New books by James Patterson and Clive Cussler will be available in the middle of November.
James Patterson's new book, Cross Fire, is the 17th book in the Alex Cross series. It will be available on Monday, NOVEMBER 15th. Detective Alex Cross's wedding plans are put on hold when he is called to the scene of the assassination of a dirty congressman and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the gunman begins killing off other crooked politicians. The FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear they are the work of a professional who has information that only a Washington insider could possess.

Cussler's latest book, Crescent Dawn, is the 21st book in the Dirk Pitt series. It will be available on Tuesday, NOVEMBER 16. In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of mosques in Turkey and Egypt are destroyed by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out. Roman artifacts are discovered in Turkey and Israel and are connected to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. Add to that the existence of a mysterious "manifest," which if discovered, may change the history of the world.

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