Book description
The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon
is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert
with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent
attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that
erupts in to the media event of the decade. But the most shocking gambit
ever witnessed in the history of television has yet to unfold. As
America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix
takes to the airwaves in the ultimate act of high-tech terror. Holding
the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul and Stacy's manager hostage,
Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his own - in which Stacy Tarrant and
Tony Lord are the helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors,
and - unless his chilling demands are met - Phoenix is the unstoppable
executioner. . . Richard North Patterson has written a number of
novels including the international bestsellers,
Degree of Guilt
, Eyes of a Child
, The Final Judgement
, Silent Witness
, No Safe Place
, Dark Lady
and Protect and Defend
. His novels have won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de
Littérature Policière. He and his wife, Laurie, live with their family
in San Francisco and on Martha's Vineyard.
