On a state visit to Moscow, Billie Bradford, the beautiful and brilliant wife of the President of the United States, is abducted by the Soviets and replaced by Vera Vazilova, a superbly trained Russian undercover agent and actress who is the First Lady's physical double. The imposter's mission--to induce the President to reveal a U.S. secret that will drastically tip the world balance toward Russia. But one false move--whether before TV cameras or in the White House bedroom--can destroy th...

WELCOME TO THE EVERLEIGH CLUB — THE WORLD'S MOST SUMPTUOUS BORDELLOMINNA AND AIDA EVERLEIGH — proprietors of the famous "house of pleasure" on Chicago's Levee.KAREN — The mayor's elegant, gorgeous secretary who is playing a dangerous masquerade.CATHLEEN — The Evereighs' socialite niece, a sweet Southern girl soon to learn all about becoming a woman.ALAN — Handsome heir to a Chicago meat-packing empire, who may find the price of desire too high to pay.

THE SECRET.EVERY MAN AND WOMAN DREAMED OF IT.Now it's within reach … and they'll do anything to possess it. The screen goddess. The contessa. The wily priest. The American public relations man looking for a cause. And his lover who may die for it. They are all caught between life's wildest dream … and death.

THE SECRET.EVERY MAN AND WOMAN DREAMED OF IT.Now it's within reach … and they'll do anything to possess it. The screen goddess. The contessa. The wily priest. The American public relations man lookingfor a cause. And his lover who may die for it. They are all caught between life's wildest dream … and death.

In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy?Michael Barret has been asked by a friend to join him in a small law partnership, but has also been offered a huge salary to go into big business. He's certain of his choice,...

The Vatican announces that the Virgin Mary will return to Lourdes this year to perform a miracle cure!Will it be a miracle? Or will it be a fraud?Precious lives, loves, and happiness are at stake:Ken Clayton: the young American who abandons medical treatment for the chance of miracle;Edith Moore: the Englishwoman whose miracle cure has made her famous against her will;Gisele Dupree, the French girl whose desperation to escape Lourdes will lead to vio...

A momentous archeological discovery, the greatest of all time—and the immediate effect it has on the varied group of men and women whose lives are intimately touched and altered by it—is at the heart of this exciting novel.In the ruins of the ancient Roman seaport of Ostia Antica, an Italian archeologist has discovered a first-century papyrus, its faded Aramaic text revealing a new gospel written by James, younger brother of Jesus, the original source of the four gospels of the New...

What happens when a varied group of men and women, married and unmarried, from our own complex culture is thrown together for six dramatic weeks with the people of a simpler, happier society, free from the inhibitions and tensions of the twentieth century? Irving Wallace’s provocative novel is the story of this confrontation, as an American field team of anthropologists and laymen descends upon a remote Polynesian island to study a unique and hitherto undiscovered way of life.The v...

Armed only with a dentist's letter, her notes, and the determination to finish her father's book, Emily Ashcroft heads to Berlin. She is joined by a Russian museum curator, an American architect, and a Mossad agent, posing as a reporter. Together they uncover what may be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated the faked death of Hitler and the plot to return the Nazi Party to power.

If you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the life-and-death Summit Conference in Paris with the incredible details of The Plot would you believe any one of them?Matt Brennan—once a trusted member of the State Department until his life was shattered by accusations of treason …Medora Hart—young, ravishing, beautiful, whose involvement in a Profumo-like scandal had all but toppled an English government …Jay Thomas Doyle—once a renowned and r...

Irving Wallace’s novels have made him one of America’s best-known and best-selling storytellers. Now to the list of such best sellers as The Fan Club, The Word, The Seven Minutes, and The Plot he has added his most timely and compelling novel to date: The R Document—the story of a conspiracy to destroy the Bill of Rights, of an attempt by the FBI to take over the country.Against a background of rising violence and crime, Wallace pits two opposing...

In the stillness of the courtroom a bookseller stands accused of selling a book. Is it a work of sensitive genius or an execrable volume of pornography? Could it have driven a respectable college boy to commit brutal rape? And who is the author of the novel at the vortex of a storm of sensation and controversy?Michael Barret has been asked by a friend to join him in a small law partnership, but has also been offered a huge salary to go into big business. He's certain of his choice,...