When the leader of a group of animal rights activists is shot dead during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Meditech, the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerate, the natural assumption is that the real target is the company's CEO - a theory strengthened when the young son of one of Meditech's top scientists is kidnapped. It is not really Lock's job to investigate, but his years of training and experience tell him that something big is going down.

And as a champion of lost causes with a keen sense of justice, he finds himself involved. And so begins a tense game of cat and mouse as Lock and Ty unveil a shocking conspiracy involving big business, high politics, international terrorists, and the terrifying lengths those in authority will go to find - and test - an effective vaccine against the world's most deadly diseases.

As the New Year crowds gather in New York's Times Square, the Ebola virus is about to be unleashed. It is up to Lcok and Ty to save the city- (less)

When the leader of a group of animal rights activists is shot dead during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Meditech, the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerate, the natural assumption is that the real target is the company's CEO - a theory strengthened when the young son of one of Meditech's top scientists is kidnapped. It is not really Lock's job to investigate, but his years of training and experience tell him that something big is going down.

And as a champion of lost causes with a keen sense of justice, he finds himself involved. And so begins a tense game of cat and mouse as Lock and Ty unveil a shocking conspiracy involving big business, high politics, international terrorists, and the terrifying lengths those in authority will go to find - and test - an effective vaccine against the world's most deadly diseases.

As the New Year crowds gather in New York's Times Square, the Ebola virus is about to be unleashed. It is up to Lcok and Ty to save the city- Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Ryan Lock, an American serving in the Close Protection Unit of the British Military Police, and Ty Johnson, a US Marine, have been friends since Iraq.

Now out of uniform, they work in New York at the sharp end of corporate security. When the leader of a group of animal rights activists is shot dead during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Meditech, the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerate, the natural assumption is that the real target is the company's CEO - a theory strengthened when the young son of one of Meditech's top scientists is kidnapped.

It is not really Lock's job to investigate, but his years of training and experience tell him that something big is going down. And as a champion of lost causes with a keen sense of justice, he finds himself involved.

And so begins a tense game of cat and mouse as Lock and Ty unveil a shocking conspiracy involving big business, high politics, international terrorists, and the terrifying lengths those in authority will go to find - and test - an effective vaccine against the world's most deadly diseases. As the New Year crowds gather in New York's Times Square, the Ebola virus is about to be unleashed.

It is up to Lcok and Ty to save the city- Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Ryan Lock, an American serving in the Close Protection Unit of the British Military Police, and Ty Johnson, a US Marine, have been friends since Iraq. Now out of uniform, they work in New York at the sharp end of corporate security.

When the leader of a group of animal rights activists is shot dead during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Meditech, the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerate, the natural assumption is that the real target is the company's CEO - a theory strengthened when the young son of one of Meditech's top scientists is kidnapped. It is not really Lock's job to investigate, but his years of training and experience tell him that something big is going down.

And as a champion of lost causes with a keen sense of justice, he finds himself involved. And so begins a tense game of cat and mouse as Lock and Ty unveil a shocking conspiracy involving big business, high politics, international terrorists, and the terrifying lengths those in authority will go to find - and test - an effective vaccine against the world's most deadly diseases.

As the New Year crowds gather in New York's Times Square, the Ebola virus is about to be unleashed. It is up to Lcok and Ty to save the city- Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Ryan Lock, an American serving in the Close Protection Unit of the British Military Police, and Ty Johnson, a US Marine, have been friends since Iraq.

Now out of uniform, they work in New York at the sharp end of corporate security. When the leader of a group of animal rights activists is shot dead during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Meditech, the world's largest pharmaceutical conglomerate, the natural assumption is that the real target is the company's CEO - a theory strengthened when the young son of one of Meditech's top scientists is kidnapped.

It is not really Lock's job to investigate, but his years of training and experience tell him that something big is going down. And as a champion of lost causes with a keen sense of justice, he finds himself involved.

And so begins a tense game of cat and mouse as Lock and Ty unveil a shocking conspiracy involving big business, high politics, international terrorists, and the terrifying lengths those in authority will go to find - and test - an effective vaccine against the world's most deadly diseases. As the New Year crowds gather in New York's Times Square, the Ebola virus is about to be unleashed.

