Reign In Hell

Right-wing fundamentalist groups are spreading across America. Preaching against the government, they are not afraid to take direct action. And it's more than a matter of not paying taxes...they are prepared to rob, to murder, even to wage war against the US government. <br/>
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And the only man capable of stopping them without vast bloodshed is US Attorney Martin Vail. <br/>
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Battling against the clock, Vail and his team work to uncover what links the crimes to the churches, the felonies to the fascists. But what begins as a high-wire act of negotiation explodes into a personal nightmare for Vail, as his most sinister adversary rears his evil head. And as he comes closer to uncovering the heart of the evil, Armageddon approaches.

Eureka

From the acclaimed author of Primal Fear, a stunning new suspense epic of California corruption in the first half of the twentieth century.

William Diehl shot to fame with the publication and subsequent filming of his novel SHARKY'S MACHINE. Since then he has written several other bestsellers, including PRIMAL FEAR - also filmed to great acclaim. He and his wife live in Woodstock, Georgia.

Young Thomas Culhane grows up in the small Californian town of Eureka. But, although he is adopted by one of the town's wealthy families, he knows he must escape Eureka to make his own way in the world. Then World War I intervenes and Culhane ships to Europe to join the American forces in Europe, where he proves himself a hero. On his return to Eureka, he soon becomes deputy sheriff to the town's legendary lawman. In the early 1920s, he steps into his boss's shoes after the sheriff is killed in a shootout. Some twenty years later, Sheriff Culhane is a powerful man about to run as state governor. One hundred miles south of Eureka in Los Angeles, Verna Wilensky has been electrocuted in her bathtub. At first her death looks accidental. But as the police investigate further, and discover that she had almost $100,000 in her bank account, they begin to dig deeper. Who was this woman, where did she come from, how did she get all this money, and what was her connection to Eureka, to Thomas Culhane and to the bloody events of the 1920s that saw Culhane's political star begin to rise? Bestselling author William Diehl has written a compelling crime novel set in the golden state of California and revealing its seamy and corrupt underbelly.

Primal Fear

A legal battle equal to Presumed Innocent. A nightmare of terror and psychopathology worthy of The Silence of the Lambs.

William Diehl is the author of the international bestsellers Sharky's Machine, Thai Horse, 27, Reign in Hell and Show of Evil. Several of his novels have been filmed.  He lives in Woodstock, Georgia, with his wife, Emmy Award winner Virginia Gunn.

Martin Vail, Chicago's most brilliant lawyer, has been set up by his enemies to defend a case he cannot win. Young Aaron Stampler was caught red-handed after a murder that had the city reeling. He looks bound to fry, but he swears he's innocent. In a desperate gamble for justice, Vail must reach deep into the recesses of a killer's mind, to flush out a monster of infinite cunning and evil. Explosive, haunting and brilliantly suspenseful, Primal Fear is a truly terrifying read.

William Diehl

Move over John le Carre.  William Diehl has written a rip-roaring roller-coaster of suspense, riveting from beginning to end

Enough plot twists, violence, and romance to jumpstart a zombie's pulse... Diehl's fast pacing and smooth mix of humour, tension and malevolence add up to bracing entertainment

When Linda Balfour, a young mother, is found butchered in small-town southern Illinois, a coded inscription stamped in blood on the back of her head brands her mutilated body.  For Chief Prosecutor Martin Vail, the Bloody insignia drags up memories he'd like to forget - memories of Bishop Rushman, slashed and dismembered ten years ago by an altar boy, Aaron Stampler.  But if Stampler is locked away, he cannot have murdered Linda.  With his career - and his life - on the line, Vail needs answers fast before the killer signs someone else's life away.

William Diehl

Praise for Show Of Evil

Spine-tingling

Move over John le Carre. William Diehl has written a rip-roaring roller-coaster of suspense, riveting from beginning to end

Enough plot twists, violence, and romance to jumpstart a zombie's pulse... Diehl's fast pacing and smooth mix of humour, tension and malevolence add up to bracing entertainment

Spine-tingling

Move over John le Carre. William Diehl has written a rip-roaring roller-coaster of suspense, riveting from beginning to end

Enough plot twists, violence, and romance to jumpstart a zombie's pulse... Diehl's fast pacing and smooth mix of humour, tension and malevolence add up to bracing entertainment

Spine-tingling

Move over John le Carre. William Diehl has written a rip-roaring roller-coaster of suspense, riveting from beginning to end

Enough plot twists, violence, and romance to jumpstart a zombie's pulse... Diehl's fast pacing and smooth mix of humour, tension and malevolence add up to bracing entertainment

Books by William Diehl

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