William Diehl

Martin Vail

1 - Primal Fear (1993)
2 - Show of Evil (Jun-1995)
3 - Reign in Hell (Aug-1998)

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  Sharky's Machine
  

  • Jun-1978
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  Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered . . . and a fortune in gold vanishes.
  Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious ...

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  Hooligans
  

  • Jun-1984
  • / Suspense
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  Jake Kilmer is a cop for the Feds. His specialty is a branch of the Mafia known as the Cincinnati Triad. He's pursued them for years, and now they've set up shop in Dunetown, Georgia. This time, they will not escape the Hooligans, a tough squad of ex...

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  Chameleon
  

  • Sep-1988
  • / Suspense
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  "Explosive, extraordinary...The reader is left limp!"
  THE SAN DIEGO UNION
  The deadliest secret assassin to ever roam the globe. Now, crack reporters Frank O'Hara and Eliza Gunn are hot on his trail. To unmask him, they untangle a many-colored w...

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  Thai Horse
  

  • Jan-1989
  • / Suspense
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  "It's enough to make Ludlum seem humdrum."
  ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
  Christian Hatcher, the licensed killer they call the Shadow Warrior, is out of jail and looking for the betrayer that got him there. With his body wasted and his spirit n...

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  27 // The Hunt
  

  • Feb-1990
  • / General Fiction
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  As the world trembles with the approach of World War II, a woman dies at the hands of Hitler''s henchmen. Her murder forever changes her lover, Francis Scott Keegan, a relentless anti-Nazi mercenary, who becomes locked in a desperate cat-and-mouse ga...

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  Primal Fear
  

  • 1993
  • / Law Enforcement
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  Martin Vail - 1
  

  In Chicago, a sainted archbishop is murdered, mutilated, and dismembered in his rectory. Aaron Stampler, an angelic-looking young man, is found crouched in a confessional, covered with blood, clutching a butcher's knife, swearing his innocence. ...

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  Show of Evil
  

  • Jun-1995
  • / Police Procedural
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  Martin Vail - 2
  

  It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In a small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the be...

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  Reign in Hell
  

  • Aug-1998
  • / Law Enforcement
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  Martin Vail - 3
  

  William Diehl stunned readers with Primal Fear and Show of Evil, the national bestsellers featuring Chicago lawyer Martin Vail. Now, in his gripping new novel of suspense, Diehl enters uncharted territory, pushing Vail and the legal system he represe...

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  Eureka
  

  • Feb-2002
  • / Suspense
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  The seamy past of glamorous California lies in the deceptively peaceful town of Eureka--once a bootlegger's paradise from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane briefly escaped to fight in World War I. Now it is a rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Culhane...

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  Seven Ways to Die
  

  • Mar-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  From the New York Times bestselling author of PRIMAL FEAR and SHARKY'S MACHINE -- From the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho to New York’s Central Park is a straight line right through Bill Diehl’s last and most intriguing lead character, Mic...

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