Richard North Patterson
1) Eclipse
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English
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An American lawyer takes on the defense of an African freedom fighter, charged by his corrupt government with the murder of three oil workers.
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English
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Mark Darrow, having accepted the opportunity to become the head of a local college at the urging of the professor who helped him become a successful trial lawyer, returns to his alma mater where he cannot escape thoughts of a female student who he found dead on the night of his greatest success as a quarterback for the school and for which his friend was sentenced to life in prison, and, when another student is murdered, Mark believes the real killer...
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1997
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Tony Lord leaves town under a cloud of suspicion after his girlfriend is found raped and murdered, but he returns twenty-seven years later to act as lawyer for his old friend Sam Robb who has been accused of killing a female student and finds himself enmeshed in conflicts from the past.
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English
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Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer-was it self-defense or premeditated murder? In the Name of Honor marks an enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets from bestselling author Richard North Patterson.
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran-now one of the army's most distinguished generals-became best friends with Jack Gallagher,...
5) Trial
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English
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"A death in the dark, a young life on the line. From the backroads of rural Georgia to the halls of Congress, this riveting novel draws on Richard North Patterson's years as a trial attorney as well as his insider knowledge of Washington DC. Intricate, compelling, and timely, it may be his best book yet." -Geraldine Brooks, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and New York Times bestselling author of Horse. "It is no overstatement to say that...
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English
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A family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings is set against the backdrop of the turbulent summer of 1968 in Martha's Vineyard, where twenty-two-year-old Whitney Dane begins questioning her goals and sense of independence at the side of a fiercely ambitious, underprivileged man.
9) Dark lady
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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When two prominent men are found dead within days of each other, it is up to Assistant County Prosecutor Stella Marz to determine if their deaths were coincidence or not.
10) Degree of guilt
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Knopf
Pub. Date
1993
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English
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Christopher Paget defends a former lover Mary Carelli who is accused of murdering America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Young CIA agent Brooke Chandler, stationed in Lebanon until his cover was blown, struggles to convince his skeptical superiors that the bomb stolen from Pakistan by al-Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor is intended for Israel, not the United States.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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After the death and funeral of his estranged father, CIA operative Adam Blaine is left to deal with his father's complicated legal and financial arrangements to settle his estate, which send Blaine on a quest to uncover his father's killer and leads him to suspect the invovement of members of his own family.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A presidential candidate is shot dead and one attorney dares to defend the assassin in #1 New York Times–bestselling author Richard North Patterson's tour de force legal thriller All of America is watching when a sniper's bullet cuts down presidential hopeful James Kilcannon. As the nation rises up in outrage, one lawyer is bold enough to represent the Vietnam veteran accused of firing the fatal shot. Tony Lord has never shied away from a fight,...
16) The Outside Man
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In #1 New York Times--bestselling author Richard North Patterson's suspenseful legal thriller, a Northern lawyer in a Southern town risks his life to bring a killer to justice A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam's best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after his wife is murdered,...
17) Escape the Night
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English
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#1 New York Times–bestselling author Richard North Patterson delivers a riveting novel of suspense and a powerful family's secrets Peter Carey was born into privilege during the McCarthy era, when the paranoia of Washington infected his parents' house and seeped into Peter's bones. His father was so obsessed with the family publishing business that he never had time for his son. Even as a teenager, Peter barely knew his father-and one dark night,...
18) Balance of power
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2003
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English
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Novice president Kerry Kilcannon becomes caught up in a dangerous power struggle when his brother-in-law goes on a killing spree, sparking Kilcannon to mount a vigorous campaign to wipe out gun violence, a quest that pits him against the powerful Sons of the Second Amendment group.