He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.
(From "Nowhere Man"
by The Beatles)

Stephen King

No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...

A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.

"Edgar, does anything make you happy?"
"I used to sketch."
"Take it up again. You need hedges... hedges against the night."

Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.

The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural -- Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.

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Ken Follett

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End.

In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas--about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human race--the Black Death.

Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft.

• On Wings of Eagles (1983)
• The Pillars of the Earth (rtf) (1989)
• Night Over Water (1991)
• A Dangerous Fortune (1993)
• World Without End (2007)

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Stuart Woods

• Chiefs (1981)
• Under the Lake (1986)
• Deep Lie (1986)
• L.A. Times (1993)
• Dead Eyes (1993)
• Dead in the Water (1994)
• Imperfect Strangers (1994)
• Choke (1995)
• Dirt (1996)
• The Run (2000)
• L.A. Dead (2000)
• Cold Paradise (2001)
• Capital Crimes (2003)
• Reckless Abandon (2004)
• Dark Harbor (2006)
• Fresh Disasters (2007)
  
  Ed Eagle series
• Santa Fe Rules (1992)
• Short Straw (2006)
  
  Holly Barker series
  
• Orchid Beach (1998)
• Orchid Blues (2001)
• Blood Orchid (2002)
• Iron Orchid (2005)

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Tami Hoag

• Lucky's Lady (1992)
• Cry Wolf (1993)
• Dark Paradise (1994)
• Night Sins (1995)
• A Thin Dark Line (1997)
• Ashes to Ashes (1999)
• Dark Horse (2002)
• Kill the Messenger (2004)
• The Alibi Man (2007)

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Dean Koontz

• Night Chills (1976)
• Watchers (1987)
• Lightning (1988)
• Cold Fire (1991)
• Intensity (1995)
• Santa's Twin (1996)
• One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
• Forever Odd (2005)
• The Good Guy (2007)
• The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007)

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Robin Cook

• Sphinx (1979)
• Mutation (1989)
• Invasion (1997)
• Shock (2000)

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Anthony Horowitz

• Scorpia (2004)
• Ark Angel (2005)

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Lisa Gardner

• The Next Accident (2001)
• The Survivors Club (2002)

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David Baldacci

• The Christmas Train (2002)
• The Collectors (2006)

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