Our nation’s economy needs you! So PROMISE ME you’ll buy a new book this week. There’s a few out starting today like … oh, lessee, PROMISE ME. That’s Harlan Coben’s latest thriller featuring his former pro basketball character Myron Bolitar, here investigating the disappearance of a young girl or two.

If you like your thrillers a bit more techno, Dale Brown has EDGE OF BATTLE, a terrorist-oriented sequel to last year’s ACT OF WAR.

And new in paperback is James Rollins’ MAP OF BONES, which is certainly not the only novel of late to have the word “Vatican” figure into its plot. I like the idea of Rollins’ books more than I do reading them; in fact, I failed quite miserably at trying to finish his previous one.