Richard North Patterson

The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two families with deep ties to the military, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran - now one of the army's most distinguished generals - became best friends with Jack Gallagher, his fellow West Pointer who was later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation of soldiers is fighting on a distant battlefield, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general's son, has recently returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatized by his war-time experiences, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, Jack Gallagher's daughter, who also happens to be married to Brian's commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D'Abruzzo. But Kate is dealing with trauma of her own: since coming home, D'Abruzzo seems a changed man, and lately he's become paranoid and abusive. Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D'Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia. Brian immediately confesses but claims self-defense - D'Abruzzo, a black-belt martial artist, came to his quarters, accused him of having an affair with Kate, and attacked him. Or so Brian says, and now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, will defend him in a high-profile court martial. Assisting Terry is Meg McCarran, Brian's sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who leaves her practice in California to dedicate herself to saving her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.

'On September 11, we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon ' A nuclear warhead disappears A chilling broadcast follows A country waits in fear Yet the broadcast deceives And, with the world's eyes fixed on America, the true target is dangerously exposed Agent Brooke Chandler senses the decoy and raises his concern His superiors are not prepared to listen...

David Wolfe se encuentra en el mejor momento de su vida: es un exitoso abogado de San Francisco, está a punto de casarse y se prepara para presentarse al Congreso. Sin embargo, cuando suena el teléfono y escucha la voz de Hana Arif (la mujer palestina con la que tuvo una aventura secreta en su epoca de estudiante universitario) pidiendole ayuda, toda su situacion da un giro de ciento ochenta grados. Al dia siguiente, dos terroristas suicidas asesinan al primer ministro de Israel mientras este visitaba San Francisco; poco despues, acusan a la propia Hana de ser el cerebro del atentado. Para resolver el caso mas complicado y polemico de su carrera, David se vera obligado a sumergirse en las vidas de Hana Arif y su marido, un militante de la causa palestina, y a cuestionarse todo aquello en lo que siempre ha creido. Con Exilio, el celebre novelista Richard North Patterson nos ofrece una apasionante mezcla de intriga politica y drama sentimental que no solo mantiene en vilo al lector, sino que tambien permite comprender mejor los entresijos de uno de los conflictos mas sangrientos e influyentes de nuestro tiempo, el que enfrenta a israelies y palestinos en Oriente Medio. Exilio es una novela sorprendente, con una trama que no solo resulta entretenida sino que proporciona un punto de vista distinto sobre el sangrante conflicto palestino-israeli. Bill Clinton

Una apasionante mezcla de intriga política y drama sentimental que nos adentra en uno de los más sangrientos conflictos de nuestro tiempo.David Wolfe se encuentra en el mejor momento de su vida: es un exitoso abogado de San Francisco, esta a punto de casarse y se prepara para presentarse al Congreso. Pero cuando recibe la llamada de Hana Arif, la mujer palestina con la que tuvo una aventura en la universidad, su vida da un giro de ciento ochenta grados. Al dia siguiente, un terrorista suicida asesina al primer ministro de Israel en San Francisco; poco despues, acusan a la propia Hana de ser el cerebro del atentado. David debe enfrentarse a una decision dificil: ¿sera capaz el, un judio, de defender a Hana, que puede ser culpable, o le dara la espalda a la unica mujer que no ha logrado olvidar?

This is the new novel from the thinking man's thriller writer. In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Pierce is in a race against time, and as the complex trial - involving terrorism and the geopolitics of oil, missing witnesses and evidence, and the whims of a lawless country - unfolds, bodies fall and fates dangle.Complicating matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten she, in fact, persuaded him to take the case in the first place, and it is who she plays a crucial role in the eventual outcome of this taut and atmospheric novel.

