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A colony on Mars becomes home to a killer conspiracy in a Near-Earth Mystery by the award-winning author of The Last Dance. Brazilian investigator Rosalia Morais, and her husband, revered American spacer Nicolau Aames, are building a life together in Mars’s Maxwell City, the fastest-growing settlement on the planet. Good news: there are no natural predators. Bad news: there are humans. That means the crime rate is growing, too. To ensure public safety, Rosie’s appointed by the mayor as the Red Planet’s first chief of police. No sooner does she build a law enforcement squad than the biggest challenge looks to be internal. Policing the police for graft and corruption is one thing. But when an industrialist is found among the chars of an arson, it’s murder. The fire leads to questions that can be answered by only one man—Nick’s former officer on the Earth-to-Mars vessel the Aldrin. And Nick is still duty bound to keep the officer’s secrets. As loyalties shift, trust breaks, and the tide of a political conspiracy rises, Rosie must solve a mystery that could doom the future of humanity on Mars.

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From a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Newly minted homicide detective Sydney Parnell faces a savage killer whose endgame is to capture her. And keep her. Iraqi war vet and former railway cop Sydney Parnell is now the youngest homicide detective in Denver’s Major Crimes Unit. In the past, gut instinct has served her and her K9 partner well. But it’s not a trait Len Bandoni, her old nemesis turned reluctant mentor, admires. Not until Sydney’s instincts lead to their first case: a man tortured and beaten to death, then left in a refrigerated train car with cryptic messages carved into his body. The victim is a well-liked member of an elite club called the Superior Gentlemen. At first glance, the club appears harmless. But beneath its refined surface swim darker currents. As Sydney; her K9 partner, Clyde; and Bandoni investigate the grisly murder, the three develop a bond that carries them through a shocking series of crimes and a horrifying conspiracy that threatens the detectives’ lives and promises to bring their beloved city to its knees.

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Book SynopsisAn Amazon Charts bestseller. She’s a total stranger. But she knows who you are… Suzi did a bad thing. She’s paying for it now, pregnant, scared, and living in an isolated cottage with her jealous husband, Nick. When Nora moves into the only house nearby, Suzi is delighted to have a friend. So much so that she’s almost tempted to tell Nora her terrible secret. But there’s more to Nora than meets the eye. It’s impossible—does she already know what Suzi did? Meanwhile, Elle spends her days in her perfect home, fixated on keeping up appearances. But when her husband betrays her, it unravels a secret going all the way back to her childhood. She’ll do whatever it takes to hold on to him, even if that means murder. After all, she’s done it before… Caught up in their own secrets and lies, these strangers will soon realise they have more in common than they could ever have imagined. When a shocking event brings them together, their lives will never be the same again.

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Book SynopsisAn Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. “Tracy Crosswhite is one of the best protagonists in the realm of crime fiction today, and there is nothing cold about A Cold Trail.” —Associated Press In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s riveting series, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite returns home to a brutal murder and her haunted past. The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister’s killer put behind bars. Now she’s returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town’s revitalization. And Tracy is urged by the local PD to put her own skills to work on a new case: the brutal murder of a police officer’s wife and local reporter who was investigating a cold-case slaying of a young woman. As Tracy’s and Dan’s cases crisscross, Tracy’s trail becomes dangerous. It’s stirring up her own haunted past and a decades-old conspiracy in Cedar Grove that has erupted in murder. Getting to the truth is all that matters. But what’s Tracy willing to risk as a killer gets closer to her and threatens everyone she loves?Trade Review“Impressive…Dugoni weaves a compulsively readable tale of love, loss, and greed. Readers will look forward to the further exploits of his sharp-witted detective.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Dugoni blends the best elements of a classic small town mystery with a legal thriller to craft a compelling tale. His characters and vivid setting drop the reader right into the emotional heart of the story. Tracy Crosswhite is one of the best protagonists in the realm of crime fiction today, and there is nothing cold about A Cold Trail.” —Associated Press “Crime writing of the absolute highest order, illustrating that Dugoni is every bit the equal of Lisa Gardner and Harlan Coben when it comes to psychological suspense. Call A Cold Trail an angst-riddled, contemplative tale, or just call it flat-out great.” —Providence Journal “Dugoni can truly do it all, and A Cold Trail is him at the height of his talents.” —Bookreporter “Dugoni’s formidable writing talent comes to the fore again in a nerve-twisting tale set in the snowbound Pacific Northwest. A Cold Trail hosts skillfully drawn characters with complex relationships and hidden motives and will leave the reader guessing to the end.” —Authorlink “Known for his thrilling detective series, New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni continues to deliver in the Tracy Crosswhite series. Promising to be intense, emotional, and fierce, this is a fast-paced story any crime fan can sink into.” —Independent Voice Newspaper Praise for The Tracy Crosswhite Series and Robert Dugoni: “Dugoni has a gift for creating compelling characters and mysteries that seem straightforward, but his stories, like an onion, have many hidden layers. He also is able to capture the spirit and atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest, making the environment come alive.” —Associated Press “Crosswhite is a sympathetic, well-drawn protagonist, and her next adventure can’t come fast enough.” —Library Journal (starred review) “An immensely—almost compulsively—readable tale…A crackerjack mystery.” —Booklist (starred review) “Dugoni is a superb storyteller…” —Boston Globe “[Dugoni is the] master of Seattle menace.” —The Big Thrill “Dugoni does a masterful job…If you are not already reading his books, you should be!” —BookReporter “Dugoni has become one of the best crime novelists in the business…” —RT Book Reviews “Dugoni breathes life into the police procedural like never before. Put the Tracy Crosswhite series…on your ‘must read’ list!” —Suspense Magazine “Dugoni’s twisted tale is one of conspiracy and culpability…Richly nuanced and entirely compelling…Further amplifying such gravitas is the richly atmospheric sense of place, with Seattle’s bitter chill serving as a suitable backdrop…” —Criminal Element

