Dance Of Death

From the masterful creator of The Genesis Code and The Murder Artist ('deep in Harlan Coben territory' Independent on Sunday): John Case's latest chilling novel of terror and suspense.

The Murder Artist 
John Case [has] a sure hand and deep understanding of the visceral terrors of the situation - Grips the heart and gut with equal force

The Genesis Code 
A sizzling thriller... well-written and extremely gripping

The First Horseman 
Expertly researched and chillingly related... terrifying... the sort of thriller which defies you to look away

Trance State 
A glass-shattering, diesel-fueled, hard-charging thrill ride of a read... [John Case] is a confident master writing at peak performance

John Case is the author of the international bestseller The Genesis Code and the novels The First Horseman, Trance State, The Eighth Day and The Murder Artist. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From The Genesis Code to The Murder Artist, John Case has established himself as the master of unrelenting suspense. Now Case choreographs his most diabolically chilling novel to date, as the very fabric of civilisation threatens to come apart in the hands of a brilliantly vengeful madman... 
 
Photojournalist Mike Burke has carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth - and come back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. He is flying high until, quite suddenly, he isn't. When Burke's helicopter crashes and burns in Africa, he comes away with his life but loses his heart to the woman who saves him. That's when he decides it is time to stop dancing with the devil. But the devil isn't done with him yet...

Murder Artist

Magic, voodoo and death - the electrifying new thriller from the bestselling author of UK top 10 bestseller The Genesis Code. Perfect for fans of bestselling thriller writer Michael Crichton, Murder Artist uses a blend of science and history to create an atmosphere of thrilling suspense.

John Case's sure hand and deep understanding of the visceral terrors of the situation . . . a convincing thriller which grips the heart and gut with equal force

Deep in Harlen Coben territory... Scary, compulsive stuff.

Jaded readers will snap to attention . . . Literally breath-taking . . . The [final] scene delivers the reward and excitement that the steady, fascinating build-up has promised. It's all in the telling, and Case does it just right: no clue, moment, or character unturned

John Case is the pseudonym for the husband and wife writing team of Jim and Carolyn Hougan, both published authors in their own right. After Carolyn died in 2007, Jim left Washington and now lives in Aston, Virginia. For many years Jim Hougan has been a journalist specialising in intelligence issues. He has published widely in the field and has made several accalimed documentaries for US programmes including 60 Minutes. John Case is the author of six thriller novels including the New York Times bestseller, The Genesis Code.

There's nothing in a glorious summer's day to suggest anything even remotely sinister. In fact, Alex Callahan, a news correspondent, surprises himself by enjoying the Renaissance Faire that his six-year-old twins, Kevin and Sean, have forced him to visit. 
 
The boys are delighted by the jugglers and magicians, jesters and foodmongers dressed in full Elizabethan costume. But it's the joust that the boys have really been waiting to see. Alex takes a break to watch, while keeping half an eye on the twins, but when he turns to see how they are enjoying themselves, they're nowhere to be seen. 
 
The perfect day has turned into every parent's nightmare. His sons have disappeared, and Alex is an immediate suspect. But no one can explain the bizarre origami figure he finds after he returns to his empty house. Or the bowl of water that has been left on the top shelf of the wardrobe. Or, the T-shirt soaked in blood... 
 
As police attention to the case wanes, Alex's own investigations uncover a sinister, underground world that he never dreamed existed. A world where reality is portrayed as illusion, and where the reason behind the twins' disappearance is more terrifying than anything Alex can imagine...

Trance State

A relentlessly paced thriller. Nothing is what it seems, no one can be trusted, and nothing is secure - especially one's own memory...from the bestselling author of UK top 10 bestseller, The Genesis Code. Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Trance State is an electrifying blend of science, intrigue and murder. Case creates an atmosphere of suspense to rival Hitchcock's finest thrillers.

A modern day Manchurian Candidate, a smart scientific thriller about mind control ... Bright, pacy and well manipulated

A top-notch yarn . . . intriguing . . . delivers the thrills

A promising young research fellow for a venerable think tank in Zurich has just filed his last report, as he is forced into a ghastly experiment. A seductive young woman travels to Florida and from her hotel room coolly sharpshoots a dying old man in a wheelchair. A psychologist who helps patients confront and dispel past trauma through hypnosis battles his own silent but emergent demons. 
 
