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CASTLE fans rejoice! For the first time anywhere, CASTLE''s titular hero Derrick Storm comes to life in the pages of this all-new graphic novel. This "adaptation" of Derrick Storm''s first novel adventure takes our hero from the gritty world of the private eye all the way to the globe-hopping intrigue of the CIA. Eisner Award-winning Marvel Architect Brian Bendis and red hot Osborn writer Kelly Sue DeConnick worked closely with CASTLE creator Andrew Marlowe to create the one thing millions of CASTLE fans have been asking for: Their first real Derrick Storm adventure. A wall-to-wall, gritty, witty, globe-hopping detective thrill ride for fans of the hit TV show starring Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, as well as fans of darn good comic books.

The New York Times bestseller, HEAT WAVE, is a tie-in to the ABC primetime show, CASTLE, that premiered in March 2009. The main character of the show, Richard Castle, is a bestselling mystery writer. HEAT WAVE is his newest book: Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City''s top homicide squads. She''s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York''s Finest. Pulitzer Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren''t her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them.

An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years.

Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle''s most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki''s mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources—and ruthlessness—to stop them.

The final piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. Derrick Storm is back—this time, with a crack team of ghost CIA operatives. These former agents have all faked their own deaths and now work for the CIA on a strictly secret basis, taking on dangerous and illegal jobs the agency may not officially carry out. They''re headed to the Molguzar mountains to look for sixty-billion dollars worth of gold hidden by the KGB before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and taking a perilous detour to rescue FBI agent April Showers from a sociopath torturer. But Storm''s loyalties are put to the test as the mission begins to unravel into a bloody mountaintop showdown, and he and Showers must find out the hard way that their assignment may not be what they thought it was...

In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series, following HEAT WAVE and NAKED HEAT, Richard Castle''s new thrilling mystery continues the story of NYPD Homicide Detective, Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City''s top homicide squads. In what''s sure to be another smash sensation by blockbuster author Richard Castle, readers will once again follow Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook as they trade barbs and innuendos all while on the trail of a murderer!

In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle''s newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat''s investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook''s usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she''s glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook''s inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes. Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship.

When an illegal immigrant seemingly falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat''s investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. But when Rook''s inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes.

Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ABC''s hit primetime show Castle is back. In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD''s top homicide detective has been promoted to captain just in time to face a thrilling case with a very personal twist. Captain Heat''s fiancé, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jameson Rook, is deep in an investigation. Professionally for Heat, Rook''s meddling in the case compromises her new job. Privately, it becomes an early test of their engagement when Rook becomes a distraction at best, and an obstacle at worst, as their parallel lives not only cross, but collide.

Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle''s most thrilling mystery yet. The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat''s most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York''s most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who''s not a cop. Reporter Jameson Rook. In the midst of New York''s coldest winter in a hundred years, there''s one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises.

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting on a Manhattan street. A startling enough death, but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat''s own mother. The gruesome killing of this Jane Doe launches Heat on a dangerous and emotional investigation, rekindling the cold case that has haunted her since she was nineteen. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she also digs into unexplored areas of her mother''s background—areas Nikki has been afraid to confront before, but now must. Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Heat''s search will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past. Heat''s passionate quest takes her and Rook from the back alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. The question is, now that her mother''s cold case has unexpectedly thawed, will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery that has been her demon for ten years?

Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook, and their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot—which is anything but ancient history. It is lethal. It is now. And it has already entered its countdown phase. Complicating Heat''s mission to bring the rogue spy to justice and thwart the looming terror event, a serial killer begins menacing the Twentieth Precinct and her homicide squad is under pressure to stop him, and soon. The frightening murderer, known for his chilling stealth, not only has singled out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, he then boldly names his next victim: Detective Heat.

In the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling Heat Wave (Hyperion, 2010 - also available from Turnaround), Richard Castle continues the story of NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat. Castle, the hit Alibi series, premiered in March 2009. The title character, Richard Castle, is the bestselling mystery author of the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm novels. His partner, the hard-nosed but sexy Detective Kate Beckett, is the inspiration for Nikki Heat, star of his latest bestselling series. A 21st century update to the popular TV crossover genre.

