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The Warsaw Protocol

Steve Berry

"Cotton fled the smoky chapel through the side door and entered a small anteroom."


Pretty as a Picture

Elizabeth Little

"'Let’s roll,' he said when he saw me, and that was it for conversation, which was fine by me."


The King’s Justice

Susan Elia MacNeal

"At the bottom of a deep pit, Maggie listened through the earpiece as she pressed a probe against the side of an unexploded bomb."


Double Feature

Donald E. Westlake

"It’s amazing what you can do in an hour when your life depends on it."


The Last Passenger

Charles Finch

"The storm only gathered strength during the short trip to Paddington. Lenox felt keenly for poor William Elliott, the raw-faced young groom, just seventeen, who sat atop the box of the carriage with the reins and whip in hand."


The Aosawa Murders

Riku Onda

"I don’t have any great ambitions for myself. It’s enough for me if the three of us can lead safe, healthy lives."


Second Sister

Chan Ho-Kei

"Nga-Yee stood outside a six-story tenement building on Second Street in Sai Ying Pun, staring at the house number in confusion."


Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores

Massimo Carlotto

"Max reappeared a half hour later wearing a sponge robe  and cradling a fruit-and-veggie smoothie."


The Chill

Scott Carlson

"Deshawn Ryan came out of one hole in the ground and walked thirteen blocks through the rain to reach the next."


The Ruins

Mat Osman

"I was about to start the earthquake when the phone rang. It wasn’t to be a big earthquake—I was thinking of two, maybe three hundred dead."



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