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"Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown Length: 6 hours and 46 min. ISBN: 0-7435-3577-4 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target…

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth…the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.

Tags: angels and demons, dan brown, mystery, robert langdon, illuminati, catholic church

• The Da Vinci Code
• Angels and Demons
• Deception Point

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"The Broker" by John Grisham Length: 11 hours and 4 min. ISBN: 0-7393-1646-X New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system.

Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive, there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?

Tags: the broker, john grisham, mysteries & thrillers, white house, president, pardon, cia, washington, identity, spy, secrets

• The Last Juror
• The Broker
• The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (from “cancer of the pseudonym”), but in late 2006, King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine’s Fogler Library (”How did this get here?!”) and decided that, with a little revision, it ought to be published.

Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., and of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own.

He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character, as taut and riveting as Stephen King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Tags: blaze, richard bachman and stephen king, mysteries & thrillers, stephen king, pen name, pseudonym, kidnapping, baby, heir, delinquent, abuse

From coast to coast and around the world, Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels continue to make best-selling history each summer. In the 13th book in the series, the stakes are raised even higher as Stephanie Plum finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious, hottest, chase yet. With her lovable, offbeat family along for the ride (as well as a few new faces), there’s no doubt that the Stephanie Plum novels put the “fun” in dysfunctional. And it’s clear to see why they’re called “Hot Stuff” by the New York Times - and why Evanovich herself is called “the master”.

Tags: lean mean thirteen, janet evanovich, mysteries & thrillers, stephanie plum

• Twelve Sharp
• Eleven on Top
• Motor Mouth
• Smitten
• Plum Lovin'
• Manhunt

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"Act of Treason" by Vince Flynn Length: 11 hours and 5 min. ISBN: 0-7435-5591-0 New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with:     Windows Media Player     Real Player

It’s a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice-president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national-security conference has just been held, bringing together the world’s greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It’s American politicking at its best. That’s when all hell breaks loose.

When presidential candidate Josh Alexander’s motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface, it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, and soon the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists. But then CIA Director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington.

Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to the core.

Tags: act of treason, vince flynn, mysteries & thrillers, mitch rapp, washington, jack bauer, 24, josh alexander, motorcade, terrorists, terrorism, attack, assailants, al-qaeda, fbi, jihadists, cia, irene kennedy, special agent, skip mcmahon, classified information, contract killer

• Consent to Kill