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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060735023

ISBN-139780060735029

eBay Product ID (ePID)30883533

Product Key Features

Book TitleLost Lake

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Alien Contact, Thrillers / Psychological, Legal, Thrillers / Political, Political

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorPhillip Margolin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-060926

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThe suspense [is] high ... surprises keep coming ... a labyrinthine plot built on twists and surprises., "Lively ... the pacing is brisk, the plot cinematic." -- Janet Maslin in the New York Times "A powerhouse thriller...a relentless gripper ... [that] never loses its fiendish hold on the reader's attention." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Frighteningly plausible...a page turner." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "The suspense [is] high ... surprises keep coming ... a labyrinthine plot built on twists and surprises." -- Publishers Weekly "Delivers the goods, with plenty of action, suspense, and danger." -- Booklist "Margolin's eleventh may be his best, with everything a thriller should have." -- Kirkus Reviews, A powerhouse thriller...a relentless gripper ... [that] never loses its fiendish hold on the reader's attention.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIt's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon.Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's Little League game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out. But then one player roughly blocks another, and a fight erupts. Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli. On the other side of the continent, in a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for Exposed , a tabloid that specializes in alien-abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the Little League massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling anyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by Gen. Morris Wingate, a presidential candidate, and for years every-one has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving that her theories are true. Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murderer, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Or are their charges a product of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who -- and what -- to believe, in Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller, Gone, But Not Forgotten., It's a beautiful summer night in Portland, Oregon.Ami Vergano, a young attorney and single mother, arrives at her son Ryan's Little League game with their tenant and new friend, Dan Morelli. When the assistant coach calls in sick, Morelli seems happy to help out. But then one player roughly blocks another, and a fight erupts. Before the game ends, Ami witnesses violence that shocks and horrifies her and makes her question everything she thought she knew about Morelli. On the other side of the continent, in a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., ex-mental patient Vanessa Kohler, a reporter for Exposed, a tabloid that specializes in alien-abduction stories, watches a piece on television about the Little League massacre and quickly places a call to the FBI. For years she's been telling anyone who will listen about a vast government conspiracy to conceal a secret military unit headed by Gen. Morris Wingate, a presidential candidate, and for years every-one has dismissed her stories. But when Vanessa sees Dan Morelli fighting, she believes she's found the key to proving that her theories are true. Vanessa hires Ami Vergano to represent Morelli, who is charged with attempted murder, and Ami is drawn into Vanessa's paranoid world. Are Vanessa, a former mental patient, and Morelli, a confessed mass murderer, telling the truth about one of the nation's most respected soldiers and politicians? Or are their charges a product of two sick minds? Ami has to decide who -- and what -- to believe, in Phillip Margolin's most exciting and surprising thriller since his breakout bestseller, Gone, But Not Forgotten.

LC Classification NumberPS3563.A649L67 2005