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Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger's syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated...
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"Spectacular…The action is unrelenting…Electrifying."-Boston Sunday Herald
The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitor-or the Agency's last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair's assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue...
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"Third Rail gets off to a ripping start and never lets off the gas. Rory Flynn is a suspense writer to watch."-Jess Walter, author of the best-selling Beautiful Ruins
Harvard-educated Eddy Harkness was a rising star in an elite Boston Police Department narcotics unit-until he was blamed for the death of a Red Sox fan in the chaotic aftermath of a World Series win. Scapegoated and exiled, Harkness now empties parking meters in the sleepy town...
4) The patriots
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American family portrait volume 3
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Book 3, American Family Portrait series. As the winds of revolution agitate the colonies, forcing them to declare their allegiance, the Morgans find themselves split on the issue. Twin brothers. Both patriots. Equally passionate. One faithful to England; the other to America. Will the forces that pit brother against brother doom the Morgan heritage, or save it?
5) Hard knocks
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Jack Reilly, a dodgy ex-Boston cop, is trying to make ends meet as a PI. When a client is killed execution-style, Reilly finds himself in a whole world of pain. Someone wants him dead - but why? To find out, Reilly must weed through thirty years of duplicity, corruption, and killing among politicians dirtier than mobsters and criminals nobler than senators.