New Releases by Neil McMahon

Animosity between the genetically engineered Elites and their human subjects is fierce, and many rebels fight back against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the Elite regime, and their number one target.

Beautiful Selena is cursed with a sinister secret: She was born a demon child, and is forced to prostitute herself in order to feed her unseen, hellish "companions" with the souls of her lovers, who soon die in agony and terror. She battles this by choosing only evil men as victims--but now the companions are demanding a goodhearted young doctor, and her strength to resist is fading.

A sequel to NEXT, AFTER LUCIFER, with the evil Templar, Guilhem de Courdeval, surfacing in San Francisco. He poses as a spiritual teacher and gathers disciples, using a seductive philosophy that fulfills their desires--until they realize that his true goal is to turn them into servants of evil, and it''s too late to back out.

Ancient evil awakens in a rural French village, in the form of a Templar knight who was burned at the stake in the 14th century for practicing black magic.Now it''s the 1980''s, and his undead spirit, bent on possession of a human body, invades the lives of a wealthy American couple renting a nearby villa. A genuinely frightening story--not recommended for children.

Critically acclaimed writer Neil McMahon firmly establishes himself as one of today’s top thriller writers with this dark and mesmerizing story that weaves together Hollywood and a cult, old money and futuristic technologies—a powerful tale of suspense sure to catapult him to bestsellerdom. A respected judge goes berserk, destroying his home. . . . A wealthy celebrity widow is found floating unconscious in her pool. . . . A brilliant young astrophysicist is killed when he runs onto a busy freeway. . . . To psychologist Tom Crandall, the residents of Los Angeles seem to be going insane. Over the past few months, people have randomly become unhinged, exploding in violent, self-destructive rampages. Now Tom’s younger brother Nick is lying in a hospital bed after narrowly surviving a fall off a Malibu cliff. But, as Tom soon finds out, the accident is only the latest in a string of alarming events involving his troubled sibling. Nick has been blackmailing members of his wealthy family, including his brother Paul—a would-be Hollywood mogul whose latest project involves a film-production company headed by a charismatic scientist who holds some disturbing theories about power and human behavior. Concerned about Paul’s dealings, Tom heads to the film set, where he meets a physicist turned filmmaker, the brilliant and enigmatic Swede named Gunnar Kelso. Soon Tom is caught in a terrifying scheme that threatens his sanity and his very life, and he must race to uncover the truth before it’s too late. A tightly plotted tale of twisting suspense and paranoia, of cutting-edge science, a diabolical conspiracy, and family betrayal, L.A. Mental is a roller-coaster ride from the first page to the last.

Move over, James Bond and Jason Bourne-superhuman agent Hays Baker fights to save millions of lives in James Patterson''s thrilling bestseller. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess superhuman strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do-they''re Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. But their lives are about to change forever. The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the President, and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life. Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into a life he never dreamed possible: fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives, maybe even his own. Compelling and addictive, Toys is an unforgettable spy thriller from the world''s #1 writer.

Hays Baker and his wife, Lizbeth, possess superhuman strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do-they''re Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world has to offer. The only problem in their perfect life: humans and their toys! The top operative for the Agency of Change, Hays has just won the fiercest battle of his career. He has been praised by the president and is a national hero. But before he can savor his triumph, he receives an unbelievable shock that overturns everything he thought was true. Suddenly, Hays is on the other side of the gun, forced to leave his perfect family and fight for his life. Now a hunted fugitive, Hays is thrown into an existence he never dreamed possible-fighting to save humans everywhere from extinction. He enlists all of his training to uncover the truth that will save millions of lives-maybe even his own. James Patterson''s Toys is a thriller on a hyperplane-with a hero who rivals both James Bond and Jason Bourne.

Outside San Francisco, a sting of NGI''s--violent sociopaths found not guilty by reason of insanity--have been sent back into society, and, one by one, mysteriously disappeared.... Beautiful psychologist Alison Chapley wants to know why and sets off on a search for answers that lures her and her former lover, medical examiner Carroll Monks, into a menacing and increasingly macabre dance with a brilliant psychopath known only as Naia.... Naia''s perverse and carefully chosen clues--plaster masks, a snuff videotape, a deadly cobra--draw Alison into a psychological seduction she''s powerless to resist. Running out of time, Monks''s only chance to save Alison is to outwit this twisted mastermind in a deranged and deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Late one hot summer night, a beautiful young actress named Eden Hale -- only hours removed from breast-augmentation surgery, and writhing in pain -- stumbles to the telephone and dials 911. Within minutes, an ambulance rushes her to San Francisco''s Mercy Hospital. But by the time she arrives, she is dying, fast, of a mysterious, unrecognizable condition. Dr. Carroll Monks, the ER physician on duty, races to sort through her baffling symptoms in the few minutes he has left to save her. Monks has a sudden insight and, against the advice of his peers, risks a radical treatment, which will prove to be either a brilliant maneuver or a potentially deadly mistake. It fails. Eden Hale, vibrantly healthy and barely twenty-five years old, is dead. The fallout is immediate and intense. The plastic surgeon who operated on Eden -- Dr. D. Welles D''Anton, whose reputation as a surgical guarantor of perfection and agelessness has conferred on him a guru-like status -- blames Monks for her death. Criticism from Monks''s hospital colleagues quickly follows and the threat of a lawsuit is not far behind. Monks''s career is in jeopardy, but his own guilt and uncertainty are what haunt him worst of all. Convinced there''s a hidden cause to Eden''s death, Monks starts to delve into her past. Despite roadblocks that spring up in his path, he soon learns that the former prom queen was not the all-American girl she seemed to be: she was caught up in the world of pornography, and was even, possibly, having an illicit affair with D''Anton. Then Monks uncovers a secret that is far more frightening: other young women in D''Anton''s care have wound up missing, dead, or horribly disfigured. In his search for the truth, Monks is drawn into a culture of unimaginable wealth and vanity -- only to discover that he is being used as a pawn in a decadent game of glamour and cruelty, one that places him in the crosshairs of a deadly psychopath. With To the Bone, Neil McMahon -- described by the Chicago Tribune as "a cross between Raymond Chandler and Thomas Harris" -- provides a heart-pounding journey into a world of murder and vanity gone wild that you won''t soon forget, and demonstrates why he''s been called "an author to remember" and "a writer you''re going to be hearing a lot about."

