Reader's Digest Condensed Books--Volume 5 1992

Barbara J. Morgan is the author behind the popular Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Her work has introduced countless readers to a wide range of stories.

Belva Plain (October 9, 1915 – October 12, 2010), née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction.

Henry Patterson, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 27 July 1929, was a British novelist best known by his pen name Jack Higgins. He also wrote as James Graham, Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlowe and Harry Patterson before settling on Jack Higgins for most of his career. His 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed, a thriller imagining a German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill, became an international bestseller and was adapted into a 1976 film. He went on to write more than 80 thrillers, including the l...

Jeanne (Dorothy) Williams is the author of sixty-nine novels. She is probably best known for her meticulously researched novels about the American West, but is equally good with novels placed in other locales.

Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career,...