In Trance State John Case combines these elements into a pulse-pounding, mind-twisting new thriller. Just what is the connection between the research fellow, the young assassin and the psychologist? After the young woman kills herself, why should her sister trust anyone who might have been involved with her? When unknown assassins burst into the psychologist's office, who is their target - him or the young woman's sister? Where is the deadly trail into the CIA's mind-control experiments leading them? Could this be another trap? Or could they be about to unearth a great and secret conspiracy at the heart of the Intelligence communities around the world and the deadly, dangerous people they employ?

The First Horseman

A breathtakingly exciting thriller from the author of top 10 bestseller, The Genesis Code; Case uses historical fact to create an atmosphere of suspense to rival Hitchcock's finest thrillers. The First Horseman is perfect for fans of bestselling thriller writer Michael Crichton.

Expertly researched and chillingly related - terrifying - the sort of thriller which defies you to look away

In the Book of Revelations, the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of the Apocalypse.  When the First Horseman thunders forth, pestilence will spread throughout the land.  For the First Horseman is Plague...  The Spanish Flu killed thirty million people worldwide in 1918.  Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island in the Arctic Sea to recover strains of the lethal virus preserved under layers of ice.  For Washington Post reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime.  But his plan to join the expedition is ruined by a ferocious storm that delays him.  And when he meets up with the ship upon its return to port in Norway, it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong.  Fear haunts the faces of the crew.  No one will talk.  And someone wants Daly to stop asking questions.  But if there's a wall around the facts, Daly will batter it down.  Persistent and resourceful, he knows how to get answers when none are given.  Yet the more he uncovers, the more dangerous the stakes become. Until at last he comes face-to-face with a shocking secret, pitching him into a harrowing race to prevent nothing less than... apocalypse.

The Genesis Code

Before The Da Vinci Code was The Genesis Code:'A glass-shattering, diesel-fuelled, hard-charging thrill ride of a read'Lorenzo Carcaterra, author of Sleepers

A sizzling thriller... well-written and extremely gripping

Cracks along... more than enough murder, mayhem and scientific mystery to keep the reader entertained

John Case is the pseudonym for the husband and wife writing team of Jim and Carolyn Hougan, both published authors in their own right. They live near Washington, DC. For many years Jim Hougan has been a journalist specialising in intelligence issues. He has published widely in this field and has made several acclaimed documentaries for US programmes including 60 Minutes.

Joe Lassiter is an ex-FBI investigator bent on revenge . His sister and young nephew have been murdered and the killer hospitalised. Despite warnings from the police Lassiter will stop at nothing to discover why. His search leads him to uncover an attempt by the Vatican to destroy all traces of a discovery that has sent them into such an alarm, that they have charged a right-wing fundamentalist hit-squad to rid the world of all evidence of it. 
 
The discovery originates from a confession in a remote village in Italy. A confession that sends the local priest into a panic and the Vatican into an uproar. The confession belongs to the late Dr Franco Baresi, and concerns the work at his fertility clinic - a fertility clinic that Lassiter's sister attended and, as he horrifyingly discovers, all the other victims in a recent series of murders that have swept the world. Women who were infertile until they attended the clinic. Lassiter must discover the remaining mothers before the hit men, and meanwhile his sister's killer is on the loose...

John Case

This is truly thriller writing on an epic scale; the narrative goes globe-trotting from the Eternal City to Istanbul to the corridors of power in Washington

The elements of international thriller and Omen-style terrors are cannily synthesized, making for a highly compelling read

"And on the Seventh Day, He rested." --Genesis, 2:2-3 The EighthDay is an explosive, compulsively readable novel of suspense that plunges a clever young man into a web of mystery and international deceit, bringing him face to face with the ultimate evil. Danny Cray is a struggling 28 year-old sculptor and video artist who lives in Washington DC. To make ends meet, he does occasional freelance work as a researcher for a large firm of private detectives. When one of their most powerful clients approaches him with a job, the money is too good to resist. All he has to do is learn what a recently deceased university professor was working on when he died. 
 
But Danny stumbles on far more than he expected when he discovers that the professor was in touch with the Vatican about a remote tribe of Kurds who worship the Peacock Angel; Satan. After others connected to the professor start to disappear, Danny finds himself in great peril and must travel into the ancient land where this tribe still lives in order to discover what is truly at stake in his investigation. A mesmerising blend of science, religion, history and suspense, The Eighth Day confirms John Case's position as a master of intelligent commercial fiction.

John Case

Praise for The Eighth Day

This is truly thriller writing on an epic scale; the narrative goes globe-trotting from the Eternal City to Istanbul to the corridors of power in Washington

The elements of international thriller and Omen-style terrors are cannily synthesized, making for a highly compelling read

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