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THE PARIS VENDETTA by Steve Berry — When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. His British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure. Or did he? Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn’t looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. Actually, it breaks and enters in the form of an American Secret Service agent with a pair of assassins on his heels. Malone has his doubts about the anxious young man, but narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally.
THE DISAPPEARED by M.R. Hall — Coroner Jenny Cooper investigates the disappearance of two young Muslim students, who vanished without a trace seven years ago. The police had concluded that the boys, under surveillance for some time for suspicion of terrorism, had fled to Pakistan to traffic in the atrocities of Islamic fanaticism. Now, sufficient time has passed for the law to declare the boys legally dead. A final declaration is left up to Jenny. As her official inquest progresses, the stench of corruption is unmistakable. Not only does it appear that British Security Services played a role, but the involvement of an American intelligence agent soon makes it clear that a vast conspiracy is in play.
A YOUNG MAN WITHOUT MAGIC by Lawrence Watt-Evans — Anrel Murau is a scholar, a young man with no magical ability even though he is the son of two powerful sorcerers. Anrel’s lack of talent bars him from the ruling classes, but he is content to be a simple clerk. Upon returning to his childhood home after years of study in the capital, Anrel finds his friends and family held under the thumb of the corrupt local lord. When this lord murders a dear friend, Anrel finds that although he’s not a sorcerer, he is not without other means to demand justice. If he can survive life on the run, that is.
U IS FOR UNDERTOW by Sue Grafton — It’s April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone’s 38th birthday, and she’s alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced: Michael Sutton, 27, an unemployed college dropout. Twenty-one years earlier, a 4-year-old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was 6 years old. He wants Kinsey’s help in locating the child’s remains and finding the men who killed her. It’s a long shot, but he’s willing to pay cash up front, and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she discovers Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he’s the boy who cried wolf.
GOATS: THE CORNDOG IMPERATIVE by Jonathan Rosenberg — God is dead. Reality isn’t real. And the end of the multiverse is coming! Nobody knew any of this stuff at the beginning — least of all Jon and Phillip, two of the drunker inhabitants of our own particularly ignorant level of existence. Then again, it was these bickering cyber-geeks who flew to the center of the galaxy where they met–and ate–God Himself … which may just have kick-started the apocalypse. A new collection of strips from the acclaimed webcomic, GOATS: THE CORNDOG IMPERATIVE is a cosmic comedy of errors, pocket universes and monkeys with typewriters.
