KILBURN HALL BOOKS

Kindle Owners: Welcome!

2012-01-22T15:59:00.004-06:00

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Kilburn Hall

If you’re one of the six million new Kindle owners, you’re probably ready to load some books. But where do you start? I mean, seriously, with over 800,000 books to choose from, where do you start?

Here’s an idea. Fourteen authors have sold more than a million eBooks on Kindle. Type the following names into your Kindle search and you’ll find their catalog of eBooks. Some are more expensive than others, but these are the top-selling authors, so their books are almost certainly worth the price.

May I recomend to you my colleagues Michael Karpovage, John Locke, John Connolly, Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston and my mentors Michael Crichton and Ursula LeGuinn to begin with. And of course you'll want to look for my new ebooks on Kindle in 2012, Motuo (2012) and Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling (2004)

Just to be clear:

I’m not asking you to choose me over these other wonderful authors. In fact, I recommend you buy their books first, because you probably already know and love them. Buy as many of their books as you can afford. Then, if you’ve got a dollar left over, I recommend you give one of my books a try. You see, I sell my eBooks for 99 cents. This isn’t a one-time special, it’s my everyday friendship price for all my novels.

I could charge more for my eBooks. But you know what that would mean?

It would mean you’d have to pay more.

For those of you just discovering me, I write "Techno-thrillers" like my mentor Michael Crichton. My two newest 99 cent novels are Motuo and Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling. If you feel like giving these books a try, here’s the links.

Remember, enjoy these other authors first, and tell them I sent you. And when you’re down to your last Kindle buck and want to have a really thrilling read that will keep you up nights, try Motuo or Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling.

You’re going to love your new Kindle. A world of entertainment awaits! And thanks for checking out my website.

Kilburn Hall

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Motuo (2012)

In the tradition of Lost Horizon by James Hilton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84XAfS40hK8

Synopsis: A team of confident climbers sets out to summit the face of the world's tallest mountain known as Motuo (Hidden Lotus) with notable celebrities and journalists. Not long into their journey, the climbers know they are headed for disaster. Rescue teams from all over the world race to Motuo Base Camp yet only one of the sixty-climbers, Chicago journalist Tim Campbell, survives to face unfounded international accusations as he tells an amazing tale of Khembalung or Shangri-La.

Nothing Personal-Just Business Darling (2004)

In the tradition of Summer Of Katya by Trevanian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9-KMrFZQmU&feature=player_embedded

Synopsis: His humor, drier than a perfect martini, his demeanor cooler than a bass saxophone, tough enough to win over the mob, cops, and media alike, Nicky Toscani is the perfect ladies man- handsome, smart, a two-fisted straight-shooting-detective who finds himself haunted by the elusive presence of the murder victim in his latest case.

MOTUO (2012)

2012-01-21T14:54:00.005-06:00

In the tradition of James Hilton's 1933 Lost Horizon

In the Tibetan Autonomous Region, stands the Inner Sanctuary, twelve majestic peaks roughly the height of Everest some 8,000 meters tall. The highest at 29,128 feet is Motuo meaning "Hidden Lotus." It forms the eastern anchor of the Himalayan chain, and is the easternmost mountain in the world over 8,000 meters. Because of its unpredictable weather, one hundred mile-per-hour winds, continually falling ice chunks the size of buildings, and bloodthirsty natives, its mile high South West Face, the most dangerous climb in the world, is precisely what beckons the IMAGE' film company and elite alpinists to climb the treacherous peak against all odds.

It is the fall of 1998, 50-years since Russian born Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure Nicholas Roerich and other notables disapeared from the Kullu Valley in India that a team of confident climbers sets out to summit the face of the world's tallest mountain known as Motuo with notable celebrities and journalists. Not long into their journey, the climbers know they are headed for disaster. Rescue teams from all over the world race to Motuo Base Camp yet only one of the sixty-climbers, Chicago journalist Tim Campbell, survives to face unfounded international accusations as he tells an amazing tale of Khembalung or a Shangri-La.

