Brad Meltzer, Author . Warner $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-52729-3
This giddy fourth thriller by Meltzer (The First Counsel) mixes up banking, cyber-theft and Disney World in a fast-paced, fresh-scrubbed tale of financial adventure. Oliver Caruso is sweating out some scut work for Henry Lapidus, bigwig at Greene &am
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Brad Meltzer. Grand Central, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5952-7
Mortician Jim “Zig” Zigarowski, the hero of this stellar series launch from bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Lies), works the U.S. government’s most top-secret and high-profile cases at Dover Air Force base in present-day Delaware. Zig’s world...
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Brad Meltzer. Grand Central, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-55393-3
Bestseller Meltzer’s third near-future Culper Ring thriller (after 2013’s The Fifth Assassin) opens with a great dramatic image: First Lady Shona Wallace finding a severed arm in the White House Rose Garden. This grim discovery leads President Orson
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Brad Meltzer. Grand Central, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-55397-1
A grandiose conspiracy linking four previous presidential assassinations threatens current U.S. president Orson Wallace in bestseller Meltzer’s convoluted second entry in his Culper Ring trilogy (after 2011’s The Inner Circle). Archivist Beecher...
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Brad Meltzer, Grand Central, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-57789-2
A fascinating look at the hidden treasures of the National Archives is the one strength of this otherwise unsatisfying thriller. Archivist Beecher White, to impress childhood crush Clementine Kaye during a tour of the archives, shows her the "Sensiti
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Brad Meltzer, Author . Warner $25.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-446-53099-6
Set against a backdrop of Oval Office corruption, bestseller Meltzer's overblown thriller opens with a frantic assassination attempt on President Leland Manning, who manages to elude the gunfire. Manning's deputy chief of staff, Ron Boyle,...
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Brad Meltzer, Author . Grand Central $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-57788-5
Bestseller Meltzer (The Book of Fate
) deserves credit for an audacious conceit—wedding the biblical fratricide of Abel by his brother Cain with the unsolved 1932 homicide of the father of Jerry Siegel, the creator of iconic comic book hero...
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Brad Meltzer, Author . Warner $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-53098-9
Meltzer credits 143 people in his acknowledgments, a testament to massive research involving everything from the smallest details of our government's inner workings to the scientific complexities of chaos theory and advanced neutrino research....
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Brad Meltzer, Author William Morrow & Co Inc $23 (400p) ISBN 978-0-688-15089-1
The high price of ambition is explored in Meltzer's debut novel, a crafty legal thriller set in Washington, D.C. Ben Addison, a Yale Law School grad, is working as a clerk for a highly respected Supreme Court justice and being aggressively courted...
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Brad Meltzer, Author Warner Books Inc $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-52728-6
A date with the president's daughter draws an ambitious young lawyer into a bewildering web of scandal, extortion and murder in this formulaic but lightning-paced suspense thriller set behind the scenes at the White House. Michael Garrick works for...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Pico Iyer, Author Rob Weisbach Books $25 (401p) ISBN 978-0-688-15090-7
Just when you thought there were no more changes to be rung on the legal thriller, Meltzer follows up his bestselling inside look at the Supreme Court (The Tenth Justice) with this sleek, suspenseful, only slightly unbelievable story about two young
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Brad Meltzer, Author, D. B. Sweeney, Read by , read by D.B. Sweeney. Time Warner $24.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57042-989-7
A man faces a lot of pressure when dating the first daughter of the U.S., especially if she is sexy, rebellious and maybe a little bit crazy like Nora Hartson. But young White House lawyer Michael Garrick thinks he is up to the task. Their first...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Ed Benes, Illustrator, Sandra Hope, Other . DC $24.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1349-7
Proving that there are some wells that never run dry, DC presents another take on the institution known as the Justice League of America. Scripted with a high emphasis on character development by novelist Meltzer (Identity Crisis
), the story has...
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Brad Meltzer, with Keith Ferrell. Workman, $24.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7611-7745-6
Newcomers and longtime fans of Meltzer’s popular TV show, Decoded (whereon he and a trio of experts investigate the veracity of various myths and legends), will relish this print companion, comprising summaries of 10 of the most intriguing topics...
