WILLIAM MORROW
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publicity Contact: Danielle Bartlett
Publicity Director
Acclaimed
Law & Order creator and bestselling author Dick Wolf
raises the stakes in his highly anticipated second novel
featuring the NYPD’s secret weapon against terrorism—
raises the stakes in his highly anticipated second novel
featuring the NYPD’s secret weapon against terrorism—
THE EXECUTION
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Praise for last
year’s series debut THE INTERCEPT:
“Wolf’s ‘The Intercept,’ wherein
al-Qaeda attempts another major attack on New York, is a smart, suspenseful,
highly professional piece of work that should rank with the best of this year’s
thrillers.”
— Washington
Post
“Part police procedural and part ticking-bomb
thriller.” — New
York Times
“A can-they-stop-him thriller in the manner of Day of the
Jackal.” — Miami
Herald
“Wolf makes it look like he’s been writing novels his entire
life. The tight prose, great characters and the intense twists are all signs of
a master at work. . . . Readers will be clamoring for more adventures with
Jeremy Fisk.” — Associated
Press
“Dick
Wolf extends his brand masterfully in The Intercept . . . Wolf, who
turned formula into high art in Law & Order, uses many of the same
devices he deploys so effectively on TV: crosscutting, scene-shifting,
manipulating points of view. That’s how he builds
suspense.” — Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
“Like Law & Order, this book unfolds crisply and intelligently, with a nice mixture of suspense and social observation. . . . Wolf does a shrewd job of setting the stage for his protagonist’s next appearance. Storytelling pro Wolf knows how to ratchet up tension and sustain it.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A spectacular fiction debut . . . A pulsating plotline. Clever characters. Dramatic dialogue. Surprising twists. All make for an edge-of-your-seat read that will have thriller fans eagerly awaiting the next series installment.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Stunning, heart-stopping fiction. . . . [A] fabulous new book . . . it’s un-put-downable, full of good and bad guys and lots of surprises. . . . If you are a thrill seeker, don’t miss this novel.”
“Like Law & Order, this book unfolds crisply and intelligently, with a nice mixture of suspense and social observation. . . . Wolf does a shrewd job of setting the stage for his protagonist’s next appearance. Storytelling pro Wolf knows how to ratchet up tension and sustain it.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A spectacular fiction debut . . . A pulsating plotline. Clever characters. Dramatic dialogue. Surprising twists. All make for an edge-of-your-seat read that will have thriller fans eagerly awaiting the next series installment.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Stunning, heart-stopping fiction. . . . [A] fabulous new book . . . it’s un-put-downable, full of good and bad guys and lots of surprises. . . . If you are a thrill seeker, don’t miss this novel.”
— Liz Smith, Huffington Post
“The first novel by the creator of Law & Order feels like a Law & Order episode. Thank goodness. . . . Like Law & Order, The Intercept works as well as it does because of its pacing; it’s a fast read with a satisfying arc. . . . Its supporting cast members are drawn sharply enough to imagine them being inhabited by New York character actors.” — Slate
“The first novel by the creator of Law & Order feels like a Law & Order episode. Thank goodness. . . . Like Law & Order, The Intercept works as well as it does because of its pacing; it’s a fast read with a satisfying arc. . . . Its supporting cast members are drawn sharply enough to imagine them being inhabited by New York character actors.” — Slate
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Last
year Law & Order creator Dick Wolf burst onto the literary scene with his
bestselling debut thriller, The Intercept. The Associated
Press declared, “…tight prose, great characters and the intense twists are
all signs of a master at work,” and the Washington
Post exclaimed, “[The Intercept] should rank with the
best of this year’s thrillers.”
Now
Wolf delivers his follow-up, THE
EXECUTION (William Morrow; On-Sale:
January 7, 2014; One Day Laydown; ISBN: 9780062064851; Price: $27.99/ $33.99
Can.), in which Jeremy Fisk—detective with the NYPD’s Intelligence Division of the Joint Terrorism
Task Force—is out to stop an assassin let loose in New York City by a shadowy
business cartel.
Ten
days after the Mexican presidential election, twenty-three bodies are
discovered beheaded on the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Leading the
investigation for the Mexican intelligence agency is 35-year-old Cecilia Garza,
a raven-haired beauty who’s notorious for her intensity and take-no-prisoners
demeanor. Garza has learned the hard way that a forgiving nature can be an
officer’s worst enemy.
Upon
the bodies of the cartel’s victims she finds a carved symbol—a Hummingbird—and
recognizes it as the mark of an assassin known only as Chuparosa, a man both
feared and celebrated for his brutality. Even Garza, who has been pursuing him
for years, knows almost nothing about him. Except that he’s now headed to New York.
Meanwhile,
it is United Nations week in Manhattan and a grieving Jeremy Fisk is dealing
with the loss of his partner and lover and the trial of the Swedish terrorist
responsible for her death. There’s no time for grief, though, when you’re
responsible for the safety and security of the world’s most powerful leaders.
Complicating matters is the startling news of a mass murder in nearby Rockaway,
where a dozen people have been found dead.
Fisk
may not like Garza, the pushy new arrival from Mexico, but they’re going to
need each other if they stand a chance of finding and stopping Chuparosa. Soon
they both realize that there’s more to this threat than meets the eye—and Fisk
will have to learn the hard way that justice is not always blind.
Filled
with electrifying plot twists, high-wire drama, and even a little romance—THE EXECUTION is an adrenaline pumping
story that could have been ripped from the headlines, yet is enticing and
entertaining enough to keep readers wanting more. As the mastermind behind one
of the most successful and prolific television brands of all time—NBC’s Law & Order—Dick Wolf uses his
dynamic storytelling skills to captivate audiences with his Jeremy Fisk series.
Wolf
explains, “The NYPD Intelligence Unit provides a goldmine of story
possibilities for Fisk. As much as the threats—narco-terrorists in The Execution and Muslim fundamentalists
in The Intercept — what also attracts
me about these stories is the possibility of exploring the things that drive
the people involved in counter-terrorism on a daily basis. And the
psychological toll they face when they know that the only good days are the
ones in which nothing happens. Coupled with constant anxiety about the cost of
failure against enemies who are often unknown. This makes Fisk an
idiosyncratic, yet totally disciplined investigator.”
THE EXECUTION:
A Jeremy Fisk Novel By Dick Wolf
William Morrow an Imprint of
HarperCollins Publishers
On-Sale: January 7, 2014
ISBN: 9780062068491; E-Book ISBN: 9780062064851
Price: $27.99
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