Watchlist Deaver, Jeffery/ Barnes, Linda/ Battles, Brett/ Child, Lee/ Corbett, David

Twenty-nine international thriller writers collaborate to create two serial novels in one major suspenseful package, from an idea by "New York Times"-bestselling author Deaver.

From the Publisher:

The Chopin Manuscript and then The Copper Bracelet are collaborations of some of the world’s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plots in motion. The other authors each wrote a chapter, and Deaver then completed what he started, bringing both novellas to their startling conclusion and combining the two in Watchlist.

In The Chopin Manuscript, former war crimes investigator Harold Middleton possesses a previously unknown score by Frédéric Chopin. Middleton is unaware that, locked within its handwritten notes, lies a secret that now threatens the lives of thousands of Americans. Middleton returns in The Copper Bracelet—the explosive sequel to The Chopin Manuscript—as he’s drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:

Linda Barnes • Brett Battles • Lee Child • David Corbett • Jeffery Deaver • Joseph Finder • Jim Fusilli • John Gilstrap • James Grady • David Hewson • Jon Land • David Liss • Gayle Lynds • John Ramsey Miller • P.J. Parrish • Ralph Pezzullo • James Phelan • S.J. Rozan • Lisa Scottoline • Jenny Siler • Peter Spiegelman • Erica Spindler • Introduction by M.J. Rose

Annotation:
Jeffrey Deaver organized a unique collaboration with 20 other authors--including Lee Childs, Jim Fusilli, Linda Barnes, and David Corbett--in order to produce WATCHLIST. Comprising two serial novellas, "The Chopin Manuscript" and "The Copper Bracelet," the WATCHLIST brings together each author's chapter contribution, framed by Deaver's premises, characters, and conclusions. This is a fascinating literary project that offers thriller fans a special chance to get inside some of their favorite author's heads and see their prose efforts back to back contending with the same story. Plus this process has produced a story unlike any that any of these writers could have come up with on their own.

Author Bio

Linda Barnes

Linda Barnes first received critical praise in 1986, when she introduced her most popular crime solver, Carlotta Carlyle. A tall, guitar-playing, taxi-driving ex-cop and private investigator, Carlyle first appeared in a short story called "Bad Penny". Carlyle, like many of Barnes's characters, is known for her vivacious sense of humor and her wry, ironic outlook on life. Barnes graduated from Boston University with a B.F.A., taught theater in Massachusetts from 1971 to 1978, and married computer expert Richard Barnes. Among many awards she has received throughout her career, she won an Anthony Award for best short stories, and an American Mystery Award for best private eye novel.

Jeffery Wilds Deaver was born and raised in Chicago. He attended the University of Missouri and received a law degree from Fordham University. A self-described "terrible attorney," Deaver quit the law in 1990 to pursue a full-time writing career based on his fascination with and love of suspense. "When I teach courses in writing," Deaver said in a barnesandnoble.com interview, "I always tell my students to write what you enjoy reading and I have always been a big fan of the sort of book I write--the plot-driven commercial thriller." Deaver's modus operandi has proven lucrative since his first book was published in the early 1990s. Several of his books have achieved best-seller status and two--THE BONE COLLECTOR (1997) and A MAIDEN'S GRAVE (1995)--have been adapted for film. Deaver's sister, Julie Reece Deaver, is an author of young adult books.

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Watchlist A Serial Thriller (Paperback)

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