Richard: 2392 books

One night, everything changed.  It wasn't guns or bombs.  It wasn't tanks and artillery that killed.  It was inevitable.  A virus either mutated or was created that had no antidote, and it spread worldwide.  As days turned into weeks, and then into months, the virus showed...

Having touched mortality with a recent heart attack, Tom Ryder sets off across the desert on his bicycle in an odyssey of meaning. His destination – Phoenix, the city of rebirth. Behind him is an abandoned wife, a discarded job, and a life of conformity so heavy it threatened to crush him. Ahead is a rendezvous with fate and a truth long hidden in the recesses of his mind.

Lights in the night sky. Mutilated cattle in a Montana meadow. Iconic rancher Dodd Quigley, missing and presumed dead. Allison, Dodd’s daughter, dismissed and friendless. Discredited reporter Tom McQuay, following the leads. Back to a giant corporation and a vast conspiracy conceived in the final moments of the Third Reich. To the cause of Unknown Causes.

A wild comedy in the spirit of the classic films of Danny Kaye (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Wonder Man) and Bob Hope (My Favorite Brunette, The Ghost Breakers), Paperback Writer is the story of a pulp fiction writer whose characters are just a little too real to him, particularly Nikki Sapphire,...

A mysterious blind man known only as The Collector arrives to tour the mansion of a dead eccentric. The estate is filled with artifacts – mementoes with stories to tell – and only the Collector can “see” the tales associated with them by touching the objects. The Collector's intent is revealed...

Hard charging capitalist MAGGIE DUNBAR is sent to a small town to oversee the sale of its last source of jobs and income, a rustbelt factory. But soon Maggie finds herself being wooed by the local crusading newspaper editor and the townies themselves, which beckons a crisis in her life — which to put first, people or money?

1886: U.S. Cavalry Colonel Luther Wingate retires and sets off to visit his daughter, whose husband is an officer of the British Raj in India. Snowfox, his half-breed American Indian son, and Keogh, his Sergeant Major, tag along. They arrive in India and learn that Wingate's daughter Alice has been...

A passenger jet en route from Hawaii. Aboard, a dozen first class travelers. The crass, the haunted, the arrogant, and the lost. The passengers in coach are missing. The air crew, too. Flying on autopilot. Destination unknown.

Lionel Keats. Killer good looks. Wealthy, witty, charming. He can’t take no for an answer. Maggie Malone. Take your breath away. Smart, savvy, independent. She can’t say yes. One of them is going to die.

A young girl who dreams. A father who yearns for redemption. A mother who wants to believe. And a dying star traveler who needs them.

Two psychics meet. One, a serial killer. The other, walking wounded. In the heat of a killing spree they duel over the life of a woman who hides a secret that threatens to destroy them both. Psyche swirls around life and death like smoke around a fire, twisting and undulating in a dance of psychic possibility.

When fatherless boy Raul is attacked by a gang, he hires John, a homeless man, to protect him because Raul thinks he's a missing heroic FBI agent. John makes a clean spot in Raul's life, and soon must widen it, saving his mother from a predatory cop, and eventually facing off against the mob bent...

Two hundred years after Earth's environmental collapse humankind survives in satellites. A handful of humans work on the planet’s surface destroying every vestige of the industrial age. But now someone, or something, is killing them. Two cops attempt to solve the murders, and a greater mystery,...

Terror visits the little town of Flannel, Oregon, when a body is discovered on the pool table of a prominent bus bench writer. Soon Flannel’s eclectic young doctor, Milo Bushnell learns Flannel is being invaded by Brussels sprouts from space, ill-tempered little vegetables that metamorphose into...