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The Judas Strain
Part #4 of "Sigma Force" series by James Rollins
Mystery & Thrillers / Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction
"ju-das strain, n. A scientific term for an organism that drives an entire species to extinction" A master at combining historical and scientific intrigue with cutting-edge adventure, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Map of Bones" and "Black Order" James Rollins returns with his most relentless, high-octane thriller to date--a terrifying story of an ancient menace reborn to plague the modern world . . . and of an impossible hope that lies hidden in the most shocking place imaginable: "within the language of angels. " From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind--a disease that's unknown, unstoppable . . . and deadly. But it is merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis--operatives of the shadowy covert organization SIGMA Force--search for answers to the bizarre affliction that has inexplicably washed ashore. But there are others with far less altruistic intentions. In a savage and sudden coup, terrorists hijack the vessel, turning a mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab. At a Fourth of July celebration a world away, SIGMA's commander Gray Pierce thwarts the murderous schemes of a beautiful assassin--a would-be killer who holds the first clue to the discovery of a possible cure. With the fate of every man, woman, and child on Earth hanging in the balance, Pierce joins forces with the woman who wanted him dead, and together they embark upon an astonishing quest--one that winds through Venetian tombs, Byzantine cathedrals, and jungle-encrusted ruins--following the trail of the most fabled explorer in history: "Marco Polo. " But time is an enemy as a worldwide pandemic grows rapidly out of control. And as a relentless madman dogs their every step, Pierce and his unlikely ally are being pulled into an astonishing mystery buried deep in antiquity and in humanity's genetic code. And as the seconds tick closer to doomsday, Pierce will realize he can truly trust no one--not the bewitching enigma who runs at his side or even those who are closest to him--for any one of them could be . . . "a Judas. "
The Gospel According to Judas by Benjamin Iscariot
Jeffrey Archer
Mystery & Thrillers
"The very name of 'Judas' raises among Christians an instinctive reaction of criticism and condemnation…The betrayal of Judas remains…a mystery."
--Pope Benedict XVI, October 2006
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The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot sheds new light on the the mystery of Judas--including his motives for the betrayal and what happened to him after the crucifixion--by retelling the story of Jesus through the eyes of Judas, using the canonical texts as its basic point of reference. Ostensibly written by Judas's son, Benjamin, and following the narrative style of the Gospels, this re-creation is provocative, compelling, and controversial.
The Gospel According to Judas, by Benjamin Iscariot is the result of an intense collaboration between a storyteller and a scholar: Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney. Their brilliant work--bold and simple--is a compelling story for twenty-first-century readers, while maintaining an authenticity that would be credible to a first-century Christian or Jew.
Kiss Me, Judas
Will Christopher Baer
Fiction / Mystery
Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney.
Dragging himself from a hospital bed, Phineas discovers he wants to be with Jude like a hunger -- and he wants to find her and kill her. Falling for her is the start of a twisted love story that takes him from the snowy streets of Denver to the high plains of Texas where the boundaries between torturer and victim, killer and accomplice, become nightmarishly distorted.
The Judas Valley
Randall Garrett
Science Fiction & Fantasy
The Judas Valley By Randall Garrett, Robert Silverberg
The Judas Solution
Timothy Zahn
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Damon Lathe, Allen Caine, and the Blackcollar drug-enhanced combat team want to infiltrate a Ryqril-conquered colony, a tactical center where the whole sector's military data flows through against the Chryselli. But Ryqruil Prefect Jamus Galway of Plinry has a clone duplicate of Allen ready.
The Judas Tree
A. J. Cronin
Nonfiction / Literature & Fiction
In a story of wide and fascinating detail A. J. Cronin tells of Dr. David Morey who tries to atone for his desertion of the woman he loved.
Beguiled by the prospect of riches he goes on to marry Dottie, a spoiled but beautiful neurotic who brings him almost constant misery, until a chance remark makes him seek retribution in memories of the past and a return to his native Scotland.
In the magnificent narrative tradition of "The Citadel," "The Stars Look Down" and Cronin's other classic novels, "The Judas Tree" is a great book by a much-loved author.
Legacy of Judas - Book One
Christian Aragon
Victoria Nyles was born with the knowledge of the Devil at her fingertips, and the Devil wants it back. As she matures through life Victoria must wrestle with the prospect of having this knowledge while trying to protect herself and her loved ones from the dangers of the Devil chasing her down.
Victoria is joined by a group of souls who are more or less the keepers of the knowledge and who are bound to follow the possessor of this dark compendium. As they share with Victoria the secrets of Hell itself, they also become her secret companions and confidantes.
Through living with the knowledge of the Devil, and exploring the information at her disposal, Victoria learns that Hell is more painful than any previous description, and the Devil is darker than any could've imagined.
While taking the steps necessary to fortify herself against Malus, the current ruler of Hell, Victoria finds there's a greater scenario being played out to the interest of far more than Victoria can currently comprehend.
Legacy of Judas is a graphic, bloody, sexual, theological horror story, which is NOT meant for younger readers or those with fragile constitutions.
