Hardcover Fiction

by Jacqueline Susann · Simon & Schuster

by Mario Puzo · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Philip Roth · Random House

by Michael Crichton · Alfred A. Knopf

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

by Gladys Rockmore Davis · Signet

by Vladimir Nabokov · McGraw-Hill

by Ross MacDonald · Alfred A. Knopf

by Jessamyn West · Harcourt, Brace and World

by Eugenia Price · J.B. Lippincott Company

by Noah Gordon · McGraw-Hill