First Prize

Private detective Chess Hanrahan is hired by the prestigious Granville Foundation to locate Gregory Compton, recipient of the Foundation's fiction award, when he fails to appear

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

CLINE, EDWARD

Mystery

MYSTERIOUS PRESS

Private detective Chess Hanrahan is hired by the prestigious Eunice Davies-Graville Foundation to locate Gregory Compton, writer and recipient of the Foundation's fiction award, when he fails to accept his award

Mysterious Pr

When Merritt Fury, a fiercely independent American entrepreneur, returns to Hong Kong on business, little does he know that he has become enmeshed in a conspiracy to confiscate his investment and render the Crown colony a dependency on the Mainland dictatorship to the north. While he suspects foul play by some of his business partners in Bluelist Tungsten Trading, he also learns that he is the object of scrutiny by an underground group combating the conspiracy. He meets Amber Lee, a Eurasian beauty and government economist â€“ and also a pistol-packing spy. As Fury fights for his life and pieces together the paradoxical conflict, he grasps that he is the linchpin of the schemes of conspirators and plotters alike, and that it is precisely his independence that is the key factor in their plans.

Whisper the Guns

Literature & Fiction

United States

Atlantean Pr

Ideas that kill . . . This challenging mystery by the author of FIRST PRIZE brings back Chess Hanrahan, "a thinking man's Mike Hammer." A woman working undercover for the FBI is dead as Russian agents make a grab for a seemingly obscure computer company. Hanrahan, who believes no observable phenomenon is beyond rational scrutiny, plays a high-stakes game with a cabal of social scientists who want to reshape public thought--knowing that ideas can kill. Cline's previous Hanrahan mystery, FIRST PRIZE, was praised as a "striking tale" (Allen J. Hubin, The Armchair Detective).

Presence of Mind

Perfect Crime Books

A brilliant young novelist wins a literary award and disappears. Detective Chess Hanrahan turns up more than murder in this sharp-edged, provocative tale by the author of the popular Sparrowhawk novels. With a new preface by the author. "Exceptionally strong . . . firm characterizations. A striking tale." Allen J. Hubin, The Armchair Detective

Perfect Crime

When Merritt Fury, a fiercely independent American entrepreneur, returns to Hong Kong on business, little does he know that he has become enmeshed in a conspiracy to confiscate his investment and render the Crown colony a dependency on the Mainland dictatorship to the north. While he suspects foul play by some of his business partners in Bluelist Tungsten Trading, he also learns that he is the object of scrutiny by an underground group combating the conspiracy. He meets Amber Lee, a Eurasian beauty and government economist – and also a pistol-packing spy. As Fury fights for his life and pieces together the paradoxical conflict, he grasps that he is the linchpin of the schemes of conspirators and plotters alike, and that it is precisely his independence that is the key factor in their plans. This novel, the first of the Merritt Fury series, was completed in 1977, but only first published in 1992. What I forecast in 1977 about the fate of Hong Kong has come about. Mainland China is now governed by a fascist regime that has retained the trappings of Communism and is Communist in name only. It is certainly not “capitalist” as pundits like to claim.

Whisper the Guns: A Suspense Novel (The Merritt Fury Series)

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Merritt Fury is the unconquerable American entrepreneur who in “Whisper the Guns” foiled a Red Chinese conspiracy in Hong Kong, and in “We Three Kings” gave a Saudi sheik his just desserts. Now, in "Run From Judgment," he finds himself the target of a mysterious assassin who is eliminating, one by one, the financial enablers of the world’s terrorists. He is also the object of another entrepreneur’s malice, and finally the subject of a captivating portrait painter. At the same time, he is the primary suspect of a British homicide detective, who believes Fury has committed the inexplicable assassinations. This is the third and latest in the Fury series.

Run From Judgment: A Novel of Suspense (The Merritt Fury Series)

Why is American foreign policy failing? Should our foreign policy be principled, or pragmatic? Why are politicians and bureaucrats so determined to regulate and rule our lives? Who are the new shock troops of collectivism and statism? Are we at war with Islam, and if so, has long has the war been waged? What are the goals of Islam? Is Islam compatible with Western norms of freedom? If not, why not? Why are religious conservatives who oppose Islam just as much a threat to freedom as Islam? Why do so many wealthy individuals and large corporations endorse Barack Obama, who has declared war on wealth and private enterprise? Do those who endorse his policies representative of capitalism, or do they represent an "aristocracy of pull"? Corsairs and Freebooters, a collection of pungent and frank essays, addresses and answers these questions.

Corsairs & Freebooters: A Collection of Pungent Remarks In the War of Ideas (Observations, Remarks, and Advices)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Why is American foreign policy failing? Should our foreign policy be principled, or pragmatic? Why are politicians and bureaucrats so determined to regulate and rule our lives? Who are the new shock troops of collectivism and statism? Are we at war with Islam, and if so, has long has the war been waged? What are the goals of Islam? Is Islam compatible with Western norms of freedom? If not, why not? Why are religious conservatives who oppose Islam just as much a threat to freedom as Islam? Why do so many wealthy individuals and large corporations endorse Barack Obama, who has declared war on wealth and private enterprise? Why is the purpose of movie remakes of old classics? Is the First Amendment in peril, and if so, from what? What is the meaning of "democracy" vs. "republic"? Are those who endorse Obama's policies representative of capitalism, or do they represent an "aristocracy of pull"? Running Out My Guns, a collection of no-holds-barred essays, addresses and answers these questions.

Running Out My Guns: A Collection of Advices (Observations, Remarks, and Advices)

The American Revolution did not just happen. It was the culmination of two centuries of Enlightenment ideas that entered men's minds and were refined and honed until they expressed themselves in an unprecedented rejection of tyranny in the name of individual rights and political freedom from the whims of arrogant monarchs and conniving, power-lusting politicians. Sparrowhawk: Book One, Jack Frake encapsulates that process in the story of a Cornwall peasant boy who rejects the tyranny of the British Crown and joins a unique smuggling gang whose members are also in revolt against the arbitrary powers of the government. By the end of his story, young Jack Frake is sent to Virginia as an indentured felon, and by the end of the Sparrowhawk series, thirty years later, in 1775, he will lead his own militia to the heights of Bunker Hill.

Sparrowhawk: Book One, Jack Frake: A Novel of the American Revolution

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First Prize

First Prize

Whisper the Guns

Presence of Mind

First Prize

Whisper the Guns: A Suspense Novel (The Merritt Fury Series)

Run From Judgment: A Novel of Suspense (The Merritt Fury Series)

Corsairs & Freebooters: A Collection of Pungent Remarks In the War of Ideas (Observations, Remarks, and Advices)

Running Out My Guns: A Collection of Advices (Observations, Remarks, and Advices)

Sparrowhawk: Book One, Jack Frake: A Novel of the American Revolution