Eric Van Lustbader Books In Order

The Bourne Identity (By:Robert Ludlum)

Jason Bourne. He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium maybe code words. Initial: ‘J.B.’ And a number on the film negative that leads to a Swiss bank account, a fortune of four million dollars, and, at last, a name: Jason Bourne. But now he is marked for death, caught in a maddening puzzle, racing for survival through the deep layers of his buried past into a bizarre world of murderous conspirators led by Carlos, the world’s most dangerous assassin. And no one can help Jason Bourne but the woman who once wanted to escape him. ‘Mr. Ludlum stuffs more surprises into his novels than any other six pack of thriller writers combines.’ The New York Times

The Bourne Supremacy (By:Robert Ludlum)

In a Kowloon Cabaret, scrawled in a pool of blood, is a name the world wanted to forget: Jason Bourne. The Chinese vice premier has been brutally slain by a legendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is the next to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for David Webb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone else has taken the Bourne identity and unless he is stopped, the world will pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Once again, Webb must utilize his lethal skills because once again, like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover an explosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey into the espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not be enough. This time Bourne must reign supreme. From the Paperback edition.

The Bourne Ultimatum (By:Robert Ludlum)

The world’s two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed Jason Bourne. Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand the telegram is really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped he would never have to do again assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap a trap from which only one of them will escape. From the Paperback edition.

The Bourne Legacy

In Robert Ludlum’s ground breaking career, no other character so captured and held the world’s imagination as Jason Bourne. He appeared in three of Robert Ludlum’s own 1 bestselling novels The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum and they remain amongst Ludlum’s most read and most loved books to this day. Now, for the first time ever, the Estate of Robert Ludlum has acceded to the demands of readers around the world, turning to bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader to bring Jason Bourne back to life in a thrilling new novel. Jason Bourne is known and feared in the deadly world of covert ops as one of the most highly skilled assassins for hire. Bourne, however, was merely an identity assumed by CIA agent David Webb, a personality implanted by the CIA to facilitate a dangerous operation, but one that threatened to subsume David Webb entirely. Years after the events of The Bourne Identity, Webb is no longer an active CIA agent and is now a professor of Eastern Studies at Georgetown University, living a quiet life, far from the dangers of his previous life. Until one day he finds himself the target of an assassin nearly as skilled as himself and is framed for the brutal murder of his two closest associates and friends. Fighting for his life against unseen assailants, as well as the full resources of the CIA who believe he has gone dangerously rogue, the Bourne identity asserts itself, leaving Jason Bourne in control. Now Bourne must use all his skills to stay alive as he battles against a determined assassin, the combined skills of the world’s intelligence networks, and a shadowy figure in the background, skillfully manipulating events and people, in a far deadlier and more dangerous game than any of them realize.

The Bourne Betrayal

Two months after Jason Bourne’s second wife has dies, he learns that Martin Lindros, his only friend in the CIA, went missing in Africa where he was tracking shipments of yellowcake uranium. After Bourne finds him, Martin returns to the U.S., but only after he persuades Bourne to go to Odessa to penetrate the clandestine world of terrorist money men there.

In Odessa, Bourne is hampered by confusing flashes of memories. He becomes convinced that they’re false, but who planted them and why? And how can he function if he can’t rely on his own memories? Eventually, Bourne figures out that the man he saved in Africa isn’t his friend but a double, a terrorist intent on sending Bourne off on a wild goose chase while he himself steals U.S. intelligence and uses the information to coordinate an attack against a major U.S. city using nuclear devices.

The double, continuing to pose as Martin Lindros, orders a world wide sanction against Bourne. Now, Bourne must fight off attempts on his life, track down uranium, and stop terrorists from launching an even more devastating attack against the U.S.

The Bourne Sanction

Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the mild world of his alter ego, David Webb, hoping for normalcy. But after so many adrenaline soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor.

Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died carrying information about the group’s terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack the United States.

The organization, the Black Legion, and its lethal plot have also popped up on the radar of Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority. Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart’s incompetence, National Security Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could hunt down and kill Bourne.

