By JON LAND Leave it to Sandra Brown. The opening of her latest bestseller, Smoke Screen, (Simon & Schuster, 398 pages, $26.95) gives us a beautiful woman waking up with a dead man next to her and no memory of how she got there. In lesser hands, this apparent cliche would be a recipe for disaster.

By JON LAND Ever since James Bond uttered the now famous line, "World domination, same old story," to Dr. No, shadowy cabals and power- mad conspiracies have defined the thriller genre.

Look out Indiana Jones, step aside Jason Bourne, and take heed James Bond because starting today there's an all-new, action-packed hero storming the scene by the name of Michael Tiranno.