New Releases by Thomas Perry

“A challenging and satisfying thriller . . . [with] many surprising twists.”—The New York Times Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness—not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the tricks, ancient and modern; in fact, she has invented several of them herself. So she is only mildly surprised to find an intruder waiting for her when she returns home one day. An ex-cop suspected of embezzling, John Felker wants Jane to do for him what she did for his buddy Harry Kemple: make him vanish. But as Jane opens a door out of the world for Felker, she walks into a trap that will take all her heritage and cunning to escape. . . . Praise for Vanishing Act “Thomas Perry keeps pulling fresh ideas and original characters out of thin air. The strong-willed heroine he introduces in Vanishing Act rates as one of his most singular creations.”—The New York Times Book Review “One thriller that must be read. . . . Perry has created his most complex and compelling protagonist.”—San Francisco Examiner

A novel about a couple who escape the authorities by settling on an island.

Qui a voulu la mort du sénateur Claremont ? Ce ne sont pas seulement les policiers du F.B.I. qui se posent cette question, mais le tueur lui-même. Devenu le gibier d’un personnage occulte mais puissant, ce garçon-boucher — car tel est son nom de guerre — va devoir déployer tout son savoir-faire pour retourner la situation. Dans une immense course-poursuite à travers les États-Unis, trois chasseurs d’hommes vont faire appel à leur perspicacité, pour anticiper les mouvements de leurs adversaires. Et l’on verra qu’un homme seul, pour peu qu’il soit un spécialiste dans son genre, est en mesure de défier les organisations les mieux équipées, comme le ministère de la Justice américain et ses ramifications, ou encore le terrible réseau des familles de la Mafia. Le garçon-boucher, c’est l’individu contre la pieuvre noire, le grain de sable qui détraque les machines les mieux huilées. Dans ce combat, la bureaucratie lente et solennelle du ministère, joue le rôle peu enviable de voiture-balais. Malgré sa remarquable intuition, la jeune et jolie analyste Elizabeth devra, comme ses supérieurs et leurs ordinateurs ultra-sophistiqués, se plier aux événements que suscite magistralement le garçon-boucher.

Describes and gives the cause and effect of violent natural phenomena such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, droughts, and forest fires. Also includes suggestions for experiments and projects.