It is up to Lcok and Ty to save the city- Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson, both with military backgrounds, become involved when a conspiracy involving big business, high politics and international terrorists is unveiled, and the stakes are high: the Ebola virus is about to be released. Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson, both with military backgrounds, become involved when a conspiracy involving big business, high politics and international terrorists is unveiled, and the stakes are high: the Ebola virus is about to be released.

Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

. Cast into a world of black, Declan Carstairs is a man in torment.

Consumed by guilt, he sees no way out of the darkness his life has become. Only one thing drives him: fi nding the woman who caused his brother's death and the accident that took his sight.

Housekeeper Chloe Daniels refuses to pity her devastatingly gorgeous boss, but treating him as the strong, capable man he is soon proves dangerous. As Chloe falls deeper under Declan's spell, awakened by his touch, she forgets all about the secret she keeps that may destroy them both.

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. Cast into a world of black, Declan Carstairs is a man in torment.

Consumed by guilt, he sees no way out of the darkness his life has become. Only one thing drives him: fi nding the woman who caused his brother's death and the accident that took his sight.

Housekeeper Chloe Daniels refuses to pity her devastatingly gorgeous boss, but treating him as the strong, capable man he is soon proves dangerous. As Chloe falls deeper under Declan's spell, awakened by his touch, she forgets all about the secret she keeps that may destroy them both.

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. Cast into a world of black, Declan Carstairs is a man in torment.

Consumed by guilt, he sees no way out of the darkness his life has become. Only one thing drives him: fi nding the woman who caused his brother's death and the accident that took his sight.

Housekeeper Chloe Daniels refuses to pity her devastatingly gorgeous boss, but treating him as the strong, capable man he is soon proves dangerous. As Chloe falls deeper under Declan's spell, awakened by his touch, she forgets all about the secret she keeps that may destroy them both.

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. Cast into a world of black, Declan Carstairs is a man in torment.

Consumed by guilt, he sees no way out of the darkness his life has become. Only one thing drives him: fi nding the woman who caused his brother's death and the accident that took his sight.

Housekeeper Chloe Daniels refuses to pity her devastatingly gorgeous boss, but treating him as the strong, capable man he is soon proves dangerous. As Chloe falls deeper under Declan's spell, awakened by his touch, she forgets all about the secret she keeps that may destroy them both.

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Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.

Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place.

The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"From the Paperback edition. John Grisham has contributed to The Summons as an author.

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi (less)

Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.

Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place.

The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"From the Paperback edition. John Grisham has contributed to The Summons as an author.

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home.

Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.

Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place.

The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"From the Paperback edition. John Grisham has contributed to The Summons as an author.

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home.

Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.

Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place.

The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"From the Paperback edition. John Grisham has contributed to The Summons as an author.

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi Deliverable Countries : This product ships to Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home.

Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.

Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place.

The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

"From the Paperback edition. John Grisham has contributed to The Summons as an author.

John Grisham is the renowned author of numerous novels, and he is a former legislator originally from Mississippi Deliverable Countries : This product ships to (less)

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Excerpt: ST. BRIGID'S FLOOD.

Four or five men were gathered together that evening in Forsyth's rooms, talking the usual talk of anglers when they congregate -- flies, bait, good days, bad days, droughts, and floods. Forsyth was just expressing his preference for the extreme type of flood river.

" A regular mountain stream, you know -- no lake on it, no feeders to speak of, but just the scourings of the hills. When it comes down there's no need to bother about waiting till it clears; you watch till it stops rising, and then fish at once; and some time or other when you're on the water you're pretty sure to hit the psychological moment.

" " Yes; but how long does it last ? " put in Legge. "Oh, an hour, two hours, six hours.

But it's amusing, anyhow, to watch the water changing; it keeps up the interest -- it's dramatic. I've seen a stream at Carrick get up five feet in the night and go down to where it was in the forenoon.

" " If you come to that," said Grayson, knocking his pipe on the mantelpiece, " I've seen a flood get up five feet in five minutes." Grayson was a man none of us had seen before.

Forsyth had picked him up somewhere in Ireland. So, although what he said sounded pretty steep, none of us protested.

"You mean a tide wave," Legge suggested politely. "Not in the least; just a flood out of the mountains like what Forsyth talks of.

And if you like them dramatic, Forsyth, you'd have had your heart's content that time." "Well," said Forsyth, "I know they get the devil's own floods in the West of Ireland; but (less)

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