New York Police Captain Nikki Heat is accustomed to dealing with murders, even those with no leads and no motives. But having her husband as a suspect makes her newest case the most personal one yet. [end of box] Nikki Heat does not like to be away from her husband, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jameson Rook. But when Rook is given the honor to be a visiting professor at his alma mater, he can''t pass up the opportunity to mentor bourgeoning journalists at his former award-winning college newspaper. Then one of Jameson''s students is discovered, naked, in his bed. Now all eyes are on Jameson. Dealing with betrayal from any man is not Nikki''s style. Against her better judgment, Nikki gives Jameson the benefit of the doubt and digs into Jameson''s theory of an undergrad secret society.

The second piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. Days after being brought out of retirement to investigate a kidnapping, Derrick Storm has a dead US senator on his hands, an assassin to track down, and nearly six billion dollars'' worth of gold bars--hidden by the Communist Party somewhere in the former USSR--to uncover. Teaming up again with FBI agent April Showers, Storm must talk to Ivan Petrov, a secretive millionaire who has ties to the assassination, coordinates for the gold, and a mole leaking information to the Russian government from within his inner circle. And while the CIA mission is getting heated, it''s nothing compared to the growing sexual tension between Storm and Showers...

The first piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn''t just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his former boss calls in an old favor that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, he knows there must be more at stake than the life of a Senator''s son. Working alongside, but not exactly with, bombshell FBI investigator April Showers, Storm must make sense of a confusing flurry of ransom notes and a complicated web of personal relationships and international politics. He''ll get to the bottom of the kidnapping, but the storm is still brewing...

Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm - the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller - is back. From Tokyo to London, high-level bankers are being gruesomely murdered. The killer, Gregor Volkov, is Derrick Storm''s old nemesis. Desperate to figure out who Volkov is working for, the CIA calls on the one man who can match Volkov''s strength and cunning - Derrick Storm.

In the second edition of this highly regarded text, the authors show how and why traditional legal language has developed the peculiar characteristics that make legal documents inaccessible to the end users. Incorporating recent research and case law, the book provides a critical examination of case law and the rules of interpretation. Detailed case studies illustrate how obtuse or outdated words, phrases and concepts can be rewritten, reworked or removed altogether. Particularly useful is the step-by-step guide to drafting in the modern style, using examples from four types of common legal documents: leases, company constitutions, wills and conveyances. Readers will gain an appreciation of the historical influences on drafting practice and the use of legal terminology. They will learn about the current moves to reform legal language, and receive clear instruction on how to make their writing clearer and their legal documents more useful.

Derrick Storm, the guy the CIA calls on when it wants something investigated domestically, is thirty-three thousand feet in the air, returningfrom a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into anose-dive. Storm uses his climbing gear to tether himself to the wing andheroically save the plane and all the people on board. Sadly, Storm isnot available to come to the aid of the three other planes that have crashedunder similar circumstances, killing everyone on board. Interestingly, many of the victims arepowerful people in politics, business and religious groups. The always elusive Jedidiah Jones, leader of the National ClandestineService that has no name, calls on Storm to investigate. Storm determines that an unknown extremisthas secured enough of the rare earth element promethium to create a laser withthe power to shoot down planes from the ground. The problem swiftlybecomes a global one as four more planes crash in the Arabia Desert. Details, intuition and courage lead Storm to Monaco, Panama City and Egypt as he meets beautiful women, rides angry camels and rescues innocentvictims in his valiant effort to track down the maniacal mind behind the terrorism.

Collected for the first time in paperback, A Brewing Storm, A Raging Storm and A Bloody Storm are...The Ultimate Storm! Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm - the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller - is back, lured out of retirement to assist on a high-profile kidnapping case in Washington, D.C. But Storm suspects there''s more at stake than the life of a senator''s son...

When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn''t just retire. He had to fake his own death. But now his former boss has called in an old favour that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping. Working alongside, but not exactly with, bombshell FBI investigator April Showers, Storm must unravel a complicated web of deceit.

Days after being brought out of retirement to investigate a kidnapping, Derrick Storm has a dead US senator on his hands, an assassin to track down, and nearly six billion dollars'' worth of gold bars, hidden by the Communist Party somewhere in the former USSR, to uncover. And while the CIA mission is getting heated, it''s nothing compared to the growing sexual tension between Storm and Showers...

