A wounded hero must confront his own worst enemy: himself Mick "Brew" Axbrewder was once a great P.I. That was before he accidentally shot and killed a cop-worse, a cop who happened to be his own brother. Now he only works off and on, as muscle for his old partner, Ginny Fistoulari. It's a living. And it provides an occasional opportunity for him to dry out. But their latest case demands more than muscle. Brew's dead brother's daughter has disap-peared. His brother's widow wants him and Ginny to investigate. And both of them seem to expect him to sober up. Because the darkness they're find-ing under the surface of Sunbelt city Puerto del Sol goes beyond one missing teenager. Axbrewder will need all his talents to con-front that darkness. Most of all, he'll need to con-front his own worst enemy-himself. More than two decades ago, bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson published three novels about Mick Axbrewder and Ginny Fistoulari as paperback originals under the pseudonym Reed Stephens. More recently, under his own name, Donaldson published a new novel in the se-quence, The Man Who Fought Alone. Now, for Donaldson's millions of readers worldwide, the first of the original books, The Man Who Killed His Brother, appears under Donaldson's own name, in revised and expanded form.

Wild CIA Agent Ruby is getting too hot to handle, so fellow agent Remo is ordered by CURE to play the fireman. But friendship comes first, even to a Master of Sinanju, and these orders are enough to drive Remo over the edge – enough, in fact, for him to walk out of CURE entirely. But it's out of the frying pan and into the fire because Chiun, deferring to tradition, refuses to quit CURE. And they both know that soon he could be hot on Remo's tail. Meanwhile, the heat's really on when New York fire-fighters suddenly take part in a walkout, prompting an arson gang to strike while the iron's hot. Unless they receive the ransom they demand, they'll turn the city into the biggest backyard barbecue in history . . .Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, February 198014 • Savage Planet • [Quadrants Universe] • novelette by Barry B. Longyear

Revolution is simmering in the heat of the battered Central American town Port Tropique, where protagonist Franz Hall is an “intellectual Meursault in a paranoid Hemingway landscape, a self-conscious Conradian adventurer, a Lord Jim in the earliest stages of self-willed failure” (The New York Times). The ineffectual hero spends his days drinking and observing people in the zócalo and occasional nights involved in an ivory-smuggling operation threatened by impending government siege, yet always persistent are memories of Marie and what was lost. In this sinuous narrative of dislocation and remorse, Barry Gifford details Franz’s mundanity and the bizarre cast of characters swirling around him.The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, Barry Gifford is an American writer in the European tradition, and one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the world.“Gifford uses the charged story of . . . an apprentice smuggler as an occasion for his own literary and cinematic smuggling—from Conrad, Hemingway, Camus, John Hawkes, Howard Hawks, Welles and Ozu, among others—and to discover a new literary form.”—The New York Times Book Review“A poet’s nuanced prose runs through Port Tropique . . . a spellbinding story.”—The Washington Post“A strange, disturbing . . . intriguing . . . impressionist painting of a book.”—San Francisco Chronicle

What was this strange legacy Mathilda Bartone’s husband had bequeathed her in return for their May-December marriage? Present the Doll in Red to my solicitor within six months or forfeit all rights to Bartone Hollows and to my fortune.” Her search for the doll led to London with its wicked ways—and to brooding young Lord Bartone. Regency Romance by Joan Vincent; originally published by Dell Candlelight Regency Special

Prologue : The year eighty-eight -- A most renowned Virgin Queen -- God's handmaiden -- Fair stood the wind for France -- A maid in an island -- Great Eliza's glorious name -- A very great Princess -- The general of our gracious empress -- The madcaps all in riot -- A taper of true virgin wax -- Epilogue : Queen Elizabeth of famous memory

Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master and Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the sixteenth book in the series. At the opening of a voyage filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are in pursuit of a privateer sailing under American colours through the Great South Sea. Stephen’s objective is to set the revolutionary tinder of South America ablaze to relieve the pressure on the British government which has blundered into war with the young and uncomfortably vigorous United States. The shock and barbarity of hand-to-hand fighting are sharpened by O’Brian’s exact sense of period, his eye for landscape and his feel for a ship under sail.

Arthur Rasby is ten years old and having the worst summer of his life. His parents don't listen to him, so he writes everything down -- everything that's real -- in his journal. But when he goes to stay with his Great-Aunt Elda and Great-Uncle Wrisby on their farm, his world is turned upside down. For the first time Arthur wonders what's real and what's not. His aunt and uncle do things Arthur's parents would never do -- like climbing out windows to sit in trees, singing to their pet pig, and speaking French to a pet chicken. Life on the farm happens much too fast to write down -- sometimes wonderful, sometimes terrible. Arthur begins to understand there is more than one way of seeing and doing and loving. And he realizes there's a whole world just waiting to be discovered.

With her beauty, charm and wit, Henrietta Rolland is queen of the London Season - until she discovers that a notorious rake was responsible for the death of her brother at Waterloo. Disguising herself as a fictitious lord, she sets out to avenge her brother, but the plan takes an unexpected turn.

DOUBLE TROUBLESomewhere out in the mixture of desert and rock that lies under the heat of the sun is an Indian who claims Cuchillo Oro's identity. An Apache who calls himself by the same name and who has a knife exactly like Cuchillo's own. ...Enraged, Cuchillo sets out on an endless search for the man pretending to be his blood brother ... a vicious murderer and defiler of innocent women ... a savage impersonator whom the "white eyes" believe is the real Golden Knife.

On far Tarot dreams come true—and fanged nightmares stalk the land. Sent to pierce the dread curtain of the Animation that turns fantasy into hideous reality, the wanderer-monk Paul finds himself on a trip to the ultimate and most terrifying fantasy of them all. Hell.

Rebellious Lady Joanne is banished to the obscurity of Kentoncombe by her father, the libertine Earl of Furness. Lord Jason Kenton, determined to transform her into a lady, was duty-bound to introduce her to the London ton. Destined for another man’s arms—and marriage, was Lady Joanne woman enough to teach her tutor a lesson in love? Georgian Romance by Joan Vincent; originally published by Dell Candlelight