The Ice People – René Barjavel
A group of Antarctic explorers unearths a golden sphere deep under the ice, housing two humans who had been cryogenically frozen before pre-history.
A group of Antarctic explorers unearths a golden sphere deep under the ice, housing two humans who had been cryogenically frozen before pre-history.
Escaped convict Tim Sunblade and tramp call-girl Virginia, trapped in a love/hate relationship, execute the perfect job: an armored truck heist that’ll make them rich…
In the midst of depression brought on by the death of his wife, aging Hollywood star Clay Stuart falls into an obsessive lust for a dangerous young woman…
For Tommy Carver, Okie sharecropper with a short fuse, standing up to his miserable life may be the only way to escape it—if he’s not caught for a crime he didn’t commit.
Living in squalid disgrace, a former crooked cop may have struck it big: the local hood hires him as protection, then the cops hire him to bring in the local hood…
For twelve long years they remembered. For twelve long years they plotted. And now Captain Driscoll was going to pay for what he had done to them during the war.
Roy Dillon, professional con-man, is dying. His estranged mother Lilly arrives in time to save him, but their poisonous past—and Lilly’s feud with Roy’s girlfriend—make for a rocky future.
Roy Nichols is up to his neck in debt. His salvation comes in the form of a briefcase packed with cash. However, the money’s Mafia owners may have something to say about Roy using it.
Self-destructive gun for hire kills a man, triggering a moral quandary; he sets out on journey to discover who wanted the man dead and enact revenge.
Broke and broken ex-football star is enticed by a plot to find $120,000; all he has to do is sneak into a dead man’s mansion and find the hidden cash. Easier said than done.
Teenager decides to escape his life in the slums by turning to the Syndicate and the life of organized prostitution. If you can’t guess, another one with an unsavory protagonist.