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Book SynopsisFBI special agent and cybercrime specialist Lisa Tanchik faces a deadly threat in this white-knuckle thriller. FBI special agent Lisa Tanchik is skilled at handling cyber threats, having recently taken down a Dark Web black market worth billions. But ruthless hacker NatalyaX always seems to be a step ahead. The government calls on Tanchik’s expertise when an email attachment causes a fatal seizure at US Cyber Command. But before she can get her feet under her, the entire East Coast goes dark. A sinister plan is unfolding before her eyes—and no one knows who’s behind it. Tanchik plunges into chaos to hunt down the true source of the attacks. Close dealings with shadowy figures both online and off expose her to extraordinary danger as the country teeters on the brink of catastrophe. A soldier on the front line of a cyberwar, Tanchik must nullify the threat before it deals a death blow to America’s institutions—and puts millions of lives in jeopardy.Trade Review“At the start of Hirsch’s nail-biting sequel to 2019’s Black Nowhere, FBI special agent Lisa Tanchik is called to a murder scene in Columbia, Md., that has the m.o. of NatalyaX, the hacker she has been tracking for a year. The action builds to a surprising twist ending. Chronically depressed and continually hung over, Lisa is a flawed heroine readers are sure to root for. Hopefully, she’ll be back soon.” —Publishers Weekly “Reece Hirsch masterfully delivers a smart, electrifying thriller with Dark Tomorrow. Perfectly balanced between tense street-level action and a ‘race against the clock’ cyber hunt—you’ll ride this high-octane rollercoaster of shocking twists and turns until the last page.” —Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author “A fantastic edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that never lets up for a single page. Plus, a kickass heroine who’s worth rooting for. This book has everything I want in a great thriller.” —Chad Zunker, author of An Equal Justice “Hirsch imagines a frightening future in which cybercrime is rampant, and it takes the best and the brightest resources of the government to combat the enemy’s relentless attacks. Dark Tomorrow is both terrifying and compulsively readable.” —Terry Shames, author of the Samuel Craddock series Praise for Black Nowhere “[A] brisk, provocative series launch…” —Publishers Weekly “Black Nowhere showcases author Reece Hirsch’s mastery of the suspense thriller genre with this FBI procedural novel that will hold the reader’s rapt attention from cover to cover.” —Midwest Book Review “There’s something great about being embroiled in a book series from the start. This fantastic series launch will form part of the Lisa Tanchik series…We’re expecting good things.” —Yahoo Style UK “Reece Hirsch serves up the perfect blend of science and story in Black Nowhere…This is truly eye-opening stuff. Black Nowhere is so cutting edge, you almost need gloves to turn the pages. A relentless ride with as many dips as a roller-coaster and as many darts as NASCAR.” —Providence Journal “Hirsch adapts the realities of our brave new high-tech world into an entertaining nail-biter…FBI Special Agent Lisa Tanchik, an online chameleon who infiltrates the criminal network, is an exciting heroine for these digitally defined times…” —Diablo Magazine “Black Nowhere ticks all the regular spy thriller boxes and pleases the geeks as well—a bravura performance from Reece Hirsch.” —Fresh Fiction “Black Nowhere is a next-gen thriller that will leave your fingertips blistered from scrolling pages so fast. Prepare to lose sleep!” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter “Black Nowhere is an extremely unsettling thriller that haunted me for weeks. It’s a shrewd critique of Silicon Valley startup culture, a brisk FBI procedural, and a chilling look at a very modern form of amorality.” —Dave Eggers, author of The Circle and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist “Black Nowhere is a blast. A gripping thriller with wonderfully nuanced characters. If you haven’t been reading Reece Hirsch, it’s time to start.” —Lisa Lutz, New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger “Black Nowhere is a Dark Web Scarface for the twenty-first century! Fast, smart, and timely, Hirsch hits all the right notes in this cat-and-mouse page-turner that exposes the false utopia promised by the modern internet. I hope there is much more to come from Special Agent Lisa Tanchik.” —Matthew FitzSimmons, Wall Street Journal bestselling author “Special Agent Lisa Tanchik is a terrific lead character, passionate about her work as she journeys into the dark web where cybercriminals lurk and nothing is what it seems. A must-read!” —T.R. Ragan, New York Times bestselling author “Smart, intense, and frighteningly real—I loved this book! Readers who enjoy thrillers with a heavy dose of high-tech computer wizardry will devour Reece Hirsch’s gripping new novel. When two of the smartest people on the planet face off in a cat-and-mouse game that might be the end for them both, the outcome is anything but certain.” —Karen Dionne, international bestselling author of The Marsh King’s Daughter “A sleek and suspenseful state-of-the-art thriller with crisp writing and engaging characters that has something to say about the way we live now.” —Peter Blauner, author of Sunrise Highway