The Judas Case
Nicholas Graham
Yehuda from Kerioth was the most able undercover agent that the Temple guard ever produced.After eighteen months of meticulous preparation infiltrating the entourage of a Galilean holy man and would-be king of Israel, Yeshua from Nazareth, he came to Jerusalem at Passover and pulled off his greatest coup. Two days later he was dead. What went wrong?Retired spymaster Solomon Eliades is called back from his vineyard to investigate the death of his protegee. But secrets from his own past – and the search for an inconveniently missing body – put him and his family in danger...|Yehuda from Kerioth was the most able undercover agent that the Temple guard ever produced.After eighteen months of meticulous preparation infiltrating the entourage of a Galilean holy man and would-be king of Israel, Yeshua from Nazareth, he came to Jerusalem at Passover and pulled off his greatest coup. Two days later he was dead. What went wrong?Retired...
Judas
Peter Stanford
In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Stanford explores two thousand years of cultural and theological history to investigate how the very name Judas came to be synonymous with betrayal and, ultimately, human evil. But as the author points out, there has long been a counter-current of thought that suggests that Judas might in fact have been victim of a terrible injustice: central to Jesus' mission was his death and resurrection, and for there to have been a death, there had to be a betrayal. This thankless role fell to Judas; should we in fact be grateful to him for his role in the divine drama of salvation? "You'll have to decide," as Bob Dylan sang in the sixties, "Whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side." An essential but doomed character in the Passion narrative, and thus the entire story of...
The Judas Blossom
Stephen Aryan
An imaginative and sprawling epic fantasy reimagining of the Mongol Empire's invasion of Persia, following the lives and treacherous journeys of four key figures in the heart of war.1260, Persia: Due to the efforts of the great Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire covers a vast portion of the known world. In the shadow of his grandfather, Hulagu Khan, ruler of the Ilkhanate, is determined to create a single empire that covers the entire world. His method? Violence. His youngest son, Temujin Khan, struggles to find his place in his father’s bloody rule. After another failure, Temujin is given one last chance to prove himself to Hulagu, who is sure there is a great warrior buried deep inside. But there’s something else rippling under the surface… something far more powerful and dangerous than they could ever imagine… Reduced to the position of one of Hulagu’s many wives, the famed Blue Princess Kokochin is the last of...
Jackson 03 - Judas Kiss
Part #3 of "Taylor Jackson" series by Ellison, JT
Sex, lies and videotape.It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's bludgeoned body. Pretty young Corinne Wolff, seven months pregnant, brutally murdered in her own home.Cameras and questions don't usually phase Nashville Homicide Lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but the media frenzy surrounding the Wolff case is particularly nasty...and thorough. When the seemingly model mommy is linked to an amateur porn website with underage actresses and unwitting players, the sharks begin to circle. The shock is magnified when an old adversary uses the sexy secret footage to implicate Taylor in a murder--an accusation that threatens her career, her reputation and her relationship. Both cases hinge on the evidence--real or manufactured--of crimes that go beyond passion, into the realm of obsessive vengeance and shocking betrayal. Just what the networks love.
Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic
Katherine Anne Porter
Literature & Fiction
The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”
The Judas Goat
les;lie Edgley
Epub (my conversion)
California
fraudulence, in which Dix Latham, the mouth for Psychonamics, Inc.- a packaged
therapy, is also the frame in the murder of a junior Psychonamic, attends his
own funeral and witnesses the burial of the wrong man, and investigates an
interlocking crime which will send another innocent to the chair. With little
evidence, and little time, Latham is the Judas goat that provokes the wolves to
slaughter, confronts and convicts two killers simultaneously...Hollywood hypo.
Judas Horse
Lynda La Plante
Mystery & Thrillers
Not all killers can be tamed... The thrilling second book in the Sunday Times bestselling Detective Jack Warr crime series. Wild mustangs are difficult to rope, their lead stallion wary and protective of his herd. To capture that special stallion takes time. He is separated, roped, and lead back to the ranch. Once tamed, he is sent back into the wild. And before long, he will lead the entire herd back to the ranch. He is given the name 'Judas Horse'. When Detective Jack Warr identifies an informer, the terrified man begins to give details of a massive robbery planned by a team of unscrupulous and dangerous men. These men have already orchestrated many audacious robberies, leaving terrified victims in their wake. And they have already killed to get what they want. Detective Jack Warr and his team must use their informant as a 'Judas Horse' to draw in the unsuspecting robbers, so that they go ahead with the planned robbery. However, one false move, and more blood will be spilled...
Judas Unchained
Peter F. Hamilton
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy.
The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare. Coexistence is impossible with the technologically advanced aliens, who are genetically hardwired to exterminate all other forms of life. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties in the hundreds of millions. And no one knows when or where the genocidal Prime will strike next.
Nor are the Prime the only threat. For more than a hundred years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control abilities impossible to detect or resist -- the Starflyer -- has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their leader, Bradley Johansson, have been hunted by relentless investigator Paula Myo. But now evidence suggests that the Guardians were right all along, and that the Starflyer has placed agents in vital posts throughout the Commonwealth -- agents who are now sabotaging the war effort.
Is the Starflyer an ally of the Prime, or has it orchestrated a fight to the death between the two species for its own advantage? Caught between two deadly enemies, one a brutal invader striking from without, the other a remorseless cancer killing from within, the fractious Commonwealth must unite as never before...
