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On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen KingPeter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world.When Alex Hassan gets accepted to an Ivy...

A critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller when it was published in the 90s, THE INTRUDER returns to print with urgency of today‿s headlines. Can a good man go too far to protect his family? That is the question underlying this gripping tale, which pulls the reader into its stranglehold of terror in the tradition of Dennis Lehane, Thomas Harris, and James Patterson, who called it “ the best novel I‿ve read in years.� Jacob Schiff...

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On rare occasions I read a book that reminds me of why I fell in love with storytelling in the first place. This is such a book." -Stephen KingPeter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world.Ali Hassan, an Egyptian-American busines...

A contender for the Grisham/Turow market, an 'urban Cape Fear' in which an ambitious New York lawyer, just as he is reaching the peak of his career, finds everything he has worked so hard to achieve is threatened by the arrival in his life of The Intruder, a psychotic homeless bum.

Manhattan, Brooklyn, die Bronx, Harlem in den 90er Jahren - hier schlägt das kalte Herz der Riesenstadt New York, hier zeigt sie ihre Fratze. Steve Baum, Bewährungshelfer, kämpft seinen Kampf gegen Kriminalität und Gewalt. Und Darryl King, Crackdealer und Killer, ist der King von Manhattan, dem Steve Baum bei seinem Aufstieg in der Hierarchie der Dealer und Gangster im Wege ist. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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From Peter Blauner, the writer Dennis Lehane calls "one of the most consistently bracing and interesting voices in American crime literature" comes a new thriller about a lone young cop on the trail of a powerful killer determined not just to stop her, but to make her payIn the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a ...

A must read. I couldn't put the sucker down."-Stephen KingProving Ground, New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner Peter Blauner's first novel in more than a decade, is a sweeping crime novel, an intricate story about the quest for redemption, and a vibrant portrait of contemporary New York City, all told in Blauner's singular voice.Nathaniel Dresden never really got along with his father, an infamous civil rights lawyer who defended c...

On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum struggles to maintain his idealism while a deranged young sociopath drags him into a morass of terror and corruption.

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

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On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum struggles to maintain his idealism while a deranged young sociopath drags him into a morass of terror and corruption.

On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum struggles to maintain his idealism while a deranged young sociopath drags him into a morass of terror and corruption.