In Europe, Bourne’s investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute…

The Bourne Deception

The Bourne Deception picks up where The Bourne Sanction left off. Jason Bourne’s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot down over Egypt by what seems to be an Iranian missile. A massive global investigative team is assembled to get at the truth of the situation before it can all escalate into an international scandal. Jason Bourne’s search for the man who shot him intersects with the search for the people or the group that brought down the airliner, which leads Bourne into one of the most deadly and challenging situations in his entire life. With the threat of a new world war brewing, Bourne finds himself in a race against time to uncover the truth and find the person behind his assault, all the while being stalked by his unknown nemesis.

The Bourne Objective

Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne’s impaired memory, in particular the murder of a young woman on Bali who entrusted him with a strangely engraved ring an artifact of such powerful significance that people have killed to obtain it. Now he’s determined to find the ring’s owner and purpose. But Bourne never knows what terrible acts he’ll discover he committed when he digs into the past. The trail will lead him through layers of conspiracy to a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin, who was also a graduate of the Central Intelligence training program Treadstone. A covert course designed to create ruthless assassins for C.I., it was shuttered by Congress for corruption. Yet before it was dismantled, it produced Bourne and Arkadin, giving them equal skills, equal force, and equal cunning. As Bourne’s destiny circles closer to Arkadin’s, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, Who is the more deadly agent?

The Bourne Dominion

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America’s most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long time friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia’s most feared spy agency, FSB 2. Karpov is one of the most determined, honorable, and justice hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil. In order to remain the head of FSB 2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Now, these two trusted friends are on a deadly collision course. From the Colombian highlands to Munich, Cadiz, and Damascus, the clock is counting down to a disaster that will cripple America’s economic and military future. Only Bourne and Karpov have a chance to avert the catastrophe but if they destroy each other first, that chance will be gone forever. The Bourne DominionJason Bourne is one of the most compelling and best loved characters created by internationally bestselling novelist Robert Ludlum. The hero of eight novels, including The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, Bourne has also been featured in three blockbuster movies starring Matt Damon. Now, New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader presents a new story about the rogue secret agent who has lost his memory.

The Sunset Warrior

Ronin called no man master. He was the finest swordsman of the Freehold, as sharp and deadly as his blade. Yet as the ancient city faltered, Ronin alone refused to pledge himself to any of the powerful Saardin who ruled the crumbling underground world of levels. But now dark magic was loose in the world. As the ravings of the Magic Man foretold doom, Ronin and his lover, the sensual K’reen, were swept into a maelstrom of treachery, violence, and sudden death. Their only hope lay in the lost scroll of the Ancients. And the desperate search led Ronin down into the very bowels of the earth, and up again, to the barrier of Freehold, where the endless ice began…
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Shallows of Night

After escaping from an underground culture, Ronin is urged by Borros, the Magic Man, to fulfill a prophecy by becoming the Sunset Warrior and defending Earth against an alien horde.

Dai-San

In was Kai feng, the end of days, the time of chaos. One by one, the four grisly abominations called the Makkon had come together, marshaling their inhuman armies to reap a bitter harvest of death. Mankind’s struggle to turn back the tide of blood was doomed, for soon the hideous Makkon would summon their master, The Dolman. Truly, then, would all hope be lost. No choice, no chance remained for humanity save only one. The arcane magics of the mysterious Scroll of the Ancients would have to be invoked. For only if Ronin could discover the true meaning of the Scroll’s secrets would he unlock the power to face the inconceivable horror of The Dolman, in the final battle at the end of time. From the Paperback edition.

Beneath an Opal Moon

Terrible death stalks the streets of teeming Sha’angh’sei, and bloody vengeance rides in its wake. No man or woman is safe.
Then ghastly terror strikes at Moichi, oath brother to the Dai San. At the Circus of Souls, Moichi discovers a prize, more enchanting, more deadly than he can imagine, and he’s pitched headlong into a mission of rescue and revenge, with the lovely, enigmatic Bujun warrior Chiisai at his side.
Together they search to the farthest reaches of the world, where the moon shines not in one color, but in many. There, beyond the limits of the human realm, waits a mad sorceress…
and the Firemask, the fearsome key that will unlock every nightmare the world has ever known!

From the Paperback edition.