The Judas Effect: Book #1 Son of a Baron
Joe C Combs 2nd
A young wealthy German playboy finds himself betrayed by family and friends alike. Broke and with no place to turn, he finds himself in the service of the Kaiser as a spy for Germany at one of the most dangerous times in history for a German spy. What will become of this young playboy? Will he survive to old age or pay the price with his life? Only time will tell. A Victorian age story.A young Victorian German aristocrat, Erik, the black sheep of the family, is disowned by his family. Erik finds himself broke, without family, and with few friends. Lost and looking for a place to belong (and an income), Erik finds himself in the service of the Kaiser. At a time of colonial wars with "The War to End All Wars" looming in the future, Erik becomes a spy at a very dangerous time in his country's history. What will become of this young playboy? Will he live long enough to see his thirtieth birthday? Will he spend most of his life rotting in a jail cell on espionage charges? Or, will he be brave enough and lucky enough to survive and die an old man in obscurity? Only time will tell. The story is set at the end of the 19th century.
The Road Through San Judas
Robert Fraga
Perched on a dry desert mesa, San Judas is a home of last resort for landless peasants who build makeshift homes and a vibrant community on “worthless” land that no one else wants. Or so it seems. Until suddenly, and tragically, everyone wants it for their own. The Road Through San Judas chronicles from the inside the colorful characters struggling to save their village from NAFTA regulations, local Juárez developers, terrifying drug cartels, violent cholo gangs, and corrupt politicians on both sides of the border. All those interested in the culture and contradictions of modern Mexico—including activists involved in struggles for land, democracy, and justice under international capitalism—will delight in this novel’s revolutionary humor and compassion.
Maid of Heaven
Part #3 of "Judas Reflections" series by Aiden James
Praise for Aiden James:
"Aiden James is a master storyteller... Out-freaking-standing-excellent!" ~Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews for Plague of Coins
"We are watching a master at work." ~J.R. Rain, Bestselling Author of the Vampire for Hire series
About Maid of Heaven:
The year 1429, in the region of Orleans France, sets the stage for the emergence in history of one very brave girl: Joan of Arc.
It also marks a key moment in the evolution of one of the most reviled men to ever walk the earth. Emmanuel Ortiz - better known as the immortal Judas Iscariot - may not understand why he is drawn to serve Joan and her desire to free France from the specter of English tyranny. However, he is compulsively drawn to her unusual mixture of innocence and grit to the point her noble cause becomes his own.
But with any adventure involving Judas, this one comes with danger and heartache - as great as any he has endured during the past fifteen-hundred-years walking the earth. Fortunately, Roderick Cooley is also along for the ride, ready to rescue his long time friend when trouble is found. In the case of Joan of Arc, enemies and potential pitfalls abound.
The arrival of a long time enemy hell-bent on making sure Judas/Emmanuel never finds lasting peace or love spurs Joan and her immortal companion to make difficult choices that could forever alter the course of history. Can the struggle between an accursed disciple seeking to better understand the will of God Almighty and the anointed teenage girl given to visions she cannot turn away from be happily resolved?
... Or, must Joan forego all of her personal desires in order to save France from falling into oblivion?
These questions and more are waiting to be answered in Maid of Heaven.
Judas 62
Judas 62 (retail) (epub)
"JUDAS 62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy thriller"—The Times Books of the YearThirty years after a deadly attempt to extract a Russian scientist to safety in Ukraine, master spy Lachlan Kite eludes an assassin in the streets of DubaiAfter a lifetime working with BOX 88, the transatlantic counterintelligence agency so covert that not even the CIA knows of its existence, master spy Lachlan Kite has made plenty of enemies. And now, as the director of the outfit's operations in the UK, one of those past enemies has him in their sights...1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia, a spy in the guise of a language teacher. Embedded in the town of Voronezh, Kite's mission is to extract a chemical weapons scientist before the man's groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands and shuttle him across the border to freedom in Ukraine. But Kite's mission soon goes wrong and...
The Deadly Judas
Mara Kalyn
The Tori Carlin Mysteries, series starter.Never in her wildest nightmares did Tori Carlin ever imagine she could get into this much hot water.She's ambivalent about her new job, but the boss, Reverend Andrew McAdam, is pleasant enough, and anyway, it's only temporary. Two days later she finds the priest's lifeless, battered body in his office. While she struggles to make sense of events that make no sense, she antagonizes the case detectives Sasha Hamel and Theo Vincent. Sasha's stern warnings to stay out of the case are ignored by his aunt as she fixates on finding the priest's killer. Meanwhile, Theo Vincent, Sasha's senior partner, is not immune to Tori's charms. Mutual attraction flares again, complicating matters as she tries to stay one step ahead of the killer.
The Judas Cypher
Greg Dragon
Science Fiction / Thriller / Crime
When machine murders man, one detective is the world's only hope of preventing an all-out-war... Dhata Mays has become used to living on the fringes. Unlike most of humanity, the detective treats the synth population with the respect they deserve. But when a gruesome murder points to a synth as the perpetrator, Dhata must do everything in his power to discover an explanation before the case goes public. In a race against time, Dhata discovers a scheme involving cypher hackers, synth prostitutes, and a pair of rival gang bosses that could tear the city apart. When the case puts his loved ones in harm's way, the investigation becomes personal. For Dhata to keep the uneasy peace, he'll have to track down the murderers himself, but no one said he had to take them alive.
