Saint Death is the second novel in Mark Dawson’s thriller series featuring ex-assassin and drifter John Milton. Six months after the end of the previous novel, The Cleaner, Milton is now working as a cook in a low end restaurant in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and trying to make amends for his previous life as a government assassin.
Dolly Parton is renowned for her storytelling through country music. The music icon has also been an advocate in encouraging children to read through her Imagination Library. And Run Rose Run, the debut novel by the artiste, written in collaboration with James Patterson, the bestselling thriller author, definitely offers something exciting for the readers. It wasithe No.1 in the e-book fiction of the NYT bestsellers list.
David McMillan was held in the ‘Bangkok Hilton’ aka the Klong Prem prison in Thailand awaiting trial on drug charges in the mid-90s for almost two years. There were 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also waiting to rot inside. If his trial had ended the way most local trials do, he might still be there today, for sentences ranging between 30 and 99 years.
Chaos erupts in the US Supreme Court when an assassin guns down six justices as they are hearing a case, sending the nation's highest court into turmoil and deep crisis. Questions soon arise on how the assassin managed to escape the security detection and also smuggle in the gun for the shooting. The FBI begins to look at the possibility of an insider connection. A list of suspects is drawn up, and it includes the wife of the late Chief Justice Kincaid, who was himself mistakenly shot and killed by the Supreme Court police officer in the crossfire. Apparently, Kincaid was firing back at the shooter and he was the only witness to have seen the shooter’s face during the tragedy of Black Wednesday before the assassin made the escape from the courtroom.