BIMINI ROAD

2011-08-01T21:03:00.008-05:00

The sequel to Robert Merle's:
Un Animal Doué De Raison

40-years after man's first successful attempt to communicate with another species, the U.S. Navy has transformed intelligent, ocean-dwelling mammals into advanced biological weapons systems. (ABWS) But when one of the Navy's dolphins goes AWOL and an alien craft begins driving the marine life away from the area known as Milwaukee Deep,, 26,000 feet deep, the dolphins have their own agenda, one that transcends human greed and petty hostilities.To survive!

SNO-TA-HAY

2011-08-01T20:47:00.005-05:00

Go in beauty. A Tony Hillerman tribute book, retired Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, Janet Pete and Lousia Bourbonette are teamed up again in one final mystery. Retired Navajo detectove Joe Leaphorn is called before the Office of Professional Standards when the body of a drifter is found in the desert. The clothing is sprinkled with gold dust and in his pocket there is a torn corner of a hundred-dollard-bill from an armored car robbery in the 1970's. The victim is Brigham Houk, believed drowned in the San Juan River after Stete Police thought they had him cornered some 30-years earlier and Leaphorn just a young Navajo policeman. Leaphorn has to figure out how Houck's body ties in with a 40-year old armored car robbery, the murder of retired FBI agent run down by a car in front of the courthouse in Flagstaff the day he was to post Leaphorns bail, an Apache girl kidnapped from a 100-year-old bank and the location of the Lost Adams gold mine in Sno-Ta-Hay (Zig Zag Canyon).

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EXCALIBUR

2010-01-04T16:30:00.003-06:00

The evening begins with the annual Boar's Head Feast in Old Hall at Queen's College, a traditional Christmas celebration. As the lights go down something goes horribly wrong. A guest is murdered and Chief Inspector for MIT, Aidan "Mac" MacGiban is plunged into the mystery concerning a religious artifact (the sword Excalibur worn by Gauis Cassius Longinus, the Roman Centurion who pierced the side of Jesus with his spear while the condemned one hung from the cross.

The finding of Excalibur, protected by a secret society (Knights Templar) for two thousand years. and sought after by Adolph Hitler for its paranormal powers, could topple the foundations of Christianity, the British Monarchy, and governments around the world.

This conspiracy-theory thriller is the pulp fiction must-read of the season. An ingenious mixture of paranoid thriller, art history lesson, chase story, religious symbology lecture and anti-clerical screed.

MORPHED

2009-10-26T19:56:00.004-05:00

MORPHED

Science and technology have morphed at such an exponential rate for so long that it may be beyond our ability to regulate or control.

Imagine waking up to a world dominated by an increase in fanatical growth, oriented religion, nationalism, and uncontrolled capitalism that leads to a situation that puts control of science/tecnology into the hands of a small group of ruling elite who oversee worldwide coporations that have more security clearence power, autonomy, and better equipped security-force then the government. MORPHED blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. MORPHED challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, MORPHED shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices and consequences. 1984, Brave New World, Future Shock, Jurassic Park are no longer the future. The future is now!

THE ARK

2007-12-16T11:10:00.009-06:00

High on a mountain in Eastern Turkey, on the Russian/Turkish border sits an object older than recorded history. It resembles a ship. But is it the ship Noah navigated through the Great Flood?Recent global warming has melted the ice cap on Ararat’s top. NASA photographs from an orbiting satellite have revealed, “Ararat’s Anomaly,” rib lines carved into the clifff-face thousands of years old indicating presence of a ship.

If “Noah’s Ark” is found it will be the greatest archeological and anthropological discovery of all time. Finding an ancient wooden sea vessel, large enough to hold two of every basic type of land dwelling animal, buried high on Mt. Ararat has dire implications for it would confirm the reliability of the early Biblical record of the human race, it would mean that every land animal (including humans) has descended from the inhabitants of the ark and Darwin’s theory of evolution, the theory that man descended from apes, would have to be abandoned.