Judas
Amos Oz
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
Judas Flowering
Jane Aiken Hodge
Historical Fiction / Literature & Fiction
Set against the background of war-torn Savannah during the Revolution, this enchanting novel unfolds the sags of a family divided – and a beautiful heroine, Mercy Phillips, caught desperately between the passions of Rebel and Tory.Mercy Phillips was a penniless English orphan when Hart Purchis, wealthy young heir to the Winchelsea Plantation rescued her from the mob.Hart did not know it then, but Mercy was to play a part in his life that would shape not only the future of Winchelsea but the whole American Revolution itself.
Judas the Apostle
Van R. Mayhall
Ancient language expert Dr. Clotile Lejeune is happily living a quiet life in Seattle when her world is profoundly shaken. After she learns that her estranged father has been murdered, Cloe must travel with her son, J. E., back to her Louisiana hometown to unlock the mysteries of a two-thousand-year-old oil jar her father has left in her care—a jar inscribed with the name Judas Iscariot. Anxious to find her father's killer and dispel her own personal demons, Cloe has no idea that what she is about to uncover has the potential to set the international religious community on fire.With the help of a mysterious cleric, her son, and a letter from her father, Cloe soon realizes the African oil jar her father picked up during the war may be the most important relic discovered in centuries. But it is only the beginning. Across the globe, a billionaire arms merchant is leaving a trail of bodies in his wake in his pursuit of the jar and its contents.In this religious...
The Judas Code
Derek Lambert
A classic World War II novel from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert. In neutral Lisbon, British Intelligence have concocted a ruthless doublecross to lure Russia and Germany into a hellish war of attrition on the Eastern Front and so buy Britain the most precious commodity of all: time. That plot now hinges on one man: Josef Hoffman, a humble Red cross worker. But who is Hoffman? And where do his loyalties really lie?
Judas
Amos Oz
Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction
Winner of the International Literature Prize, the new novel by Amos Oz is his first full-length work since the best-selling A Tale of Love and Darkness. Jerusalem, 1959. Shmuel Ash, a biblical scholar, is adrift in his young life when he finds work as a caregiver for a brilliant but cantankerous old man named Gershom Wald. There is, however, a third, mysterious presence in his new home. Atalia Abarbanel, the daughter of a deceased Zionist leader, a beautiful woman in her forties, entrances young Shmuel even as she keeps him at a distance. Piece by piece, the old Jerusalem stone house, haunted by tragic history and now home to the three misfits and their intricate relationship, reveals its secrets. At once an exquisite love story and coming-of-age novel, an allegory for the state of Israel and for the biblical tale from which it draws its title, Judas is Amos Oz's most powerful novel in decades.
Murder in Whitechapel (The Judas Reflections)
Aiden James
Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
Emmanuel Ortiz holds an ancient and dark secret…His real name is Judas Iscariot.Forced to walk the earth as a cursed immortal, Judas’ disguise as Emmanuel does little to ease his eternal loneliness. Having recovered nine of his thirty blood coins, his focus is not yet on redemption for his treacherous role in the betrayal of Jesus Christ. Distractions come easily for the rich entrepreneur and sometimes sleuth who presently resides in England, 1888. Fascinated by the spate of murders in London’s poverty stricken Whitechapel, Emmanuel soon realizes the killings resemble others he is familiar with, and the bloody signature of killing and taunts speaks to the unholy talents of yet another immortal…an enemy from long ago.This knowledge fuels his determination to track and apprehend the infamous Jack the Ripper at any cost.With the backdrop of a Victorian Society, rigid and moralistic, along with the plight of those less fortunate, Emmanuel seeks to align himself with Scotland Yard. With the help of his immortal pal, Roderick Cooley, and by pretending to be an American private investigator interested in the horrific prostitute killings, he sets out to stop the senseless bloodshed. But, has he bitten off more than he can chew, by immersing himself in the slums and disease of the Ripper’s hunting grounds? As the mystery unfolds it becomes the ultimate test…not only of his abilities as an immortal, but also of his very soul.
Judas Horse ag-3
Part #3 of "Ana Grey" series by April Smith
Historical Fiction / Mystery / Thriller
Starred Review. At the start of Smith's superb third thriller to feature Ana Grey (after 2003's Good Morning, Killer), the FBI special agent, who's still recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder after shooting a crazed detective on a suicide mission seven months earlier, learns that the skeletal remains of her missing onetime fiancé, fellow special agent Steve Crawford, have turned up in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Ana later finds out Steve was murdered by members of an anarchist group with a penchant for homemade bombs. After training at the FBI's undercover school, Ana uses an alias to penetrate the group, which includes a former FBI agent gone bad, Dan Stone. As Allfather Stone plots a terrorist act he calls the Big One, Ana must burrow through layers of paranoia to discover the precise threat the FBI is dealing with. Ana's nuanced and coolly observational narrative voice perfectly complements the well-paced action, which builds to a satisfying conclusion that leaves open the next chapter of Ana's story.
