At the same time, the novel examines the lives of those conducting the interviews, their morals and motives, and at last becomes a treatise on love, and sex, and everything in between.From the back cover of the 1960 paperback edition:"Not just Wash. I wanted Perowitz and Lavine and Bardelli - I wanted them all...""I don't nkow how I could have endured marriage without Fred. He's so different from my husband."At first it was asmusing. Then it was titillating. ...

Emily Ashcroft and her father, Sir Harrison Ashcroft, have set out to write a definitive biography of Adolph Hitler. Before they can finalize their manuscript, however, a cryptic letter from a German dentist sends Sir Harrison off to attempt the excavation of the site of the Führerbunker, where Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, lived out the final weeks of their life before committing suicide and being cremated in a shallow pit. The thing is – maybe they didn't.Unfortunately, before ...

The big passionate novel of a woman daring to live and love freely—no matter what the price. She was forced to choose between one man's love and her own pride as a woman. Brigham married one woman too many when he took Ann Eliza Webb as his twenty-seventh wife. He was the leader of the polygamous Mormon faith, as powerful in the Utah Territory as the President of the United States. She was a great beauty with a quiet manner—and an iron will. For four years, Eliza lived in Brigham Young's h...

With a Foreword by James Earl Jones & A Special Afterword by Irving Wallace's son, David WallechinskyThe time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost u...

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.

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 forces: those who are working to ame...

Novelist Andrew Craig has not been sober in a very long time. After losing his wife in an auto accident he believes to have been his own fault, he turned to the bottle, and to his sister-in-law, Leah, who acts as his caretaker and live-in nurse. Then, when he is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his novel, "The Perfect State," a historical jab at communism, he heads for Stockholm, hoping to find a reason to live, and to write. The other laureates have their own problems, a heart su...

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...

Edward Armstead has lived much of his life in the shadow of his famous media lord father. When his father dies, he leaves a will that makes it nearly impossible for Edward to keep the thign he wants most - The New York Record - his father's flagship newspaper. Edward's determination to exceed his father drives him to embark on two obssesive quiests - to make the New York Reporter the number one nerwspaper in the city - and the the world - and to make his father's young mistress his own.

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...

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.

This is a fast-paced, carefully documented, and rich biography of Barnum, the greatest showman of all time, the American from Bethel, Connecticut, whose eccentricities and oblique, cynical approach to humanity transformed entertainment into a big, incredibly profitable business. As bachelor, husband (twice), father, and grandfather, Barnum comes to life in Mr. Wallace's crowded pages, an exceedingly interesting and human man. Here, too, are New York City in all its nineteenth-century color...