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Book SynopsisExtravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends--an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright--who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she quoted from Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, because she was sure Antonio hadn't read her yet: Can a man really be held accountable for his own actions? His behavior, even his character, is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him. In San Francisco, besides the accumulation of wealth, what does the age ask of your so called protagonist? No wonder he never returns to Ecuador. Mauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. Excerpts from his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, have appeared in Conjunctions, the Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, and BOMB. His interviews and essays on/with Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Javier Marias, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Juan Villoro, and Antonio Lobo Antunes have appeared in Music & Literature, San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, and the Quarterly Conversation.Trade Review"Cardenas's exuberant debut novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, profiles a group of Ecuadorans trying, some harder than others, to change the political situation in their country. Stuffed with dizzying leaps from character to character, from street protests to swanky soirees, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues, the novel also includes some wonderful long sentences." --Publishers Weekly "The Ecuadorian writer has delivered his debut, The Revolutionaries Try Again. While it is, indeed, very much a novel rather than a political manifesto--it depicts four childhood friends as they regroup in adulthood and aim to change their country's politics for the better--Cardenas reveals, via some stunning and shapeshifting prose, that politics in Ecuador isn't as straightforward as it appears on its surface, and very often it amounts to little more than a vain exercise in egobuilding and self-fantasy." --Kenyon Review "This is an original, insubordinate novel, like his grammar, like his syntax, but fabulously, compellingly readable, with endearing characters like Leopoldo's grandma, who would tie a white plastic bag on her head like a wig and perform Macbeth for him at her farm, proclaiming in unintelligible English, 'Blo win, crack you cheek, rage! Blo!'" --New York Time Sunday Book Review "Mauro Javier Cardenas's debut, The Revolutionaries Try Again, tells the tale of three Ecuadorian friends--one living in exile in San Francisco, the other two still in Guayaquil--who come together in a quixotic attempt to take the country's Presidency. 'Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones,' one character reminds another, and Cardenas's gift is to show, through long, brilliant sentences, the charm of inaction and delinquency." --The New Yorker "Drawing on everything from pop culture to Ecuadorian politics, and posing questions about faith, morality, and devotion to one's country and ideals (all expressed in a deviant postmodern style), Cardenas's spellbinding book should appeal to McOndo devotees and Bolano fans alike. But The Revolutionaries taps into something more comprehensive and universally conscientious... It's a novel that redefines the Latin American identity in a world characterized by social technology and ever-blurring ethnic boundaries."--Los Angeles Review of Books "There's an infectious warmth in the recollections of the friends' school days, and the prose often draws blood..."--The New Yorker "Each story's hook is keenly sharpened, pulling you into the center of a tortured psyche...Revelations come through a steady drip of plot tinged with unease, with each story wholly delivered and wholly strange." --The Stake "Exuberant, cacophonous ... Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character, from street protests to swanky soirees, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs, resulting in extended passages of brilliance." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Even if Cardenas isn't quite ready to run for office in Ecuador, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a rare book--it's political without drowning in politics, it's innovative without languishing in theatrics, and it also blends the historically accurate with the personal. It's part satire, part social commentary, and 100% a good story with rich, compelling characters." --Kirkus Reviews "Cardenas displays an ambitious intelligence that eschews easy answers. His inclusive sympathy is balanced by an unsparing eye. By the end, Antonio questions his own motives for returning, asking himself 'how are we to be humans in a world of destitution and injustice.' A strong debut written with nuance and authority." --Kirkus Reviews "This inventive novel shares some of the revolutionary spirit of Ecuador's ill-served people who, as one character puts it, 'want to trounce the same old narratives.'" --Publishers Weekly "Cardenas brilliantly transforms his "book of ideas" into an unraveling interrogation into Antonio's past, employing unorthodox paragraph structures that slip seamlessly between long passages of fast-paced stream-of-consciousness, unexpected song lyrics, and sudden dialogue." --Booklist "An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdala "El Loco" Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby." --Shelf Awareness "Cardenas's The Revolutionaries Try Again is a delirious account of several Ecuadorians attempting to wrest control of their country from the hands of brutal oligarchs and buffoonish populists." --Publishers Weekly "The style of this book is as ambitious as its territory, moving fluidly from voice to voice, from luminous long sentences to syntactical fragmentation. Cardenas, an Ecuadoran now living in San Francisco, has made the Nabokovian move of claiming adoptive English as his own, and he gives us many beautifully eloquent moments." --San Francisco Chronicle "Told in winding sentences propelled by interjections and an almost manic energy, The Revolutionaries Try Again... is both ambitious and irreverent, its language as suffused with childhood jest as with profound, urgent questions of purpose." --San Francisco Chronicle "Then along came The Revolutionaries Try Again... a high-octane, high-modernist debut novel from the gifted, fleet Mauro Javier Cardenas." --Harper's Magazine "The novel veers toward the nonlinear and the fragmentary, gesturing at the brokenness and inadequacy of available narratives and their inability to represent the tangled, messy realities of lives caught in the snare of failed neoliberalism. From this brokenness emerges an exuberant, virtuosic language that encompasses song, colloquial speech in English and Spanish, rapid-fire dialogues, fragmentary, elegiac interior monologues, narrative in verse form, and two chapters written exclusively in Spanish." --Guernica "The Revolutionaries Try Again dissects a decade of Ecuadorian austerity and idealism through often jarring and always stunning literary montage." --The Millions "Cardenas uses the trappings of Modernism to traditionally Modernist ends?