Author: Richard Presto
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: story, true, terrifying, zone
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385495226
ISBN-13: 9780385495226

The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it’s all true.A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells th

Author: Ben Ikenson
Publisher: Blake Publishing
Keywords: stuff, terrifying, bloody, book, blokes
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-07
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1844548570
ISBN-13: 9781844548576

Admit it - you’ve always wanted to know how to wrestle an alligator, or catch a speeding arrow while blindfolded, or to rip a phone directory in half in 10 seconds flat. This is the book to show you how. The Blokes’ Book of Bloody Terrifying Stuff offers a behnd-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at how you can emulate your favourite mentally unhinged stuntmen. Today’s modern daredevils breathe fire, stuff rattlesnakes into their mouths, juggle chainsaws and enjoy a spin in a washing machine. Why? Who knows. But it’s great fun to see how they do it. Just don’t try

Author: Michael Capuzzo
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: attacks, shark, terrifying, shore, close
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2002-05-21
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0767904141
ISBN-13: 9780767904148

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and luxurious Jersey Shore resorts were thriving as a chic playland for an opulent yet still innocent era’s new leisure class, Americans were abruptly introduced to the terror of sharks. In Ju

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Book
Keywords: terrifying, murderers, world, files, killer, serial
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0345465660
ISBN-13: 9780345465665

THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY�S MOST HEINOUS!Hollywood�s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can�t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium cover

Author: Laurence Bergree
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: circumnavigation, globe, terrifying, magellan, edge, world, over
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 006093638X
ISBN-13: 9780060936389

Ferdinand Magellan’s daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself.

Author: Nonie Darwish
Publisher: Nelson Current
Keywords: islamic, law, implications, global, punishment, terrifying, cruel
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 159555209X
ISBN-13: 9781595552099

Nonie Darwish presents an insider’s look at Sharia. Living under Sharia law for the first thirty years of her life, a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish never questioned or challenged her rights - she didn’t dare to even think about the validity of Sharia laws. She didn’t try to examine what Sharia was, how it came about or why she followed it. "This is Allah’s law," she was told, and she knew what awaited those who questioned Allah’s law. Cruel and Usual Punishment is an insider’s look at how Muslims sacrifice their basic human rights to obey the archaic

Author: Nonie Darwish
Publisher: Thomas Nelso
Keywords: islamic, law, implications, global, punishment, terrifying, cruel
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-01-06
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1595551611
ISBN-13: 9781595551610

Cruel and Usual Punishment is a wake up call to the Western world. Nonie Darwish presents an insider’s look at Sharia and examines how radical Muslim laws are destroying the Western world from within. Living under Sharia law for the first thirty years of her life,a virtual slave to Islamic law, Darwish never questioned or challenged her rights--or dared to even think about the validity of Sharia laws. She didn’t try to examine what Sharia was, how it came about or why she followed it. "This is Allah’s law," she was told, and she knew what awaited those who questioned Allah&#