Doubleday
June 2017
On Sale: June 6, 2017
Featuring: Bruce Cable; Mercer Mann
306 pages ISBN: 0385543026 EAN: 9780385543026 Kindle: B01N2ABE60 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault
deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their
loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for
twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy
resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He
makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare
books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in
the black market of stolen books and manuscripts.
Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of
writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her
teaching position. She is approached by an elegant,
mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious
company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go
undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary
friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his
secrets.
But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s
trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it.