Golden Son: Book II of The Red Rising Trilogy

By Pierce Brown

NEW YORK occasions BESTSELLER • NAMED the best BOOKS OF THE 12 months by way of NPR, BUZZFEED, AND BOOKLIST • With colours of The starvation video games, Ender’s video game, and online game of Thrones, debut writer Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the floor working and wasted no time changing into a sensation. Golden Son maintains the lovely saga of Darrow, a insurgent solid by way of tragedy, scuffling with to guide his oppressed humans to freedom.

As a purple, Darrow grew up operating the mines deep underneath the skin of Mars, enduring backbreaking hard work whereas dreaming of the higher destiny he used to be construction for his descendants. however the Society he faithfully served was once equipped on lies. Darrow’s style were betrayed and denied via their elitist masters, the Golds—and their purely route to liberation is revolution. And so Darrow sacrifices himself within the identify of the better reliable for which Eo, his real love and thought, laid down her personal lifestyles. He turns into a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm in order that he can smash it from within.
 
A lamb between wolves in a merciless global, Darrow reveals friendship, admire, or even love—but additionally the wrath of strong competitors. To salary and win the conflict that may switch humankind’s future, Darrow needs to confront the treachery arrayed opposed to him, conquer his all-too-human wish for retribution—and attempt no longer for violent riot yet a hopeful rebirth. notwithstanding the line forward is fraught with risk and deceit, Darrow needs to decide to stick to Eo’s rules of affection and justice to loose his people.
 
He needs to reside for more.

Praise for Golden Son
 
“Gripping . . . either writer and lead personality have cranked up the emotional stakes. . . . With Golden Son, Brown avoids the sophomore hunch, charging the unconventional with the type of dystopia-toppling motion you’d anticipate in a trilogy ender, now not a center quantity. On nearly each point, it is a sequel that hates sequels—a excellent healthy for a hero who already defies the tropes. [Grade:] A”Entertainment Weekly
 
“Stirring . . . Comparisons to The starvation video games and video game of Thrones sequence are inevitable, for this story has components of both.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Brown writes layered, improper characters . . . yet plot is his so much breathtaking power. . . . each motion turns out to circulate the next.”—NPR

“It’s a much more suitable sequel, in reality: one of many infrequent breed of reads that improves upon its predecessor in each attainable class. . . . In a observe, Golden Son is beautiful. by no means brain how little we’ve visible of 2015: between technology fiction lovers, it's going to be a shoo-in for booklet of the year.”Tor.com

“Pierce Brown is a prodigy. As nice because the first booklet of the pink emerging Trilogy is, Golden Son is even higher. A wild experience choked with suspense, intrigue, and severe ass-kicking bravado, it’s expertly written and emotionally enticing, with top-notch universe-building that begs for additional exploration. i need more!”—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling writer of Snowblind
 
“The stakes are even larger than they have been in Red Rising, and the twists and turns of the tale are every piece as fascinating. The jaw-dropper of an finishing will depart readers hungry for the realization to Brown’s thoroughly unique, thoroughly exciting saga.”Booklist (starred review)
 
“Dramatic . . . the infrequent center ebook that loses virtually no momentum because it units up the ultimate installment.”Publishers Weekly

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Rembrandt's Ghost

By Paul Christopher

From the USA Today bestselling writer of The Lucifer Gospel

there's fact in paintings. however the fact can kill.

younger archaeologist Finn Ryan is laboring for a London public sale condominium while she will get a few not likely good fortune. besides the good-looking younger nobleman Billy Pilgrim, she's inherited a home in Amsterdam, a shipment send off Borneo South Pacific, and what seems to be a pretend Rembrandt.

however the pretend hides a true Rembrandt portrait, which in flip hides a clue to a centuries-old secret. Finn and Billy aren't the single ones who recognize what's at stake-and what's ready to be stumbled on on the backside of the South Pacific. Pursued world wide by means of ruthless adversaries, Finn and Billy are thrown into the search for a forgotten treasure which could swap their lives forever-or finish their lives straight away.

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Dirty Work (A Stone Barrington Novel)

By Stuart Woods

Employed to end up infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington is going undercover. however the paintings turns dirty-and catastrophic-when the errant husband is located useless and the opposite lady disappears with no hint. Now, Stone needs to transparent his personal sturdy identify and discover a killer hiding one of the glitterati of latest York's excessive society. input Carpenter-the appealing British intelligence agent first encountered in The brief Forever-who has arrived in long island to start an research of her personal. Stone suspects that her case is surprisingly attached to the useless husband. And he and Dino, his former NYPD associate, are set to stand the main extraordinary and difficult task in their very colourful careers.

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Black Wind

By F. Paul Wilson

F. Paul Wilson’s robust international warfare II novel is an unforgettable saga of ardour and terror, the ravages of battle, the soreness of betrayal, and the respect of love.