Para unos se trata de una contienda política. Para otros es una guerra. Una mirada a los entresijos políticos de Estados Unidos.Corey Grace, un carismático senador republicano, se involucra en una feroz batalla presidencia contra el candidato favorito del partido y lider de la derecha cristiana. A pesar de sus cualidades, Grace es un miembro incomodo para sus supreriores, ya que no teme opinar en publico, aunque esto suponga enfrentarse a las directrices del partido. A medida que la presion de la campaña se intensifica, Grace se enfrentara a la traicion, a secretos inoconfesables y a terribles decisiones morales. Su integridad sera puesta a prueba en una brutal contienda politica en la que todo esta permitido.

A young college president struggles to save his once prestigious alma mater, Caldwell College, from a financial scandal which may be linked to the murder of a student, some seventeen years previously. The Caldwell campus is dominated by a large bell tower known as The Spire. The Spire ornaments the school yearbook, stationary, all publications. Steeped in lore, it tolls every hour of the school day; or to mark notable events such as athletic triumphs. But in 1993, the body of Angela Hall, a black student, was found at the foot of the Spire. Raped and murdered, she seemed oddly like a sacrifice to the newly-ominous college landmark... Gripping and razor-sharp, The Spire is both a hugely satisfying thriller and a poignant love story. Richard North Patterson has outdone himself - this is his most compelling novel in years.

Corey Grace -un carismático senador republicano de Ohio- se involucra en una feroz batalla presidencial contra el candidato favorito del partido y líder de la derecha cristiana. A pesar de sus cualidades, Grace es un miembro incomodo para sus superiores ya que no teme opinar en publico, aunque ello suponga enfrentarse a las directrices del partido. Su relacion con Lexie Hart, estrella de cine afroamericana, no solo reafirma su reputacion de inconformista, sino que ademas despierta nuevas antipatias. A medida que la presion de la campaña se intensifica, Grace se enfrentara a la traicion, a secretos inconfesables y a terribles decisiones morales. Su integridad sera puesta a prueba en una brutal contienda politica en la que todo vale. Partiendo de la pregunta de si un hombre honesto podria llegar a ser presidente de Estados Unidos, Richard North Patterson se sirve de la batalla de Corey Grace para abordar cuestiones claves de la actualidad norteamericana como el racismo, el terrorismo, el fundamentalismo religioso, los derechos de los homosexuales o el poder de los medios de comunicacion, y ofrecernos un relato tan perturbador como verosimil acerca de la despiadada maquinaria politica norteamericana. La contienda es una propuesta emocionante para todos aquellos interesados en los entresijos politicos de Estados Unidos.

Damon Pierce, abogado californiano, acepta la llamada de ayuda de Marissa Brand Okari, con quien mantuvo una relación años atrás. Marissa está casada ahora con Bobby Okari, líder de un grupo opositor al gobierno autárquico que rige en su país, Luandia. Este país africano, rico en petróleo, es un objetivo codiciado por muchos, en concreto por una compañía petrolífera americana vinculada al general Karama, dirigente del país. Karama, que ve a Bobby Okari como una amenaza para sus intereses, no dudará en acusarle de asesinato. Pierce aceptará su defensa, a pesar del riesgo que ello implica. Eclipse es un emocionante thriller con África como escenario, así como un inquietante retrato de la lucha encarnizada por el control del petróleo.

Mark Darrow grows up to become a superb trial lawyer - thanks to the mentorship of Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell, the local college. Now, it's time for Farr to ask his still-youthful protege to return the favour: an embezzlement scandal threatens to destroy Caldwell. Returning to his alma mater as president opens old wounds. Sixteen years before, he discovered the body of a black female student, 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 given a life sentence. Darrow begins his own inquiry into the murder, and is soon convinced that the killer is still at large. His own life too may be at risk ...Gripping and razor-sharp, The Spire is a hugely satisfying thriller, a poignant love story - and Richard North Patterson's most compelling novel in years.

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 pilot, Grace insists on voting his own conscience rather than the party line, and this stubborn independence - together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star - has earned him a reputation as an unpredictable 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.A vivid and sometimes frightening depiction of contemporary power politics, The Race culminates in a deadlocked and febrile party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his feelings for Lexie and his presidential ambitions - and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.

Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Marthas Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaines character to suture the deep wounds both within his family and himself torn open by the tragedy.Moreover, as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaines death continues, it is taking all of Adams cunning to protect those closest to him from figures who still suspect that Adams father was murdered by one of his kin.But the sternest test of all is Adams proximity to Carla Pacelli his late fathers mistress; and a woman who, despite being pivotal to his familys plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn to.The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles. Yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets hes strived to conceal, and condemning the people hes fought so hard to protect.

Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's character to suture the deep wounds - both within his family and himself - torn open by the tragedy. Moreover, as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death continues, it is taking all of Adam's cunning to protect those closest to him from figures who still suspect that Adam's father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test of all is Adam's proximity to Carla Pacelli - his late father's mistress; and a woman who, despite being pivotal to his family's plight, Adam finds himself increasingly drawn to. The closer he gets to this beautiful, mysterious woman, the further Adam feels from his troubles. Yet the closer he also comes to revealing the secrets he's strived to conceal, and condemning the people he's fought so hard to protect.

June, 1968.America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Marthas Vineyard life could not be safer, nor the future more certain.Educated at Wheaton, soon to be married, and the youngest daughter of the patrician Dane family, Whitney has everything she has ever wanted, and is everything her all-powerful and doting father, Charles Dane, wants her to be.But the Vineyards still waters are disturbed by the appearance of Benjamin Blaine. An underprivileged, yet fiercely ambitious and charismatic young man, Blaine is a force of nature neither Whitney nor her family could have prepared for.As Bens presence begins to awaken independence within Whitney, it also brings deep-rooted Dane tensions to a dangerous head. And soon Whitneys set-in-stone future becomes far from satisfactory, and her picture-perfect family far from pretty.The authorRichard North Patterson is the author of twenty bestselling novels. He lives in Martha''s Vineyard, Cabo San Lucas and San Francisco with his wife, Dr Nancy Clair.You may also like

David Wolfe se encuentra en el mejor momento de su vida: es un exitoso abogado de San Francisco, está a punto de casarse y se prepara para presentarse al Congreso. Sin embargo, cuando suena el teléfono y escucha la voz de Hana Arif (la mujer palestina con la que tuvo una aventura secreta en su epoca de estudiante universitario) pidiendole ayuda, toda su situacion da un giro de ciento ochenta grados.Al dia siguiente, dos terroristas suicidas asesinan al primer ministro de Israel mientras este visitaba San Francisco; poco despues acusan a la propia Hana de ser el cerebro del atentado. Para resolver el caso mas complicado y polemico de su carrera, David se vera obligado a sumergirse en las vidas de Hana Arif y su marido, un militante activo de la causa palestina y a cuestionarse todo aquello en lo que siempre ha creido.Con Exilio, el celebre novelista Richard North Patterson nos ofrece una apasionante mezcla de intriga politica y drama sentimental que no solo mantiene en vilo al lector, sino que tambien permite comprender mejor los entresijos de uno de los conflictos mas sangrientos e influyentes de nuestro tiempo, el que enfrenta a israelies y palestinos en Oriente Medio.

La contienda es una propuesta emocionante para todos aquellos interesados en los entresijos políticos de Estados Unidos. Corey Grace -un carismático senador republicano de Ohio- se involucra en una

In a novel of international intrigue, an American lawyer, Damon Pierce, attempts to save Bobby Okari, the West African leader of a protest movement, from execution by the country's corrupt and autocratic leader. Complicating matters further is Okari's wife, Marissa Brand, with whom Pierce had a relationship years before that he's never quite forgotten; she, in fact, persuaded him to take the case in the first place, and it is who she plays a crucial role in the eventual outcome...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. 'Every now and then - but a lot more rarely than that implies - you come across a thriller so important that it absolutely demands to be read. This is one' - "The Times on Exile".