The Ninja

‘Totally absorbing…
as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read…
It is superb.’NEWS RECORDThis is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half Caucasian, half Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can’t forget and the one he can’t control and between a past he can’t escape and a destiny he can’t avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all…

The Miko

‘Swiftly paced and fascinating…
An intricately designed puzzle.’
CHICAGO SUN TIMES
She is a sorceress indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero of THE NINJA.
This is only the beginning of this exotic thriller, where Lustbader weaves an utterly compelling tale of the CIA, the KGB, the technological world of modern Japan, and the mystical and dangerous realms of Ninja warriors…
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White Ninja

‘Lustbader has honed the brooding, goose bumply sensation of sudden, violent death likely to burst out of the darkness at any moment into a unique art form.’LOS ANGELES TIMESNicholas Linnear is helpless as he watches his love and his life careen out of control. He has discovered that he is shiro nive , a life of honor and truth amidst greed and corruption. And through it all, stalks a perverse madman through the seamy streets and bureaucratic mazes of Tokyo, destroying anyone who stands in his way, with deadly precision and otherworldly cunning. And the one man who can stop him, Nichaolas Linnear, is shiro ninja. From the Paperback edition.

The Kaisho

From Eric Van Lustbader, the suspense mastermind behind the smash bestsellers featuring Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne, comes a blockbuster thriller of one man s debt of honor and his ultimate destiny. Years ago, Nicholas Linnear the Ninja made a promise to his father: If a man named Mikio Okami ever sought his help, he would respond without question, no matter the cost. Now the time has come to fulfill his pledge. Okami is The Kaisho the boss of bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld and in his Venice headquarters, he realizes that he has been marked for death. But the identity of the assassin and the inexorable compulsion that drives him are shrouded in mysticism and madness. Honor bound to protect Okami, Linnear is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice: a descent into a chasm of knowledge so potent, of dangers so unfathomable, that even if he survives, he will emerge changed forever.

Floating City

Deep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire run on riches and murder. At its heart is Rock, an American Vietnam vet a killing machine raised on war and rock and roll. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he rules like a god supreme over his legendary dominion. And at his command is the Torch the tool of ultimate evil that only one man can destroy: Nicholas Linnear. But to penetrate Floating City, Nicholas must first confront his own inner demons: the Yakuza, the Japanese criminal underworld he despises, and his own past. Only when he faces the harrowing truth about himself and about Koei, the woman he loved as no other, will Nicholas find the inner strength to carry out the two missions that have now become one: destroy Floating City, and honor his family’s debt to the head of the Yakuza, the Kaisho. While Linnear heads into the heart of a vast web of terror, half a world away his longtime friend, ex NYPD Detective Lew Croaker, is hunting the Kaisho’s would be assassins. From the foul back alleys of Saigon to the forbidding jungles of Southeast Asia to the corridors of power in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., Linnear and Croaker cross the blood red line that divides good from evil, sexuality from death, love from betrayal rushing inexorably toward an explosive climax that you will never forget.

Second Skin

Nicholas Linnear, visionary hero of The Ninja, The Kaisho, and Floating City, returns in…
Second Skin

Eric Lustbader’s powerful novels have established him as ‘an author of authentic and engrossing Oriental intrigue second to none’ Ib Melchior, Los Angeles Times Book Review. Now the international bestselling master storyteller brings us a globe spanning new novel of epic adventure. Nicholas Linnear is back to confront his most formidable and hated enemy.

Nicholas Linnear won a major battle with the apocalyptic destruction of Floating City. But his enemy has taken flight from the city’s ruins in Vietnam to regroup and mount the assault that will solidify his ultimate power and destroy Linnear. Mick Leonforte, an international corporate power broker as well as a criminal czar, is preparing to take on Linnear, his sworn nemesis, on the battleground where business and warfare become one. With the help of seasoned New York City police detective Lew Croaker and the dazzling, cunning Vesper Arkham, Linnear pursues his prey placing Koei, the woman he loves above all else, in the vengeful path of a criminal genius. And it will plunge Nicholas into the depths of Kshira the terrible force that even the master who trained him in the mysteries of psychic warfare was powerless to escape.

Jian

‘Brilliant…
Perhaps no other piece of fiction since SHOGUN illuminates the mind, machinations, and mores of Eastern peoles with the style and intensity of JIAN.’THE MIAMI HERALDJake Maroc is the top agent for the Quarry, the secretive government agency. Nichiren, Jake’s sworn enemy, is a cold killer with a deadly secret. Shi Zilin is a wily Communist minister, a survivor of eras in turmoil. Which one of them will emerge the true Jian the consummate warrior, the man who excels, the supreme master of the arts of love and combat, strength and wisdom?Four ancient pieces of jade are the key to unlocking the grand scheme of the Jian. The price is Hong Kong glittering jewel that sets the KGB, the Communist Chinese, and the Americans in a deadly battle. From the Paperback edition.

