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DEEPER
A decade has passed since doomed explorers unveiled a nightmare of tunnels and rivers honeycombing the earth's depths. After millennia of suffering terror and predation, humanity's armies descended to destroy the ancient hordes. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a doomed science expedition killed the subterraneans' fabled leader, and suddenly it seemed that evil was dead and all was right with the world again.
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THE WALL
On the vast, sunlit walls of the world’s greatest monolith, two veteran climbers unwittingly ascend into a vertical underworld. In a place where obsession kills, they quickly fall prey to past loves, old demons, and ghostly revenge.
Once upon a time, thirty-five years ago, Hugh and Lewis were Yosemite legends. El Capitan was their holy grail, and their destiny seemed written on its big walls. Here they met the women who married them, then left them. Hugh’s wife mysteriously disappeared into the desert. Lewis’s wife is divorcing him. Now the old friends reunite to climb El Cap one last time and make a fresh start.
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THE RECKONING
Enter the territory of Jeff Long, where the unknown is deeply present, death is a constant shadow, and the human spirit is our final hope. Now comes The Reckoning, another superbly original thriller -- a story of predation, betrayal, and resurrection that is at once intricate, haunting, and terrifying.
Armed with only a camera and iron determination, thirty-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War.
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YEAR ZERO
An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land -- a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, a young American field researcher and expectant father, the line between noble discovery and the plunder of ruins is sacred -- until the night he crosses it. At a Roman landfill beneath the crucifixion grounds known as Golgotha, Nathan Lee yields to his professor's greed and turns common grave robber. His world -- his unborn daughter -- seems lost to him.
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THE DESCENT
Hell exists.
In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun and linguist named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old....In Bosnia, Major Elias Branch crash-lands his gunship near a mass grave and is swarmed by pale cannibals terrified of light....
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EMPIRE OF BONES:
A NOVEL OF SAM HOUSTON AND THE TEXAS REVOLUTION
* Western Writer’s of America Spur Award/Best Novel
Epic hero, valiant general, intellectual fond of quoting Homer, self-styled messiah, opium drinker, alcoholic, exotic dresser – Sam Houston was all of these. The pivotal event of his life was the Battle of San Jacinto, when fate handed him Santa Anna, the Scourge of the Alamo, along with the patrimony of the nation of Texas.
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THE ASCENT
* American Alpine Literary Award
* Boardman-Tasker Award for Mountain Literature
The treacherous “dark side” of Everest, its remote north face, is the setting for this high-stakes literary adventure, pitting eleven men and two women against the Ultimate Summit. The expedition takes place in the Forbidden Kingdom of Tibet, where high in the ruins of rock-bound monasteries, the remnants of a shattered culture struggle to survive in the face of Chinese genocide.
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ANGELS OF LIGHT
The rock climbers of Yosemite Valley – admired for their skill, notorious for their adventures, astonishingly innocent in their childlike devotion to climbing. The discovery of two tons of drugs and a smuggler’s corpse in a frozen High Sierra lake is the death of that innocence. The climbers’ world of carefree squalor and dedication to sport proves unable to resist the temptations of big money.
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OUTLAW:
THE TRUE STORY OF CLAUDE DALLAS
Today’s West – honor-bound, tradition-bound – still has a language and a code of ethics all its own, even as it is being corralled by barbed wire, federal legislation, and complex machinery. Claude Dallas and Bill Pogue were two extraordinary men who lived in the West of today but were ruled by the ideals of the previous century. Joined together by the land, diametrically opposed in faith, they were bound to clash in battle.
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DUEL OF EAGLES:
THE MEXICAN AND U.S. FIGHT FOR THE ALAMO
* Main selection of the History Book of the Month Club
* Texas Literary Award
Now, in a rich, powerful, and comprehensive history that removes the myths from the battle for Texas, we have the true story, as dramatic as any legend, of what led to the Alamo and what followed from it. Most such accounts are told only from the perspective of the Anglo-Americans, Duel of Eagles gives us the people and events on the Mexican side as well – starting with the fact that Texas belonged to Mexico by treaty and that most of those who set out to free it went not for patriotic reasons but for their own.
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