Vier Jahre nach seinem mutmaßlichen Tod, ist Derrick Storm - der Mann, der Richard Castle zu einem konstanten Bestseller-Autoren gemacht hat - in diesem großartigen Thriller zuruck. Überall, von Tokio über London nach Johannesburg, werden Spitzenbanker grauenvoll gefoltert und ermordet. Der Mörder, nur in einem flüchtigen Schwenk einer Überwachungskamera eingefangen,wurde als Psychopath mit Augenklappe beschrieben. Und das bedeutet, dass Gregor Volkov, Derrick Storms alter Erzfeind, zuruckgekehrt ist. Die CIA ist verzweifelt bemuht herauszufinden, für wen Volkov arbeitet und warum. So sucht sie den einen Mann auf, der sich mit Volkovs Stärke und Gerissenheit messen kann: Derrick Storm. Storm entdeckt mithilfe einer schönen, geheimnisvollen ausländischen Agentin, mit der er sich romantisch und professionell verheddert, dass Volkovs Verrat einen wohlhabenden Hedgefonds-Manager und einen US-Senator gefährdet. In einem Rennen gegen die Zeit verfolgt Storm Volkovs Spur von Paris uber das Versteck eines Computergenies in Iowa bis zu den Straßen von Manhattan - und endet in einer Verfolgungsjagd mit dem Auto auf dem New Jersey Turnpike. Dabei deckt er einen Komplott auf, der die globale Wirtschaft zerstören könnte. Und nur er kann es aufhalten!

Im neuesten Roman des New York Times-Bestsellerautors Richard Castle fällt ein illegaler Einwanderer vom Himmel, und die Untersuchungen der NYPD-Mordermittlerin Detective Nikki Heat zu seinem Tod regen schon bald die Fantasie ihres Freundes Jameson Rook an, dem mit dem Pulitzerpreis ausgezeichneten Journalisten. Als er beschließt, den Fall gemeinsam mit Heat zu bearbeiten, um daraus seine nächste große Story zu machen, ist Nikki zuerst glücklich, ihn als Begleiter dabeizuhaben. Ja, sie muss Rooks übliche verrückte Verschwörungstheorien und unreife Witzeleien ertragen, doch nach ihrer Wiedervereinigung, die auf seinen kürzlichen Auftrag im Ausland folgte, ist sie dankbar für die Unterhaltung, die Möglichkeit, Ideen auszutauschen, und auch dafür, einfach wieder in seiner Nähe zu sein und zu spüren, wie die alten Funken erneut zwischen ihnen sprühen. Doch als Rooks Nachforschungen ergeben, dass Detective Heat den falschen Mann wegen des Mordes verhaftet hat, verändert sich alles. Ihren anspruchsvollen Job mit einer komplizierten Romanze in Einklang zu bringen, ist die größte Herausforderung gewesen, seit sich Nikki in den berühmten Reporter verliebt hat. Nun verwandelt sich ihre Beziehung im Zuge des riskantesten Falls ihrer Karriere schlagartig von einer komplexen Angelegenheit in einen heftigen Konflikt. Im Angesicht der tobenden Gewalt von Hurrikan Sandy, der in New York wütet, legt sich Heat mit einem ehrgeizigen Strippenzieher an, kämpft gegen eine Truppe städtischer Söldner und gerät in einen Streit mit dem Mann, den sie liebt. Detective Heat weiß, dass ihre Aufgabe darin besteht, Mordfälle auszuklären. Doch sie befürchtet, dass die Aufklärung dieses Mordfalls den Tod ihrer Beziehung bedeuten könnte.

Un prêtre est retrouvé assassiné dans un club fétichiste de New York. Pour Nikki Heat, chargée de l’enquête, c’est le début de l’affaire la plus dangereuse de sa carrière. Elle se retrouve aux prises avec un baron de la drogue, un agent véreux de la CIA, et un mystérieux escadron de la mort... Nikki s’approche trop près de la vérité. Au point de se voir mise à pied. Elle n’a plus personne à qui faire confiance ou demander de l’aide. Personne, sauf le seul homme de sa vie qui ne soit pas flic, le journaliste Jameson Rook. Au milieu de l’hiver le plus froid qu’ait connu New York depuis un siècle, le duo de choc va devoir se plonger dans les méandres obscurs du crime organisé... Les thrillers de Richard Castle en poche.

Le cadavre d’une femme battue à mort est retrouvé dans une valise, au beau milieu des rues de Manhattan. Pour Nikki Heat qui découvre la scène de crime et ses détails, c’est une évidence : ce meurtre a des liens avec l’assassinat de sa propre mère, dix ans plus tôt. Nikki se lance dans l’enquête avec le journaliste Jameson Rook, toujours aussi charmeur. Au fur et à mesure, elle se retrouve confrontée aux zones troubles du passé de sa mère. Des ruelles de Manhattan aux avenues de Paris, le duo de choc approche de la vérité. Mais, en déterrant des secrets de famille soigneusement cachés, Nikki se retrouve en plein dans la ligne de mire d’un tueur impitoyable. Le nouveau thriller choc de Richard Castle.