Shan

On a high plateau in the heart of Asia lies Shan, the holy site where men are tested and the deepest secrets of Eastern mysticism are revealed. Enter into the challenge of Jake Maroc, a man of almost supernatural gifts, who is commissioned to help China fulfill its ancient destiny as the future of the world hangs in the balance.

From the Paperback edition.

The Ring of Five Dragons

A towering epic of fantasy, The Pearl, is launched in The Ring of Five Dragons. Filled with action, color, and the myriad details of another world, The Pearl is the first great fantasy series of the new millennium, set to rival Robert Jordan, David Eddings, George R. R. Martin, Terry Brooks, and Terry Goodkind in popular appeal.

This astonishing first volume opens as the Kundalan people have suffered for a century under the viciously oppressive, technologically superior V’ornn invaders. In the resulting crisis of faith why hasn’t their goddess Miina saved them? Kundalan religion has fallen under the control of evil forces from within who forbid the teaching of traditional sorcery, pretending to have no magic of their own. The V’ornn’s mysterious leaders, the Gyrgon, know better, and search for the lost Ring of Five Dragons, the key to the door of the fabled Kundalan Storehouse, and perhaps to Kundalan sorcery as well.

But misused, the Ring is the trigger of seemingly inexorable annihilation for V’ornn and Kundalan alike. Now from among the oppressed must arise the hero of prophecy, the Dar Sala at, who alone can wield the sorcerous power to save the world.

Thus begins a huge epic rooted in the conflict between spiritual and technological cultures. The twisting plot raises difficult and provocative moral questions in the course of a constantly surprising, sometimes shocking, fantastic adventure that will transport fantasy readers to new heights of enthusiasm, and make them ask for more.

The Veil of a Thousand Tears

Having staked his claim as a master of epic fantasy with The Ring of Five Dragons, Eric Van Lustbader now returns to his world of Kundala to unearth new riches of wonder and excitement in this second volume of The Pearl Saga. With the help of her friends, Riane, the prophesied redeemer known as the Dar Sala at, saved Kundala from annihilation, preserving natives and V’ornn invaders alike. Together, the companions avenged terrible crimes and secured the Ring of Five Dragons, but their struggles have only just begun. The Ring averted doomsday, yet it did not open the magical Storehouse Door as expected. That sorcerous treasury remains sealed because of the spell cast by Giyan and her sister to migrate Annon Ashera’s male V’ornn psyche into Riane’s dying Kundalan female body. By combining them into a single being, it saved them both and fulfilled the prophecy that the Dar Sala at would be ‘born at both ends of the cosmos.’ But the spell also breached the Abyss, releasing daemons imprisoned there aeons ago by the Goddess Miina who could wreak havoc on Kundala. Now the fiends must be vanquished, not only so the quest for the Pearl can continue, but to save Giyan, who has been possessed by the archdaemon Horolaggia. Their only hope is the fabled Veil of A Thousand Tears.

Mistress of the Pearl

Kundala is Miina’s world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V’ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone’s expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V’ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala’s, is in their own hands. In Lustbader’s richly imagined saga The Pearl, magic and science clash on an epic scale. As in the Midkemia novels of Raymond Feist, the juxtaposition shows that neither is inherently good or evil. It is the people using magic or science who give them meaning, and Lustbader has created people you will never forget: Riane, the Dar Sala at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V’ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan’s defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn’s lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. With each new volume, The Pearl has bloomed and ramified like a gorgeous flowering vine. The Mistress of the Pearl is the best yet, and those who have read the previous books will find new sources of excitement and enlightenment, but this is also a great place to begin catching up with the series, as the Pearl shines ever brighter.

