Sheriff Victor Landis didn''t care if his brother Frank lived or died... Until somebody killed him.
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THE GRIPPING NEW ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNING R. J. ELLORY . . . Stroud is a former war photographer who left the frontline before his luck ran out. His closest friend and mentor, Vincent Raphael, was not so fortunate, and was killed in an explosion in Jordan. Six years later, Raphael is allegedly sighted in Istanbul. Reluctantly, Stroud is drawn back into a life that nearly destroyed him, and so begins a journey that takes him from the Balkans to the Netherlands, from Berlin to Paris, as he hunts down the truth of Raphael''s death, or if - in fact - Raphael never existed at all . . . With his every move closely observed by Turkish Intelligence, Mossad, MI6 and Deuxieme Bureau, Stroud is on the trail of a revelation that will question everything he has ever believed . . . PRAISE FOR R. J. ELLORY ''Thriller writing of the very highest order'' GUARDIAN ''In the top flight of crime writing'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
IT WAS THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD On 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza. He and his wife Jackie greeted the crowds on a glorious Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. BUT WHAT IF IT MISSED? Mitch Newman is a photojournalist based out of Washington, D.C. His phone never rings. When it does, a voice he hasn't heard in years will tell him his former fiancee Jean has taken her own life. WHEN THE TRUTH IS BIGGER THAN ALL THE LIES Jean was an investigative reporter working the case of a lifetime. Somewhere in the shreds of her investigation is the truth behind her murder. WHO WOULD BELIEVE IT? For Mitch, piecing together the clues will become a dangerous obsession: one that will lead him to the dark heart of his country - and into the crossfire of a conspiracy...
Washington has a new menace... a serial killer whose victims don't exist... Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncover a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
After a drugs bust goes wrong, Deputy Sheriff Garrett Nelson is left wounded, with a permanent limp and a career in tatters. On his long road to recovery he finds one consolation - Hannah, his tough-as-nails physiotherapist, and soon they''re planning a future together.
Unfit for active police service, Nelson is left with few options, so he gratefully accepts his father-in-law''s offer of a job at a Florida penitentiary on the grounds of an old Spanish mission in the Everglades. The prison''s chapel, a working bell tower, is now an execution chamber. And Nelson must attend the executions.
Working on Death Row comes with a few simple rules:
- Do not let the inmates get under your skin.
- Do not allow any prisoners to escape.
- Do not take justice into your own hands.
Garrett Nelson will break every one of them.
Gripping and heart-breaking by turns, and beautifully set against the backdrop of Florida''s Everglades, The Bell Tower is the latest literary suspense novel from the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels.
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''In the top flight of crime writing'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
''The master of the genre'' CLIVE CUSSLER
