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The investigation of a politically powerful industrialist; the death of a key witness; the corruption of a federal agency. These are the explosive elements facing cynical young government lawyer Christopher Paget as he embarks on a mission that will hurl him into a brutal world of murder, kidnapping, and deception. From its intriguing beginnings to its stunning climax, international best-selling author Richard North Patterson’s first novel is a taut, gripping thriller about real people forced to face their inner fears and values.

The new blockbuster from the thinking man's thriller writer
Mark Darrow grows up to become a superb trial lawyer - thanks to the mentorship of Lionel Farr, a professor at Caldwell, the local college. Now, it's time for Farr to ask his still-youthful protege to return the favour: an embezzlement scandal threatens to destroy Caldwell.
Returning to his alma mater as president opens old wounds. Sixteen years before, he discovered the body of a black female student, Angela Hall, at the base of The Spire, the bell tower that dominates the leafy campus. His best friend, Steve Tillman, was charged with Angela's murder and given a life sentence. Darrow begins his own inquiry into the murder, and is soon convinced that the killer is still at large. His own life too may be at risk
Gripping and razor-sharp, The Spire is a hugely satisfying thriller, a poignant love story - and Richard North Patterson's most compelling novel in years.

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 murder

Damon Pierce’s life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he’s being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help.

Marissa’s husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world’s craving for its vast supply of oil. Bobby’s outspoken opposition to the exploitation of his homeland by PetroGlobal—a giant American oil company with close ties to Luandia’s brutal government—has enraged General Savior Karama, the country’s autocratic ruler. After Bobby leads a protest rally during a full eclipse of the sun, everyone in his home village is massacred by government troops. And now Bobby has been arrested and charged with the murder of three PetroGlobal workers. Still drawn to Marissa, Pierce agrees to defend Bobby, hoping to save both Bobby and Marissa from almost certain death. But the lethal politics of Luandia may cost Pierce his life instead.

Culminating in a dramatic show trial and a desperate race against time, Eclipse combines a thrilling narrative with a vivid look at the human cost of the global lust for oil. Here is Richard North Patterson at his compelling best, confirming his place as our most provocative author of popular fiction.

When the body of nine-year old Thuy Sen is found in the San Francisco Bay, the police quickly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve-person jury, abetted by an incompetent defense lawyer, is nearly as quick to find the brothers guilty, and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

Fifteen years later, overworked pro bono laywer Teresa Peralta Paget, her husband Chris, and stepson Carlo, a recent Harvard law graduate, become convinced not only that Rennell didn't receive a fair trial but that he may well be innocent. Racing against the clock and facing enormous legal obstacles, Teresa, Chris, and Carlo desperately try to stay Rennell's execution, taking the case all the way to the Supreme Court, and to an enormously moving and powerful conclusion.

Five months into his term in office, President Kilcannon and his fiancee have decided to marry. The day of the ceremony the nation is plunged into mourning following a massacre of innocents in a lethal burst of gunfire. Kilcannon vows to curb gun crime but the cost to him and his wife is going to be high.

The setting is Steelton, a struggling Midwestern town trying to save its decaying inner city by building a major league baseball stadium. Dark Lady introduces Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz, who has escaped her alcoholic father and working class background to become head of the Prosecutor's homicide unit. Her ambition is to become County Prosecutor. But this ambition, indeed her very survival, is threatened when her ex-lover Jack Kovak, a drug lawyer, is murdered, and Stella leads the investigation. There are more deaths and revelations about Jack Kovak's dealings with the city's crime lord, and a trail of wrong-doing, that implicates officers in law enforcement, possibly within her own office. As her inquiry draws her into a reexamination of her own complex past, her certainty that she is being watched and followed, leads her to fear for her own future.

In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying. Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know, Kilcannon is running for President--and entering the crucial battleground of California with seven days to go. But for Kilcannon, there are hurdles that his courage, charisma, and compassion may not overcome: the network correspondent…

На квартире в Сан-Франциско обнаружено тело Рикардо Ариаса, скончавшегося при загадочных обстоятельствах. Что это, убийство или самоубийство? Следствие вскоре выходит на страшные детали злобной ссоры между Рикардо и его бывшей женой Терезой. Во время процесса вскрываются темные подробности, касающиеся их дочери, детства Терезы, перенесшей когда-то сильную душевную драму, которая продолжает преследовать ее до сих пор...

A young man is brutally murdered. His distraught girlfriend is the prime suspect. Her aunt, Caroline Masters, about to take up a top job in the US Court of Appeals, decides to defend the young woman in the murder trial. But this will be Caroline's first contact with her family in almost twenty years, and as she prepares the case and goes through the trial, long forgotten secrets resurface, pitting Caroline against not only the police and prosecution, but also against her father (a retired judge), her sister and the memory of her young self when she, too, lost a boyfriend in suspicious circumstances. The Final Judgement is a powerful, poignant, page-turning legal thriller that confirms Richard North Patterson as among the very best writers in the bookselling area.

Chris Paget's well ordered world is blown apart by his love for his assistant, Terri, in the sequel to Degree of Guilt. Terri's ex husband, Ricky, is determined to destroy them both and instigates a child custody battle for Terri's four-year old daughter, accusing Terri of neglect and Paget's teenage son of sexual molestation. Then Ricky is murdered and Paget finds himself the principle suspect, on trial for his life.

Eyes of a Child demonstrates why North Patterson is an international bestselling author. The pace is superb, the court room scenes unsurpassable, but most importantly the compelling characters, particularly Ricky, Terri's cunning and amoral husband, show North Patterson as one of the strongest storytellers writing today.

В основе сюжета этого увлекательного триллера - судьба журналистки Марии Карелли, ставшей жертвой шантажа. Защищаясь, она убивает шантажиста. Полиция арестовывает Марию, она должна предстать перед судом. С помощью адвоката Пэйджита ей удается пройти через все тяжкие испытания.

Der Tote im Hotelzimmer heisst Mark Ransom, ein beruhmter Schriftsteller. Mary Carelli bestreitet nicht, ihn erschossen zu haben - aus Notwehr, weil er sie vergewaltigen wollte. Doch schon im ersten Verhor verstrickt sie sich in Widerspruche. Die Staatsanwaltin erhebt Anklage wegen vorsatzlichen Mordes. Acht Jahre hat Christopher Paget sie nicht gesehen, und nun benennt Mary Carelli ihn als ihren Anwalt. Als er einem Skandal auf die Spur kam, der einen Prasidenten zu Fall brachte, fur den sie arbeitete, hatten sie eine kurze Affare voller Liebe und Lugen. Auch die Geschichte, die Mary ihm jetzt zu ihrerVerteidigung erzahlt, laGtviele Fragen often. Die Suche nach den Antworten fuhrt zuruck in die Vergangenheit, zu einem beruhmten Senator, der seine Freundin, eine nicht weniger bekann-te Schauspielerin, seinen Freunden zum VergnLigen uberliess. Und zu Pagets eigenem Sohn, der nicht begreift, warum sein Vater den Erklarungen seiner Mutter nicht eine Sekunde lang glaubt. Richard North Patterson hat einen Roman voller Dramatik und explosiver Zeitbezuge geschrieben.