No Safe Place

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1999. Reprint. Fifth printing. Mass-market paperback. [14], 513, [17] p. From Wikipedia: "Richard North Patterson graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been awarded that school s Distinguished Achievement Citation and his national fraternity s Alumni Achievement Award. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western Reserve University s School of Law, and a recipient of that University s President s Award for Distinguished Alumni and its President s Award for Excellence. He has served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco; and was the SEC s liaison to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. More recently, Mr. Patterson was a partner in the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, now Bingham-McCutchen. In 1993, he retired from the practice of law to devote himself to writing....Mr. Patterson studied fiction writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham; his first short story was published in The Atlantic Monthly; and his first novel, The Lasko Tangent, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1979. Between 1981 and 1985, he published The Outside Man, Escape the Night, and Private Screening, which made the New York Times bestseller list in 1994. His first novel in eight years, Degree of Guilt (1993), and Eyes of A Child (1995), were combined into a mini-series by NBC TV. Both were international bestsellers, and Degree of Guilt was awarded the French Grand Prix de Litterateur Policiere in 1995. The Final Judgment (1995), Silent Witness (1997), No Safe Place (1998), and Dark Lady (1999) all became immediate international bestsellers, and in 2011 Silent Witness became a feature film on TNT....Balance of Power (2003), confronted one of America s most divisive political and social issues gun violence and was selected by USA Today as its book of the month selection for November. Conviction (2005) focused on the law and politics of capital punishment. Exile (2007) dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and was nominated for South Africa s leading literary award. The Race (2007) concerned a dramatic campaign for President, and Eclipse (2009) dealt with human rights, Africa, and the geopolitics of oil. The Spire (2009), was a novel of psychological suspense, and In The Name of Honor (2010), portrays a military court martial for murder, and a legal defense based on PTSD. The Devil s Light (2011) is an exhaustively researched depiction of the world of espionage and the potential for nuclear terrorism, focused on an Al Qaeda plot to steal a nuclear bomb from Pakistan in order to destroy a major western city. Mr. Patterson s twentieth novel, Fall From Grace (2012), a family drama set on Martha s Vineyard, became his sixteenth New York Times bestseller. It is the first part of a trilogy, to be followed by a prequel, Loss of Innocence, and a sequel, Eden In Winter.....In 2012, Mr. Patterson received the Silver Bullet Award from the International Thriller Writers Association for his contributions to the wider community." Condition: Good. Cover has some wear and soiling.

Keywords: Assassination, Abortion, Political Campaigns, Gun Violence, Party Politics, News Media, Reporters, Journalists

ISBN: 9780345404770

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