--?mirroring the workings of consciousness, and depicting a society, reeling from violence, that has lost faith in itself?--?but The Revolutionaries Try Again is set in a country and time that we don't normally associate with Modernism: the Ecuador of the mid-90s, in the months leading up to the demagogue 'El Loco' Bucaram's election." --Electric Literature "Like Tulathimutte in particular, Cardenas is conjuring a modish and streamlined maximalism that soaks postmodernism and hyperrealism in multicultural and social media colloquialism. The Revolutionaries Try Again could be spun as the The Recognitions of our age, with Otto reborn as Antonio. In any case, it's revolutionary." --Culture Trip "It's a particularly galvanizing novel to read in the aftermath of Election Day as it considers the questions--what do we owe? and to whom to we owe it? Of course, The Revolutionaries Try Again ... is much more than that: experimental, funny, many tongued."--Brooklyn Magazine "Like its cast of characters, the novel is colorful and disarming, bristling with idealism and disillusionment and profoundly embattled intelligence; like the country it brings to life without ever fully inhabiting, it's noisy and claustrophobic and a dizzying thrill to get lost in." --Electric Literature "Antonio returns to Ecuador with dreams of saving his country from corrupt oligarchs and (also corrupt) populist demagogues; but everybody feels like they've been chosen, and Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab- the tension between the call to service and the desire for more, the strangeness of having seen miracles while knowing the power of mass delusion." --The Rumpus "Cardenas's first novel The Revolutionaries Try Again has the trappings of a ravishing debut: smart blurbs, a brilliant cover, a modernist narrative set amongst political turmoil in South America, and a flurry of pre-pub excitement on Twitter." --The Millions "All told, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a remarkable achievement; Cardenas' expansive voice and vision are too brilliant to let pass you by." --BuzzFeed "The first time a so-called industry person asked me about The Revolutionaries Try Again, a novel of voices in an altered state of recollection, I said it was about alien chickens. Somewhere in the clouds the ghost of Gombrowicz nodded in approval. Somewhere in Minnesota my editor is nodding in disapproval." --Flavorwire "Its style is ambitious, yes, entirely unique, one could even say difficult if one were so inclined, but the most difficult theme of the novel for an American audience is the degree to which we American readers are also complicit in the degraded existence of the poor and oppressed below our southern border." --The Scofield "Filtering the saga through Cardenas's defiantly experimental writing style, means readers are left with an extraordinary, unapologetic book, an almost unbelievable debut." --Music & Literature "An amazing book rife with intelligence and love for the potential of one's homeland." --Electric Literature "All told, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a remarkable achievement; Cardenas' expansive voice and vision are too brilliant to let pass you by." --Buzzfeed "Followers of Latin American literature won't want to miss the American debut of Ecuadorian writer Mauro Javier Cardenas, The Revolutionaries Try Again." --BookPage "The prose [in The Revolutionaries Try Again] darkens into avant-garde genius." --Artforum "This dazzling debut by Mauro Javier Cardenas reads like Antonio Lobo Antunes having a cup of coffee (or a beer) with Garcia Marquez." --Lit Hub "In The Revolutionaries Try Again, Cardenas explores the many facets of friendships, the things we leave unsaid, and all of the ways nostalgia acts as a fun house mirror on our memories." --Lit Hub "Cardenas' fiction does compute, though not by traditional means. It speaks instead like a wise but fevered man -- exalting in digression, pining for something lost, planting profundity amid little clouds of chaos." --The Dallas News "[The Revolutionaries Try Again] is stylish, daring, dense and polyphonic; voices and ideas are braided together seamlessly. It is also a Latin American novel written in English by a native of Ecuador and it's astounding." --Brazos Bookstore "Mauro Javier Cardenas' debut novel The Revolutionaries Try Again ... has evoked comparisons to great Latin American novels like Roberto Bolanos The Savage Detectives and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch." --KQED "He's a tremendously skilled storyteller and monologuist; his writing is so exuberant." --Paul Yamazaki "In The Revolutionaries Try Again, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last." --Karan Mahajan "The Revolutionaries Try Again is a daring novel that pits youthful idealism against persistent and inescapable corruption. Mauro Javier Cardenas is an exciting new voice in Latin American literature, and his debut crackles with an exuberance that readers of Valeria Luiselli, Julio Cortazar, and Horacio Castellanos Moya will love." --Stephen Sparks "Beware of this writer! The book you're holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning, he'll never forget it, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive, forceful, and written in an English that's fiercely subversive, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolano's The Savage Detectives and Cortazar's Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it's the novel we've been waiting for, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It's been ten years since a book this alive, this incandescent, has fallen into my hands." --Carmen Boullosa "Irreverent, shape-shifting, and wise, The Revolutionaries Try Again is as relentless in its indictment of political depredation as it is heartfelt in its devotion to the friendships and wild idealisms of youth. This forceful debut novel is a blast of fresh air, and I had a blast reading it." --Justin Taylor "What begins as an Ecuadorian political farce in Mauro Javier Cardenas's The Revolutionaries Try Again quickly becomes the most exciting experimental novel in years--a vision so uncompromising in form and sensation that readers will leave sighing, swearing, and returning to page one." --Tony Tulathimutte "The Revolutionaries Try Again transfixes on every page--across every world-devouring sentence--with a rigorous, incandescent language rarely seen in contemporary fiction. It's a bit early to say, but Cardenas's debut is either the jubilant beginning or the rapturous end of the Latin American novel: a revelation of a book." --Hal Hlavinka, Community BookstoreTable of ContentsPART ONE: ANTONIO & LEOPOLDO I. LEOPOLDO CALLS ANTONIO II. ANTONIO IN SAN FRANCISCO III. LEOPOLDO AND THE OLIGARCHS IV. ANTONIO EDITS HIS BABY CHRIST MEMOIR V. ANTONIO IN GUAYAQUIL VI. ANTONIO’S GRANDMOTHER GIVES ADVICE VII. ANTONIO & LEOPOLDO AT DON ALBAN’S PART TWO: ROLANDO & EVA VIII. ROLANDO & EVA IX. ROLANDO LOOKS FOR EVA PART THREE: DISINTEGRATION X. FACUNDO AT SAN JAVIER XI. LEOPOLDO’S GRANDMOTHER GIVES ADVICE XII. LEOPOLDO & ANTONIO AT JULIO’S PARTY XIII. EVA ALONG VICTOR EMILIO ESTRADA XIV. ROLANDO FINDS EVA PART FOUR: FACUNDO SAYS FAREWELL XV. FACUNDO SAYS FAREWELL XVI. ANTONIO EDITS HIS BABY CHRIST MEMOIR XVII.THE NIGHT BEFORE ALMA’S FIRST VOICE OF WITNESS INTERVIEW

