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Deceit

Deceit

by JamesSiegel (Author)

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    Hardcover 2006

    $4.19

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    Paperback 2007

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    Hardcover 2006

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Synopsis

Tom Valle, a smalltown Californian journalist, is reporting on a car crash when he senses that something about the incident is not quite right - this is no ordinary accident. For starters, the autopsy reveals that the victim has been castrated. And although his driving licence pictures him as a 42-year-old white man, his charred bones are those of a black man. Valle's journalistic zeal kicks in, and he is unable to leave the case alone. Even as dark forces gather around him,Valle must pursue the case until he discovers what really happened - whatever the personal cost...A perfectly paced, pitch-black thriller, DECEIT propels Siegel into the premier league, alongside Coben and Connelly.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 07 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0316732281
ISBN 13: 9780316732284

Media Reviews
'What a neat, twisty well-written thriller! James Siegel has arrived in high style' JAMES PATTERSON 'Will keep readers hooked to the last page...high-quality entertainment' - NELSON DEMILLE *'Literally impossible to put down ... one of the best books I've read this year and I read it in December' - LEE CHILD 'With its clean prose, high-velocity plotting and sharply drawn characters, this novel is the bomb' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'James Siegel has demonstrated in three finely honed thrillers prior to Deceit that he is one of the most adroit practitioners at work in the field today. Those books (all distinguished by their terse, one-word titles: Epitaph, Derailed and Detour) were a triumph of no-nonsense, ever-accelerating writing whose purpose was to transfix the reader -- a trick that Siegel pulls off once again with Deceit. Tom Valle is a Californian journalist with a very unspectacular career, covering what appears to be an everyday car crash. Then strange facts present themselves to Valle -- including the fact that the autopsy indicates that the car crash victim has been castrated. And although the driving licence says otherwise, the corpse is that of a black man rather than a white. Valle sees this as a chance to re-energise his career, and uncover some nasty secrets. But he has made a rod for his own back by some ill-advised journalistic double-dealing in the past, such as some fictitious stories he has filed at a New York newspaper - and the chickens come home to roost. As always with Siegel, the narrative here has such forward momentum that few readers will be able to resist consuming the book in just one or two sittings -- and the fashion in which the facts are paid out to the reader (via the beleaguered journalist hero) will ensure some missed bus or train stops.' - Barry Forshaw, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW 'Buy this book or else miss a treat' SUNDAY EXPRESS
Author Bio
James Siegel is a former Senior Creative Director and Vice President of the BBDO advertising agency in New York and he has won numerous awards including three Gold Lions at Cannes. He now lives on Long Island and writes full- time.