2 The Judas Kiss
Part #2 of "The Judas Curse" series by Angella Graff
Religion / Mystery / Young Adult
The Judas Goat
Part #6 of "Breed" series by James A. Muir
IF YOU WANT ANOTHER NAME FOR VIOLENT DEATH - TRY BREED...Breed-that was what they called him down along the Border. He had other names: Azul ... Matthew Gunn - they all spelled Death!The man who hired him to take a coffin and a woman south into Mexico forgot that. Forgot that Breed had no time for liars. And his own savage way of settling debts: with a gun. He forgo too, that Breed didn't forgive wrongs done to him. He was the kind of man who came back to pay the score. No matter who or what stood in his way. And a coffin loaded with stolen money was an open invitation to trouble-the kind that followed Breed like mourners at a funeral. Or vultures circling above a corpse.THE JUDAS GOAT is the sixth in the blood-drenched Western series about the adventures of Breed
The Judas Valley
Gerald Vance
Science Fiction
Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough! FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem
Judas Country
Gavin Lyall
Roy Case,ex-Royal Air Force, makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Mediterranean in an old Beechcraft Queen Air. His dreams of having his own plane and charter company rapidly fading due to age and lack of money. However, conditions begin spiral out of control when he lands in Cyprus. Not only did his employers go bankrupt, leaving him stranded and without pay, but his plane is impounded, he is mugged by mysterious assailants on a dark back street, and is trailed by an Israeli Mossad agent. When he finds that the cases clearly marked "champagne" that he was supposed to be flying to Lebanon contain machine guns instead, he suspects that things are going to get a lot worse.When Case's friend Cavitt shows up, fresh from an Israeli prison, together with a mysterious Austrian archaeologist and his even more mysterious daughter, the plot thickens with hidden Crusader treasure, Lebanese gangsters, betrayal and murder.
The Judas Tree
Matt Braun
Some men were digging for gold. Some men were digging graves. And someone was getting away with murder... You went through a rugged paradise to reach Virginia City, Montana. Then you came to hell: a ramshackle town where fifty-six men have been killed, dozens of stagecoaches have been robbed, and a fanatical vigilante leader is threatening to blow the town sky-high. In Denver, Luke Starbuck was hired to stop the epidemic. But when he gets to Virginia City, he finds a tough sheriff already hanging outlaws as fast as he can, a mystery swirling around a young woman's murder, and a whole lot of people with blood on their hands. Working undercover with the help of a beautiful stage star, Starbuck soon discovers that the chaos of Virginia City is really a well-oiled and murderous crime machine. To take it apart, the West's most legendary detective has to find the Judas lurking behind every violent crime-and then he has to kill him...
The Judas Scar
Amanda Jennings
Thriller / Mystery / Fiction
Scars. We all carry them. Some are mere scratches. Others run deeper.
At a school rife with bullying, Will and his best friend Luke are involved in a horrific incident that results in Luke leaving.
Twenty-five years later their paths cross again and memories of Will's painful childhood come flooding back to haunt him. His wife, Harmony, who is struggling after a miscarriage that has hit her hard, wishes Will would open up about his experiences. But while Will withdraws further, she finds herself drawn to the charismatic stranger from her husband s past, and soon all three are caught in a tangled web of guilt, desire, betrayal.
Judas Goat
Greg F. Gifune
Who is the Judas Goat?
It had been twenty years since Lenny Cates had seen or heard from his
old college flame Sheena. Theirs had been a brief and tumultuous
relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has
died in a freak accident and has left her entire estate to him, he
feels compelled to investigate the last days leading to her untimely
death. As Lenny arrives in town to settle her affairs, he begins to dig
deeper into Sheena’s life and learns her final days were cast in
shadows of loneliness, depression and experiments in black magic. Soon,
Lenny will discover that Sheena’s death has awakened something
insatiably demonic and old as mankind, something lying in wait and
growing stronger in a quiet little town where the horrors of the past
never truly die, pain is eternal, and nothing is as it seems.
Look closer...sometimes evil hides in plain sight.
Flowering Judas
Jane Haddam
"Haddam manages to produce each time a layered, richly peopled, and dryly witty book with a plot of mind-bending complexity." --Houston Chronicle on Glass Houses Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive--paying for a billboard overlooking the local community college, putting up new flyers every week, hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Her determination has made his disappearance very high profile but it's also been damaging to her family, her children and to herself. Now, Chester's body is finally found--hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent--meaning that Chester had been alive, somewhere, until very recently. Under pressure and with limited resources, the local police turn to...
The Judas Window shm-8
Part #8 of "Sir Henry Merrivale" series by John Dickson Carr
The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr (writing as Carter Dickson).
One of the five best locked room mysteries, as selected by 14 established mystery authors and critics (All But Impossible!, 1981. ed. E. Hoch).
The Case: Avory Hume is found dead with an arrow through his heart—in a study with bolted steel shutters and a heavy door LOCKED FROM THE INSIDE. In the same room James Caplon Answell lies unconscious, his clothes disordered as though from a struggle.
