Hardcover Fiction

by Robert Crichton · Simon & Schuster

by Jacqueline Susann · Random House

Three beautiful women compete in the New York entertainment world, where sex is a weapon and nearly everyone depends on "dolls" (pills).

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

Uses characters and settings from Advise and consent and A shade of difference.

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

by Mary Renault · Pantheon

by Bernard Malamud · Farrar, Straud and Giroux

by James Clavell · Atheneum

by Edwin O'Connor · Little, Brown and Company

by Harold Robbins · Trident Press

Harold Robbins, a novelist known for steamy passion in his works, stirs up passion of a different kind in The Adventurers, a story of revolution and danger in the sultry jungles of South America. As a young boy, Diogenes Alejandro Xenos, witnesses the murder of his mother and sister by a band of marauders. As "Dax" grows to adulthood, he channels his fear and hatred into a desire for revolution, swearing revenge on those in power as he upsets the status quo. His actions make him an outlaw, living on the fringes of society in a land turned upside down with corruption. He is wanted by men and women alike-but for very different reasons. This epic tale of escape from the horrors of a third-world regime is one of Harold Robbins' most ambitious novels ever, combining his trademark sensuality with political intrigue and a globe-spanning variety of exotic locales. Lose yourself in The Adventurers.

by Harry Mark Petrakis · David McKay

"A Dream of Kings" tells the tale of Leonidas Matsoukas, a half-charlatan and half-concerned adviser, who is by turns a compulsive gambler and adulterer. But Matsoukas's dreams are fixed on an ailing son, for whose cure everything must be sacrificed. A journey to the sacred land of Greece will restore the health of the child and, perhaps too, the dignity of the father.