New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow 07 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Arrow JULY-SEPT 07

Alex Berenson The Faithful Spy Pbk published August 2007 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099502151

This is a story torn from today's headlines - "New York Times" reporter Alex Berenson delivers the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9/11 era. The only American ever to crack al Qaeda, John Wells has been undercover so long that the CIA is no longer sure he's loyal - or even alive. Now, on the orders of Omar Khadri - the mastermind spearheading al Qaeda's attacks on America - Wells is coming home. And neither Khadri nor Jennifer Wexley, Wells's CIA case officer, know what to expect. During his years in the mountains, Wells has become a Muslim and begun to doubt the Americans' agenda. He is a man alone, and the CIA is unable to trust him. Only Exley believes in him. But as Khadri moves closer to unleashing the most devastating terrorist attack in history, Wells and Exley know they must stop him, with or without the CIA's approval.

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Robert Harris Imperium Pbk published July 2007 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099406314

Of all the great figures of the Roman era, none was more fascinating or attractive than Marcus Cicero. A brilliant lawyer and orator, a famous wit and philosopher, he launched himself at the age of 27 into the violent, treacherous world of Roman politics, determined to attain imperium, the supreme power in the state. Beside him at all times in his struggle to reach the top - the office of Consul - was his confidential secretary, Tiro: the inventor of shorthand, and author of numerous books, including a famous life of Cicero, which was lost in the Dark Ages. Now, Robert Harris - author of the number one bestseller "Pompeii" - has recreated Tiro's vanished masterpiece, to tell in vivid detail the story of Cicero's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato. This is a world at once exotically different, and yet startlingly similar to our own - a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political hostesses - in which the ancient rights of free speech and liberty are being threatened as a result of military adventures abroad. Harris's Cicero is an immensely sympathetic figure - an outsider, ambitious, vulnerable, highly intelligent, compassionate, frequently devious but always human: the world's first professional politician.

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Sergei Lukyanenko The Night Watch Pbk published July 2007 by Arrow at £7.99 ISBN: 0099489929

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. The Others are magicians, possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The two factions, having long before realised that open struggle can only create chaos and disaster, coexist in an uneasy truce, each side aware of, and keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. Their aim is not mutual destruction, but rather the maintenance of the precarious balance between good and evil. Anton, a young Other, who owes allegiance to the Light, is a Night Watch agent, newly seconded to patrol the streets and metro of the city, to protect ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, who he realises is under a powerful curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Egor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power, whom Anton narrowly saves from vampires. Anton is assigned a partner, Olga, a powerful female Other who is trapped in the form of an owl in punishment for a past error of judgement. Together with their colleagues in the Night Watch, they struggle to remove Svetlana's curse and to protect Egor from the vampires that pursue him. Set in a vividly realised post-Soviet Russia, where vampires operate under license and Good and Evil exist in a Cold War-like balance of power, "The Night Watch" is a page-turning fantasy thriller, an international bestseller that represents the most original writing in its genre since Anne Rice's "An Interview With a Vampire"...

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Ruth Rendell The Water’s Lovely Pbk published August 2007 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099504278

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then, something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!" The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still lived in the same house in Clapham. But it had been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day...But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.

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Mark Winegardner The Godfather's Revenge Pbk published September 2007 by Arrow at £6.99 ISBN: 0099499487

It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen - Vito Corleone's adopted son, and the glue that holds the family together - are closer than they've ever been. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people wait to ask the great man for favours. Among the visitors are former mob rivals, an emissary from the Mayor of New York, even faces from the past like Jonny Fontane; all come to pay homage. The Mafia Don walks the streets of his New York, beloved and protected. But one problem remains. Michael has sworn revenge upon the traitorous former Corleone capo, Nick Geraci. Up until now Geraci, who has powerful friends and far too much to say, has evaded him. And that night, as the fireworks begin to explode over First Avenue, comes the news that Jimmy Shea, President of the United States, has been assassinated. Was another mob family involved? Or did the Corleones have a hand in the killing of their old friend?

"The Godfather's Revenge" tells the riveting story of the final years of the Corleones, bringing Mario Puzo's great saga to a conclusion.

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