14216-6 Available November 2006
Richard Clarke – The Scorpion’s Gate • A coup has finally toppled the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, and put a determined but shaky Islamic government in its place. Everywhere, the scent of oil has begun to attract the scorpions, and among them are men in Washington and another capital ready to strike a devil's bargain to fundamentally realign the map of the Middle East. The plans are not the same, however – though some of the planners think they are. Hidden agendas, fierce ambition, faulty intelligence – soon the dominos will start to fall! • For three decades, Richard A. Clarke worked in the White House, State Department, Pentagon, and as adviser to four presidents. He is also the author of the #1 bestseller Against All Enemies. The Scorpion’s Gate Richard Clarke Berkley Mass Market $9.99 0-425-21298-X Available December 2006
Jesse Kellerman – Sunstroke • When businessman Carl Perreira disappears during his vacation in Mexico, his loyal assistant, Gloria – who’s secretly been in love with him for years – decides to journey across the border herself to retrieve his body. But the deeper into the desert she travels, the more shocking discoveries she makes. About Carl. About herself. And about how elusive and dangerous the truth can be. • The blazingly original novel from the most exciting new voice in crime fiction today - a brilliantly crafted modern noir filled with secrets, heartbreak, and mordant humor. Sunstroke Jesse Kellerman Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-5151-4223-9 Available December 2006
W.E.B. Griffin – The Hostage • Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now. An American diplomat’s wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband is murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is warned, if she doesn’t tell them where her brother is — who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. • The second book in the Presidential Agent series. The first book, By Order Of The President was a New York Times bestseller. The Hostage W.E.B. Griffen Jove Mass Market $9.99 0-515-14240-9 Available January 2007
Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell • James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who . . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies, occasionally landing in the oddest of places. Meanwhile, a hurricane is brewing, and the visitor's family members soon fall deathly ill. Qwill has his work cut out for him as Pickax-as foreshadowed by Koko-is about to be hit by a bombshell. • The Cat Who… series has produced many New York Times bestsellers. The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell Lilian Jackson Braun Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14241-7 Available January 2007
John Lescroart – The Hunt Club • Wyatt Hunt is a self-employed private investigator. Following the death of his fiancee, Hunt isn’t looking for work. When a federal judge and his mistress are murdered, Hunt figures it’s someone else’s case – until the lead suspect becomes his friend and business associate, attorney Andrea Parisi. • Praise for John Lescroart’s The Motive: "Excellent . . . The Motive [is] a smashing legal thriller that surpasses anything Grisham ever wrote and bears comparison with Turow. . . . Lescroart does many things well, but two factors above all distinguish his writing. The first is its realism. . . . Second, his books are notable for their characterizations. This is not a novel you’ll put down willingly.” –The Washington Post • John Lescroart is the author the New York Times bestselling novel The Second Chair. The Hunt Club John Lescroart NAL Mass Market $9.99 0-451-22010-2 Available January 2007
Catherine Coulter – Point Blank • FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most dangerous case of their careers in Catherine Coulter's explosive, fast-paced thriller. •Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed while trying to rescue popular entertainer Pinky Womack from kidnappers. Lured to a motel in Pumis City, Virginia, by a known snitch, the only thing the agents discover is a glowing red timer. The place is demolished in a catastrophic explosion, but everyone survives… but that’s just the beginning!• Coulter a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her books include the New York Times-bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove and many others. Point Blank Catherine Coulter Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14168-2 Available January 2007
Jayne Ann Krentz – All Night Long • Irene Stenson and Pamela Webb had been the best of friends for one short high school summer. Their friendship ended the night Pamela dropped Irene off at home-and Irene walked in to discover her parents' bodies on the kitchen floor. It was ruled a murder-suicide, and Irene fled the northern California town of Dunsley. But seventeen years later, when Pamela sends a cryptic e-mail asking for help, Irene returns to find a lot of ugly, unanswered questions. • The hardcover edition debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. •Jayne Ann Krentz is the author of over 40 New York Times Bestsellers, and has more than 25 million copies of her books in print. All Night Long Jayne Ann Krentz Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14250-6 Available February 2007
