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Richard North Patterson (2007) Exile. Rare combination of a thrilling story with an intelligent political analysis of the ongoing tragedy between Israelis and Palestinians. A courtroom drama, a love story, and a political thriller on a most complex and controversial subject. There is not one page that is boring!
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Eliot Pattison (2001) The Skull Mantra. (Inspector Shan Tao Yun) Disgraced Beijing police inspector, Shan Tao Yun, investigates the killing of a local official, while suffering political punishment as a laborer on a road crew called the People's 404th Construction Brigade high in the Himalayas. A top-notch thriller and a substantive look at Tibet under siege.
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Eliot Pattison (2002) Water Touching Stone. (Inspector Shan Tao Yun) Shan Tao Yun, a former high-ranking, but disgraced, police investigator from Beijing, roams across the wastes of northern Tibet in a virtually endless and dangerous search for the killer of a teacher and several orphaned boys. A reverence for the beleaguered people of Tibet.
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Stef Penney (2008) The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel. Stef Penney's haunting debut casts the frigid isolation of Scottish immigrants living on the late 19th-century Canadian frontier. In this harsh, unforgiving environment a seventeen-year old boy disappears the same day his mother discovers the scalped body of his friend. The gripping story reveals a complex web of human desires, motivations, and relationships.
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Louise Penny (2009) The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel. The body of an unknown old man turns up in a village bistro. Chief Inspector Gamache tracks down the murderer among the mildly eccentric locals - sidetracking into cooking, antiques, lifestyle portraits, travel, and the arts.
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Arturo Perez-Reverte (2006) The Club Dumas. This literary mystery is a puzzle featuring a book detective, Lucas Corso, who hunts down rare editions for wealthy clients. As one of his bibliophile customers is found hanged, Corso is swept into a swirling adventure that takes him from Madrid to Toledo and Paris, repeatedly threatened to be killed while apparently leaving a trail of dead bodies.
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Scott Phillips (2001) The Ice Harvest. Charlie Arglista, a crooked lawyer, is marking time before an important meeting with his shady partner, Vic Cavanaugh. The plot involves organized crime, strippers, grumpy bouncers, a serious snowstorm, and a hero with a profound drinking problem in a frigid Wichita, Kansas setting.
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Nicholas Pileggi (1990) Wiseguy. Life in a Mafia Family. This book portrays the life of Henry Hill, a street-level hoodlum from the Brooklyn branch of the Luchese crime family. Unlike literary fiction of mobster life, this true story is about the gruesome violence at the operational level. After 30 years of car theft, hijacking, credit card scams, smuggling, and a $6-million heist, Henry Hill entered the Federal Witness Protection Program, helping to convict some of his fellow thugs. Martin Scorsese used the material for his film Goodfellas.
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Sheila Pim (2001) A Hive of Suspects: An Irish Village Mystery. In the village of Drumclash, Ireland, Pim develops a most excentric plot, in which amateur apiarist Edward Gildea uncovers the truth of niggard beekeeper Jason Prendergast's death. A weird story.
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Joseph D. Pistone (1997) Donnie Brasco. A thrilling account of FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone working undercover in the Mafia for six years. Contrary to social fiction, such as "Goodfather", the book reveals that nothing is honorable or glamorous in the mob. Pistone's extremely dangerous undercover work resulted in over 100 convictions. Amazing that he survived his assignment!
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