Books by Jeff Abbott and Complete Book Reviews
Jeff Abbott, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-39470-5
Imagine Jordan Poteet's surprise when Bob Don Goertz--not the man he called ""Daddy"" for 30 years--turns out to be his father. In this fourth in the series that began with Do Unto Others, Jordy finds a passel of supremely dysfunctional new...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2869-7
A year after Beth Dunning disappeared from Lakehaven, Tex., in this gripping if flawed standalone from Thriller Award–winner Abbott (Blame), the primary suspect in the case remains Beth’s husband, who’s regularly harassed by the Lakehaven police...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5843-8
In this engrossing standalone from Thriller Award–winner Abbott (The First Order), a car crash in Austin, Tex., steals 17-year-old Jane Norton’s memory and kills her best friend’s boyfriend, David Hall. Investigators find Jane’s suicide note at the...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-5841-4
In bestseller Abbott’s fast-paced, high-octane fifth thriller featuring ex-CIA operative Sam Capra (after 2014’s The Inside Man), an unnamed prospective client offers master hit man Philip Judge $20 million to pull off “the most dangerous...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2845-5
Thriller Award–winner Abbott draws on Shakespeare’s King Lear for his outstanding fourth Sam Capra novel (after 2013’s Downfall). When Steve Robles, an old friend of Sam’s, is shot dead outside the Miami bar that Sam runs, Sam, a former CIA agent,...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4555-2843-1
Bestseller Abbott packs a lifetime of thrills and suspense into a mere five days in his convoluted third novel featuring former CIA agent Sam Capra (after 2011’s The Last Minute). Soon after terrified Diana Keene hurries into Sam’s San Francisco bar
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $24.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-57520-1
In Thriller Award–finalist Abbott’s exciting if tortuous sequel to Adrenaline (2010), CIA agent Sam Capra continues to search for his infant son, Daniel, held by the cartel of evil known as Novem Soles (Nine Suns). At the behest of the cartel, Sam...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-57517-1
Edgar-finalist Abbott's outstanding tale of high intrigue set primarily in London and Amsterdam, the first in a series, introduces Sam Capra, a London-based CIA agent. When a terrorist group bombs the agency's British headquarters, killing 20 people,
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Onyx $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-41010-8
Tensions rise in Port Leo, Tex., when porn star Pete Hubble, the black sheep son of a senator, returns to uncover the secrets surrounding his brother's long-ago disappearance. Pete brings some heavy baggage with him, the least of which is his...
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Jeff Abbott, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-38948-0
Abbott's debut mystery is a bright, often funny portrayal of the social mechanics of a small town, where, as the narrator/accused/detective quickly discovers, everyone has something to hide. Jordan Poteet has left a thriving publishing career back...
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Dutton $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-525-95121-6
Luke Dantry, while working as an intern for his stepfather's think-tank in Austin, Tex., stumbles on a group of home-grown terrorists known as the Night Road (because of their nocturnal Internet chatter) in this furiously paced if less than...
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Dutton $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-95028-8
A rock-solid if complicated plot distinguishes this stand-alone thriller from Abbott (Panic
). In Austin, Tex., a hired assassin fumbles an assignment, leaving several men dead. In the pocket of one of the victims, a Belfast hit man, is the business
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Dutton $24.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-525-94972-5
In Abbott's hypercharged ninth thriller (after 2005's Panic
), Miles Kendrick, a former spy for the mob who's now in the federal witness protection program, has built a new if fragile life in Sante Fe, N.Mex. With the aid of Allison...
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Dutton $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-94904-6
An unassuming documentary filmmaker is plunged into the dark world of contract killing and espionage in this superior, fast-paced thriller, Abbott's eighth outing (after Do Unto Others
). Evan Casher's safe, quiet life in Austin, Tex.,...
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Jeff Abbott, Author . Onyx $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-41114-3
Abbott's latest thriller (after Black Jack Point
) plunges readers into the sleazy, seductive world of crime in Houston, Tex. Thirty years ago, Ellen Mosley abandoned her six children, changed her name to Eve Michaels and began laundering money...
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Multiple writers, read by multiple narrators. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-4808-0
Twenty-six writers and six narrators join forces in the audio edition of this twisted tale of greed, betrayal, and murder. It’s been a decade since Rosemary Thomas was executed for the murder of her husband. But former police detective Jon Nunn—whose
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Jeff Abbott, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6216-6
In the wake of his wife's supposedly random murder, Ben Forsberg attempts to return to normality, but the arrival of two agents asking about his connection to the murder of a government agent upends everything. Soon, he's paired with an ex-
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Jeff Abbott, Author, L. J. Ganser, Read by , read by L.J. Ganser. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305897-7
If there was a drug that allowed people to forget the worst moment of their lives, how far would someone go to obtain it, given the potential profit? Such a drug, code-named Frost, lies at the heart of Abbott's latest novel. Miles Kendrick is in
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Jeff Abbott, Author, L. J. Ganser, Read by , read by L.J. Ganser. Penguin Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305823-6
Not many audio versions of thrillers start with the bang that Abbott and Ganser bring to this story about a young man whose life explodes one spring morning. Evan Casher is a rising young documentary filmmaker, living in Houston, who is awakened...
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Jeff Abbot, Author, Jeff Abbott, Author Fawcett Books $6.5 (256p) ISBN 978-0-345-39438-5
Between a reemerged ex-girlfriend, a mad bomber and a murderer loose on the streets of Mirabeau, Tex., sleuth/librarian Jordan Poteet has his hands full. The bomber is blowing up everything from mailboxes to the top floor of Mirabeau's B&B; Lorna,...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5387-3315-8
Set in an affluent Austin, Tex., suburb, this cunning and complex domestic thriller from bestseller Abbott (The Three Beths) centers on the Pollitt family: parents Iris and Kyle and their teenage children, Julia and Grant. Early one morning, Julia...
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Jeff Abbott. Grand Central, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5387-1914-5
At the start of this taut thriller from bestseller Abbott (Never Ask Me), Kirsten North, a New Orleans freelance researcher, believes her husband, Henry, a software consultant specializing in computer security, is in New York City on a business trip.
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