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Book SynopsisCould you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire? Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new historical page-turner is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman’s life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese . . . a young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war . . . a black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. Set against a backdrop of violent racial conflict on both the front lines and the home front, The Last Thing You Surrender explores the powerful moral struggles of individuals from a divided nation. What does it take to change someone’s mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed?Trade ReviewPraise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s novel THE LAST THING YOU SURRENDER:“Seamlessly integrates impressive research into a compelling tale of America at war—overseas, at home, and within ourselves, as we struggle to find the better angels of our nature. Pitts poignantly illustrates ongoing racial and class tensions, and offers hope that we can overcome hatred by refusing to sacrifice dignity.” —Booklist, starred review."The Last Thing You Surrender is a story of our nation at war, with itself as well as tyranny across the globe. It’s an American tapestry of hatred, compassion, fear, courage, and cruelties, leavened with the promise of triumph. A powerful story I will not soon forget.” —James R. Benn, author of the Billy Boyle WWII Mystery series “Leonard Pitts, Jr. does it again. He interweaves stories that grip you from beginning to end. Set during WWII, it shows how race relations in America haven't advanced much. The Last Thing You Surrender will have you entranced with the story, and it will stick with you even after you complete the last page.” —Southfield Public Library "I couldn't put it down, and it left me stunned! It’s such a harsh novel, yet at the same time, it’s a hopeful novel that is so relevant today. I'm already telling people about it.” —Pete Mock, McIntyre's Books, Pittsboro, North CarolinaPraise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s novel GRANT PARK:"Grant Park is layered, insightful, and passionate. Pitts's subtly explosive language grips readers with the delicate subject matter and earnestly implores them to understand that '[race] has always meant something and it always will.' The scars will remain, but stunningly powerful examinations like Grant Park can be the salve that helps heal open wounds." —Shelf-Awareness, starred review"Leonard Pitts has written a taut thriller that weaves together a stark look at America's tortured racial past with a fast-paced tale of terrorist conspiracy and love rekindled." —Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun Times“. . . these ideas [are] perennially salient, and doubly so today, given a growing litany of American sorrows, from Ferguson to Charleston and beyond. . . . lays bare the extent to which Americans, black and white, still struggle to articulate the basic elements of our shared past." — Vinson Cunningham, New York Times Book Review"The book is a page-turner, but also one that commands deep reflection on history, racism, and personal choices." —Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times"A novel as significant as it is engrossing." —Booklist, starred review"Pitts masterfully revisits [election night on November 4, 2008] and four decades of the civil rights struggle to create one of the most suspenseful and spectacular fictitious moments you'll experience this fall." —Patrik Henry Bass, Essence"Pitts does a skillful job of building tension in the novel's historical sections as well as on Election Day. . . . He also does something not every political thriller writer does: builds believable, complex characters." — Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times"[A] high-stakes, hard-charging political thriller. . . . The sharply etched characters, careful attention to detail, and rich newspaper lore propel Pitts's socially relevant novel." —Publishers Weekly"And then there are those thrills—gasping, mouth-gaping page-turners that author Leonard Pitts Jr. weaves through another realism: truthful, brutal plot-lines about racial issues of the last five decades, mulling over exactly how far we’ve really come. That makes this will-they-live-or-won't-they nail-biter into something that also made me think, and I absolutely loved it." —Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez"An important book, one that honestly examines the current, tumultuous racial divide in our country and demands we not turn away from its harsh realities." —Amy Canfield, Miami Herald"Grant Park is a book that’s both socially relevant and a lot of fun." —NewCity"In the aftermath of this summer's racially motivated mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist, there's near-eerie prescience in Pitts' historical novel. . .[Grant Park], with urgency and passion, makes readers aware that the mistakes of the past are neglected at the future's peril." —Kirkus Reviews"Grant Park is a monumental work, so all-encompassing in scope that reviewers will be hard-pressed to do it justice. Pitts’s passion for a solution holds strong to the end of his novel even as his central character seems to give up. Readers will find Grant Park is real." —Bookpleasures.com"Grant Park is a thriller, and readers will find themselves turning pages accordingly, although the interior stories of Bob and Malcolm regarding their younger selves may be the real action." —Brian Burnes, The Kansas City StarPraise for Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s previous novel FREEMAN:"A uniquely American epic. . . by a knowledgeable, compassionate and relentlessly truthful writer." —Howard Frank Mosher, Washington Post"A pretty powerful love story." —Audie Cornish, All Things Considered"Gorgeously written; a searing, wrenching read. Fans of Cold Mountain and Cormac McCarthy will love this story." —Jennifer Weiner, author of The Next Best Thing"Leonard Pitts has a passion for history and a gift for storytelling. Both shine in this story of love and redemption." —Gwen Ifill, PBS, author of The Breakthrough"Freeman is a myth of what’s humanly possible, a needed story about little-known heroism, and a shadow thrown forward to the struggles of American families in the 21st century." —John Timpane, Philadelphia Inquirer"A wonderful, moving, riveting novel." —Gabrielle Union, actress"Post-Civil War America is fertile ground for novelists, but few have tilled it with such grace and majesty as Leonard Pitts." —Herb Boyd, co-editor of By Any Means Necessary—Malcolm X: Real, not Reinvented"This book is an eye-opening commentary on devotion during this tangled chapter of American history." —Wendi Thomas, Memphis Commercial Appeal"Leonard Pitts, Jr. crafts a novel as well as the great storytellers of our time. Freeman captured my attention from the very first sentence and my heart throughout." —Sybil Wilkes, The Tom Joyner Morning Show"Freeman reminds us of our humanity." —Nancy Olson, owner of Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, North Carolina

