Robert R McCammon
1) Gone south
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Gone South contains danger and suspense, but it is primarily the story of a quest. Dan, dogged by depression and Agent Orange-induced leukemia, has accidentally killed a man. On the run, he meets Arden, a disfigured woman abandoned at a truck stop. He reluctantly agrees to help her on her journey to the Louisiana swamps where, she believes, the legendary Bright Girl will heal her. Meanwhile, an unlikely pair of bounty hunters is on Dan's trail: Flint...
2) Boy's life
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Pub. Date
2008.
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In 1964 Cory, an 11-year-old boy, sees a car plunge into a lake some say is bottomless. His father, attempting to save the driver, sees the man handcuffed to the steering wheel with a length of wire. This grisly murder haunts Cory's idyllic hometown in Alabama as he and his father attempt to learn the meaning of life and death.
3) Swan song
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Pub. Date
2009.
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In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity: Sister, who discovers a strange and transformative glass artifact in the destroyed Manhattan streets ... Joshua Hutchins, the pro wrestler who takes refuge from the nuclear fallout at a Nebraska gas station ... and Swan, a young girl possessing...
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Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
God and Satan are at war in fount Royal and even the innocent are not safe. In the end, Matthew follows his head and his heart to unmask the true face of evil, and Rachel finds that her only escape leads halfway to oblivion and back.
5) Mystery walk
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Pub. Date
[1983]
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Two young psychics do battle with an ancient evil Billy Creekmore was born to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe's ancient mysticism, understood that the barrier between life and death is permeable. She knew how to cross it, and used that knowledge to help the dead rest easier. She passed that power on to her son, and he has spent his whole life learning how to communicate with the dead to prevent them from meddling...
6) Mine
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Pub. Date
[1990]
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A mother fights to rescue her newborn from a six-foot-tall madwoman No one knows Mary Terrell's real name. She killed a man during the climax of the Summer of Love, and for two decades she has changed her name and location regularly, always keeping watch over her shoulder for the FBI. She has three passions: LSD, firearms, and children. She visits toy stores a few times a week, picking out a baby doll to take home and treat as a child. The new...
7) Stinger
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Pub. Date
[1988]
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The basis for the Peacock TV series Teacup: An extraterrestrial bounty hunter turns a Southern community into its private hunting ground in “the ultimate horror novel” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
The West Texas desert towns of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. The Snake River isn’t the only thing that divides them. Racism and gang wars have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them now,...
8) Blue world
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Pub. Date
1990
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A novella and twelve stories from a master of supernatural horror Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman's touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon...
9) The border
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2015.
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It is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances...
11) Mister Slaughter
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Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice problem solver for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising--and extremely tempting--offer.
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Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Still haunted by his encounter with Tyranthus Slaughter, Matthew Corbett is forced to confront a figure from his past who is causing explosions in Matthew's neighborhood.