Richard North Patterson

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

'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...

1967, Lake City, Ohio. Tony Lord and Sam Robb, both in their teens, are best friends and athletic rivals. Twenty-eight years later, Tony is a successful San francisco attorney; sam is an assistant principal at Lake City High School. Sam has never left home, and Tony has never returned since the trauma that changed his life: the brutal murder of his first love, Alison, of which he was wrongly accused and which turned everyone, even Sam, against him. Now sam is a suspect. One of his female students has been murdered. Tony, reluctantly but inevitably, comes back to defend him. At once, Tony is plunged into the unfinished business of his past. In the merciless arena of a murder trial, he must confront not only his fear that Sam is a murderer but also the buried truths that obscure the real meaning of Alison's death. Powerful in its portrayal of the complexities of male friendship, of the darkest recesses of love, and of the many ways in which the past stakes its claim upon the present, SILENT WITNESS is that rare suspense novel which is far more - the kind of story we have come to expect from Richard North Patterson.

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

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

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.

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.

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.