Richard North Patterson Books In Order

Christopher Paget Books In Publication Order

  1. The Lasko Tangent (1979)
  2. Degree of Guilt (1992)
  3. Eyes of a Child (1995)
  4. Conviction (2005)

Kerry Kilcannon Books In Publication Order

  1. No Safe Place (1998)
  2. Protect and Defend (2000)
  3. Balance of Power (2003)

Martha’s Vineyard Books In Publication Order

  1. Fall From Grace (2012)
  2. Loss of Innocence (2013)
  3. Eden in Winter (2014)

Martha’s Vineyard Books In Chronological Order

  1. Loss of Innocence (2013)
  2. Fall From Grace (2012)
  3. Eden in Winter (2014)

Tony Lord Books In Publication Order

  1. Private Screening (1985)
  2. Silent Witness (1991)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Fever Swamp (2017)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Outside Man (1981)
  2. Escape the Night (1983)
  3. The Final Judgment / Caroline Masters (1995)
  4. Dark Lady (1999)
  5. Exile (2007)
  6. The Race (2007)
  7. The Spire (2009)
  8. Eclipse (2009)
  9. In The Name of Honor (2010)
  10. The Devil’s Light (2011)

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Richard North Patterson Books Overview

The Lasko Tangent

William Lasco is a self made multimillionaire who’s got an eye for wealth and influence, the ear of the President, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crime Commission wants the corrupt, untouchable Lasko brought down and US Attorney Christopher Paget is tipped to take on the job. To gather enough evidence to nail Lasko without alienating the White House, Paget has to go by the book. But Lasko makes his own rules. And eliminating his enemies is William Lasko’s golden rule. . In The Lasko Tangent, Richard North Patterson has written an unstoppable thriller of one man’s fight for justice the man who became the hero of his phenomenal international bestseller, Degree of Guilt.

Degree of Guilt

Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington he unearthed a scandal that brought ruin to the President and an abrupt end to his affair with journalist Mary Carelli. Now, fifteen years later, Carelli is a famous TV journalist in New York and Paget is leading a relatively tranquil life raising their son in San Francisco. Until a charge of murder changes everything. The victim a world famous and infamous novelist. The accused Mary Carelli. When Paget agrees to defend her, largely for the sake of their son, her claims of attempted rape and self defence seem water tight. But gradually secrets from her past come to light and Paget is suddenly facing an explosive mix of public trial and personal conflict leaving his own and his son’s fates vulnerable and exposed.

Eyes of a Child

The same 3 hour quality performce for less2 cassettes / 3 hoursOnly $8. 99Read by Ken HowardA stunning new courtroom drama from the author of the nationwide bestsellers Final Judgment, Silent Witness, and Degree of Guilt. In San Francisco, a dead man discovered amid evidence that might confirm suicide but strongly suggests murder. An investigation that uncovers the viscous custody fight he waged with his estranged wife over their young daughter: his extorting threats, his accusations of sexual abuse of the child. A grand jury indictment for murder handed down to his estranged wife’s new lover, a high profile defense attorney. A trial, sensational from the very start: the attorney turned defendant’s motives for murder made clear in the courtroom and in the out for blood press his alibi so quickly dismantled that even his son begins to doubt him. Finally, the revelations in the courtroom overshadowed by what threatens to remain hidden: in the little girl’s tangled loyalties, in the defendant’s damning refusal to testify on his own behalf, and in the details of a childhood trauma that haunts his lover’s adult life…
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Conviction

