Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

$16.99 NZD

$60.00 (71% off)

Category: Thriller

WHAT WAS LOST WILL BE FOUND...Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda. It is, he recognises, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most historic city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth. A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight... ...Show more

Dance of Death by John Case

$36.99 NZD

Category: Thriller

From the masterful creator of The Genesis Code and The Murder Artist: John Case's latest chilling exploration of terror and suspense. Jack Wilson has just been released from the Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood, a maximum security prison, in White Deer, Pennsylvania. Now that he's a free man, he is hell-bent on a 'return to Paradise'. By which he means the destruction of Western civilization - which he refers to as 'the great levelling'. A Native American by birth, though skeptical of so-called 'Indian culture', Wilson is a brilliant mathematician obsessed with the secret notebooks of Nicola Tesla - and the 'Ghost Dance' of his historical namesake, the Paiute Indian Jack Wilson. Tesla, a turn-of-the-century genius, claimed (and the KGB believed) that he had discovered a weapon of unparalleled destructiveness, one that used harmonic resonance to dismantle the molecular structure of any target. It is Wilson's belief that Western civilization is a fragile enterprise, so technically interdependent upon its various components, that a carefully targeted attack upon its infrastructure might well bring the whole thing down. And that was also the idea of the first Jack Wilson, the Paiute Indian contemporary of Tesla whose vision of the Ghost Dance imagined a kind of Indian Rapture brought about by a great shaking of the earth - after which the white civilization would be gone. In our time, Jack Wilson sets that diabolical scheme in motion... ...Show more

Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris

$39.99 NZD

Category: Thriller

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueyedboy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and i ntricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on badguysrock@webjournal.com, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the disguise, deception and mind games that are offered by playing out one's life on the internet. ...Show more

Maximum Ride: Water Wings by James Patterson

$34.99 NZD

$36.99 (5% off)

Category: Thriller

Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel, six extraordinary kids who can fly, are back for another wild adventure as they try to save the world . . . and themselves. Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the mos t frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the Flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.While Max and her team are exploring the depths of the ocean, their every move is being carefully tracked by Mr. Chu--a criminal mastermind with his own plans for the Flock. Can they protect themselves from Mr. Chu's army of mercenaries and save the ocean from utter destruction? ...Show more

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

$27.99 NZD

$29.99 (6% off)

Category: Thriller | Reading Level: very good

The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent comput er-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland ...Show more

Old Enemies by Michael Dobbs

$26.00 NZD

Category: Thriller

In the Swiss Alps a teenage girl is thrown from a helicopter and her boyfriend is brutally abducted to Trieste, a city filled with undercurrents of past hatreds. Ruari, son of Irish media owner J J Breslin, is in desperate danger, at the mercy of ruthless kidnappers making impossible demands. His terrif ied mother contacts the only person she knows can help her son: Harry Jones, her former lover, who she walked out on many years ago. Now memories of their passionate affair, the guilt, hurt, anger and humiliation, come flooding back. Time is running out for Ruari and Harry, torn between his loyalties, is quickly drawn into a political game played for high stakes. Far higher than he realizes... ...Show more

Spartan by Matthew Dunn

$34.99 NZD

$36.99 (5% off)

Category: Thriller | Reading Level: good

At the height of the Iranian revolution a British MI6 agent, James Cochrane, gave his life for his two closest friends - one a fellow British officer, the other a senior CIA operative. Caught in a sting, he chose to walk into the trap set for them, so that his friends could escape. The man who set up th at sting was then a young Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Today he is better known as Megiddo - the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind. Thirty years later, Will Cochrane may work for MI6 but he doesn't enjoy playing by the rules his bosses set him.His controller Alastair knows that Will is a wild card and should be thrown out of the service, but his very unpredictability may be just the weapon the West needs to bring down its most ruthless enemy, particularly when Will discovers that Megiddo was the very man responsible for his own father's horrific death. When Will discovers that MI6 have tracked down a woman who once had an affair with the young Iranian guard, he knows that he can use her to set a trap. She has to be persuaded to lure Megiddo out from the shadows in which he moves but Megiddo may have other plans for, as per his biblical namesake, he is planning an attack on the West the likes of which the world has never seen. The stakes could not be higher... ...Show more

Zero History by William Gibson

$30.00 NZD

Category: Thriller | Series: Blue Ant Ser.

Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she's broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game...   Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic--so much so that he spoke it with his therapis t in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction...   Garreth doesn't owe Bigend a thing. But he does have friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors powerful people need when things go sideways...   They all have something Bigend wants as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself."Zero History is Gibson's] best yet, a triumph of science fiction as social criticism and adventure."--BoingBoing.net ...Show more

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre

$30.00 NZD

Category: Thriller

The Cold War is at its most chill. Alec Leamas, a spent spymaster, leaves West Berlin for London. His informants are either exposed or dead; his operational usefulness is over. Control, however, believes Leamas has one last job in him. It is daring, highly speculative and very, very dangerous. But for L eamas, the opportunity to revenge himself on those who, one by one, took out his people, is irresistible... ...Show more

Spook Country by William Gibson

$30.00 NZD

Category: Thriller

What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?   In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's m ovements. Meanwhile in LA, journalist Hollis Henry is on the trail of Bobby Chombo, who appears to know too much about military systems for his own good. With Bobby missing and the trail cold, Hollis digs deeper and is drawn into the final moves of a chilling game played out by men with old scores to settle... ...Show more

The Fear (Enemy #3) by Charlie Higson

$22.99 NZD

$26.00 (11% off)

Category: Thriller | Series: The Enemy

He doesn't know it but DogNut is about to set off a chain of events that will affect every kid in the city. The sickness struck everyone over the age of fourteen. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by f erocious grown-ups...They're hungry. They're bloodthirsty. And they aren't giving up. DogNut and the rest of his crew want to find their lost friends, on a deadly mission from the Tower of London to Buckingham Palace and beyond, as the sickos lie in wait. But who are their friends and who are the enemy in this changed world? ...Show more

Dead Line by Chris Ewan

$9.99 NZD

Category: Thriller

And just as your plan is developing, so you're evolving, too. You're changing in ways you never would have thought possible before. But that's acceptable to you. You're prepared to do whatever it takes...Why? Because you're the specialist. And that's how you're going to succeed. What do you do if your f iancee goes missing, presumed taken? If you're Daniel Trent, a highly-trained specialist in hostage negotiation, the answer is simple: You find out who took her and you make them talk. But what if your chief suspect is kidnapped? How do you get him back quickly - and alive? Set in Marseille, Dead Line is a fast-paced thriller that pitches the reader into Daniel's world, as he tries desperately to secure the release of Jerome Moreau from a ruthless gang in order to interrogate him on the whereabouts of his fiancee. When things don't go according to plan however, Daniel must use all his skills and instincts to find the answers he's looking for, but will he be in time? ...Show more