With high-tension suspense and cutting-edge technology, Patricia Cornwell—the world’s #1 bestselling crime writer—once again proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall in this remarkable novel featuring chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn more about a string of grisly killings: the murder of a Savannah family years earlier, a young woman on death row, and then other inexplicable deaths that begin to occur at a breathtaking pace. Driven by inner forces, Scarpetta discovers connections that compel her to conclude that what she thought ended with Fielding’s death and an attempt on her own life is only the beginning of something far more destructive: a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it.

"Behind the Red Mist" offers for the first time in English a wide range of stories from an important writer of the post-war generation in Vietnam. Ho Anh Thai is known for his bitingly sharp and gently whimsical fiction.

The novel opens with an account of the soldiers under 'Stonewall' Jackson, General of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, just beginning to emerge from their winter encampment in the Western Mountains. They have suffered losses in the earlier campaign, but are bolstered with fresh recruits and ready for renewed fighting.

IT WAS already growing dusk when the Staunton Battery of Horse Artillery returned wearily to camp after hours of hard field drill, the men ever conscious that no evolution, however trivial, was being overlooked by "Stonewall" Jackson, sitting astride his sorrel on a little eminence to the left, his stern face unrelieved by even the semblance of a smile. He would criticise without mercy, but never praise, and the artillerymen insensibly stiffened to the work, as eager to do well as though they were in action. The time was early spring, some remnants of snow still clinging to the hollows out of reach of the warming sun, and a chill wind blowing through the passes of the western mountains. The comparative idleness of the past winter months, given over to foraging and drill, together with the comforts of a permanent camp, had engendered forgetfulness of the hardships of the last campaign, and left the men eager to confront the dangers of the future. In no heart was there doubt of the final result—the Army of the Valley pinned its faith on "Old Jack." They were soldiers—veterans already—anxious for active service; their depleted ranks filled up once more with recruits, well drilled and efficient through constant training; and while many remembered with regret the old faces—the dead, the wounded, the missing—they nevertheless realized that never before were they in sterner mood or better prepared for grim fighting. The winter quarters of the Staunton Artillery were slightly off the main road, back within the shelter of a grove of oak trees, and I remained for some time overseeing the care of the horses before approaching the hut where the non-commissioned officers had mess. We were all of us still at the table, discussing the incidents of the drill, when a lieutenant appeared suddenly in the doorway, and glanced inquiringly about the room, scarcely able to distinguish our faces in the dull light of the lantern which alone illumined the interior.

Everyone goes into the red mist. At some point in ones life, one faces the mists reality, and, for most, thats when life really begins. This story about Bartholomew and the assemblage of his reflections is intended to set forth some excursions into that mist, together with vignettes of faith and family. Many are autobiographical in nature, although they are presented through the intermediary of Bartholomew of the Trinity. In many of the stories and reflections, you will see part of your own journey, either as you read or as you reflect. As such, this book is composed of three interrelated parts: The Mist, Sacrament and Church, Relationships.

The galaxy holds many strange and dangerous things . . . Alone at the helm of the Junkyard Dog, pilot Margarita King notices a dense cloud of red dust approaching her ship. A strange anomaly of space never before recorded. Before Rita can react, an unseen force takes control of her body. Pressing in on her until she winks out of existence. Join the crew of the Junkyard Dog as they embark on their strangest adventure yet—one that will change their lives forever. A sci-fi adventure. Alien worlds

His small stringy body hunched over the control bank, nursing the last ounce of power out of the Kallman. The hot night sky of Venus fled past the ports in tattered veils of indigo. Starke wasn't sure where he was any more. Venus was a frontier planet, and still mostly a big X, except to the Venusians—who weren't sending out any maps. He did know that he was getting dangerously close to the Mountains of White Cloud. The backbone of the planet, towering far into the stratosphere, magnetic trap, with God knew what beyond. Maybe even God wasn't sure..FROM THE BOOKS.

Two women... two enemies. One deadly terror threat. One jealous sister. One true love. What could possibly go wrong? This is the opening episode of the Red Mist series. An MI6 shadow assassin and a beautiful terrorist are thrown together in the midst of a terror threat, the like of which London has never seen before. Their first meeting is engineered by those who never imagined a desperate spark would ignite a deadly inferno. No one foresaw that an explosive mix of two lost souls would result in an epic journey of discovery, destined to change lives forever. Travel with Madeline and Zana as they follow a life-threatening, perilous road, taking them to a place neither believes can exist. Killing someone isn’t meant to be this hard. Neither is falling in love. “Romantic Suspense at its finest” Imagine a TV drama with eight episodes over two seasons, telling a complete story, and bringing you a host of unexpected twists and turns along the way. Red Mist is that gripping serialized drama, in book form. It will keep you page-turning, and episode reading! (Each episode is its own story, but very much leads into the next one... so to get the full effect please do read the volumes in order!) Do check out the Red Mist series, and everything else we create, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Two women... two enemies. One deadly terror threat. One jealous sister. One true love. What could possibly go wrong? An MI6 shadow assassin and a beautiful terrorist are thrown together in the midst of a terror threat, the like of which London has never seen before. This is ‘Fearless’, the fourth episode of the Red Mist series. It is damage limitation for Madeline and the team as they discover the threat is far from over. With a new, even more insidious horror in the mix, she volunteers to be the worm on the hook... even though for her there is more than one reason that hook is sinking into treacherous waters. Travel with Madeline and Zana as they follow a life-threatening, perilous road, taking them to a place neither believes can exist. Killing someone isn’t meant to be this hard. Neither is falling in love. “Romantic Suspense at its finest” Imagine a TV drama with eight episodes over two seasons, telling a complete story, and bringing you a host of unexpected twists and turns along the way. Red Mist is that gripping serialized drama, in book form. It will keep you page-turning, and episode reading! (Each episode is its own story, but very much leads into the next one... so to get the full effect please do read the volumes in order!) Do check out the Red Mist series, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!

Two women... two enemies. One deadly terror threat. One jealous sister. One true love. What could possibly go wrong? An MI6 shadow assassin and a beautiful terrorist are thrown together in the midst of a terror threat, the like of which London has never seen before. This is ‘Phoenix’, the second episode of the Red Mist series. Madeline has been given some horrifying news back at DIAL HQ. Forced to question her convictions, there isn’t much time to weigh up the choices she doesn’t have. She’s been given a new mission which can’t be refused, one that is much closer to her comfort zone. But comfort zones live only in her past. Having discovered Zana’s true identity, she is left with no option but to make the biggest decision of her life. Can she carry out the final mission… the one thing that will break her forever? Travel with Madeline and Zana as they follow a life-threatening, perilous road, taking them to a place neither believes can exist. Killing someone isn’t meant to be this hard. Neither is falling in love. “Romantic Suspense at its finest” Imagine a TV drama with eight episodes over two seasons, telling a complete story, and bringing you a host of unexpected twists and turns along the way. Red Mist is that gripping serialized drama, in book form. It will keep you page-turning, and episode reading! (Each episode is its own story, but very much leads into the next one... so to get the full effect please do read the volumes in order!) Do check out the Red Mist series, and everything else we do, on the rtgreen website. And enjoy!