<p>When Tom Perini, a legendary Heisman Trophy winner turned criminal lawyer, is found brutally murdered in Central Park, his widow Julie Perini suspects a wider conspiracy. Not only was her husband part of the defense team for a Congressman on trial for bribery, her intuition also tells her that the FBI is not too eager to find the killer.</p> <p>Relying on her skills as a journalist, Julie begins her own investigation and soon discovers her late husband s secret underworld associations; ties that now threaten her and her toddler s lives. Fighting grief and a sense of betrayal, Julie is pulled into an inescapable labyrinth of organized crime dealings, political corruption, brutal power grabs and murder.</p> <p>Desperate, Julie turns to Vincent Sorrentino, Tom s defense partner, for help, and the two discover a shocking and terrifying truth that threatens to paralyze them. But it may also hold the key the only key to saving the lives of Julie and her daughter.</p> <p>Renowned attorney Paul Batista seamlessly combines crack legal expertise with suspenseful storytelling to produce a pulse-pounding action story and a first rate courtroom procedural; a legal thriller so authentic, it reads like tomorrow s headlines.</p>"
Donovan Nash is a man under siege, and this time it's personal. Eco-Watch, the premier scientific research organization he founded, is being blamed for a series of violent eco-atrocities that ignite protests around the world. Behind the attacks is Garrick Pearce, a man from Donovan's past, who is bent on a ruthless vendetta. Garrick has promised that after he annihilates Eco-Watch, he'll murder everyone close to Nash. Recoiling from the damage, Donovan enlists the help of Erica, a woman who claims she has information Donovan needs, but her knowledge makes her a marked woman. Running from trained killers, the FBI and even his own organization, Donovan races from southern California to British Columbia, then finally to Alaska where he joins Eco-Watch personnel and desperately tries to stop what promises to be the worst eco-atrocity in history. With his world in tatters and everything he built seemingly destroyed, Donovan is forced to make one last desperate gamble to stop Garrick and silence the man forever-a roll of the dice that may very well cost Nash his life.
Donovan Nash is a man under siege, and this time it's personal. Eco-Watch, the premier scientific research organization he founded, is being blamed for a series of violent eco-atrocities that ignite protests around the world. Behind the attacks is Garrick Pearce, a man from Donovan's past, who is bent on a ruthless vendetta. Garrick has promised that after he annihilates Eco-Watch, he'll murder everyone close to Nash. Recoiling from the damage, Donovan enlists the help of Erica, a woman who claims she has information Donovan needs, but her knowledge makes her a marked woman. Running from trained killers, the FBI and even his own organization, Donovan races from southern California to British Columbia, then finally to Alaska where he joins Eco-Watch personnel and desperately tries to stop what promises to be the worst eco-atrocity in history. With his world in tatters and everything he built seemingly destroyed, Donovan is forced to make one last desperate gamble to stop Garrick and silence the man forever-a roll of the dice that may very well cost Nash his life.
