THE SIEGE
As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a
number of students--including the sons of both the secretary of the army
and newest Supreme Court justice--may have gone missing. Kidnapping?
Terrorism? The authorities aren't sure. But the high-profile
disappearances draw the attention of the CIA and the FBI's vaunted
Hostage Rescue Team. Attention quickly focuses on the fortresslike tomb
of one of Yale's oldest secret societies. Suspended Boulder police
detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he is
suddenly snared by an unlikely pair of Feds: FBI agent Christopher Poe
and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake. When an unknown enemy starts releasing
hostages, one by one, out of the building's front door to die, Sam, Poe,
and Dee join together, desperately trying to solve the riddle of what is
going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus. In The
Siege, New York Times bestselling author Stephen White delivers a
pulse-pounding thriller that begs the questions: What if the next
terrorist threat has a different set of rules that exploits weaknesses
we never knew we had? How should we respond? And what happens when one
of us is asked to make an unimaginable sacrifice to protect our
neighbors?
THE LAST LIE
Shortly after Alan and Lauren welcome their affluent new neighbors--a
legend in women's rights law and his beautiful wife--the couple hosts a
housewarming party that ends in quiet disaster. One guest, a young
widow, elects to spend the night after indulging in too much wine, only
to wake the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed.
Aware that something went terribly wrong, she goes to the police,
starting a chain of events that will have devastating consequences for
everyone involved. A national celebrity is soon accused of rape--with
eerie similarities to another notorious Colorado case. Lauren, a deputy
DA, and detective Sam Purdy both learn facts they can't share with Alan,
but Alan discovers that he has a most unusual perspective into what
truly happened after the housewarming. Before he can decipher the
puzzle, a crucial witness is murdered. Alan fears that other
witnesses--people he loves--could be next.