Charles “Bud” Trick, founder of The Creation Institute and spiritual-adviser to President Bush convenes a world summit to select member’s for a drilling and archaeologic expedtion to Ararat on the Russian, Turkish, and terrorist-sponsored Iranian border. Ararat is the most dangerous place on earth, a hotbed of terrorism. Every one has their own reasons for wanting to see the expedition and recovery effort fail.
Science writer and mountain climber extraordinaire Zach Hall, whose experiences with rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering on five continents led to magazine articles in Climbing and Natural History as a regular contributing author, is drawn into the expedition by promises of a book deal. The alleged ark is yet to be discovered by a qualified team of scientists but many seemingly valid sources, particularly Zach’s father Dr. Jack Hall who believes the Ark to be not on Ararat but on Gasherbrum. Once reaching the summit of Gasherbrum, the Hall family fights to stay alive as sabotage, al-Qaidia, and murder plague the doomed expedition. Few survivors leave with the knowledge of a grim secret. Intact in the ice of Gasherbrum lies a craft of extra-terrestrial origin. The Ark.

NOTHING PERSONAL - JUST BUSINESS DARLING

2006-10-10T17:16:00.009-05:00

In 1996, at the age of forty, Sandy Hill was convicted for bank fraud and implicated in the vicious murders of her cousin Robin O'Hara and O'Hara’s former lovers. Some believe Sandy Hill is innocent; others think her insane. Sandy Hill herself claims to have no memory of any of it. Dr. John Fountain– an expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness – tries to unlock her memory, what will he find? Was Sandy Hill a femme fatale – or a weak and unwilling victim of circumstances?

Taunt and compelling, penetrating and wise, Nothing Personal - Just Business Darling is a beautifully crafted work of the imagination that vividly evokes time and place. The novel and Robin O'Hara will continue to haunt the reader long after the final page.

THE RED BALL

2006-10-10T17:16:00.008-05:00

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. But Satan has his miracles to.
Chicago Homcide Detective Tom Murphy, who solved 92-percent of some 300 cases, is a Satan among detectives, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness। When his wife was diagnosed with cancer, he hit the bottle. When he buried her the next spring, he climbed into it. Administrative leave and psychological counseling came next, before he slipped up and killed someone or got himself killed.

About to be drummed out of the Chicago Police Department, he was suddenly reactivated to Homicide and assigned a Red Ball no less, the murder that matters। One of the Brass-Monkey's in the department either thinks the case can’t be solved or doesn’t want the case solved. When the shit hit’s the fan, they’re looking for a fall guy and washed up cops make the perfect fall guy.

Satanism, witchcraft, Catholicism, the church, drugs, sacrifices, Murphy confronts it all in his last and greatest case as he struggles to find out what is really going on in his city and put an end to it before the evil consumes the city of Chicago। What he uncovers reaches all the way to the upper echelons of the Vatican and a world-wide conspiracy to control the worlds economy.

The Red Ball by Kilburn Hall is his most personally revealing book to date. He lays bare the soul of Detective Tom Murphy as he goes in pursuit of the devil, and finds him a decent chap if a little misunderstood. The dark side, after all, stands side by side with the light, waiting for each of us personally to walk up and shake their hands.

THE KILLING OF A ROBIN

2006-10-10T17:14:00.007-05:00

His humor, drier than a perfect martini, his demeanor cooler than a bass saxophone, tough enough to win over the mob, cops and media, Nicky Toscani is the perfect ladies man- handsome, smart, a two-fisted straight-shooting-detective who finds himself haunted by the elusive presence of the murder victim in his latest case. As he moves through her Victorian trying to assemble a sense of who she was to discover who might have murdered her, he finds he is drawn to the specter of the woman that begins emerging from all these different sources. Even though there are disturbing elements of opportunism and manipulation hinted at in the hauntingly beautiful portrait by Royo, hanging above her fireplace, he soon realizes he has fallen in love with a dead woman.

“Never has a woman been so desirable, so electric, and so dangerous to know!” Nicky would confide to me later। If I were to throw an analytical spin onto Nicky’s
commentary, I would say that he presents an interesting metaphor for the objectification or idealization of the female subject. This is, however, immediately given a strange twist, given the fact that Robin O'Hara herself was not a sweet, demure, die-away woman.

In reviewing the rough draft and notes of the case given me by Nicky Toscani, and in reading the anecdotes related by her friends, Robin O'Hara was strong and determined and when she does “appear” to Nicky, she is far from being compliant.