Derrick Storm ist der Typ, den die CIA anheuert, wenn sie jemanden für Ermittlungen im Inland braucht. Er ist gerade auf dem Weg zurück von einer Klettertour in den Schweizer Alpen, als das Flugzeug, in dem er sich befindet, in zehn Kilometern Höhe plötzlich zu einem Sturzflug ansetzt. Storm benutzt seine Kletterausrüstung, um sich an einen der Flügel zu binden und rettet so heldenhaft sowohl das Flugzeug als auch alle Anwesenden an Bord. Doch leider war Storm nicht in der Lage, den drei anderen Flugzeugen zu Hilfe zu eilen, die unter ähnlichen Umständen abstürzten und bei denen keiner der Insassen überlebte. Interessanterweise handelt es sich bei den meisten Opfern um einflussreiche Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, Wirtschaft und religiösen Gruppen. Der stets geheimnisumwitterte Jedidiah Jones, Leiter des National Clandestine Service, betraut Storm mit den Ermittlungen. Storm findet heraus, dass ein unbekannter Extremist genügend Promethium, ein Element, das zu den Seltenen Erden gehört, an sich gebracht hat, um einen Laser zu entwickeln, mit dem man Flugzeuge vom Boden aus abschießen kann. Die Problematik nimmt schon bald globale Ausmaße an, als vier weitere Flugzeuge über der Arabischen Wüste abstürzen. Die Spurenlage, seine Intuition und sein Mut führen Storm nach Monaco, Panama-Stadt und Ägypten, wo er auf der heldenhaften Suche nach dem Wahnsinnigen hinter den Anschlägen wunderschöne Frauen trifft, auf zornigen Kamelen reitet und unschuldige Opfer rettet.

Le corps d’un magnat de l’immobilier est découvert au pied de son appartement de Manhattan. Visiblement, quelqu’un lui a donné un coup de pouce pour qu’il fasse le grand saut... Dans le même temps, sa ravissante épouse au passé obscur échappe de justesse à une agression. Dans la fournaise new-yorkaise, les esprits s’échauffent, les passions se déchainent. Un autre meurtre entraîne la police dans le monde opaque de l’immobilier, des paris, de l’argent douteux. Un univers où le secret et le silence font la loi. Mais Nikki Heat est là pour mettre de l’ordre dans cette sale affaire. Malgré la présence imposée d’un journaliste fort encombrant (mais charmant), l’enquêtrice de choc va découvrir un à un tous les secrets du mort, un flambeur et joli cœur qui ne manquait pas d’ennemis... Les thrillers de Richard Castle en poche.

La détective Nikki Heat vient d’être promue capitaine de la police new-yorkaise. Juste à temps pour prendre en charge l’une des affaires d’assassinat les plus épineuses de sa carrière. Un cas passionnant et d’autant plus difficile qu’il prend une dimension très personnelle. Son fiancé, le charmant et insupportable journaliste Jameson Rook, connaissait les victimes et il enquête de son côté. Son ingérence dans l’affaire se révèle problématique et Rook devient carrément un obstacle à l’enquête. Alors qu’un terrible ouragan frappe New York, Nikki Heat se bat contre une troupe de mercenaires fanatiques et affronte l’homme qu’elle aime. Résoudre cette terrible affaire de meurtre risque de mener aussi à la mort de leur relation... Le nouveau thriller choc de Richard Castle !

La plus célèbre des chroniqueuses mondaines est retrouvée morte à son domicile. Assassinée. Nikki Heat est chargée de cette enquête qui s’annonce délicate car la plume au vitriol de la journaliste n’a épargné personne. Les choses se compliquent quand Jameson Rook, le journaliste avec qui Nikki est obligée de collaborer, débarque dans l’enquête. D’autant que Heat et Rook ne sont pas encore remis de leur rupture et que la tension entre eux est à son comble. Alors que les cadavres s’accumulent, ils suivent la trace d’un tueur impitoyable. Ils vont devoir naviguer avec leur doigté habituel parmi les stars et les voyous, les prostituées et les chanteurs, les hommes politiques et les sportifs célèbres... Une nouvelle affaire explosive pour le duo de choc ! Les thrillers de Richard Castle en poche.