The Attorney for the Defense: That gruff and grumbling old sleuth, Sir Henry Merrivale, who proves himself superb in court—even though his gown does tear with a rending noise as he rises majestically to open the case.
The Action: Before H.M. can begin his defense, Answell, his client, rises and cries out that he is guilty. Sir Henry doesn't believe it. But proof, circumstantial evidence, and the man's own confession point to his guilt. So the great, explosive detective gets down to serious sleuthing and at last startles the crowd in the Old Bailey with a reconstruction of the crime along logical, convincing lines.
Curse of Stigmata (The Judas Reflections)
Aiden James
Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
In this second serving of The Judas Reflections, the immortal Judas Iscariot (known by his alias of Emmanuel Ortiz) is hot on the trail of two precious coins believed to be part of the bounty once paid to him for betraying Jesus Christ. The coins are rumored to be in the possession of a Pyrenean mountain Shepherd, who’s beautiful, but disturbed daughter, Rachel is purported to be something even more rare than a Judas blood coin: a genuine stigmatic. It turns out to be a deadly combination for Emmanuel. With blood on his hands and a failed mission to retrieve what is rightfully his, finding his second coin becomes a race against time.What once looked like a quick journey to hasten his soul’s redemption turns into a tense series of events. Traveling thousands of miles across the world’s grand open waters with fellow immortal, Juan Garcia de Moguer, the captivating Rachel, and a ruthless Dutch pirate/slave trader named Captain Dirk Chivers teaches Emmanuel an important lesson about himself.How far is he willing to go to get what he wants?
His Judas Bride
Shehanne Moore
To love, honor, and
betray...
To get back her son,
she will stop at nothing…
For five years Kara McGurkie has preferred to forget she’s a
woman. So it’s no problem for her to swear to love and honor the man who
wronged her, and destroy his clan, if it means getting back the son she lost. But
when dire circumstances force her to seduce her fiancé’s brother on the eve of
the wedding, will the dark secrets she holds be enough to save her from his
powerful allure?
To save his people,
neither will he…
Callm McDunnagh, the Black Wolf of Lochalpin, ruthlessly
guards heart and glen from dangerous intruders. But from the moment he first
sees Kara he knows he must possess her, even though she may be his most dangerous
intruder of all...
The Judas Rose
Suzette Haden Elgin
An instant cult classic, and groundbreaking forerunner to Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale. Native Tongue Trilogy revealed to its audiences a frightening future world where the women of Earth are once again property.In Volume II of the trilogy, the women have at last decided to spread the language using the Roman Catholic church. But when a handful of priests discover the plot, they move to stamp it out with their own female agent, Sister Miriam Rose. But Sister Miriam has plans of her own. . . .
Judas Cat
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Praised by the New Yorker as excellent, this mystery novel that features a cat as a murder suspect launched the acclaimed literary career of Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury DavisFor generations, bitter old Andy Mattson terrified the children of Hillside and puzzled his adult neighbors. How did the scowling old codger, who seemed to spend his life stroking his cat on the front porch, support himself? How did he pass the days? And why did he die such a gruesome death?The police find Andy dead on his sofa, covered in blood, eyes wide with fear. The most likely suspect is the dead man's cat, a howling beast that resembles a trapped badger. But as Chief of Police Waterman digs into the strange death, he finds that beneath Hillside's sunny surface runs a river of hate. An old man was murdered, and it seems many people in town had motives to commit the crime.
The Judas Strain sf-4
Part #4 of "Sigma Force" series by James Rollins
Mystery & Thrillers / Literature & Fiction / Science Fiction
Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating bio-weapons lab.
The Judas Tree
A. J. Cronin
Nonfiction / Literature & Fiction
In a story of wide and fascinating detail A. J. Cronin tells of Dr. David Morey who tries to atone for his desertion of the woman he loved. Beguiled by the prospect of riches he goes on to marry Dottie, a spoiled but beautiful neurotic who brings him almost constant misery, until a chance remark makes him seek retribution in memories of the past and a return to his native Scotland. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin's other classic novels, The Judas Tree is a great book by a much-loved author.
The Judas Boy
Simon Raven
Fielding Gray, his face and mind scarred by a Cyprus terrorist's bomb, is sent back to the scene of his disaster to prepare a television feature on the liberated islanders. On the way he twice narrowly escapes violent death. Not even the lustfully inventive Angela Tuck can take his mind off the fact that someone is anxious to eliminate him before he digs too deeply into a squalid and explosive political scandal, but he refuses to be dissuaded - until he meets Nicos, golden-bodied young Greek bearing tempting gifts which Fielding has never been able to refuse ...