First Daughter

Sometimes the weakness we fear most can become our greatest strength…
Jack McClure has had a troubled life. His dyslexia always made him feel like an outsider. He escaped from an abusive home as a teenager and lived by his wits on the streets of Washington D.C. It wasn t until he realized that dyslexia gave him the ability to see the world in unique ways that he found success, using this newfound strength to become a top ATF agent. When a terrible accident takes the life of his only daughter, Emma, and his marriage falls apart, Jack blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from his old friend Edward Carson. Carson is just weeks from taking the reins as President of the United States when his daughter, Alli, is kidnapped. Because Emma McClure was once Alli’s best friend, Carson turns to Jack, the one man he can trust to go to any lengths to find his daughter and bring her home safely. The search for Alli leads Jack on a road toward reconciliation…
and into the path of a dangerous and calculating man. Someone whose actions are as cold as they are brilliant. Whose power and reach are seemingly infinite. Faith, redemption, and political intrigue play off one another as McClure uses his unique abilities to journey into the twisted mind of a stone cold genius who is constantly one step ahead of him. Jack will soon discover that this man has affected his life and his country in more ways than he could ever imagine.

Last Snow

The electrifying follow up to the Jack McClure thriller First Daughter from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne Sanction and The Bourne DeceptionJack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, interprets the world very differently from the rest of us. It’s his greatest liability, and his greatest asset. An American senator, supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine, turns up dead on the island of Capri. When the President asks him to find out how and why, Jack sets out from Moscow across Eastern Europe, following a perilous trail of diplomats, criminals, and corrupt politicians. Thrust into the midst of a global jigsaw puzzle, Jack s unique dyslexic mind allows him to put together the pieces that others can t even see. Still unreconciled to the recent death of his daughter and the dissolution of his marriage, Jack takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two unlikely, unexpected, and incompatible companions Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President s daughter. As he struggles to keep both young women safe and unearth the answers he seeks, hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the Ukrainian police to his own NSA, Jack learns just how far up the American and Russian political ladders corruption and treachery has reached. In the vein of Eric Van Lustbader s latest bestselling Jason Bourne novels, Lustbader takes us on an international adventure in this powerful page turner that will keep you reading through the night.

Blood Trust

It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible…
Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terrible accident, she has poured herself into her training to become one of the best FBI agents at the Fearington Institute. Her inspiration and solace comes from the one man with whom she has ever felt a kinship, National Security Adviser, Jack McClure. But when Alli becomes the prime suspect in a murder at Fearington, a wide ranging investigation is triggered, involving local homicide detectives, the secret service, the FBI itself, and Alli’s own uncle, the billionaire lobbyist Henry Carson. And yet nothing is what it seems. What follows is a treacherous journey that leads Jack and Alli into a complex web of lies and deceit. Using Jack s unique gifts to see the through the labyrinth of manipulation, their investigation leads them into the dark heart of the international slave trade, tied to a powerful Albanian crime lord whose ability and influence in global terrorism grows with each day. The two find themselves in the crosshairs of vast global enterprise, one that lurks in the shadows of power and has infiltrated Washington and their lives in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. And hidden deep among it all sits a terrifying criminal mastermind, someone fueled by a hatred that can never be quenched, and a mind that knows neither feeling nor mercy.

The Testament

The new international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne Legacy

Braverman Shaw Bravo to his friends always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies in a mysterious explosion does Bravo discover the enormity of his father’s hidden life as a high ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines, a sect founded by followers of St. Francis of Assisi and believed to have been wiped out centuries ago. For more than eight hundred years, the Order has preserved an ancient cache of documents, including a long lost Testament attributed to Christ that could shake Christianity to its foundations. Dexter Shaw was the latest Keeper of The Testament and Bravo is his chosen successor.
Before Dexter died, he hid the cache where only Bravo could find it. Now Bravo, an accomplished medieval scholar and cryptanalyst, must follow the esoteric clues his father left behind. His companion in this quest is Jenny Logan, a driven young woman with secrets of her own. Jenny is a Guardian, assigned by the Order to protect Bravo, or so she claims. Bravo soon learns that he can trust no one where The Testament is concerned, perhaps not even Jenny…

Another secret society, the Knights of St. Clement, originally founded and sponsored by the Papacy, has been after the Order s precious cache since the time of the Crusades. The Knights, agents and assassins, will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure. Bravo has become both a target and a pawn in an ongoing war far larger and more deadly than any he could have imagined.

Sirens

Diana Whitney is on the verge of winning an Oscar for her role in a controversial terror film. Suddenly she finds her private life invaded by a nightmare that matches the script…
From the Paperback edition.