After a twenty-year absence Renee Callister is back in Helena, Montana, to bury her estranged father. John Callister was a local pariah believed to have had a hand in his wife''s murder when she was protesting the opening of a controversial silver mine. But the discovery of disturbing photographs and one silver earring in her father''s home is causing Renee to reexamine her stepmother''s death in a shocking new light—and sending her to Hugh Davoren for help. A California expatriate, Hugh Davoren makes his living under Montana''s Big Sky, working as a carpenter with his Blackfoot pal Madbird—and he''s always there for a friend. But the truth Renee Callister seeks is buried in dark and dangerous places, and Davoren''s going to make some powerful, unforgiving enemies when he digs too deep.

Inimaginable : depuis quelque temps, le Clevinger Hospital, institut psychiatrique de haute sécurité, est le théâtre d''agissements inquiétants : la remise en liberté soudaine et inexpliquée de sociopathes particulièrement violents. Intimement perturbée par ce sinistre "lâcher de chiens ", la psychologue Alice Chapley décide alors de mener sa propre enquête en faisant appel à une vieille connaissance, le Dr. Carroll Monks, médecin urgentiste. Disparitions inexpliquées, meurtres non élucidés, coups de téléphone anonymes : Chapley et Monks vont rapidement devenir les pions d''un redoutable génie du mal...

In this edgy thriller set on his home turf of Montana, McMahon interweaves the story of family dynasties and an unsolved mystery, all against the backdrop of the beautiful, hard Western landscape.

When Heath Ledger finished reading the script for Brokeback Mountain - a film about a love affair between two American cowboys - he thought of his friend Adam Sutton, and told him, ''I''ve just read this script and it sounds a lot like you.'' He was right: Adam''s own life was reflected in many of the film''s themes. Brokeback Mountain went on to establish itself as a cultural landmark and its impact was felt far beyond the cinema: it was a human story, not a gay story, and audiences of every type responded around the world. Similarly, when Adam Sutton''s story appeared on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald, the response was immediate and extraordinary. ''Meet Heath''s mate, the real gay cowboy,'' the headline ran, and thousands did - setting a five-year sales record for the paper, and prompting the TV programme Australian Story to devote an episode to Adam''s story. By nature Adam was a masculine daredevil who survived on the strength of his boisterous character. He was ''the crazy bastard'' - the maddest, bravest bloke in the room - who had faced tragedy, a prison stint, and five long years on the road that took him from one side of Australia to the other, but who could not face himself. His extraordinary and unlikely journey from the world of cowboys, rodeos and stereotypes, to Hollywood and, finally, to self-acceptance, is a powerful reminder that sometimes truth is even stranger than Hollywood fiction.

San Francisco, Mercy Hospital : un jeune homme victime d''une overdose a été abandonné devant les urgences. De garde cette nuit-là, le Dr Caroll Monks parvient de justesse à lui sauver la vie. Dès son réveil, l''inconnu s''empresse de quitter les lieux. Le lendemain, la presse annonce que Lex Rittenour, un informaticien de génie, créateur du projet REGIS fondé sur le génome humain, a disparu. Face au portrait du jeune prodige, Monks reconnaît son mystérieux patient ... Que dissimule la puissante société Aesir, financière de REGIS ? Les rumeurs de manipulations génétiques qui circulent à son sujet sont-elles fondées ? Enfin, Lex Rittenour est-il toujours vivant ? Décidé à lever le voile sur cette troublante affaire, Monks se lance dans une enquête terrifiante. Il va découvrir à ses dépens qu''Aesir est prête à tout pour protéger ses sombres secrets...

Abducted by the followers of a paramilitary sociopath responsible for a series of bizarre, high-profile murders, Dr. Carroll Monks is ensconced within a backwoods community and forced to care for his captor''s dangerously ill son.

While tending to a drug-overdosed billionaire computer wunderkind in the ER, Dr. Carroll Monks ("Twice Dying") enters into a world of unspeakable genetic testing, corporate cover-ups, and murder.