Judas Unchained cs-2
Part #2 of "Commonwealth Saga" series by Peter F. Hamilton
Science Fiction & Fantasy
JUDAS UNCHAINED
Judas
Part #1 of "Jerusalem Mystery" series by Frederick Ramsay
Questions about JUDAS ISCARIOT tantalized scholars, clergy, and laypersons. Why did he betray JESUS, then no more than an obscure itinerant rabbi? Why did Jesus select him to be one of his closest and most trusted associates in the first place? Jesus claimed a special relationship with God. Should he not have anticipated his betrayal? Is it possible, then, that the two were co-conspirators in Jesus martyrdom? Unlike the many recent "Gospels of Judas" which appeared after the release of the National Geographic special, this book tells a plausible and compelling story-a story of a boy turned man but whose loyalty will be compromised by zealotry on the one hand and vanity on the other. The child Judas, the illegitimate offspring of a Jewish woman and a Roman soldier, struggles to understand his mother's god, a god who allows terrible things to happen to him and his family. Despairing, he abandons any hope of ever finding that god and becomes a survivor in the brutal streets that characterized the Roman Empire in the first century. Later, as a young man determined to avenge the wrongs committed against his mother and sister, he returns to the land of his birth hoping to join the rebels led by Barabbas, only to be betrayed by them as well. Beaten and broken he is brought to the community of Zealots at Qumran and eventually to the one forming around Rabbi Jesus. During this journey he discovers God and is baptized into messianic anticipation. His enthusiasm for revolution lead him to out-guess God. He proceeds down a path that will result in a difficult, and for him and others, fateful choice. In the end, faced with the consequences of that decision, friendless and without his master, he retreats to the outskirts of Jerusalem there to bring an end to his journey, perhaps to start another. Audience: Readers of religious fiction, historical fiction-believers and non-believers alike. Iscariot will appeal to all segments of society. It is primarily an unraveling of a mystery, not an espousal of a particular theological or religious point of view.
The Judas Spy
Part #33 of "Killmaster" series by Nick Carter
Nonfiction / Biography / Music
MR JUDAS — master spy for hire by anyone, this time by Red China; a man of incredible cruelty and savagery, torturing people at whim, killing them for sport.
NICK CARTER — America's top operative, the dreaded agent N3; tougher, faster, deadlier than any man, except perhaps Mr. Judas, his oldest enemy.
The prize they fought for was the free world and the fate of millions of lives. Their arena of violence — Indonesia, torn apart by savage rebellions and war.
Judas was depending on his usual ugly crew: Nife, the man child who killed on command… Geitsch, who cared only for the huge bounty the job would bring… Muller, the ex-Nazi, whose preference ran to young boys. Nick Carter had Tala, the exotic Indonesian assigned to help N3. Tala — too beautiful to resist and too dangerous to trust!
Judas Strike
James Axler
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics / Thriller
FOREVER GONEA nuclear endgame played out among the superpowers created a fiery cataclysm that turned America into a treacherous new frontier. But an intrepid group of warrior survivalists roams the wastelands, unlocking the secrets of a pre-dark world. Ryan Cawdor and his band have become living legends in a world of madness and death where savagery reigns, but the human spirit endures
.DEATH SEASThe South Pacific is a rad-blasted paradise, inhabited by giant mutated crustaceans and savage cannibals. The local baron rules the Marshall Islands with a despotic iron fist and a secret formula for making Deathland's gold: gunpowder. But his true invincibility lies in his possession of stockpiles of pre-dark rapid-fire missiles and a fleet of functional PT boats. Ryan Cawdor and his companions have faced off against the baron and survived. But this time there's only one way out of these death seas—through the sec-men-infested waters of the baron's kingdom. Imagine your worst nightmare. This is Deathlands.
Judas Bane
Hera August
They say seven is a lucky number. But seven is when it felt like Hell had become my world. The horrors inflicted on me, the things I saw... everything inside of me died that day.I inherited billions; I don't need anyone, except random girls to keep me satiated. I live as though each day is my last. I pummel men half-to-death in illegal underground bare-knuckle fights—just for sport. But really, it's the killing I live for. It's the only way I can drown out her screams... I'm rotten to the core. Now I've been sent on an assignment. Someone's been stealing from us. These are the moments I come alive. Payback. Torture.But I never saw this coming...The mission went to hell. I've been shot, and now I'm lying on Death's door. And then she walks in... Belle Dela Cruz. Angel-like, innocent, and pure. Everything. I. Hate. Or so I thought... I don't want it. Don't wanna find the right and good in the darkness that consumes every beat of my heart. I fight it, try to break her, but somehow, somehow she seeps into my soul. She can't be real. She draws me in like a black hole pulling me asunder, and my whole world becomes her. It suffocates me. I can only live and breathe... her.It's so intense, it feels like dying all over again.Yeah, luck's never been on my side. Belle, my redemption, my downfall, stands in the goddamn firing-line of my target... her father. The dark oblivion I thrive in—is now my curse. So I want what I can't have. That doesn't sit well with me. There's only one thing to do… kidnap her. Lock her up in my mansion. Leave her in pieces, like she did me. She's unwilling, fights me every step of the way. But I know she wants me. I know she will be my end. I know I'm entering a world of hurt. But she's worth the fight. I want her. And nothing will stop me from getting what I want. I'll do anything for her. I'd die for her.And Belle may look like one, but she's no angel. She's hiding a secret of her own. It's dark enough to rip my heart right out. The nightmare has only just begun.Forgive me, Belle. I'll only drag you to Hell.
