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Robert Vernooy

    Robert Vernooy is a celebrated writer, cultural critic, and musicologist. His work is often described as possessing a singular personality within his generation, echoing the impact of previous literary giants. Vernooy's writings span short stories, a epistolary novel, essays, and critically acclaimed novels that delve into profound human experiences and societal observations. His distinctive voice and intellectual depth mark him as a significant presence in contemporary Dutch literature.

    Desperation
    Pandora's Daughter
    City of Masks
    The Moscow vector
    • At an international conference in Prague, Lt. Col. Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentine Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow and about the Russian government's refusal to release publicly any information or data on the outbreak. When the two meet, they are attacked by a group of mysterious men and Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely escapes with his life. At the same time, a series of government officials around the world are coming down with a mysterious, fast-acting virus with a 100% fatality rate. These deaths are somehow related to the increasing militarism from the new Russian government, headed by the autocratic and ambitious President Victor Dudarev. With few clues and precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this mysterious plot and find the mysterious figure who stands at the center of it all...

      The Moscow vector
    • City of Masks

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.5(22)Add rating

      A spine-tingling psychological thriller from the bestselling author of PUPPETS Seattle-based Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist: a professional ghost-hunter. Her company, Psi Research Associates, takes a scientific approach to investigating hauntings, applying in-depth historical research, psychological analysis and empathic techniques. Hired by Ronald Beauforte, a most reluctant client, to investigate the alleged haunting of his ancestral New Orleans home and save the sanity of his tormented sister Lila, Cree finds herself having to face up to her own haunted past. As she gets closer to the truth and the proverbial bones in the closet of the prestigious Beauforte family come crashing down around her, Cree must struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay.

      City of Masks
    • Pandora's Daughter

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(240)Add rating

      For as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head--voices that bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in the past she's tried so desperately to forget. But now everything has come to a boiling point--someone is trying to kill her, and others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother's death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan's life will never be the same. If she survives to have a future. Pandora's Daughter is a gripping suspense novel from bestselling author Iris Johansen.

      Pandora's Daughter
    • Desperation

      • 547 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      3.8(3554)Add rating

      Alternate Cover Edition here. Something is terribly wrong in Desperation, Nevada -- a small mining town just off Route 50 with a played out open pit copper mine. The streets are wind swept and deserted; animals have the run of the town and something horrific is brewing in the now abandoned mine pit. You won't have a good day in Desperation.

      Desperation