At the center of the tale are 4 humans torn among love and honor: Matsuo Okumo, born in Japan, raised in the United States, and hated in either lands; Hiroki Okumo, his brother, a latest samurai sworn to serve a mystery cult and the almighty Emperor; Meiko Satsuma, the lady they either love; and Frank Slater, the yankee who became away whilst Matsuo wanted him, and who now struggles to pay off his debt of honor.

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I Remember You (Harry Devlin, Book 3)

By Martin Edwards

Whilst Liverpool solicitor Harry Devlin watches hearth damage the studio of his purchaser, tattooist Finbar Rogan, he suspects it's no twist of fate. And whilst a bomb is planted lower than Finbar's motor vehicle, Harry is left in without doubt. somebody hates Finbar adequate to need him useless. in the meantime, one other purchaser is frightening Devlin's interest. Why should still Rosemary Graham-Brown and her husband all of sudden be so apprehensive to go away their sumptuous domestic and to migrate to Spain? After a brutal homicide happens, the 2 puzzles develop into interlinked. Piecing the clues jointly, Harry ultimately comes nose to nose with the stunning fact at a deadly war of words on a foggy Hallowe'en.

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The Fourth K

By Mario Puzo

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST assault. DEMOCRACY lower than SIEGE. Mario Puzo expected all of it in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K.

President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to place of work, largely, because of the legacy of his forebears–good seems to be, privilege, wealth–and is the very embodiment of younger optimism. Too quickly, despite the fact that, he's crushed down through the political technique and, disabused of his beliefs, he turns into a pace-setter absolutely in contrast to what he has been before.

When his daughter turns into a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively saved alive the reminiscence of his uncles’ assassinations, prompts all his energy to retaliate in a sequence of violent measures. because the explosive occasions spread, the realm and people closest to him glance on with either awe and horror.

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The Butcher's Theater (Jonathan Kellerman)

By Jonathan Kellerman

They name the traditional hills of Jerusalem the  butcher's theater: right here, upon this bloodstained stage,  a faceless killer plays his violent specialty:  The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old  girl. She is tired of blood, then rigorously bathed  and shrouded in white. accurately one week later, a  second sufferer is found.
From the sacred  Wailing Wall to the monasteries the place darkish secrets  are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves  to labyrinthine middle of the night alleys, veteran police  inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack crew plunge  deep right into a urban simmering with non secular and  political passions to seek for a assassin whos  insatiable style for younger Arab ladies may perhaps ruin the  delicate stability on which Jerusalem's very survival  depends.

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Kill Decision

By Daniel Suarez

The surprising techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez’s prestige because the inheritor to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible imaginative and prescient of the world’s close to future.

Unmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re well-known by means of the USA in our warfare efforts within the heart East. In Kill Decision, bestselling writer Daniel Suarez takes that truth and the genuine technological know-how in the back of it one step additional, with scary results.

Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who reviews the social constitution of ants. Her educational occupation has left her solely unprepared for the day her refined study is conscripted via unknown forces to assist run an unmanned—and because of her learn, automated—drone military. Odin is the secretive particular Ops soldier with a distinct perception into the faceless enemy who has all started to assault the yank fatherland with drones programmed to hunt, determine, and execute pursuits with no human intervention.

jointly, McKinney and Odin needs to sluggish this develop lengthy adequate for the realm to acknowledge its damaging strength, simply because for hundreds of thousands of years the “kill decision” in the course of conflict has remained within the palms of humans—and off-loading that accountability to machines will convey accidental, probably irreversible, results. yet as forces even McKinney and Odin don’t comprehend start to assemble, and demise rains down from above, it might already be too overdue to save lots of humankind from destruction by the hands of our personal know-how.

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The Storyteller

By Jodi Picoult

An staggering novel approximately redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly gifted author” (Huffington Post) and number 1 New York occasions bestselling writer Jodi Picoult.

Some tales stay endlessly . . .

Sage Singer is a baker. She works during the evening, getting ready the day’s breads and pastries, attempting to get away a truth of loneliness, undesirable stories, and the shadow of her mother’s demise. whilst Josef Weber, an aged guy in Sage’s grief aid staff, starts preventing through the bakery, they strike up an not going friendship. regardless of their changes, they see in one another the hidden scars that others can’t.

every thing adjustments at the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shame­ful mystery and asks Sage for a rare desire. If she says definite, she faces not just ethical repercussions, yet in all likelihood felony ones besides. With the integrity of the nearest buddy she’s ever had clouded, Sage starts off to query the assumptions and expectancies she’s made approximately her lifestyles and her relatives. during this searingly sincere novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we are going to cross to be able to preserve the earlier from dictating the longer term.

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