Marcus Sakey, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-36031-3
Sakey's brilliant debut, a crime novel set in Chicago, is a must read. From the thrilling opening, a horribly botched pawnshop robbery by childhood friends Evan and Danny, to the riveting ending, the tension ratchets up to almost unbearable...
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Marcus Sakey, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-36032-0
Sakey's second crime novel doesn't quite measure up to his impressive debut, The Blade Itself
(2007), but it exhibits many of the same strengths: high-tension action, intricate plotting and a Chicago setting that thrums and pulses with...
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Marcus Sakey, Author . Dutton $24.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-525-95084-4
What would you do if, like Chicagoans Tom and Anna Reed, you stumbled on $400,000 that seemed heaven sent? After reading Sakey's masterful third crime thriller, you'd probably leave it untouched. In increasing debt from failed attempts to...
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Marcus Sakey, Author . Dutton $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-525-95126-1
In Sakey's so-so thriller, four friends—travel agent Jenn Lacie, trader Ian Trevarian, hotel doorman Mitch McDonnell and bartender Alex Kern—meet every Thursday night at the Chicago restaurant where Alex bartends and commiserate...
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Marcus Sakey. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-61-109969-0
Sakey (The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes) paints a near future too close for comfort in this stunning thriller, the first in a projected series. About 1% of American children born after 1986—known as abnorms, among other names—are particularly...
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Marcus Sakey. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2764-2
The searing conclusion to Sakey’s Brilliance trilogy (after Brilliance and
A Better World) updates the plight of the supernaturally gifted people known as abnorms, who constitute 1% of the U.S. population and first appeared in 1986. Thirty years...
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Marcus Sakey. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-4778-4847-0
Edgar-finalist Sakey follows his Brilliance trilogy with a remarkably conceived and passionately realized supernatural thriller featuring two dedicated FBI agents. Will Brody, a former Marine who’s now an FBI special agent, is killed in an operation
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Marcus Sakey. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (434p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2394-1
Set in a near-future America tragically accustomed to terrorism, Edgar finalist Sakey’s stellar sequel to 2013’s Brilliance holds the reader in thrall until the final crack of an unthinkable doom—then offers more. U.S. President Lionel Clay, a man...
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Marcus Sakey, Author, Joyce Bean, Read by, Dan John Miller, Read by , read by Joyce Bean and Dan John Miller. Brilliance Audio $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6688-1
Crime writer Sakey’s latest is a lackluster and stereotypical attempt that has a young married couple putting their lives on the line for the chance to have a baby. Of course, the decision doesn’t come cheap, and soon enough they come...
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