Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.

Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

This, the first Wexford novel and Rendell's debut in the world of the published writer, is a remarkable crime novel, for several reasons. Firstly, and most importantly of course, it is an excellent mystery; a brilliant puzzle, worthy of Agatha Christie. The investigation twists and turns down unexpected paths, and the diligent Inspector Wexford follows each clue faithfully, until the entirely satisfying and surprising solution. However, unlike Christie, Rendell's mystery is more rounded. It is more socially conscious (although that's not at al to say that some of Christie's weren't; she was excellent at the divide between the upper- and lower-classes), the characters are more real, more developed, more human and thus more interesting. The writing is also better; more compelling, with greater clarity; precision.

The Devil's Alternative
is a novel by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979. It was his fourth full-length fictional novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story several years in the future rather than in the recent past.

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Binary
Binary is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton in 1972. The novel was originally published under the pen-name John Lange.

The villain is a middle-class small businessman who decides to assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life savings to carry out the theft of an army shipment of the two precursor chemicals that form a deadly nerve agent.

The nerve agent VX was intended to be detonated in Downtown San Diego, corresponding with the arrival of the President to attend a Republican party conference taking place there.

The Nerve Agent was contained inside two alacran (a combustible plastic) tanks, and plastic explosive was placed in between, so that when the explosion occurred, the two binary gases would form VX.

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