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Brad Meltzer, illus. by Christopher Eliopoulos. Dial, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4085-3
Following books on Abraham Lincoln and Amelia Earhart, this third title in Meltzer and Eliopoulos’s Ordinary People Change the World series traces the life of Rosa Parks from the segregated classrooms of her childhood to the Montgomery Bus Boycott....
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Brad Meltzer, illus. by Christopher Eliopoulos. Dial, $12.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4082-2
Thriller writer Meltzer, who also hosts the history-themed TV show Decoded, introduces groundbreaking historical figures in the Ordinary People Change the World series, which launches with this title and I Am Abraham Lincoln (a third book, I Am Rosa
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Brad Meltzer, with Tod Goldberg. Grand Central, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5949-7
Bestseller Meltzer (The Fifth Assassin) and Goldberg (Gangsterland) launch a series with a conspiracy-laden spy novel that’s at its best when it’s gleefully cutting the legs out from the genre’s tropes. After a car accident in Los Angeles, Hazel-Ann
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Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. Flatiron, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-13033-4
This protracted history of a conspiracy against the Continental Army before the American colonies had even declared their independence doesn’t showcase thriller author Meltzer (The Escape Artist) at his best. Meltzer and television veteran Mensch...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Hachette Audio $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-380-6
When a homeless man with a gunshot wound is revealed to be Calvin Harper’s long-lost father, Cal must scramble his resources while dealing with a watershed of emotions. Father and son are drawn into a mystery involving the recovery of the...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Scott Brick, Read by , read by Scott Brick. Time Warner Audiobooks $44.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-604-7
After just a few chapters, Meltzer's latest (after The Millionaires
) completely throws the listener for a loop when the main character and narrator, Capitol Hill staffer Matthew Mercer, is murdered. Harris Sandler, his best friend and fellow...
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Scott Brick, Read by Hachette Audio $49.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-545-2
When you've got a plot that includes a secret 200-year-old Masonic code map hidden somewhere under Washington, D.C., plus a top aide to a former U.S. president who's killed in an assassination attempt in chapter one, but then is discovered alive and
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Brad Meltzer, with Keith Ferrell, read by Scott Brick. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $26.95 ISBN 978-1-62231-278-8
Adapted from his TV show of the same name, on the History channel, this book from Meltzer counts down the world’s top 10 most intriguing and controversial conspiracies. The list includes everything from the secrets of Area 51 to the contents of Fort
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Rags Morales, Illustrator, Michael Bair, Illustrator . DC Comics $24.99 (260p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0688-8
This seven-issue miniseries by bestselling author Meltzer (The Zero Game
) was both wildly popular and reviled, and the collection shows that both views have merit. It does
knock the rust off scores of DC characters while opening avenues to explore
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Brad Meltzer, Author, Phil Hester, Illustrator, Ande Parks, Illustrator DC Comics $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0044-2
Green Arrow died. Then he came back to life. But in the meantime, the Shade dropped the ball on a job Green Arrow had asked him to take care of in the event of his death: gathering various artifacts to protect Green Arrow's identity (and, by...
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Brad Meltzer, read by the author. Hachette Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $19.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-711-9
Listeners should have a box of tissues handy for this brief audio production in which Meltzer presents 60 noteworthy individuals whom he upholds as heroes for his six-year-old daughter, Lila. Meltzer opens by announcing that he will be reading the...
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Brad Meltzer. Morrow, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-289240-9
At the start of bestseller Meltzer’s exciting sequel to 2018’s The Escape Artist, a masked gunman fatally shoots Lt. Col. Archie Mint along with the thief who by chance was trying to rob Mint’s house in Elmswood, Pa. Mortician Jim “Zig” Zigarowski,...
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Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. Flatiron, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-31747-6
Meltzer and Mensch (The First Conspiracy) deliver a solid recounting of the conspiracy to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln during his February 1861 railroad trip from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., and the successful efforts to...
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Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch. Flatiron, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-77726-3
Meltzer and Mensch follow up The Lincoln Conspiracy with an action-packed account of the German plan to assassinate the leaders of the U.S., Britain, and the Soviet Union in Tehran in 1943. The story begins after the plot has been discovered, with...
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Brad Meltzer, illus. by Dan Santat. Dial, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-525-55424-0
If farm animals and crayons can have labor disputes, why not days of the week? In this amusing spoof of talent competitions by Meltzer (the Ordinary People Change the World series) and Caldecott Medalist Santat, Sunday, tired of being unpaid and...
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