Richard North Patterson
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer-was it self-defense or premeditated murder? In the Name of Honor marks an enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets from bestselling author Richard North Patterson.
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,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
Author
Series
Blaine Trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicions on those closest to him, Adam struggles to protect them from those who still suspect that his father was murdered by one of his kin. But the sternest test...
4) Eclipse
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
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 murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
5) The spire
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Mark Darrow returns to Caldwell College 16 years after his graduation when his mentor, Lionel Farr, brings him back to become Caldwell's president. The school is still haunted by the tragic murder of Angela Hall, an African American student who was strangled and left outside the school's landmark spire. Fresh off a football victory, Mark was the one who found Angela, and it was his best friend, Steve, who was convicted of the murder. Now Caldwell...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
8) The race
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Former Gulf War Air Force pilot Corey Grace's campaign to become the 2008 Republican presidential candidate is put in jeopardy by a secret in his past, his brother's homosexuality, and his blooming romance with an African-American Hollywood actress who supports stem cell research.
10) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after Rennell Price is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to die for the murder of a nine-year-old girl, lawyer Teresa Peralta Paget becomes convinced that Price did not receive a fair trial and fights to stop his execution.