New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Atlantic Books 07 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Atlantic Books APRIL-JUNE 07

Mark Bowden Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Dangerous Drug Baron. Pbk published June 2007 by Atlantic Books at £7.99 ISBN: 1843546515

This work charts the rise and spectacular fall of the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar, richest and most powerful criminal in history. The book exposes the massive illegal operation by covert US Special Forces and intelligence services to hunt down and assassinate Escobar. It is a story that has rarely been told before: Mark Bowden has had exclusive access to highly classified intelligence documents, secret surveillance footage and Escobar's wiretap transcripts, and interviewed all the major players in the manhunt. The book sets out to combine the energy of a Tom Clancy techno-thriller and the detail of award-winning investigative journalism.

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Richard Flanagan The Unknown Terrorist Published April 2007 by Atlantic Books at £14.99 ISBN: 1843545985

Gina Davies is a 26-year-old pole dancer in Sydney. She's a flawed woman, racist and obsessed with money, who knows her role in a world built on deception: the dancers pretend to be excited, the men pretend that the women aren't pretending. But on the night after three unexploded bombs are discovered at a local stadium, Gina has a one-night stand with an attractive stranger. The next day, she has become a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack.Now a wanted person, Davies witnesses every truth of her life twisted into a betrayal as she endures trial by an increasingly hysterical media. Suddenly, Gina's world of small, familiar deceptions has imploded into one where lies are out to destroy her.

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Olivier Pauvert Noir Pbk published April 2007 by Atlantic Books at £7.99 ISBN: 1843545160

A wedding with the golf of Brandebois, side of Nice. With a few meters of the hole n° 18, a girl is assassinated. Not far, a man smokes a joint before discovering the macabre scene and being embarked by the police force. The accident which pulverizes the light van in the airs cuts soon court to the investigation and the fact of landing - only survivor - in an unreal park where trisomic freezes it predict sibylline… Is this as from this moment that ALL escapes to him? Its wife, who doesn't recognize it even more in the street? The fascination of all for the mirrors? With end, the man finds refuge at Blacks, imperceptible bet this France of the national Party for which he voted itself one day…
Carried by a writing dark, magnetic, visionary, Black us cramp in the folds of France corroded by a clinical Fascism. Survivor of beyond trapped by a twisted investigation, his denatured narrator goes until the end of his destiny and blunts the sempiternal borders between the Good and the Evil…

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Matt Rees The Bethlehem Murders Published June 2007 by Atlantic Books at £12.99 ISBN: 1843545926

For decades, Omar Yussef has been a teacher of history to the children of Bethlehem. When a favourite former pupil, George Saba, is arrested for collaborating with the Israelis in the killing of a Palestinian guerrilla, Yussef is convinced that he has been framed. With George facing imminent execution Yussef sets out to prove his innocence. As Yussef falls foul of his headmaster and the local police chief, time begins to run out for Saba. Saba's home is bombed, members of his family are murdered. But with no one else willing to stand up for the truth, it is up to Yussef act, even as bloodshed and heartbreak surround him.

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