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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


The Amateurs by Marcus Sakey

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Also by Marcus Sakey:

Afterlife, July 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Written in Fire, January 2016
Paperback / e-Book
A Better World, June 2014
Trade Size / e-Book
Brilliance, July 2013
Trade Size / e-Book
The Amateurs, June 2011
Paperback
The Two Deaths Of Daniel Hayes, June 2011
Hardcover
The Amateurs, August 2009
Hardcover
Good People, August 2008
Hardcover
At the City's Edge, February 2008
Hardcover
The Blade Itself, January 2007
Hardcover

The Amateurs
Marcus Sakey

Dutton
August 2009
On Sale: August 6, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 0525951261
EAN: 9780525951261
Hardcover
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Marcus Sakey, “the new reigning prince of crime fiction” (Chicago Tribune) is the most acclaimed new thriller writer in recent memory. In his next taut, propulsive novel, four friends from the old neighborhood have dreams of a better life. And they’ve worked hard for it. A bartender. A failing stock broker. A hotel doorman. A travel agent.

In a world where CEOs steal millions while their employees worry about their next paycheck, where the few dollars any of them have saved are held hostage to the whims of billionaires a world away, the honest approach got these four nowhere. Now they’ve gone too far with a plan to change their situation and their world is falling apart.

To save their own lives, they’ve had to take the lives of others. Tensions and rivalries they thought long buried are flaring to angry life. The clock is ticking on a situation they don’t understand. As things unravel faster and faster, each of them will have to choose between saving everything they treasure and doing the right thing. And for four people pushed to the ragged edge, the only thing more dangerous than the men coming after them might be their best friends.

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