From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...

Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town haunted by ghosts of the past.

A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery...In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked...

In the depths of the Knight Hawk, one of the last working collieries in downstate Illinois, the body of a reporter is found, his mini-recorder tied around his neck and a notepad stuffed in his mouth. The Knight Hawk's owner, Matthew Luster, isn't happy. He wants answers -- and he doesn't want the cops or any more press poking into his business. To protect himself and the operation, he turns to Slim, a mine employee with a reputation for "bloodhounding"...

"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...

When money gets tight, Thomas must quit school to work in his aunt and uncle's coal mines. His only comfort is Finder, a former hunting dog who now pulls carts in the mines. Boy and dog both dream of a day when they will get out on the surface with better jobs. A disaster traps Thomas and Finder underground, and they will have to rely on each other to live.

In 1957, problems at the mine threaten to ruin Christmas for fifth-grader Don, his family, and the rest of their Oklahoma coal town, but Don's bloodhound, Frank, is determined to do whatever it takes to make the holiday special for Don and his six-year-old sister, Susan. Alternate chapters are told from the human and canine points of view.

In "Wild and Wonderful," journalist and photographer Glenna Reynolds joins forces with a businessman to save her father's coal mine from being shut down by the government, and in "Beware of the Stranger," a gossip columnist must hide her true identity from an investigative reporter.

"1902. Isaac Bell lleva un par de años en la agencia de detectives Van Dorn cuando le encargan su primer trabajo en solitario. Debe investigar diversos actos de sabotaje cometidos por supuestos activistas radicales en las minas de carbón de Virginia Occidental. Pero, al presenciar un terrible accidente, Bell empieza a pensar que los responsables de la tragedia son provocadores profesionales a sueldo. Simples ejecutores de un plan deliberado en...