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Book SynopsisThe assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand trial for his murder of America’s beloved president. This meticulously researched and riveting courtroom drama follows prosecutors Abe Summer and Elaine Navarro as they work to bring Oswald to justice despite the legend in Oswald’s corner: famed attorney Percy Foreman. With mysteries and coincidences swirling around the case, Oswald’s conviction doesn’t seem set in stone. After Ruby fails to assassinate the assassin, can Summer and Navaro bring peace of mind back to the American people by sending a murderer to prison?Author William Alsup’s fair and thrilling novel is all the more compelling thanks in no small part to his experiences and expertise as a federal judge. With his background in research and jurisprudence, Alsup has become an expert on the Oswald case. From newspaper clippings to the Warren Report, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is based on real and complicated history. Readers with a passion for the procedural will relish the details Alsup provides behind the scenes of a prosecution, demonstrating just how much time and effort goes into even cases that seem cut and dry. America never recovered from the killing of its king of Camelot, but The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald provides a window into what might have been.

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Book SynopsisAll she wanted was to find a quiet beach where she could go topless. It was not to be. Videographer Madison Merlot Dayne arrived on the Big Island to shoot the HDTV of her culinary father?s popular television food show, ?Insatiable Delights.? But from the moment of her arrival, Madison and her father are involved in trying to discover who may have poisoned a revered Hawaiian singing star.Her working vacation involves riots, suspicious accidents, earthquakes, flowing lava, ancient Hawaiian war weapons, and a real ?cliff-hanger.? Madison is likewise having men problems. She desires island romance, but is not prepared for three men in her life? at the same time. And there is the mystery of the boiling cauldron. Will Madison get off the island alive?

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Book SynopsisA poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in this Edgar Award-winning classic from 1946.

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Book SynopsisBrain disease worsening, Rick Cahill risks everything— even his life— to provide for his fractured family’ s futureSan Diego private investigator Rick Cahill’ s past comes back to haunt him when he’ s at his most vulnerable. His wife, Leah, has fled with their daughter, Krista, to her parents’ home in Santa Barbara. She fears Rick’ s violent outbursts brought on by his potentially fatal brain disorder, CTE— and she doesn’ t trust that he’ ll ever be able to tame his manic desire to bring his own brand of justice to an unjust world.Rick desperately wants to reunite his family and help provide for Krista’ s future— one he fears he won’ t be alive to see. A jumpstart toward that future appears in the form of Peter Stone, Rick’ s longtime enemy. Stone offers Rick $50,000 to find a woman he claims can save his life with a bone marrow transplant. Rick can’ t pass up the chance to buttress Krista’ s future.When what seems like a simple missing person case spirals out of control into cryptocurrency machinations, dead bodies, and an outgunned faceoff, Rick is forced to battle evil from his past. Can he stay alive long enough to see his family one last time?

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Book SynopsisTo find a missing girl, Sandy must return to the insidious places she once worked tirelessly to escape Sandy Corrigan used to be called Diamond. She used to live in an apartment with other girls like her, though she rarely slept there, instead spending her evenings in hotel rooms around Orlando with lonely, unfaithful men. That is, until the incident. But despite the personal hell she endured, the nightmarish crisis saved her from a life spent in strangers? beds. Sandy now spends her evenings reading to her six-year-old son, Tyler, and her days working for her brother?s private investigation business. Despite severing all ties to her former life, a girl from her past reappears and asks Sandy to investigate the disappearance of a young call girl. Unsure of whether or not the girl is alive, and wary of the past traumas the investigation could bring to the surface, Sandy takes the case. What she doesn?t expect to discover is a sordid web of corruption, sex, and murder, and she soon grows more entangled with each step she takes. Can she survive the horrors she thought she escaped years ago?Perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and Lisa Gardner

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Book SynopsisEurope?s last line of defense against neofascism?a history professor? Professor William Dresden has found solitude in the south of France to grapple with his troubled past?a neglected upbringing, failed romances, the recent demolition of his life?s work in academia, and even witnessing genocide, among other secrets. But he soon learns that he has much larger problems when an adrift MI6 officer, Adeline Parker, calls and insists on a meeting, revealing shocking information about his family. Then a bomb explodes. William and Adeline narrowly escape the attempt on their lives and find themselves battling a group of neofascists and extreme nationalists who are inciting violent divisions across Europe. They are pulled into a shadowy war against a cabal called the Strasbourg Executive and pushed to the brink by family betrayals, corrupt institutions, and the Executive?s subversive plots against the fabric of Western society. To survive, William must make tough decisions and act in ways he could?ve never previously imagined?but even that might not be enough.Perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Jack Carr

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Book SynopsisA modern-day Romeo and Juliet?set against the backdrop of deadly weapons smuggling When ten-year-old Elizabeth West?s father dies in a tragic plane crash over the Persian Gulf, her family uproots their life in Washington, D.C., and moves to London. Her mother marries a knighted British businessman who has two children, and Elizabeth (Lizzy) and her two sisters move in with their new family. At age sixteen, while attending the American School of London, Lizzy meets and falls in love with Adil Hasan?but when Adil?s father, a noted arms middleman, is deported, Lizzy and Adil are separated. Lizzy?s family has also become involved with French-German industrialist Gerald Rene Wagner. Little does she know that Adil?s family has ties to the man, as well. When a member of her family is murdered in Berlin under mysterious circumstances, questions surface about Wagner?s dealings, and Lizzy reexamines what really may have happened to her father. All the while, she endeavors to reunite with her lost love, Adil, and reclaim the connection that was ripped away. Set in the years before and after the first Gulf War, Burning Distance is a journey through family secrets and competing loyalties, contemporary history, and the dark world of arms trafficking.Jane Austen meets John le Carré in this cross-cultural love story and political thriller

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Book SynopsisFirst, his doppelganger is killed?then it?s his father. Rick Shepherd is being stalked by a murderer. When Rick Shepherd, a physician, approaches his office on a busy Manhattan street, he finds police cars, an ambulance, and crime scene technicians. He soon learns a passerby was shot three times in the back, murdered at the front door to Rick?s office. Later that evening while watching the local news, Rick and his fiancee, Jackie, see a photo of the victim?to their horror, the deceased looks identical to Rick. Two nights later, while making a house call in a Brooklyn apartment building, Rick?s 64-year-old father is shot and killed in the exact same way. Detectives Art Nager and Liz Callaghan are assigned the case, and they launch an investigation. There are no clues leading to the perpetrator. Even more ominously, someone has been calling Rick and Jackie?s apartment and hanging up. Whoever is targeting Rick must have murdered his father, and they now have Rick in their crosshairs. Nager and Callaghan seem to be making no progress with their investigation. Rick?s quest for the truth draws him into a labyrinth of secrets, past tragedies, and the agonizing pain of lives shattered by a single event. Can he make it out before he meets the same fate as his father?Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and J. D. Robb