The Judas Sheep
Stuart Pawson
Synopsis:Detective Inspector Charlie Priest of the East Pennine force is officially on sick leave, but this brief break from work comes to an abrupt end when Mrs. Marina Norris's chauffeur is found dead from unnatural causes - namely a blast to the head from a Kalashnikov. Her husband, an American tobacco tycoon, is distinctly unfazed. Meanwhile, big-time drug smugglers on the Hull to Rotterdam run demand his attention. When Charlie discovers the connection between his previous enquiry and the drug smugglers he realizes that he's on very dangerous territory indeed.Biography:STUART PAWSON had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He lives in Fairburn, Yorkshire, and when not hunched over the word processor likes nothing more than tramping across the moors, which often feature in his stories. He is a member of the Murder Squad and the Crime Writers' Association.
Victory of Coins (The Judas Chronicles, #7)
Aiden James
Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers
In the FINAL CHAPTER of the Judas Chronicles, William Barrow (aka Judas Iscariot) is faced with one of the most important decisions of his two thousand year stay on Earth…. Should he leave well enough alone and seek a quiet retirement, having retrieved the first twenty-eight of the original thirty coins of silver paid to him for betraying Jesus Christ? Or should he press on to recover the last two shekels, and find out if it is enough to redeem his soul before Almighty God?The temptation to delay the inevitable is quite alluring—especially since it comes with the promise of a ‘new’ life with Beatrice—one that includes Roderick, Amy, Cedric, and Jeremy as they build a meaningful existence after the tragedy in New Orleans sixteen months earlier. The potential of decades—or even centuries—of unfettered happiness is quite real, given the perpetual youth they all enjoy. But after Viktor Kaslow returns to William’s world, the permanence of such a blissful existence becomes precarious at best.Kaslow, now the ruler of an ancient demonic realm, relies on the ultimate wickedness to force William back into the coin collecting game. Tragedy again serves as a catalyst that fuels a grueling race across four continents to track down the ‘capstone’ of the collection: The Damascus Coin. To reach this ultimate prize, William and his companions must survive a host of new deadly obstacles.A society of immortals watch with keen interest from the sidelines, as the ruthless Russian and forlorn Disciple of Christ square off for the last time. Will the joy of salvation or eternal damnation await William, long hated as Judas? It all depends on what transpires in Victory of Coins….
I, Judas
James Reich
Judas Iscariot is the historical symbol of betrayal. But what really happened at the Garden of Gethsemane? What really compelled Judas to hang himself from a tree? I, Judas reimagines Iscariot's relationship to Jesus Christ and explores Judas's orchestration of the elaborate con of the divinity of Jesus Christ, subverting the legend of Judas as he inhabits some of our most notorious literary and historic figures in their darkest hours. Custer, Sexton, Van Gogh: These famous suicides converge through the figure of Judas in a cutting-edge piece of fiction that exposes the dangers of seeking universal truths in myth.
Judas
Astrid Holleeder
The incredible true story of a woman who risked everything to put her brother, a murderous psychopath and one of the world's most infamous crime bosses, behind bars.Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of the CEO and chairman of Heineken brewing company, is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. For decades, Wim ruled over his family mafia-style, threatening death if any of them betrayed him. Astrid and her sister, Sonja, watched as their brother eliminated anyone who got in his way, and they lived in terror of inciting his rage, unable to protect even their own young children from his violence. Trained as a lawyer, Astrid served as her brother's unwilling confidante. Now, she's turning the tables on him. Charged for his involvement in multiple assassinations, including that...
The Judas Pair
Part #1 of "A Lovejoy Novel of Suspense" series by Jonathan Gash
Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective, following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent, but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist, he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime.Along the way, he becomes convinced that the weapons do exist but that they have fallen into the hands of a vile murderer. Locating the ancient weapons seems like the least of his problems when Lovejoy then finds himself fighting for his life in a duel to the death!Review“One of the most likable rogues in mystery history” – Chicago Sun-Times --Chicago Sun-Times About the AuthorJonathan Gash is the pen name ofJohn Grant, who also wrote under the name of Graham Gaunt. Born in 1933 in Bolton, Lancashire, Grant trained as a doctor and worked as both a GP and a pathologist. He also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he rose to the rank of Major, and was head of bacteriology at the University of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His first Lovejoy novel, The Judas Pair, won the Crime Writers' Association prestigious John Creasey award in 1977. Grant lives in Colchester, Essex.
The Judas Tree
Archibald Joseph Cronin
A. J. Cronin’s latest novel is a devastating one—more realistic than any he has ever written. In The Judas Tree , the author of The Stars Look Down , The Citadel , The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years tells an engrossing story of a man beset by a supreme egoism which affects his entire life—particularly his relations with women. Rich, charming and accomplished, David Moray is a man especially attractive to women. From the depths of poverty he has risen to dazzling financial success and at a comparatively young age retired to Switzerland to enjoy its rewards. Detached from the dangers and anxieties of the world in the luxury of his beautiful estate, he is prepared to exist in perfect happiness. Without the slightest premonition of impending disaster, in a chance conversation at a party he is dramatically confronted with a situation which for years has caused him a deep sensation of guilt. When a young and impecunious medical student, he had fallen in love with a young Scottish girl and had committed himself to marry her, only to abandon her for another woman who could advance his career. With the highest intentions, he starts out to make good the damage of his first step in self advancement. Will he succeed?
