"Explosive, extraordinary...The reader is left limp!"THE SAN DIEGO UNIONThe 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 web of espionage and computer intrigue--amid the...  more

"Explosive, extraordinary...The reader is left limp!"THE SAN DIEGO UNIONThe 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 web of espionage and computer intrigue--amid the tantalizing Oriental arts of love and death....

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-cops that Jake has organized. This time,...  more

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-cops that Jake has organized. This time, he'll settle the score once and for all....

For years Christian Hatcher, the man they called the Shadow Warrior, killed expertly and faithfully for his country - until a shocking betrayal landed him in a hellhole South American jail.... Now, free again, his body wasted and his spirit nearly crushed, Hatcher returns to Hong Kong and...  more

For years Christian Hatcher, the man they called the Shadow Warrior, killed expertly and faithfully for his country - until a shocking betrayal landed him in a hellhole South American jail.... Now, free again, his body wasted and his spirit nearly crushed, Hatcher returns to Hong Kong and Bangkok - deadly and seductive stops on the heroin pipeline leading from the notorious Golden Triangle. There he will hunt down the truth about the U.S. general's son, his one true friend, who's been missing since the war. And the closer he comes to a solution, the more he fears what it will be.... "It's enough to make Ludlum seem humdrum." ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION "Diehl knows how to tell a story, and his novel moves." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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 game with the Third Reich's perfect spy,...  more

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 game with the Third Reich's perfect spy, a man of a thousand faces. In an arena that encompasses presidents and gangsters, spies and sirens, the deadly present and the dark past, Keegan pursues his elusive quarry into the cutting edge of world events -- and into the secret inner workings of a terrifying mission known only as "27." Also published as "27".

It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In 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 beloved Chicago clergyman who had been...  more

It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In 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 beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair... Now Vail is Chicago's chief prosecutor, facing the nightmare of his life. If Stampler has been locked away in a high-security institution for the past ten years, how could he have killed Linda Balfour? Then another altar boy turns up dead with a similar inscription in blood on the back of his head. If Aaron Stampler isn't committing these killings, who is? Martin Vail's career -- maybe even his life -- hangs on the answer...

Eureka. It’s what you say when you strike gold. It’s also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever.In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl’s thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America’s most glamorous state lies in this...  more

Eureka. It’s what you say when you strike gold. It’s also a town in California where the truth might be buried forever.In New York Times bestselling author William Diehl’s thrilling, accomplished new novel, the seamy past of America’s most glamorous state lies in this deceptively peaceful area, one hundred miles north of Los Angeles. It was the lawless place from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane escaped to fight World War I. Now it’s a place where, two decades later, police detective Zeke Bannon investigates a death that seems a sad accident.Until you look a bit closer.The year is 1941. Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub, leaving a lower-middle-class life, no survivors, and a bank account packed with almost a hundred thousand dollars. Mysterious checks have consistently come to her for more than twenty years, most drawn from a bank in San Pietro, a town once known as Eureka.Eureka was a town that used to be a bootlegger’s paradise and a gangster’s dream. Now it is the rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Thomas Culhane is launching a bid to be the golden state’s next governor. But something just might threaten his ambitions. As Bannon digs deeper into Wilensky’s demise, he unearths a decades-old secret that starts in a shootout, builds to a bloodbath, and could end up within the upper echelons of California’s elite, forever changing the destiny of a state.Rich in historical detail, complex in its connection between past and present, and filled with the nonstop action that are the hallmarks of this modern master, Eureka is an epic achievement of storytelling and suspense–William Diehl’s most extraordinary novel yet.From the Hardcover edition.

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, Micah Cody. There are...  more

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, Micah Cody. There are seven basic ways to die. In 1969 Dr. John C. Cavanaugh catalogued them all in his Primer of Forensic Pathology-Cast Studies for the Novice M.E. Micah Cody is a 30-something NYPD captain of homicide, who?s founded a special unit known as TAZ with city-wide license to take over any investigation at all, with special focus on serial killers. Now its ultimate challenge is on the loose in Manhattan, with three victims already whose causes of death seem like intentional defiance of TAZ?s existence?and four to go in four deadly days leading up to Halloween. Chronicling it all with great amusement is the Capote-like award-winning crime writer Ward Hamilton who, egged on by his sexually voracious socialite bedmate, is determined to bring TAZ to its knees journalistically. Captain Micah Cody's Nez Perce name is ?Youngest Wolf? from his ability to communicate with the animals and read nature's signs. As all hell is breaking loose in Manhattan, the wolves in Central Park howl, the peregrine falcons shriek their warnings?and Micah is listening. Seven Ways to Die is a non-stop, sexy read with Diehl doing to the end what he did best throughout his bestselling career.

1944 Three American soldiers, killed on a bizarre mission behind German lines, sprawl dead beside and Italian lake. At the bottom of the lake: four million dollars' worth of gold... 1976 Sharky, ace undercover cop busted to the Vice Squad for being too damn sharp, listens to some outrageous...  more

1944 Three American soldiers, killed on a bizarre mission behind German lines, sprawl dead beside and Italian lake. At the bottom of the lake: four million dollars' worth of gold... 1976 Sharky, ace undercover cop busted to the Vice Squad for being too damn sharp, listens to some outrageous erotic tapes that catapult him into the murderous world of financial manipulation, top-level political intrigue and sexual corruption spawned by that wartime bloodbath. Soon Sharky and the team he calls his 'machine' are headed for the storm centre of the most lethal conspiracy American has ever known... Sharky's Machine sweeps from Nazi-occupied Europe to the deadly opulence of Hong Kong's brothels, from the steel-and-glass fortress that houses one of the world's mightiest financial empires to the depths of the criminal underworld and on to the most shattering climax in modern thriller fiction.

Chicago, 1983. A sainted bishop is found murdered, mutilated, and dismembered in his chambers. An angelic-looking young man is discovered moments later hiding in a confessional, covered with blood, clutching a butcher's knife -- and proclaiming his innocence. Appointed to defend this alleged...  more

Chicago, 1983. A sainted bishop is found murdered, mutilated, and dismembered in his chambers. An angelic-looking young man is discovered moments later hiding in a confessional, covered with blood, clutching a butcher's knife -- and proclaiming his innocence. Appointed to defend this alleged monster is Martin Vail, a brilliant, brash -- some say devious -- attorney who thrives on controversial clients. The stage is set for a complex and unpredictable legal battle and a terrifying excursion into psychopathology that won't soon be forgotten.Show of Evil, the sequel to Primal Fear, is also available from Random House AudioBooks.Will Patton has appeared in many films, including: No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, Silkwood, A Shock to the System The Rapture, Romeo is Bleeding, and Copycat.