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Escaping from Germany's Colditz Castle where he was being held as a prisoner of war, Captain Jack Cray fights his way to Berlin in April 1945, following a twisted trail of terror across Germany. The American Army commando has just been handed the most dangerous mission of his career--the assassination of Adolf Hitler.
From Simon & Schuster, White Star is James S. Thayer's is "a cram course in the art of killing..." (Clive Cussler) and one not to miss. Once a military sniper, Owen Gray wants to live out his life peacefully as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York, but an unknown killer, a Russian ex-sniper and former rival, challenges him to the ultimate duel. Simultaneous.
Jack Ross, aide to Gen. Wilson Clay, recounts the American general's role in countering the Nazi invasion of England in 1942
When Joe Durant gets news of an airplane crash outside Seattle, a "terminal event" with no survivors, the distressed former National Transportation Safety Board investigator rushes to the site -- his wife was one of the passengers. Desperate to find answers for his devastated fifteen-year-old daughter, his hunt for clues becomes obsessive. But while he meticulously wades through the wreckage and collects evidence pointing to sabotage, higher powers are determined to blame the tragedy on pilot error. Now the bomber has stepped forward and promised to strike again within ten days...and Durant must race to avert another ghastly catastrophe. Exploring the grimly fascinating world of NTSB crash investigators in riveting, authentic detail, Terminal Event is a page-turning suspense thriller whose shocking ending will leave you gasping.
A Vietnam vet and the most famous sniper in U.S. military history, New York assistant D.A. Owen Gray is trying to put his past behind him. But a relentless sniper is stalking New York and Gray realizes the murders are an adversary's challenge. The marksman won't stop until Gray raises his rifle again in a final confrontation.
The New York Times Book Review said James Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. It wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylists achieve." The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft your novel. The Essential Guide presents a set of tools for large issues such a story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted,") and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine "Thayer's prose is clear and clean," said the Seattle Times. How do the masters do it? The Essential Guide shows you the techniques of writers such as John Grisham, Maeve Binchy, ...
"Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine The Dial published most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As a publisher and editor of The Dial from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement. His editorial curation introduced the ideas of literary modernism to America and gave American aritsts a new audience in Europe. In The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure ... to reveal a paradoxical man fraught with indecisions and insatiable appetites, and deeply conflicted about the artisic movement to which he was benefactor and patron ..."--Back cover.
A reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.