In 'Libra', DeLillo turns back to the double event that fixed death most intimately in the collective minds of America - the assassination of John Kennedy and the incessant replay, on TV, of the murder of his assassin.

When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true...

David Bell embodies the American dream. He's 28, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour.

Set mostly in Greece, 'The Names' concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life.

It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target. He is the target, but not by the protestors.

This lean, sad, beautiful novel by the bestselling author of 'White Noise' and 'Underworld' is an unsentimental portrayal of marriage, and of the idiosyncracies that both isolate and bind us.

The stories in 'The Angel Esmeralda', collected from all five decades of DeLillo's career, show an acknowledged master of the novel in complete command of the short form. Here, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America.

"DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science" LA Times

'A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence' Washington Post