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Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's, and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help.This sends Pat on an odyssey that stretches across France and into the Czech Republic and that makes him the target of both the French police and a ban...

It is 1939 Nazi Germany, and physicist Walter Friedeman has found a formula that could deliver Germany the first atomic arsenal. An opponent of the Nazi cause, Friedeman embarks on a desperate plan to get his formula to America. He enlists his son, a Hilter Youth, to unwittingly do the job. What follows is a quest across continents to control the nuclear future before Hitler can steal it for himself.

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In 2007, three years after leaving the military, Zev Evans is a drunk ¿ and a neurotic one at that. Living with his Sicilian mother and running figure eights through Long Island¿s dense suburbs, he believes that the weird thoughts that plague him ¿ he calls them tics ¿ might have entered his head while he was undergoing brain surgery three years earlier.In THE EYES OF A WOLF, Zev narrates, in his own bizarre yet oddly incisive style, his first...

National bestselling author James LePore's searing, intense novel SONS AND PRINCES riveted readers with its epic depiction of a man caught between crime and conscience. Reviewers were understandably awed: "LePore had me hooked from the very first line, which is not hard to do when you're asked to envision body parts showing up in a suitcase...An absolute must-read!" -- The Celebrity Cafe "LePore writes a captivating story nearly impossible to ...

In 1938, Nazi Germany prepares to extend its reach far beyond its borders. The key to domination lies in a secret that would make their army not only unbeatable, but un-killable.MI-6, knowing that something potentially devastating is developing, recruits scholar and novelist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien to travel to Germany to find out what this might be, using the German popularity of his children's novel THE HOBBIT as cover. Joining him there i...

Raves for A World I Never Made: "An outstanding first novel, and a wonderful thriller." -- Blogcritics And Blood of My Brother: "Author James LePore is fast becoming a force to be reckoned with in the thriller genre, and Blood of My Brother proves it with a twisting, multifaceted plot that entertains and keeps readers guessing at every turn." -- Nights and Weekends And Sons and Princes: "Lepore had me hooked from the very first line, which is ...

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It is Rome, 1943. The war in Europe is at a tipping point, but the direction in which it will tip is terrifyingly unclear. For either side, one dramatic initiative could change everything. It is under these conditions that the Nazis discover a secret that has been maintained for nearly two millennia ¿ that the bones of Christ have been guarded in a cave in Italy by a small, secret group. If the bones can be uncovered, Hitler will be able to us...

Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for help.This sends Pat on an odyssey that stretches across France and into the Czech Republic and that makes him the target of both the French police and a band...

Chris Massi has been running from his world his entire life. The son of a Mafia assassin and the former son-in-law of a mob kingpin, Massi has tried to stay on the right side of the law, building a prestigious career as an attorney, and insulating his children as much as possible. But now a series of tragedies have left him without a law license and without several of his loved ones. And at the same time, his teenaged son is beginning to gravi...

When Jay Cassio's best friend is murdered in a job clearly done by professionals, the walls that he has built to protect himself from the world of others begin to shatter. Dan Del Colliano had been his confidante and protector since the men were children on the savage streets of Newark, New Jersey. When Dan supports and revives Jay after Jay's parents die in a plane crash, their bond deepens to something beyond brotherhood, beyond blood. Now J...

Meet Zev Evans, the ex-cop, ex-war hero turned anxiety-ridden fixer with a plate in his head, a pharmacopeia in his pocket, a chaotic but keenly observant mind, and a fearsome set of skills. Given to reciting mantras to calm the wild horses in his head, the half-Jewish, half-Sicilian Zev debuts in a story that starts at a piano recital and ends on the floor of his kitchen with a feral cat and a seizure dog watching over him. To say more would ...