Black Heart

‘Chilling, brutal, and satisfying…
The reader becomes deeply involved.’
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of violence back into the heart of the Cambodian jungle and into a desperate web of intrigue in which every action masks a hidden motive. Featuring the deadliest killer since THE NINJA, and an exotic Oriental enchantress, Black Heart is an extraordinary adventure into the arts of violence and love.

From the Paperback edition.

Zero

‘ A rewarding thriller…
It contains enough twists and genuine surprises to keep the reader racing toward the satisfying final pages.’
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Although American painter Michael Doss has been schooled in the ancient ways of the warrior, he leads a quiet life. Until the tragic death of his father ignites the warrior spirit in his blood that will not be quenched until he uncovers the secret of his father’s enigmatic life. His journey plunges him into a dangerous underworld, where he finds himself in lethal combat with a sinister Japanese organization that is bent on destroying the United States through global economic chaos. Doss is trapped. His only chance for survival is a final confrontation, face to face, with the vile assassin behind it all, Zero.

From the Paperback edition.

French Kiss

The murderous search for the Prey Dauw is on the trio of weapons so imbued with mythic power that it is said whoever possesses them can dominate Indochina and control its opium. Two men have aleady been murdered for the Pray Duaw, and now their brothers, New York lawyer, Chris Haye, and NYPD detective Steve Guarda, are ready to face the savage madman who will stop at nothing to destroy them.’Suspense that is sustained to the final page.’LOS ANGELES TIMESFrom the Paperback edition.

Angel Eyes

‘Gripping…
Spellbinding…
A suspense novel that kill keep you glued to its pages.’THE MIAMI HERALDUnknown to one another, three brilliant determined women in Tokyo, Washington, and Moscow will ignite events that not only decide the fates of drug runners and Japanese Yakuza members, intelligence agents and arms brokers, but that could also change the face of the world map. They are all actors in a devious and deadly drama, where treachery awaits them at every turn, and enemies look like friends to the uninitiated…
. From the Paperback edition.

Black Blade

‘There are plots within plots, circles within circles…
. Lustbader fans will lap it up.’ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTIONIn New York City, a chain of brutal murders begins…
. In Washington, a plot conceived at the highest levels of American government is at work to bring the economic colossus of Japan to its knees…
. In Tokyo, a critical power struggle is nearing its final stages for control of the enigmatic Black Blade Society, an ostensibly political cabal whose motives may encompass far more than politicis…
. From the Paperback edition.

Dark Homecoming

A gut grabbing blend of seductive evil and explosive action starring the seasoned NYPD detective from ‘Floating City’ and ‘Second Skin’. Ex cop Lew Croaker confronts the moral dilemma of a lifetime when he’s told he must kill a man in exchange for a compatible kidney for his desperately ill niece.

Art Kills

Art is having a wild affair with murder in this breathtaking, inventive tale from the best selling author of the exotic White Ninja and chilling Second Skin. Racing from the marbled precincts of New York’s uptown museum scene to the fashionable galleries and lofts of Soho to a gated Mafia mansion on the platinum coast of Long Island, at top speed this Lustbader novella takes appraiser Tess Chase, a no nonsense woman with a taste for martial as well as fine arts, in pursuit of a long lost painting by the Renaissance master Raphael. It also entangles her in a case of deadly sibling rivalry between the heirs to the empire of the East Coast crime boss Rocco Bravanno as it divides Tess’s loyalties between the handsome, charismatic Anthony and his stunning sister, Jackie, both of whom come by their lust for art and palate for murder naturally. Uncovering a web of conspiracy and shifting alliances, Tess strives both to rescue the painting from its abductors and to save the passionately unhappy Jackie from a miserable marriage to a man with betrayal in his blood. More than a Raphael is at stake in this murderous tale of envy and revenge. Only Tess has yet to learn who the real traitor is. And ignorance is not bliss.

Batman & Dracula: Red Rain (With: )

Graphic novel fans won’t be able to resist as Dracula comes to make Gotham City his dark dominion, first preying on the homeless and then amassing an army to take on the good citizens of Gotham. Batman must forge an alliance with the undead to defeat this unholy foe in a duel that stretches beyond the boundaries of death.

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe

Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century’s most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American detective: cynical yet idealistic; romantic yet full of despair; a gentleman capable of rough violence. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler’s last Marlowe adventure:The Pencil. The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles.