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ROGUE WARRIOR: GREEN TEAM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in a series of thrillers by this former SEAL - "in a field of wanna-bes, Marcinko is the real thing: combat veteran, killer SEAL, specialist in unconventional warfare." (Sean Piccoli, Washington Times.) Frontispiece photograph, glossary, index. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-671-896717.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (line on bottom edge, slight spine slant)
Book ID: 81931More details Price: $14.50 -
ROGUE WARRIOR: DETACHMENT BRAVO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of thrillers by this former SEAL - "in a field of wanna-bes, Marcinko is the real thing: combat veteran, killer SEAL, specialist in unconventional warfare." (Sean Piccoli, Washington Times.) Frontispiece photograph, glossary, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-671-000713.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42977More details Price: $15.00 -
ROGUE WARRIOR II: RED CELL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of a series of thrillers by this former SEAL - "in a field of wanna-bes, Marcinko is the real thing: combat veteran, killer SEAL, specialist in unconventional warfare." (Sean Piccoli, Washington Times.) Frontispiece photograph, glossary, index. 352 pp. ISBN: 0-671-799568.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46849More details Price: $15.00 -
BURNT SIENNA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of international intrigue - Sienna is the beautiful wife of an arms dealer who is preparing to test a biological superweapon. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-446-519642.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53211More details Price: $30.00 -
The Destroyer #46: NEXT OF KIN.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Pinnacle Books, (1981.). First edition - Suspense and action novel, set in the Dutch Caribbean. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-523407203.
Condition: Very good+ (reading crease on front cover, no spine creasing.)
Book ID: 40816More details Price: $9.00 -
MACK BOLAN: FLESH WOUNDS: THE EXECUTIONER #57.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Worldwide, 1983. First edition -. ISBN: 0-373-610572.
Condition: Good condition (spine slant.)
Book ID: 33901More details Price: $10.00 -
MACK BOLAN: CAMBODIA CLASH: THE EXECUTIONER #65.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Worldwide, 1984. First edition -. ISBN: 0-373-610653.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 21112More details Price: $9.00 -
MACK BOLAN: BEIRUT PAYBACK: THE EXECUTIONER #67.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Worldwide, 1984. First edition -. ISBN: 0-373-61067X.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 21114More details Price: $9.00 -
MACK BOLAN: PRAIRIE FIRE: THE EXECUTIONER #68.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Worldwide, 1984. First edition -. ISBN: 0-373-610688.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 21115More details Price: $10.00 -
TYRANNOSAUR CANYON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A treasure hunt in the canyons of New Mexico that turns out to be much more than expected, a thriller that combines cutting-edge science with high adventure. SIGNED on the title page. 365 pp. ISBN: 0-765-311046.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62202More details Price: $25.00 -
BLASPHEMY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2007). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Arizona, where deep in a mountain a super-collider will probe what happened at the very moment of creation - the Big Bang itself - "some call this the greatest scientific discover of all time - others call it blasphemy." SIGNED on the title page. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0765311054.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71990More details Price: $25.00 -
POISON ISLAND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Hardcover first edition - An adventure story for boys which begins in 1813 England. 401 pp. plus 4 pp of advertisements for other books by "Q."
Condition: Very good in mustard cloth with a pasted on map of the Bay of Honduras on the front cover. (lettering on spine rubbed almost completely off, minor rubbing to front cover, binding tight, contents clean.)
Book ID: 36730More details Price: $35.00 -
COLD BARREL ZERO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & Boston: Little Brown, 2016. SIGNED first edition - A military thiller: "An American black Ops team that went too far. John Hayes, a disgraced elite soldier, returns from exile and risks everything to get back to his wife and daughter, and to take revenge on his accusers with a series of escalating attacks inside the United States. Thomas Byrne is the only man who can stop him. Byrne once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government official to help capture the man he once called a friend." SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66370More details Price: $25.00 -
CREATING MADNESS: Introducing O.R.C.A.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Denver: Outskirts Press, (2007.). SIGNED - Terrorists have attacked the harbor of Galveston, Texas, detonating a dirty bomb next to a container ship. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. 299 pp plus an excerpt from the upcoming second book in the O.R.C.A. series. ISBN: 9781432707422.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 42007More details Price: $20.00 -
MINUTE OF SILENCE.
Edition: First printing.
Phoenix, AZ: Integra Press, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Although a novel, this was written by a man with 40 years' experience as a Merchant Seaman, Reiner gives an in-depth expose telescopic view into the United States tanker trade, a picture of the steady degeneration of the US maritime industry since World War II. Boldy INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Dustjacket praise from Ernest Gann, among others. 268 pp. ISBN: 0-9626148-07.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (small stamp inside front cover, spot on bottom edge from pen used by author in signing, short closed edge tear to dj.)