Virginia Baker – Jack Knife Jonathon Avery is a brilliant scientist working on a top-secret governmental project--a time machine. But when he realizes that he’s not going to be chosen for the first mission, he decides to highjack the technology by going back in time with a will to do some harm to the future. The beautiful Sara Grant, another scientist, and David Elliot, a stunningly handsome special-ops, are sent after Avery. They arrive in London in the midst of a riot because more and more of their number are falling victim to a gruesome murderer; Jack the Ripper. With the help of Jonas Robb, a gentleman inspector who’s hot on the Ripper’s heels, she and David try desperately to track the Avery down before he can change the course of history. Jack Knife Virginia Baker Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14252-2 Available February 2007
Jack Kerley – A Garden Of Vipers • When a young reporter is found murdered, Mobile detectives Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus wonder if there may be more to this slaying than a standard homicide. Simultaneously, the detectives are drawn into the dealings of the Kincannon family. When Ryder is abducted by bizarre and unknown forces, heユs given up for dead by all but those closest to him. Digging fast as Ryder’s time disappears, they discover a web of connections between the murdered reporter, the dealings of an elusive bearded man, and the charitable enterprises of the Kincannons. •The Hundredth Man and The Death Collectors impressed critics everywhere. Now, Jack Kerley is poised to break out to the next level as his crime-thriller series, featuring Alabama detective Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus, continues in A Garden of Vipers. A Garden Of Vipers Jack Kerley NAL Mass Market $7.99 0-451-41233-8 Available February 2007
Clive Cussler – Polar Shift IE Polar shift: It is the name for a phenomenon that may have occurred many times in the past. At its very worst, it would mean the obliteration of all living matter, and if that happens —exit Earth. Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift. Now, the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group plans to use it to give the world's industrialized nations a jolt. Austin, Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team certainly have faced dire situations before, but never have they encountered anything like this. This time…even they may be too late. Polar Shift Clive Cussler Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21133-9 Available March 2007
Robert B. Parker – Sea Change When a woman's partially decomposed body washes ashore in Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone is forced into a case far more difficult than it initially appears. Identifying the woman is just the first step in what proves to be an emotionally charged investigation. Florence Horvath was an attractive, recently divorced heiress from Florida. Somehow the combination of her past and present got her killed, but no one is talking. But someone-Jesse-has to speak for the dead, even if it puts him in harm's way. Sea Change Robert B. Parker Berkley Mass Market $7.99 0-425-21442-7 Available March 2007
Randy Wayne White – Dark Light The old woman who visits Doc Ford's lab late one night has a haunting story, of a loved one lost while rendezvousing with a German submarine off the coast of Florida sixty years earlier, of her belief that he was being blackmailed and that the storm has given her a second chance to prove his innocence by uncovering the wreck of his boat-and the truth-if only Ford would look for it. Dark Light Randy Wayne White Berkley Mass Market $7.99 0-425-21444-3 Available March 2007
Stephen White – Kill Me • What if you could choose when to die? But once you decide, you can’t change your mind. Ever. No matter what.•New York Times bestselling author Stephen White has written a new breed of thriller. Throw out everything you think you know about twists, turns, and surprises. Get ready for the next big thing. Get ready to meet the Death Angels. Kill Me Stephen White NAL Mass Market $9.99 0-451-22071-4 Available March 2007
Martha Grimes – The Old Wine Shade “The dog came back” “This is a joke, right?” Harry Johnson, a stranger, sits down next to Richard Jury as he’s drinking in a London pub called the Old Wine Shades. Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey. They’ve been missing for nine months—no trace, no clue, no lead as to what happened. The Old Wine Shade Martha Grimes NAL Mass Market $9.99 0-451-22072-2 Available March 2007
Christine Feehan – Deadly Game • The GhostWalkers are an elite force, a secret military experiment. With enhanced physical and mental abilities, they find themselves in the middle of a vast conspiracy, and realize there have been others secretly – and illegally – enhanced; specifically women who have been experimented on as children. Now, it’s a race against time to track these women before it’s too late… • Christine Feehan is a New York Times Bestselling author, reaching as high as #2 with Dark Demon. Deadly Game Christine Feehan Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14261-1 Available March 2007