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Book SynopsisBook two in the Marseilles trilogyIn Marseilles, you weren't just from one neighborhood, one project. You werechourmo. In the same galley, rowing! Trying to get out. Together.Fabio Montale has left a police force marred by corruption, racism and greed to follow the placid rhythms of his native town: the sea, fishing, and the local bar. But getting out is not going to be so easy. When his cousin's son goes missing, Montale is dragged back into the mean streets of a violent, crime-infested Marseilles. To discover the truth about the boy's disappearance, he infiltrates a dangerous underworld of mobsters, religious fanatics, crooked cops and ordinary people driven to extremes by desperation.This second novel in Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles trilogy is a touching tribute to the author's beloved city, in all its color and complexity. Fabio Montale is an unwitting hero in this city of melancholy beauty.

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Book SynopsisDark, disturbing and deliciously twisty, Reptile Memoirs is a biting and brilliant exploration of the cold-bloodedness of humanity - perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbø and Tana French.What readers are saying about Reptile Memoirs'Truly unusual and terrifying' 'Dark, heart-wrenching and creepy''Graphic''Dark, challenging and unforgettable''Chilling''Not for the faint hearted''Unique, dark and disturbing, gripping and very, very clever'Late one night, Liv sees a TV nature show and finds herself compelled to buy a pet snake. As she bonds with her new Burmese python, she is unaware how much he takes in with his cold, impassive eyes. He watches.Thirteen years later, Mariam Lind goes on a shopping trip with her eleven-year-old daughter, Iben. Following an argument Mariam storms off, expecting her young daughter to make her own way home . . . but she never does. Detective Roe Olsvik is assigned to the case of Iben's disappearance. As he interrogates Mariam, he instantly suspects her - but his response to the situation seems unusually personal . . .A biting and constantly shifting tale of family secrets, rebirth and the legacy of trauma, Reptile Memoirs asks the question: Can you ever really shed your skin?Trade ReviewThe narrative twists make your jaw drop...An astonishing debut. * The Times - Books of the Year *This astonishing debut gradually tightens its grip and leaves you gasping...Silje Ulstein is a daringly original writer. * The Times *A remarkable literary debut offering a twist on the Nordic police procedural * Financial Times, Best books for summer *Original, sharp, tender and chilling, Reptile Memoirs is hugely ambitious and hypnotically readable. -- Chris Whitaker, author of WE BEGIN AT THE ENDA beautifully dark and twisty story with jaw-dropping twists and pin-point plotting. -- Joanna Cannon, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEPNeither Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), nor Paula Hawkins (Girl on the Train), nor Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient) - to name some well-known examples from the last decade - can measure up to Ulstein . . . This debut is a great discovery . . . A thriller that really stands out. * Aftenposten *Ulstein has written the best and creepiest Norwegian crime debut in years . . . A novel that stands out due to both its dark, clever and intricate plot as well as the author's solid insight in the human mind. * Adresseavisen *A nerve-wrecking and highly original psychological thriller . . . The book is very hard to put down and if you do the plot will keep playing out in your mind. * Dagbladet *This book is a shapeshifting marvel. I found it compulsively readable, and not just for the unexpected paths by which it unpacks its secrets. Silje Ulstein writes about snakes in ways that made me feel I've never really seen them before: In language that is as seductive as it is prickly, she pries open the boundaries between reptiles and humans, adults and the children they once were, and criminals and victims. An uncanny, unsettling and totally immersive read. -- Emily Fridlund, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of HISTORY OF WOLVESReptile Memoirs is a magnetic ocean tide: a bold, heart-stopping and genre-defying debut which compels us to sink toward the darkest depths of our past. A masterfully shocking and at times wonderfully uncomfortable exploration of obsession, desire and rejection, sexuality and taboo, Ulstein leaves us breathless in her quest to examine which version of the self is capable of love and violence. -- Sarah Schmidt, author of SEE WHAT I HAVE DONEExtraordinary and terrifying, Reptile Memoirs sinks teeth into you from page one. Through relentless and, at times, almost unbearable tension, Ulstein delivers a menacingly layered thriller unlike any you've read before. -- P. J. Vernon, author of BATH HAUS