In his acclaimed career as a perennial bestselling author, Richard North Patterson has established himself as one of our most important voices in fiction and a keeper of the American conscience. He consistently writes novels that are intensely dramatic and deeply thought provoking. Now, in Conviction, Patterson tackles one of the most emotional and complex of all legal debates: When, if ever, does the state have the right to exact the ultimate punishment and is the death penalty a crime unto itself? Fifty nine days. That’s how long Rennell Price has to live after spending fifteen years on death row for the horrifying sexual assault and murder of a girl whose body was found floating in San Francisco Bay. But attorney Terri Paget, who has fought her own way out of hopelessness and abuse, has dedicated her life to fighting for people like Rennell Price. This time, Terri has a client she believes may actually be innocent, which means that an unpunished killer may still be free. I didn t do that little girl is all Rennell Price has ever said in his own defense. In a trial, Rennell, along with his older brother, Payton, was found guilty of the heinous crime, and the Conviction has been upheld through one appeal after another. But as Terri spends time with Rennell and re creates the events that put him on death row beginning with the first minutes of the police investigation she starts to understand the forces that shaped Rennell and the reason he has never been able to defend himself adequately. As Terri prepares for a last appeal, she gets a new weapon for her battle fresh evidence suggesting that another man, not Rennell, helped Payton commit the atrocity. But the grim machinery of capital punishment is already in motion, involving precedent and politics reaching from California to the highest court in the nation. As more people are drawn into Terri s last ditch battle, and as agendas and personalities clash while time is running out for Rennell Price, this much is clear: The serious doubts about Rennell s guilt may not be enough to save him. Conviction raises issues of ethics, political expediency, and personal trauma that will shake readers to their core. For here, in a novel of vivid characters on both sides of the law and profound tension on every page, Patterson illuminates the mysterious precincts between justice and truth where the fate of one man involves not only his own life and the lives he has affected but the moral life of a nation. From the Hardcover edition.

No Safe Place

Make it easy on yourself, read bestselling author Richard North Patterson in Large Print About Random House Large PrintAll Random House Large Print titles are published in a 16 point typefaceIn his first book since the national best seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality an extraordinary novel of presidential politics. In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon’s insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the last seven days the time remaining until the California presidential primary. Whoever wins in California is likely to win the Democratic nomination, a prize that the Vice President is determined to deny Kerry at any cost. And for all the votes and enthusiasm his passion and personal magnetism have gained him, Kerry’s problems are formidable. He is haunted by the tragedy of his older brother, James, a presidential candidate who was assassinated in California twelve years earlier. Kerry has stumbled in his advocacy of abortion rights, and a right to life fanatic has pushed this explosive issue to the forefront by murdering three people at a women’s clinic. In addition, a journalist for a national newsmagazine is striving to verify the lethal story that, two years ago, while still married, Kerry had a secret love affair with Lara Costello, a reporter assigned to him on Capitol Hill. And now, even more threatening, Kerry is being stalked by the abortion clinic murderer himself. This narrative is seamlessly interwoven with scenes from Kerry’s past: his youth as the son of a drunken and abusive father; his self image as the less gifted younger brother of a brilliant yet distant senator; his reluctant ascension to his brother’s place; his poignant romance with Lara Costello. And when Lara is ordered against her will to cover Kerry in California, he is forced once more to evaluate his life, and the terrible cost of his ambition to become President of the United States. With rare authenticity, Richard North Patterson depicts the world of high stakes presidential politics on the verge of an explosion that is as dramatic as it is thought provoking. But No Safe Place is also a story of people at their best and at their worst: their passions, their ideals, their flaws. A novel that will hold the reader enthralled from the first to the last sentence.

Protect and Defend

A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today.A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long held personal secret; and the prospect that a volatile abortion case a trial pitting a 15 year old girl against her pro life parents will come before the court. And the Senate majority leader is determined to thwart the president’s nomination for reasons that cross the boundary between the political and the personal. As these stories intertwine, building in complexity and suspense, Patterson gives us the resounding clash of competing ambitions between the president and the majority leader; the equally momentous collision of science and culture in the courtroom; and, in an unprecedented novelistic depiction of the legal process from the perspective of the judge rather than the lawyers, a revelation of both how the judicial system works and how it intersects with politics, for better or for worse. Protect and Defend is a triumph the definitive novel of politics and law at the dawn of the 21st century.

