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New best sellers for August

Bestselling authors James Patterson, Frederick Forsyth and Dick Francis all have new books coming out next week.

Postcard Killers, by James Patterson, will be available on Monday, AUGUST 16. NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe after his daughter and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, couples in several European cities have become victims of the same killers. Kanon teams up with Swedish reporter, Gabby Larsen. Each killing is preceded by a postcard to the local newspaper and Kanon thinks he knows where the next victims will be.

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The Cobra, by Frederick Forsyth, will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. In this book, an unnamed U.S. president decides to bring all the resources of the federal government against the international cocaine trade. He declares drug traders and their cartels to be terrorists and brings in ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux in to head the team to implement the effort. Devereaux, known as the Cobra, is given free rein by the president to call in any arm of the government to fight the cartels.

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Crossfire is the final book written by Dick Francis and his son Felix. It will be available Tuesday, AUGUST 17. Army Capt. Thomas Forsyth has lost a foot during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. Upon discharge, Forsyth returns home to Lambourn where he gets a less-than-warm welcome from his mother, horse trainer Josephine Kauri. Forsyth discovers that his mother has been sabotaging her own animals in response to a blackmailer's threats to reveal her tax evasion to the authorities. With nothing else to do, Forsyth turns detective to identify the extortionist.

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