Ghost Dancer

EDITORIAL REVIEW: From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense. Now Case choreographs his most diabolically chilling novel to date, as the very fabric of civilization threatens to come apart in the hands of a brilliantly vengeful madman.Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earthand came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. He was flying high until, quite suddenly, he wasnt. When Burkes helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he came away with his life but lost his heart to the beautiful woman who saved him. Thats when he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But a wicked twist of fate puts an end to Burkes dreams, leaving him adrift in Dublin with bittersweet memories . . . and no appetite for danger. But the devil isnt done with him yet.An ocean away, Jack Wilson leaves prison burning for revenge. Like Burke, Wilson has had something taken from him. And he, too, dreams of starting over. Only Wilsons dream is the rest of the worlds nightmare. Driven by his obsession with a Native American visionary, and guided by the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla, the man who is said to have invented the twentieth century, Wilson dreams of the Apocalypseand plans to make it happen.As a terrifying worldwide chain reaction is set in motion, Burke alone grasps the impending horror of Wilsons malevolent plan. With nothing left to lose, Burke pursues an American terrorista twisted genius who journeys from a lawless weapons arsenal in the Transdneister to the diamond fields of the Congo . . . to an isolated Nevada ranch. It is here, in a climactic showdown, that a determined Mike Burke faces a nemesis who knows no fear.John Case is the bestselling author of The Genesis Code, The First Horseman, The Syndrome, The Eighth Day, and The Murder Artist. A relentlessly paced thriller in which nothing is what it seems, no one can be trusted, and nothing is secure - especially one's own memoryA promising young research fellow for a venerable think tank in Zurich has just filed his last report, as he is forced into a ghastly experiment- A seductive young woman travels to Florida and from her hotel room coolly sharpshoots a dying old man in a wheelchair- A psychologist who helps patients confront and dispel past trauma through hypnosis battles his own silent but emergent demons. In Trance State John Case combines these elements into a pulse-pounding, mind-twisting new thriller. Just what is the connection between the research fellow, the young assassin and the psychologist? And, after the young woman kills herself, why should her sister trust anyone who might have been involved with her? And when unknown assassins burst into the psychologist's office, who is their target - him or the young woman's sister? And where is the deadly trail into the CIA's mind-control experiments leading them? Could this be another trap? Or could they be about to unearth a great and secret conspiracy at the heart of the Intelligence communities around the world and the deadly, dangerous people they employ? Before The Da Vinci Code was The Genesis Code:'A glass-shattering, diesel-fuelled, hard-charging thrill ride of a read'Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of SleepersJoe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge . His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist hit-squad to rid the world of all evidence of it. The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mothers before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister's killer is on the loose... In the "Book of Revelations", the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of the Apocalypse. When the First Horseman thunders forth, pestilence will spread throughout the land. For the First Horseman is Plague...The Spanish Flu killed thirty million people worldwide in 1918. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island on the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice. For "Washington Post" reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime. But, his plan to join the expedition is ruined by a ferocious storm that delays him. And, when he meets up with the ship upon its return to port in Norway, it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong. Fear haunts the faces of the crew. No one will talk. And someone wants Daly to stop asking questions. But if there's a wall around the facts, Daly will batter it down. Persistent and resourceful, he knows how to get answers when none are given. Yet, the more he uncovers, the more dangerous the stakes become. Until at last, he comes face-to-face with a shocking secret, pitching him into a harrowing race to prevent nothing less than...apocalypse. In the Book of Revelations, the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of the Apocalypse. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island in the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice. For Washington Post reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime. After others connected to the professor start to disappear, Danny finds himself in great peril and must travel into the ancient land where this tribe still lives in order to discover what is truly at stake in his investigation. Alex takes a break to watch, while keeping half an eye on the twins, but when he turns to see how they are enjoying themselves, they're nowhere to be seen.The perfect day has turned into every parent's nightmare. It was the mailman who reported it, calling 911 half an hour before Delaney's shift was supposed to end.