Publishers Weekly,At the start of this gripping suspense novel from Gussin (The Test), two out of three identical girl triplets, nine-year-olds Sammie and Alex Monroe, disappear from a movie theater at a suburban Detroit mall after leaving their sister, Jackie, and a cousin, who go to the theater next door. An FBI team quickly steps in and works closely with the triplets' sports commentator father, Scott, and his African-American wife, Katie, a physician who investigates child sexual abuse. The red herrings multiply as Scott and Katie try to recall who would want to harm them by taking their daughters. The fear and anguish the Monroes feel as they search for their missing children will resonate with many readers, but others may have trouble with some clumsy prose ("The evil he'd seen in human beings defied logic and exceeded the worst horrors that most people could not even dream"). (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.,Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly,At the start of this gripping suspense novel from Gussin (The Test), two out of three identical girl triplets, nine-year-olds Sammie and Alex Monroe, disappear from a movie theater at a suburban Detroit mall after leaving their sister, Jackie, and a cousin, who go to the theater next door. An FBI team quickly steps in and works closely with the triplets' sports commentator father, Scott, and his African-American wife, Katie, a physician who investigates child sexual abuse. The red herrings multiply as Scott and Katie try to recall who would want to harm them by taking their daughters. The fear and anguish the Monroes feel as they search for their missing children will resonate with many readers, but others may have trouble with some clumsy prose ("The evil he'd seen in human beings defied logic and exceeded the worst horrors that most people could not even dream"). (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly,Excerpts from Judy Cooper's 1960 diary provide the main narrative for Benson's diverting, nostalgia-filled third thriller featuring the costumed vigilante known as the Black Stiletto (after 2012's The Black Stiletto: Black and White). In the present, Judy's grown son, Martin Talbot, tries to come to terms with the past of his mother, who's now afflicted with Alzheimer's. That past is revealed by her diaries. In Eisenhower-era New York City, Judy has various adventures that touch on such burning issues of the day as the communist menace and race relations. In particular, the naive but game Judy attempts to help teen Billy Shen Lee, whose father was killed by neighborhood gangsters in Manhattan's Chinatown. Later, she becomes a "Kennedy Girl" and meets the candidate ("I swear, if he wasn't married, I'd be all over him"). Judy gives and takes a lot of punishment as the misunderstood Black Stiletto literally fights crime with girlish enthusiasm. Agent: Peter Miller, Global Lion. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly,Too much recapping of 2008's The Deal, the first book in Gittlin's series featuring commercial real estate broker Jonah Gray, hampers this sequel. Gray has survived attempts on his life, escaped New York City one step ahead of the law, undergone a face lift, and moved to Amsterdam, where he works for the Dutch real estate firm de Bont Beleggings. A few years later, Gray returns to New York to complete a lucrative commercial building deal while searching for his lost love, the beautiful Perry York, and her son, Max. The meandering plot includes missing Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs, secret messages, Russian royalty, and a homicidal half-brother, but none of this is nearly as interesting as Gittlin's depiction of the high-level real estate business. The tough-guy action ends abruptly, to be continued in the third installment. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.,Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly,Too much recapping of 2008's The Deal, the first book in Gittlin's series featuring commercial real estate broker Jonah Gray, hampers this sequel. Gray has survived attempts on his life, escaped New York City one step ahead of the law, undergone a face lift, and moved to Amsterdam, where he works for the Dutch real estate firm de Bont Beleggings. A few years later, Gray returns to New York to complete a lucrative commercial building deal while searching for his lost love, the beautiful Perry York, and her son, Max. The meandering plot includes missing Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs, secret messages, Russian royalty, and a homicidal half-brother, but none of this is nearly as interesting as Gittlin's depiction of the high-level real estate business. The tough-guy action ends abruptly, to be continued in the third installment. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Publishers Weekly,While Larsen deserves credit for crafting an unusual contemporary action hero, air crash investigator Jammer Davis, this sequel to 2010's Fly by Wire doesn't maintain altitude. Davis's old boss at the National Transportation Safety Board recruits Davis, a single father whose wife died in a car accident, to find the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of a Blackstar, an advanced CIA unmanned aerial vehicle, near the Horn of Africa. The CIA wants to use an inquiry into the crash of a DC-3 near the Sudan as the pretext for Davis to get information about the Blackstar. Five minutes after landing in Khartoum, Davis is battling for his life and continues to do so for the rest of the book. All the standard plot devices are present and accounted for, including a love interest in the person of a sexy Italian doctor. Readers who demand little realism in their thrillers will be most rewarded. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.,Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly,While Larsen deserves credit for crafting an unusual contemporary action hero, air crash investigator Jammer Davis, this sequel to 2010's Fly by Wire doesn't maintain altitude. Davis's old boss at the National Transportation Safety Board recruits Davis, a single father whose wife died in a car accident, to find the truth behind the suspicious disappearance of a Blackstar, an advanced CIA unmanned aerial vehicle, near the Horn of Africa. The CIA wants to use an inquiry into the crash of a DC-3 near the Sudan as the pretext for Davis to get information about the Blackstar. Five minutes after landing in Khartoum, Davis is battling for his life and continues to do so for the rest of the book. All the standard plot devices are present and accounted for, including a love interest in the person of a sexy Italian doctor. Readers who demand little realism in their thrillers will be most rewarded. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.