Patricia Cornwell – At Risk – IE • A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, is planning to run for governor, and she’s planning to use as a showcase a new crime initiative called At Risk. In particular, she’s been looking for a way to use some cutting-edge new forensics technology, and she thinks she’s found it in a twenty-year-old murder of an elderly woman. If her office solves it for them, it ought to make her look pretty good. • Patricia Cornwell is the Gold Dagger and Edgar-winning author of fourteen Scarpetta novels, three non-Scarpettas, and Portrait Of A Killer. At Risk Patricia Cornwell Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21476-1 Available April 2007
Laurell Hamilton – Danse Macabre As the days pass, Anita’s less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: She may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, she knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner is no way to bring up a baby… Danse Macabre Laurell Hamilton Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-14281-6 Available April 2007
Jack Higgins – A Fine Night For Dying •Weighted down by chains, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston was dragged out of the English Channel in the nets of a local fishing boat. British intelligence suspects a connection with a modern cross-channel smuggling ring. But as undercover agent Paul Chavasse embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous cases in his extraordinary career, he soon discovers that this is no small-time operation – and the ruthless men behind it will go to any lengths to protect their precious cargo. •Jack Higgins is the New York Times Bestselling author of Dark Justice and Without Mercy. A Fine Night For Dying Jack Higgins Berkley Mass Market $9.99 0-425-21477-X Available April 2007
Michael Prescott – Final Sins Security consultant Abby Sinclair is back, and this time she’s working for a killer. Ten years ago, German serial killer Peter Jacobson was found not guilty by reason of insanity; now he’s out of the asylum and living in Los Angeles. He hires Abby to stop a stalker he feels is threatening him and his girlfriend. When Abby’s investigation uncovers a rogue law enforcement operation and almost gets her killed, she is forced to turn to FBI agent Tess McCallum, her hated rival, for help. Final Sins Michael Prescott Mass Market $7.99 0-451-41230-3 Available April 2007
Amanda Quick – Second Sight •Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. But her romantic whim causes unexpected trouble. Venetia’s special “double vision” has caught the attention of someone her employer, Mr. Gabriel Jones, is tracking – someone who will go to any lengths, even murder, to possess an ancient, extraordinary secret that has been lost for centuries. Second Sight Amanda Quick Jove Mass Market $7.99 0-515-142-808 Available April 2007
Stuart Woods – Short Straw Short Straw reintroduces Santa Fe lawyer Ed Eagle, who first appeared Woods's thriller, Santa Fe Rules. In his first adventure, Ed fell in love with the seductive Barbara Kennerly, and married her-against his better judgment. Ed Eagle awakens to find that Barbara has vanished, and Ed's money has been wired to the Cayman Islands. Ed hires two slightly shady investigators to search for his wife who track Barbara down in Puerto Vallarta, and discover that someone else may also be involved. Ed soon finds himself caught in a scheme that is much more far reaching-and deadly-than anyone would have expected. Short Straw Stuart Woods Signet Mass Market $9.99 0-451-22084-6 Available April 2007
John Sandford – Dead Watch IE Early morning, Virginia, and a woman is on the run. Her husband, a former U.S. Senator, has been missing for days. Kidnapped? Murdered? She doesn't know, but she thinks she knows who's involved, and why. And that she's next. Dead Watch John Sandford Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21620-9 Available May 2007
T.C. Boyle – Talk Talk IE •The first time Bridger saw Dana she was dancing barefoot, her hair aflame in the red glow of the club, her body throbbing with rhythms and cross-rhythms that only she could hear. He was mesmerized. That night they were both deaf... and the next morning Bridger was in love. Now, she is in a courtroom, her legs shackled, as a list of charges is read out. A man, William “Peck” Wilson, has been living a blameless life of criminal excess at Dana’s expense. Together, Bridger and Dana set out and drive across America looking for Peck and a life of their own.• Penguin will release Tooth And Claw and the 25th anniversary edition of Water Music, Boyle’s first novel, in paperback simultaneously. Boyle is a New York Times bestseller –– his novels include The Inner Circle, Drop City and World’s End. Talk Talk T.C. Boyle Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-143-11219-8 Available May 2007
