The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park (Among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A rip-roaring entertainment.The Boston Globe). When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, Time Out declared: Carter does for members of t...
His aide and his bodyguard were surprised when he told them to wait, too. Outside the terminal, Aurelia sat in the station wagon. Gary had suggested that she not get out. No point in letting anyone snap a photo of the two of them hugging. She knew what he meant. There had always been these storie...
The sky was heavy with pre-dawn grayness. She realized that she had spent most of the night in custody. Traffic was light. There were few pedestrians at this hour. Margo kept the hood of her raincoat up and her head down, in the hope that the night would disguise her blackness—a clue that would o...
said the President. “That is their surprise.” “I would not have believed it,” said Sickles, shaking his head as he sat none too straight on the sofa. There were moments when the constant pain he hid from the world threatened to overwhelm him. “But I think you must be right.” Lincoln stood near th...
She pressed a button and an alarm klaxon sounded. The volume made everybody jump. On the monitor, a shadow shot past one of the cameras, hitting the ground hard.“What was that?” said Audrey.“With any luck,” said her sister, very complacent, “that was our friend from the roof.”She pointed to anoth...
Their modest house on Sixteenth Street is set in the middle of the Gold Coast; the Judge’s larger place, Mariah’s now, lies on the border with the paler nation, as did his public career.My in-laws welcome me effusively, banishing the dogs to the yard because they know I suffer from allergies, a f...