Balance of Power

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORRICHARD NORTH PATTERSONBalance of PowerRichard North Patterson’s masterful portrayals of law and politics at the apex of power have made him one of our most important writers of popular fiction. Combining a compelling narrative, exhaustive research, and a sophisticated grasp of contemporary society, his bestselling novels bring explosive social problems to vivid life through characters who are richly imagined and intensely real. Now in Balance of Power Patterson confronts one of America s most inflammatory issues the terrible toll of gun violence. President Kerry Kilcannon and his fianc e, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerful lobby in Washington the Sons of the Second Amendment SSA. Allied with the President s most determined rival, the resourceful and relentless Senate Majority Leader Frank Fasano, the SSA declares all out war on Kerry Kilcannon, deploying its arsenal of money, intimidation, and secret dealings to eviscerate Kilcannon s crusade and, it hopes, destroy his presidency. This ignites a high stakes game of politics and legal maneuvering in the Senate, the courtroom, and across the country, which the charismatic but untested young President is determined to win at any cost. But in the incendiary clash over gun violence and gun rights, the cost to both Kilcannons may be even higher than he imagined. And others in the crossfire may also pay the price: the idealistic lawyer who has taken on the gun industry; the embattled CEO of America s leading gun maker; the war hero senator caught between conflicting ambitions; the female senator whose career is at risk; and the grief stricken young woman fighting to emerge from the shadow of her sister, the First Lady. The insidious ways money corrodes democracy and corrupts elected officials…
the visceral debate between gun rights and gun control advocates…
the bitter legal conflict between gun companies and the victims of gun violence…
a ratings driven media that both manipulates and is manipulated Richard North Patterson weaves these engrossing themes into an epic novel that moves us with its force, passion, and authority. Richard North Patterson s eleven novels include seven consecutive international bestsellers; critics compared his most recent novel, Protect and Defend, to such novels as Allen Drury s Advise and Consent and Gore Vidal s Lincoln. Formerly a trial lawyer, Mr. Patterson served as the SEC s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor, and is now on the boards of several Washington based advocacy groups dealing with gun violence, political reform, and reproductive rights. He lives with his wife, Laurie, and their family on Martha s Vineyard. Praise for Richard North Pattersonand Balance of Power Richard North Patterson has a keen eye for how Washington really works. His portrait of the gun lobby is right on both in terms of its power and its political tactics. A must read for anyone interested in the gun debate. FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON Balance of Power is a rip roaring novel about guns, lawyers, and politics. Richard North Patterson has extraordinary insight into how Washington works, and a complex and heartfelt understanding of the effects of gun violence on our society. This is a great read by a masterful writer. SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY Balance of Power is a compelling story, fully worthy of Richard North Patterson, which is made even more intriguing by its detailed insight into the world of special interests politics in Washington, D.C. SCOTT TUROWOLD BACK ADPraise for Richard North Pattersonand Protect and Defend POWERFUL…
TIMELY, INTELLIGENT, FAST PACED. The Washington Post RIVETING…
CRACKLING POLITICAL DRAMA. People ENGROSSING…
A SPELLBINDING TALE THAT MOVES THE READER. The Baltimore Sun ENTHRALLING…
EPIC, COMPELLING READING. Denver Post A WINNER…
. ENGROSSING FROM THE FIRST PAGE. USA TodayFrom the Hardcover edition.

Fall From Grace

The mysterious, violent death of a prominent New England patriarch exposes a nest of dark family secrets in bestselling author Richard North Patterson’s twentieth compelling novel. Adam Blaine arrives on the island of Martha s Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who has served as patriarch of his clan for many years. A man fond of sailboats, good wine, and women other than his wife, Ben Blaine has left behind a string of secrets in addition to an emotionally distraught widow and his strangely aloof mistress, Carla Pacelli, a beautiful television actress who once had a drug problem. As soon as Adam arrives, he discovers that Ben has disinherited his mother, uncle, and brother in favor of his lover, and begins to wonder if his father s death caused by an inexplicable fall from a cliff might be murder. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam skillfully seeks to obscure the evidence suggesting that a family member may have killed his father, while at the same time fighting to undo the will, which favors the enigmatic Carla. As he walks this tightrope, Adam risks his freedom and perhaps his life, even as he unearths increasingly disturbing family secrets never meant to be discovered, and which cause him to question his understanding of his own life and everyone around him his beloved mother, uncle, and brother and, not least, Carla. Filled with tight psychological intrigue that will keep readers guessing until the very last page, Fall From Grace confirms that Richard North Patterson is one of the best in the business Time.

Private Screening

The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts into the media event of the decade. But the most shocking gambit ever witnessed in the history of television has yet to unfold. As America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves in the ultimate act of high tech terror. Holding the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul and Stacy’s manager hostage, Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his own in which Stacy Tarrant and Tony Lord are the helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors, and unless his chilling demands are met Phoenix is the unstoppable executioner…

Silent Witness

1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone, even Sam, against him. Now Sam is a suspect. One of his female students has been murdered. Tony, reluctantly but inevitably, comes back to defend him. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past. In the merciless arena of a murder trial, he must confront not only his fear that Sam is a murderer but also the buried truths that obscure the real meaning of Alison’s death. Powerful in its portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the many ways in which the past stakes its claim upon the present, Silent Witness is that rare suspense novel which is far more the kind of story we have come to expect from Richard North Patterson.

