Watchlist is a two-part thriller by Jeffery Deaver, who created the characters and set the plot in motion.  In turn, twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers contributed to the work, some of which include Linda Barnes, Brett Battles, Lee Child, David Corbett, Joseph Finder, Jim Fusilli, John Gilstrap, James Grady, David Hewson, P.J. Parrish, S.J. Rozan, and Lisa Scottoline.  Each author wrote a chapter and Deaver then completed this thrilling sequel.

In part one, The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frédéric Chopin. But he is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans.

In part two, The Copper Bracelet, Harold Middleton, an ex-U.S. military intelligence officer returns as he’s drawn into an international terror and assassination plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.

Additional great authors who contributed to this exciting novel include Jon Land, David Liss, Gayle Lynds, John Ramsey Miller, Ralph Pezzullo, James Phelan, Jenny Siler, Peter Spiegelman, and Erica Spindler, with an introduction by M.J. Rose.

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In Edgar-winner Liss’s enjoyable third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, an 18th-century London “thieftaker” (after A Spectacle of Corruption and A Conspiracy of Paper), Weaver finds himself working reluctantly for a mysterious gentleman, Jerome Cobb. On Cobb’s orders, Weaver takes employment as a security man at the British East India Company’s headquarters, where he tries to obtain information about the death of one Absalom Pepper, of whom virtually nothing is known. To keep Weaver in line, Cobb has blackmailed Weaver’s friend Moses Franco, close confederate Elias Gordon and his beloved uncle Miguel. As usual, several beautiful women play roles in the complicated plot, which involves industrial spying and the international textile trade. Weaver’s two previous adventures could sometimes bog down in arcane financial and political detail, but Liss keeps the suspense at full boil and the action rolling swiftly ahead.

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(Publisher’s Weekly, May 18)

(boston.com, Dec. 19, 2008, David Liss)

As he does with his many preceding novels, Ivan Doig roots “The Eleventh Man” in rural Montana of the past, but this book, set during the years of American involvement in World War II, is much more wide-ranging than the author’s previous work. Here Doig focuses on the exploits of a monumentally successful football team, but lest the combination of college football and the Second World War make the book sound like a parody of Father’s Day marketing, let me state right away that Doig has bigger fish to fry than pressing the hot buttons of American masculinity. This is a tale almost entirely devoid of nostalgia, and one that wishes to celebrate the valor of the greatest generation while viewing it with skepticism and even (more…)