Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....

This is a novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results. Suspended in a strangely modern day version of limbo, the young man at the center of this morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring...

"A literary spy thriller set in Africa, where an intelligence agent is caught up in a get rich quick scheme"-- Provided by publisher.

Reformed from his days of covert-operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. Janson also takes on independent assignments - for a fee, he'll use his skills to resolve international crises.

The series is about a newly elected pope, the youngest in history and first-ever American, whose audacity, independence and arch-conservatism wreaks havoc within the Vatican.

A loner and cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds a connection with Chinese immigrants. The men collaborate on business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow.

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolinas high society, where old Southern money-and older Southern secrets-meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers. Jerene presides over her familys legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short-circuited, has settled into a comfortable...

“As soon as you complete a description of what a good story must be, a new example flutters through an open window, lands on your sleeve, and proves your description wrong,” writes Anthony Doerr about the task of selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. The year’s best stories are a diverse, addictive group exploring everything from America’s rich rural culture to its online teen culture to the fragile nature of the therapist-client...