The Outside Man

The Outside Man is society lawyer Adam Shaw. A northerner in a southern town jealous of its secrets, he finds the dead body of his best friend’s wealthy wife and his friend is missing. In a world where wealthy people will stop at nothing to maintain a genteel image, Shaw must gamble his career, his marriage, and his very life in a passionate quest for the real murderer and learn the shocking truth about his own past and future…
.’A classic detective story.’ The New York Times Book Review’Rich, complex, beautifully written.’ The New Republic’Richard North Patterson seems destined for celebrity status, alongside Scott Turow and John Grisham, as an acknowledged master.’ Los Angeles Times Book Review

Escape the Night

‘Intricate…
Intelligent and menacing.’ The Boston GlobeBy the bestselling author of ‘Degree of Guilt,’ an inescapable tale of suspense, scandal, and shock too terrifying to put aside as it draws you into its vortex of unforgettable characters and shattering events. Peter Carey is the son of privilege and an heir to terror. Poised on the brink of power over a mighty family dynasty, he is also the victim of a recurring nightmare that suddenly becomes all too real. The twisted force that had claimed his parents many years before now stalks him too. But the key to his survival lies locked deep in Peter’s own mind. And he must discover it before the final night closes in…

The Final Judgment / Caroline Masters

A young man has been murdered. His girlfriend, twenty two year old Brett Allen, is found at the scene of the crime. She claims she is innocent even though she’s dripping in blood, the murder weapon covered with her fingerprints. Enter attorney Caroline Masters, Brett s estranged aunt. She s been summoned back to her affluent New England hometown to help Brett out of this mess and revisit the troubled family she left behind. Caroline learned a long time ago that the ties that bind can also be broken. Now that she s back home, she can t help but doubt her family s motives and Brett s innocence. As the trial heats up, Caroline finds herself up against those who would kill to keep dark secrets hidden and the state prosecutor, who happens to be her former lover and will do anything to expose the truth. Now, with her family s fate and her own reputation hanging in the balance, Caroline must assume the role of a lifetime as she fights to save her niece. Or destroy them both

Dark Lady

In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today’s most original and enthralling novelists. In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One is Tommy Fielding, a senior officer of the company building a new baseball stadium, the city’s hope for the future. The other is Jack Novak, the local drug dealers’ attorney of choice. Fielding’s death with a prostitute, from an overdose of hero*in, seems accidental; Novak is apparently the victim of a ritual murder. But in each case the character of the dead man seems contradicted by the particulars of his death. Coincidence or connection?The question falls to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz. Despite a traumatic breach with her alcoholic and embittered father, she has risen from a working class background to become head of the prosecutor’s homicide unit. A driven woman, she is called the Dark Lady by defense lawyers for her relentless, sometimes ruthless, style: in seven years only one case has gotten away from her, and only because the defendant took his own life. She has earned every inch of both her official and her off the record titles, and recently she’s decided to go after another: to become the first woman elected Prosecutor of Erie County. But that was before the brutal murder of her ex lover Jack Novak. Novak’s death leads her into a labyrinth where her personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined. There is the possibility that Novak fixed drug cases for the city’s crime lord, Vincent Moro, with the help of law enforcement personnel, and perhaps with someone in Stella’s own office…
the bitter mayoral race which threatens to undermine her own ambitions…
her attraction to a colleague who may not be what he seems…
the lingering, complicated effects of her painful affair with Novak…
the growing certainty that she is being watched and followed. Making her way through a maze of corruption, deceit, and greed, trusting no one, Stella comes to believe that the search for the truth involves the bleak history of Steelton itself a history that now endangers her future, and perhaps her life. For his uncanny dialogue, subtle delineation of character, and hypnotic narrative, critics have compared Richard North Patterson to John O’Hara and Dashiell Hammett. Now, in the character of the Dark Lady, he has created a woman as fascinating as her world is haunting. Dark Lady is his signature work. From the Hardcover edition.

