"In Israel, a drone-based terrorist attack kills dozens on a sun-splashed beach. In Washington, Vice President Stephanie Davenport is found dead of an apparent heart attack. That same morning on the Washington Metro, international private investigator Robert Brixton thwarts an attempted terrorist bombing. A deadly plot with unimaginable consequence has hatched-- and these three events could lead to millions of Americans becoming collateral damage...

"Sally Grissom is a top secret service agent in charge of the Presidential Protection team. She knows that something is amiss when she is summoned to a private meeting with the President and his Chief of Staff without any witnesses. But she couldn't have predicted that she'd be forced to take on an investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the First Lady with strict orders to keep it a secret. The First Lady's absence comes in the...

One of the stars of Canada's foreign services is about to accept the crowning moment of his career, his elevation to foreign minister, but unbeknownst to his wife and children and the rest of the diplomatic corps, he has led a double life that now threatens to explode.

"The characters of The Rotters' Club-Jonathan Coe's beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s-have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium." -- Cover.