Dick Francis – Under Orders IE • Death at the races is not uncommon. But three in one day was more than enough to raise suspicions. And with jockey Huw Walker dead from three bullets in the chest, and not a racecourse spill, Sid Halley finds there are more than a few reasons why someone had set their sights on Walker – with Sid next in line. • Under Orders is the new novel from one of the world’s most beloved writers in six years -- and it’s also a brilliant return for the Grand Master’s most popular and enduring hero, Sid Halley, the former jockey-turned-detective, not seen since 1995’s Edgar Award-winning Come To Grief.• Francis’s last novel, Shattered, was on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks, getting as high as #5. Under Orders Dick Francis Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21623-3 Available May 2007
Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb – Born In Death • Lt. Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers – both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm – are brutally killed on the same night.• Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 150 novels.• The In Death series has produced many bestsellers. Born In Death Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb Berkley Mass Market $7.99 0-425-21568-7 Available May 2007
C.J. Box – In Plain Sight • J. W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He blames one man for the death of his brother: Joe Pickett. And now J. W. is going to make him suffer. • C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels, and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo. In Plain Sight C.J.Box Berkley Mass Market $7.99 0-425-21579-2 Available May 2007
W.E.B. Griffin – The Saboteurs • Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his rousing stories of the OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E. Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a brand-new adventure. • The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting down and sinking U.S. supply ships, and ships are being burned at their moorings in U.S. ports-is it accident or is it sabotage? Meanwhile, Allied forces are secretly preparing to invade first Sicily and then Italy. As the war heats up, Wild Bill Donovan's agents, answerable only to the president, find themselves battling on two fronts at once-and fate is just about to deal them a surprise. The Saboteurs W.E.B. Griffin Jove Mass Market $9.99 0-515-14306-5 Available June 2007
Robert B. Parker – Blue Screen Buddy Bollen is a C-list movie mogul who made his fortune producing films of questionable artistic merit. When Buddy hires Sunny Randall to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, Sunny knows from the start that the prickly, spoiled beauty won't make her job easy. And when Erin's sister, Misty, is found dead in the lavish home they share with sugar daddy Bollen, there doesn't seem to be a single lead worth pursuing. Blue Screen Robert B. Parker Berkley Mass Market $9.99 0-425-21598-9 Available June 2007
Daniel Silva – The Messenger IE • Gabriel Allon is recovering from a grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when a figure from his past arrives in Jerusalem. Monsignor Luigi Donati is the private secretary to His Holiness Pope Paul VII, and a man as ruthless as he is intelligent. Now, he has come to seek Allon's help in investigating that murder of a young Swiss guard. Allon concludes that Donati has every right to be concerned as he follows the trail from the heart of the Vatican to the valleys of Switzerland and beyond, and slowly unravels a conspiracy of lies and deception. • The latest novel in Silva’s New York Times bestselling series featuring Gabriel Allon. Books in this series include Prince Of Fire and The First Assassin. The Messenger Daniel Silva Mass Market IE $7.99 TK Available July 2007
Robin Cook – Crisis IE • Dr. Craig Bowman is shocked and humiliated when he is served a summons for medical malpractice. Suddenly, his lifestyle, his livelihood, and his marriage have fallen apart, and Bowman is the centerpiece of a nasty court battle. And when the body of his final patient is exhumed, Bowman’s life truly falls apart. Plus, Crisis marks the return of Dr. Jack Stapleton, who is called in as a forensic expert in the case.• Robin Cook, the master of the medical thriller, is a consistent New York Times bestseller. His books include Seizure, Marker and many others! Crisis Robin Cook Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21624-1 Available July 2007
Clive Cussler – Treasure Of Khan • When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia’s Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. But that all changes when the survey team is abducted and Pitt’s research vessel nearly sunk. All trails lead to Mongolia and a mysterious mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of his ancestors, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Kahn that just might give him the wealth and power to do! • Clive Cussler is the author or coauthor of thirty previous books, including eighteen Dirk Pitt Novels, six NUMA Files adventures, three Oregon Files books and three works of nonfiction. He is also a #1 New York Times bestselling author. COMING SOON: Treasure of Khan Clive Cussler Berkley Mass Market IE $7.99 0-425-21622-5 Available November 2007