他们骑马出城，走上北方的道路，那是蛮荒之地的方向，但当他们还未完全消失在城市的视线之外，他们便悲剧性地调转坐骑的头，前往西边，痴迷地、沉醉地骑向那西天的晚红，骑向傍晚的土地和远方日落中的喧嚣……

霍尔顿法官是一个与莎士比亚作品中的伊阿古有相似文学价值的凶徒和恶魔，在麦卡锡笔下暴力描绘已变成了令人惊叹的艺术技能，一种可与梅尔维尔和福克纳一较高低的艺术技能。在我看来，《血色子午线》应该是美国真正的末世预言小说。——哈罗德?布卢姆

麦卡锡先生明示我们去见证邪恶不是为了去理解邪恶，而是为了去证实其不可解释的现实存在，他精巧的语言将现实与超现实链接在一起，震动得我们无法再安然于现状。——凯林?詹姆斯（《纽约时报》书评人）

大体说来，小说的情节是一个人的历程，盗用书中原话表达，就是没完没了的“他继续骑行”。主人公无名无姓，大字不识，全书在其不同年龄段分别称其为“孩子（the child）”、“少年（the kid）”和“男人（the man）”。故事重心是主人公少年时的经历。他生来丧母，十四岁时离家游荡，常与人打架斗殴。后来被拉去加入美国的军事阻挠队伍，前往墨西哥，出师不久，便遭到了印第安人的致命打击。而后因为偶然，他又加入受雇于奇瓦瓦州州长的头皮猎人队伍。该队伍由罪犯、老兵和印第安人组成，头目是美墨战争老兵格兰顿，而实际的灵魂人物是霍尔顿法官。在此二人的带领下，队伍与奇瓦瓦州州长达成协议，专门不加区分地屠杀各种印第安人（包括好战的阿帕契人和热爱和平的踢格人等）和墨西哥人，以遇害者的头皮为收据换取黄金。队伍在墨西哥境内四处游荡、大肆屠杀，老幼妇孺均不放过。最后协议终止，队伍在占领尤马渡口期间，遭到曾加害过的尤马人的报复，几乎全军覆没，成员或死或逃，少年逃脱后也离开队伍。小说的主要情节便是他们在荒漠、村庄、山间、城镇的各种暴行。小说最后跨越到二十八年后，已成为男人的主人公在格里芬的蜂巢酒馆遭遇法官，被其杀害，队伍成员至此全部牺牲，而小说也在法官的舞蹈中结束。

Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself.

Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.

Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.

Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. But it turns out that they have a gift for her as well: the news that the young Australian soldier, Joe Harmon, who had risked his life to help the women, had miraculously survived. Jean’s search for Joe leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.

The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the reader on an unforgettable journey of horror, violence, and personal discovery. The journey begins when Matthew, now an apprentice "problem solver" for the London-based Herrald Agency, accepts an unusual and hazardous commission. Together with his colleague, Hudson Greathouse, he agrees to escort the notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter from an asylum outside Philadelphia to the docks of New York. Along the way, Slaughter makes his captors a surprising - and extremely tempting - offer. Mister Slaughter is at once a classic portrait of an archetypal serial killer and an exquisitely detailed account of a fledgling nation still in the process of inventing itself.

"Judgment of the Witch"The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies -- and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal.... "Evil Unveiled"After hearing damning testimony, magistrate Woodward sentences the accused witch to death by burning. Desperate to exonerate the woman he has come to love, Matthew begins his own investigation among the townspeople. Piecing together the truth, he has no choice but to vanquish a force more malevolent than witchcraft in order to save his beloved Rachel -- and free Fount Royal from the menace claiming innocent lives.

His epic masterwork "Speaks the Nightbird," a tour de force of witchhunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeplysatisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny.The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend "the Masker," adding fuel to a volatile mystery...and when the Masker claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart-pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where the Queen of Bedlam reigns -- and only a man of Matthew's reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. From the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew's quest will tauntingly reveal the answers he seeks -- and the chilling truths he cannot escape.