Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and...

"Meghan Cahill is a young, dedicated pharmaceutical researcher at the Renaissance Institute in Pennsylvania. Her boyfriend, Jonathan Ashbridge, is a highly successful doctor who mostly keeps his work secret. But when Meghan stumbles upon one of his projects, she is shocked at what she finds. Imago Dei is a covert religious sect operating within Vatican City, and they have approached Jonathan for help. Jonathan's group, known as the Pegasus Project,...

"The quiet suburban town of Hampstead, Connecticut, is threatened by two evils. One is natural--a hideous experiment gone wrong. This unstoppable cloud of toxic gas will warp the minds of everyone it touches, spurring them to violence and insanity... The other is not natural at all. Every thirty years it wakes, leaving death and destruction in its wake. And it makes the first look like child's play.."--Back cover.

Young Alexis recovers her hearing during the brutal murder of her family. Later, as an adult, she creates her music through gruesome murders.

Will is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes. Now that Will knows what Hannibal is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him that he is innocent. Jack is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protege is a killer. Looking for answers, Jack looks to Lecter, who becomes the new consultant on cases. Lecter is torn between saving himself and keeping Will close to him, despite...

FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel...

"The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu. Shortly after the girls returned to the US...