Exile

From one of America’s most compelling novelists comes the mesmerizing story of a lawyer who must defend the woman he loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate the prime minister of Israel
David Wolfe s life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he s a successful San Francisco lawyer, he s about to get married, and he s being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana herself is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: Will he, a Jew, represent Hana who may well be guilty or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget? The most challenging case of David s career requires that he delve deep into the lives of Hana Arif and her militant Palestinian husband, both of whom have always lived in Exile. Ultimately, David s quest takes him to Israel and the West Bank, where, in a series of harrowing encounters, he learns that appearances are not at all what they seem. Culminating in a tense and startling trial with international ramifications, Exile is that rare novel that both entertains and enlightens. At once an intricate tale of betrayal and deception, a moving love story, and a fascinating journey into the lethal politics of the Middle East, this is Richard North Patterson at his most brilliant and engrossing.

The Race

Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics Corey Grace a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War Air Force pilot known for speaking his mind, Grace’s reputation for voting his own conscience rather than the party line together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African American movie star has earned him a reputation as a maverick and an iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off limits. Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, The Race takes on the most incendiary issues in American culture: racism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own agenda and lust for power. As the pressure of the campaign intensifies, Grace encounters betrayal, excruciating moral choices, and secrets that can destroy lives. Ultimately, The Race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitions and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.

The Spire

Both a razor sharp thriller and a poignant love story, this twisting tale of psychological suspense is Patterson’s most compelling novel in yearsMark Darrow grew up in a small Ohio town with no real advantages beyond his intelligence and athletic ability. But thanks to the intervention of Lionel Farr a professor at Caldwell, the local college Darrow became an excellent student and, later, a superb trial lawyer. Now Farr asks his still youthful prot g for a life altering favor. An embezzlement scandal has threatened Caldwell s very existence would Darrow consider becoming its new president?Darrow accepts, but returning to his alma mater opens old wounds. Sixteen years ago, on the night of his greatest triumph as Caldwell s star quarterback, he discovered the body of a black female student named Angela Hall at the base of The Spire, the bell tower that dominates the leafy campus. His best friend, Steve Tillman, was charged with Angela s murder and ultimately sent to prison for life. But now, even as Darrow begins the daunting task of leading Caldwell, he discovers that the case against his friend left crucial questions unanswered. Despite his new obligations and his deepening attachment to Farr s beautiful though troubled daughter Darrow begins his own inquiry into the murder. Soon he becomes convinced that Angela s killer is still at large, but only when another mysterious death occurs does he understand that his own life is at risk.

Eclipse

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government’s charge of murderDamon Pierce s life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he s being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e mail from Marissa Brand Okari a woman he loved years ago and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa s husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world s craving for its vast supply of oil. Bobby s outspoken opposition to the exploitation of his homeland by PetroGlobal a giant American oil company with close ties to Luandia s brutal government has enraged General Savior Karama, the country s autocratic ruler. After Bobby leads a protest rally during a full Eclipse of the sun, everyone in his home village is massacred by government troops. And now Bobby has been arrested and charged with the murder of three PetroGlobal workers. Still drawn to Marissa, Pierce agrees to defend Bobby, hoping to save both Bobby and Marissa from almost certain death. But the lethal politics of Luandia may cost Pierce his life instead. Culminating in a dramatic show trial and a desperate race against time, Eclipse combines a thrilling narrative with a vivid look at the human cost of the global lust for oil. Here is Richard North Patterson at his compelling best, confirming his place as our most provocative author of popular fiction.

In The Name of Honor

Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer was it self defense or premeditated murder? An enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran now one of the army’s most distinguished generals became best friends with Jack Gallagher, a fellow West Pointer who was later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation of soldiers faces combat, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general’s son, has returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatized by wartime experiences he will not reveal, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, Jack’s daughter, who is married to Brian’s commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D’Abruzzo. But since coming home, D’Abruzzo also seems changed by the experiences he and Brian shared he’s become secretive and remote. Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D’Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia. Brian pleads self defense, claiming that D’Abruzzo, a black belt martial artist, came to his quarters, accused him of interfering with his marriage, and attacked him. Kate supports Brian and says that her husband had become violent and abusive. But Brian and Kate have secrets of their own, and now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army’s most accomplished young lawyers, will defend Brian in a high profile court martial. Terry’s co counsel is Meg McCarran, Brian’s sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who insists on leaving her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.

The Devil’s Light

The Devil’s Light tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent colleague in Lebanon, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved toward its target and how to find it. First he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House, and then he must find the bomb and disable or detonate it before it causes the Middle East to go up in flames.

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