Book ID: 29746More details Price: $20.00 -
LOST CANYON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Akashic Books, (2015). First edition - Uncommon advance issue of this highly praised literate thriller, named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Recommended Books of 2015. A story of survival set in the Sierra Nevada mountains this uses "ravishing descriptions of the magnificent landscape, unrelenting suspense, incisive psychology, and shrewd perspectives on matters of race and gender, [to create] a gripping tale of unintended adventure and profound transformation." (Booklist) Publisher's promotional material laid in. 321 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (slit to bottom of front cover and lower corner of about half of textblock).
Book ID: 83456More details Price: $16.50 -
LOST CANYON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Akashic Books, (2015). Uncommon advance issue of this highly praised literate thriller, named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Recommended Books of 2015. A story of survival set in the Sierra Nevada mountains this uses "ravishing descriptions of the magnificent landscape, unrelenting suspense, incisive psychology, and shrewd perspectives on matters of race and gender, [to create] a gripping tale of unintended adventure and profound transformation." (Booklist) Publisher's promotional material laid in. 321 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83455More details Price: $21.50 -
ULTIMATE WEAPON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York Weinstein Books (2008). First edition - "Published for the first time in the U.S., real-life SAS hero Chris Ryan brings nonstop battle action to this military thriller set in Iraq." 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60762More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CIRCLE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, 1982. First edition - His fourth novel, an international thriller. 419 pp.
Condition: Good only (corners slightly bent, soiling to edges of textblock - but quite a bit less common than the hardcover which had an advertised first printing of 75,000 copies.)
Book ID: 49919More details Price: $10.00 -
PILLARS OF FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An international thriller involving a West German industrial cartel and radical Islam. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "for - - - with best wishes." 371 pp. ISBN: 0-371-689398.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50806More details Price: $28.00 -
PILLARS OF FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An international thriller involving a West German industrial cartel and radical Islam. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-371-689398.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 47241More details Price: $12.50 -
BEQUEST.
Edition: First printing.
London: Headline (Hodder), (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (third book), a thriller set in Moscow: "A Secret Russian File; A Dangerous Legacy, The Chase Begins." SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 346 pp. ISBN: 978-0755356355.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some toning to the edges of the textblock).
Book ID: 79590More details Price: $28.50 -
THE AZTEC ADVENTURE: A Killmaster Spy Chiller (Nick Carter series.)
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Award Books, (1974.). First edition - Award AQ1356. Nick Carter was a house name, and many different writers produced the books in the series; this was one of two "Nick Carter" titles written by Smith early in his career. 204 pp. plus 4 pp of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Very good+ in wrappers - usual toning to the pages, minor wear to the covers, a tight copy.
Book ID: 55607More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS.
Edition: Early printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover - Disillusioned and rudderless, a best-selling author of a book on Africa who fled Rhodesia at the end of the Bush War returns to his African homeland - now the country of Zimbabwe - and becomes caught up in violence and ivory poaching that is killing hundreds of elephants. 423 pp. ISBN: 0-385187378.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 85655More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ASSAULT ON MAVIS A.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller - Mavis A., an immense oil platform fueling all of Britain, is the target of IRA guerillas who have seized the American Enterprise supertanker. As a storm rages, tje tanker is steered powerfully toward the legs of the platform. Map frontispiece. 2 pp of sketches of the oil platform and the tanker. 258 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Peter Cox. ISBN: 0-394501969.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85957More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HIDDEN OASIS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this former field archeologist and journalist - a thriller set in Egypt's Western Desert and revolving around the legendary lost oasis of Zerzura. 507 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-19182.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45337More details Price: $18.00 -
THE APOSTLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria - Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller of international terrorism, featuring ex Navy SEAL turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath. 358 pp. ISBN: 978-146586579.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 78838More details Price: $15.00 -
ACT OR WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller of international terrorism, featuring ex Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-1476717128.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (ink initials on front endpaper, short tear to bottom edge of dj).
Book ID: 78529More details Price: $14.50 -
ACT OR WAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller of international terrorism, featuring ex Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath. 353 pp. ISBN: 978-1476717128.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78528More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ATHENA PROJECT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller of international terrorism. "Tucked away in a remote corner of North Carolinas Fort Bragg, behind rows of razor wire and heavily armed guards, lies the headquarters of the nations most elite counter-terrorism unit - the United States Armys 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta. Here, a brilliant new approach to combating terrorism has just been born. Its codename: The Athena Project." It will recruit, train and deploy female warriorson some of the most exciting and dangerous international assignments the world has ever seen. 322 pp. ISBN: 978-1439192955.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 78527More details Price: $16.50
