Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay.Īs certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her - so there's no one she can completely trust.
Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things:ģ. Embassy Row Book 1, All Fall Down, is available now! Step into Grace’s world with this exclusive bonus scene from Embassy Row, New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter’s new series of global proportions. Inside every secret, there’s a world of trouble. Walking a razor’s edge, calculating every decision, not sure sometimes who she is or what she is doing it for, Violet is an unforgettable heroine, and Pretending to be Erica is a killer debut. But she is also Violet, and she has a job: Stay long enough to steal the Silverman Painting, an Old Master legendary in the Vegas crime world. And then, when the time is right, she “reappears”-Erica Silverman, brought home by some kind of miracle. She knows every detail of the Silvermans’ lives, as well as the PTSD she will have to fake around them. Violet shares a blood type with Erica soon, thanks to surgery and blackmail, she has the same face, body, and DNA. Violet’s father, the best con man in Las Vegas, has a plan, chilling in its very specific precision. Seventeen-year-old Violet’s entire life has revolved around one thing: becoming Erica Silverman, an heiress kidnapped at age five and never seen again.
We Were Liars meets Heist Society in a riveting debut! Michelle Painchaud - Pretending to Be Erica Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance - and a triangle of impossible loves is born. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Frères, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career - or safety. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones terror as the new mantra decent people wanting to do good but caught in the moral maze all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing the recognition that we cannot safely love or pity and remain good "patriots" - this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man.
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