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The Book of Lies»rank: 3181by: Brad Meltzer
: : Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world's greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain's murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.Until now.Today in Fort ... |
The Book of Fate»rank: 67589by: Brad Meltzer
: :'Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming.'So says Wes Holloway, a young presidential aide, about the day he put Ron Boyle, the chief executive's oldest friend, into the president's limousine. By the trip's end, a crazed assassin would permanently disfigure Wes and kill Boyle. Now, eight years later, Boyle has been spotted alive. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back into disturbing secrets buried in Freemason history, a decade-old presidential crossword puzzle, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson that conceals secrets worth dying for. |
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Identity Crisis (DC Comics)»rank: 40289by: Brad Meltzer
: :The most talked-about and successful DC Comics miniseries of 2004 is now available in a stunning hardcover volume!New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer delivers an all-too-human look into the lives of super-heroes and the terrible price they pay for doing good. |
Justice League of America Vol. 2: The Lightning Saga»rank: 37602by: Brad Meltzer, Geoff Johns
: :Number-one bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer joins forces with top comics writer Geoff Johns for this incredible graphic novel bringing together the DC Universes top super-teams! Two of DCs biggest super-teamsthe Justice League of America, featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more, and the Justice Society of America, including Hawkman, Wildcat and othersjoin forces in this stunning hardcover volume! The JLA has discovered that several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes from the 31st century are in the present. With the help of the JSA, Superman and his team must track down all seven Legionnaires to discover why these heroes of the future have traveled back in time! |
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Justice League of America, Vol. 1: The Tornado's Path»rank: 81850by: Brad Meltzer
: :Number-one bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer joins forces with top comics writer Geoff Johns for this incredible graphic novel bringing together the DC Universes top super-teams! Two of DCs biggest super-teamsthe Justice League of America, featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and more, and the Justice Society of America, including Hawkman, Wildcat and othersjoin forces in this stunning hardcover volume! The JLA has discovered that several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes from the 31st century are in the present. With the help of the JSA, Superman and his team must track down all seven Legionnaires to discover why these heroes of the future have traveled back in time! |
The Zero Game»rank: 53412by: Brad Meltzer
: :Matthew Mercer and Harris Sandler are bored and disillusioned after a decade as Washington senior staffers, and the clandestine Zero Game sounds like good fun. But when someone close to them ends up dead, they realise the game is far more sinister, and soon they're running for their lives. |
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The Millionaires»rank: 47486by: Brad Meltzer
: :What would you steal if you couldn't get caught? That's the tag line ofBrad Meltzer's new thriller, which pits an ambitious young money manager againsta corporate villain, whose intricate financial shenanigans accidentally put ahuge chunk of dough right in front of a man who desperately needs it. Of courseOliver Caruso's conscience troubles him, but that doesn't keep him from lettinghis somewhat looser and less ethical brother convince him this is too good anopportunity to pass up. Meltzer's in interesting territory here, but in order tobuy his premise, you have to believe that it's OK to steal if you have a goodenough reason. This makes his protagonist, who narrates the novel, ... |
The Tenth Justice»rank: 98669by: Brad Meltzer
: :A Washington-based thriller about four ambitious twenty-something housemates, fresh out of college and eager to make their mark in their careers. When one of them, Ben Addison, is tricked into leaking a Supreme Court decision on a corporate merger in advance, he lands them all in big trouble. |
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Dead Even»rank: 214300by: Brad Meltzer
: :Sara Tate starts her job as a New York City assistant district attorney the day before massive budget cuts.To keep her job, she grabs a case slated for one of the DA office's hot shots, thinking it will be the kind of showpiece that'll make her a hero.The next day, she learns that the defense attorney on the case is her husband, Jared Lynch.To make matters worse, what appeared to be a simple breaking and entering is beginning to look more like a murder.Someone is pitting Sara and Jared against each other and both are being threatened: win the case or your spouse dies. Sara and Jared have struggled and ... |
The First Counsel»rank: 188558by: Brad Meltzer
: :Aficionados of the hit TV show The West Wing who are sufferingthrough holiday reruns will jump right into Brad Meltzer's third novel (afterThe Tenth Justice and Dead Even), which takes readers into theWhite House office of the president's own law firm and introduces a firstdaughter whose complex psychological problems jump-start this fast-pacedthriller. Michael Garrick loves his job as deputy counsel, but when he falls forNora Hartson, the president's daughter, the conflict between his professionalethics and his growing love for her puts him right in the middle of a murderplot that may reach all the way to the Oval Office. Meltzer excels at plotting, and he knows the back corridors, family ... |