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Fall from grace

Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or...

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Main Author: Patterson, Richard North
Other Authors: Boutsikaris, Dennis
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2012.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Family secrets > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Massachusetts > Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) > Fiction.
Fathers > Death > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > Officials and employees > Fiction.
Inheritance and succession > Fiction.
Suspense fiction > Massachusetts.
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Summary:Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know.
Item Description:Compact discs.
Duration: 9:30:00.
Physical Description:8 sound discs (ca. 9.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781442344372
1442344377
Author Notes:Richard North Patterson was born in Berkeley, California on February 22, 1947. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1968 and Case Western Reserve University's School of Law in 1971. He has served as an assistant attorney general for the state of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco; and was the SEC's liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor. He retired from the practice of law in 1993 to become a full-time writer. He studied creative writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

His first novel, The Lasko Tangent, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1979. His other works include Private Screening, Eyes of a Child, Silent Witness, No Safe Place, Exile, Eclipse, The Devil's Light, and Fall from Grace. He has received several awards of his work including the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1995 for Degree of Guilt and a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood for Protect and Defend.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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