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Book SynopsisCorporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is working on a high-stakes case, defending a prominent bank accused of fraud. When Elizabeth gets the news that one of her junior associates has lost his phone - and the secret documents that were on it - she needs help. Badly.Enter ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when wealthy people, corporations and governments need their problems solved discreetly. But things get complicated when the missing phone is retrieved: somebody has already copied the documents and blackmail is underway.Mysterious leaks to the press and an unlikely suicide further complicate the situation. With billions of dollars on the line, Elizabeth and Valencia must outmanoeuvre their tormentors, all the while keeping their hands clean.From the corporate boardrooms of Manhattan to the city's gritty outer boroughs, a sharply drawn cast ofcharacters - including dirty lawyers, black-market traders and Russian criminals - take part in this breakneck tour through New York. Authentic, tense and impossible to put down, Clean Hands shows a talented crime writer hitting his stride.Trade ReviewHoffman is a private investigator and his time on the shady side of the street informs every bit of this gripping financial thriller...[a] smart, fast-moving tale. * The Sun *Edge-of-the-seat stuff, with two memorable female leads. * Sunday Times Crime Club *Exhilarating...with its crisp pace and superb timing, Clean Hands is a special treat * Wall Street Journal *The fun is in the details...It becomes increasingly clear that the whole thing is far more complicated, with much higher stakes, than most of the pawns in this grand chess game understand. * New York Times Book Review *Clean Hands is a terrific combination of noir mystery with financial thriller plus dirty-ops espionage, staking a claim to a highly compelling intersection of grit and glamour, with an unforgettable cast that's rich in both low lifes and the high life, and devious twists galore. Highly enjoyable. -- Chris Pavone, author of THE EXPATSClean Hands is an old-fashioned private investigator yarn - a terrific story - but skilfully brought up to date. Patrick Hoffman never slows the pace and always keeps the reader guessing. I admired the strong female characters, especially the P.I., Valencia Walker, a take-charge dame who's been around the block too many times to count. -- Susan IsaacsEverything you could want in a thriller - lightning pace, dead-on dialogue and a twisting, high-torque plot. But, most of all, this novel is smart and authentic, a welcome jolt at a time when so much fiction reads like it rolled off an assembly line. -- Carl Hiassen, on EVERY MAN A MENACESubtle characterization, tricky narrative switchbacks . . . vivid, moody prose . . . closer to Denis Johnson than to Elmore Leonard * Paris Review on EVERY MAN A MENACE *Everything in his unpredictable fiction has the dissonant clink of alarming truth . . . The White Van, with its quick and scary turns, provides a hell of a ride; the action never stops - even after the final page * Wall Street Journal on THE WHITE VAN *

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Book SynopsisIt's London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money: smuggling vodka across the border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union - but there is something fishy about Kostya's sudden appearance in Finland and intelligence from London points to a connection to cobalt mining in the region, a critical component in the casing of the atomic bomb. Wilderness's posting is getting more interesting by the minute, but more dangerous too.Moving from the no-man's-land of Cold War Finland to the wild days of the Prague Spring, and populated by old friends (including Inspector Troy) and old enemies alike, Hammer to Fall is a gripping tale of deception and skulduggery, of art and politics, a page-turning story of the always riveting life of the British spy.Trade ReviewThe thriller writer's thriller writer returns with one of his best: a dark tale of treachery and betrayal with a humdinger of an ending. * The i *It's a blast...all the elements coalesce for the superbly tense showdown * The Times *An entertaining read, with an intelligent backdrop of cold-war geopolitics. * Financial Times *Those of you who like your fiction based firmly in historical fact, with walk-on parts from the great and the good of the age, scattered with literary, political and cultural references and frequently hilarious to boot, are in for a real treat...This book and its predecessors are such a valuable tonic in these dark times. * Shots *A smart, tense thriller that harks back to [the] great Len Deighton. * The Sun *Possesses all the spy craft of a Le Carré [and] the realpolitik of Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther but delivered with a delightful laugh-out-loud lightness of touch * Irish Independent *A delight. Lawton's ongoing recreation of Cold War chicanery is one of the great pleasures of modern spy fiction. -- Mick HerronJohn Lawton finds himself in the same boat as the late Patrick O'Brian - a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack but overlooked by too many readers for too long. * Daily Telegraph *John Lawton's books contain such a wealth of period detail, character description and background information that they are lifted out of any category. Every word is enriched by the author's sophistication and irreverent intelligence, by his meticulous research and his wit. * Literary Review *Lawton's gift for memorable atmosphere and characters, intelligent plotting and wry prose put him solidly at the top of anyone's A-list of contemporary spy novelists. * Seattle Times *Lawton's up there with Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. Yes, he's that good. * The Sun *Once again Lawton confirms why, alongside with Mick Herron, he is a spy writer supreme...A wonderful addition to a growing and fascinating body of work. -- Maxim Jakubowski * Crime Time, Book of the Month *

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Book Synopsis1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded mean¬ness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater. Full of muscle and oozing Chicago’s tough-guy persona to the hilt, Max Allan Collins’ Nate Heller is the ultimate private investigator—in the ultimate P.I. town. Heller’s undercover search for a farmer’s-daughter-turned-gun-moll has him on the dusty Depression backroads of middle America, in the company of Ma Barker and her boys, Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis, and a very-much-still-alive Dillinger—whose outlandish plan to kidnap J. Edgar Hoover in downtown Chicago is one Heller tries to foil. Including appearances by fan dancer Sally Rand, boxer Barney Ross, and Heller’s “godfather,” Frank Nitti, True Crime is a relentless classic.

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Book SynopsisJohn Rain is back. And “the most charismatic assassin since James Bond” (San Francisco Chronicle) is up against his most formidable enemy yet: the nexus of political, military, media, and corporate factions known only as the Oligarchy. When legendary black ops veteran Colonel Scott “Hort” Horton tracks Rain down in Tokyo, Rain can’t resist the offer: a multi-million dollar payday for the “natural causes” demise of three ultra-high-profile targets who are dangerously close to launching a coup in America. But the opposition on this job is going to be too much for even Rain to pull it off alone. He’ll need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner, the former Marine sniper, Dox. Ben Treven, a covert operator with ambivalent motives and conflicted loyalties. And Larison, a man with a hair trigger and a secret he’ll kill to protect. From the shadowy backstreets of Tokyo and Vienna, to the deceptive glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and finally to a Washington, D.C. in a permanent state of war, these four lone wolf killers will have to survive presidential hit teams, secret CIA prisons, and a national security state as obsessed with guarding its own secrets as it is with invading the privacy of the populace. But first, they’ll have to survive each other. The Detachment is what fans of Eisler, “one of the most talented and literary writers in the thriller genre” (Chicago Sun-Times), have been waiting for: the worlds of the award-winning Rain series, and of the bestselling Fault Line and Inside Out, colliding in one explosive thriller as real as today’s headlines and as frightening as tomorrow’s.

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Book SynopsisFrom the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit's bankrupt factory districts, August Snow is a fast-paced tale of murder, greed, sex, economic cyber-terrorism, race and urban decay.

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