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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From St Martin's OCT-DEC 07
David Poyer The Threat Pbk published November 2007 by St Martin's at £6.99 ISBN: 0312948549


Medal of Honor winner Commander Dan Lenson wonders who proposed that he be assigned to the White House military staff. It's a dubious honour - serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history. Lenson reports to the West Wing to direct a multi service team working to interdict the flow of drugs from Latin America. Never one to just warm a chair, he sets out to help destroy the Cartel - and uncovers a troubling thread of clues that link cunning and ruthless drug lord Don Juan Nunez to an assault on a nuclear power plant in Mexico, an obscure Islamic relief agency in Los Angeles, and an air cargo company's imminent flight plan across the United States. Lenson has to battle civilian aides and his own distaste for politics to derail a terrorist strike over the Mexican border. His punishment for breaking the rules to do so is to be sent to the East Wing... as the military aide carrying the nuclear "football," the locked briefcase with the secret codes for a nuclear strike, for a president he suspects is having an affair with his wife. And something else is going on beneath the day-to-day turmoil and backstabbing. As his marriage deteriorates and his frustration with Washington builds, Lenson becomes an unwitting accomplice in a dangerous and subversive conspiracy. The U.S. military is responsible for its Commander in Chief's transportation and security. If someone felt strongly enough about it... it would be easy for the President to die.

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Carlton Smith Mind Games Pbk published November 2007 by St Martin's at £6.99 ISBN: 031293906X


Dr. Felix Polk was a married psychologist living in Berkeley, California. At forty years old, he had a successful practice and a towering reputation - until he began a scandalous affair with one of his patients: Susan Bolling. She was fifteen years old. After divorcing his first wife, Felix married Susan. Susan would later claim that her marriage was built on lies, manipulation, and psychological abuse. She tried to divorce Felix, but no settlement could be reached. Susan seemed to believe that Felix had stashed up to $40 million in a secret bank account in the Caribbean. She wanted her half - or else... In October 2002, Felix was found stabbed to death in his own home. Susan insisted she acted in self-defence. But what would a jury think when Susan - claiming she was the victim of Felix's manipulation - became her own defence attorney? This is the true story of marriage, murder, and mind games.

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