Jay Snyder

Will the last humans on Earth please turn out the lights?
James Patterson's ZOO was just the beginning. The planet is still under violent siege by ferocious animals. Humans are their desperate prey. Except some humans are evolving, mutating into a savage species that could save civilization—or end it.
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Someone is targeting the most powerful people in Paris--and only Jack Morgan can make it stop. Paris: the most beautiful city in the world. At the end of a European business trip, Jack Morgan, the founder and owner of Private, the renowned global security and investigative agency, stops by Private's Paris office, where he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing stay filled with fine food and sightseeing. But he is quickly pressed into...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of suspense so terrifying it may make you afraid of the dark . . .

Allison Taylor MacKenna feels as though she'sawakened at last from a ten-year-long nightmare.But her darkest hour has yet to come . . .

Nestled in the warm, domestic cocoon of loving husbandand family, Allison finally feels safe—unaware that astranger's brutal murder on a Caribbean island is the first step

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The phrase "the meaning of life" for many seems a quaint notion fit for satirical mauling by Monty Python or Douglas Adams. But in this spirited Very Short Introduction, famed critic Terry Eagleton takes a serious if often amusing look at the question and offers his own surprising answer. Eagleton first examines how centuries of thinkers and writers-from Marx and Schopenhauer to Shakespeare, Sartre, and Beckett-have responded to the ultimate question...

A woman is pursued by a dangerous predator in New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub's Sleepwalker.
"If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Wendy Corsi Staub!" —#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson
It has been a decade since the chaos and horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. Allison MacKenna barely escaped death on that terrible day at the hands of a serial...

The Prop Trader's Chronicles will unveil the strategies and techniques used at proprietary trading firms and by other professional stock traders. The book will describe the author's experience as a prop trader in an engaging narrative, but at the same time will provide an in-depth explanation of strategies employed by prop traders utilizing direct access technologies, Level II quotes, time and statistical arbitrage. The author will describe how to...

David Kiley, who chronicled the engaging history of Volkswagen in Getting the Bugs Out, now focuses on BMW, a luxury brand and coveted car. Excellent management at BMW has consistently turned out a superior product, and their image worldwide has remained one of elegance, while other car companies fluctuate with each new model. By gaining unprecedented access to the development of the new 1-Series, which will be BMW's lowest price vehicle to date,...

One of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century, existentialism has had more impact on literature and the arts than any other school of thought. Focusing on the leading figures of existentialism, including Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Camus, Thomas Flynn offers a concise account of existentialism, explaining the key themes of individuality, free will, and personal responsibility, which...

Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever. -- Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO...

As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted (with Alex Abramovich), rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes: $750,000, to be exact. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie...