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Zusatztext "This is a roller-coaster ride.... Reich keeps the tension level appropriately high throughout! and Bolden is an engaging "ordinary guy" protagonist."— San Francisco Chronicle "Action-packed."— Publishers Weekly "I thoroughly enjoyed the intrigue and suspense that Reich creates as well as the multi-dimensional characters.... An engaging read."—www.freshfiction.com Informationen zum Autor Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo in 1961. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, he worked in Switzerland before returning to the United States to pursue a career as a novelist. The bestselling author of four other acclaimed novels, Numbered Account, The Runner, The First Billion , and The Devil’s Banker , he lives in California with his wife and children. Klappentext Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets! his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he's managed to put his past behind him! find the woman he wants to share his life with! and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until! in the blink of an eye! his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life! his face everywhere on the TV news! and a violent! shadowy organization is framing him for crimes he did not commit. Desperately trying to get back to where he was just a day before! Bolden must re-learn the survival skills of his hardscrabble boyhood. But as Bolden-with just eleven dollars in his pocket and hunters all around him-survives one violent! harrowing hour after another! he makes a series of startling discoveries: about a mysterious woman wanted for murder...about an astounding secret rooted in history! among the country's Founding Fathers and families...about a conspiracy lurking in the darkest corners of corporate America-and a deadly plan that only he can stop. And in the process! maybe Bolden will also find out who he really is.... Furiously paced! filled with brilliantly drawn characters from politicians to patriots! from Wall Street players to battle-hardened cops! The Patriots Club is vintage Reich: brilliant! breathtaking! and impossible to put down until the final unforgettable page is turned. 1 Thomas Bolden checked over his shoulder. The two men were still a half block behind. They’d kept the same distance since he’d noticed them soon after coming out of the hotel. He wasn’t sure why they bothered him. Both were tall and clean-cut, about his age. They were respectably dressed in dark slacks and overcoats. At a glance, they appeared unthreatening. They could be bankers headed home after a late night at the office. College buddies hurrying to the Princeton Club for a last round before closing. More likely, they were two of the approximately three hundred guests who had suffered through the dinner given in his honor. And yet . . . they disturbed him. “I’m sorry, sweetheart,” said Bolden. “What were you saying?” “Where are you going to put it?” Jennifer Dance asked. “You know . . . in your apartment?” “Put it?” Bolden glanced at the large sterling-silver plate cradled in Jenny’s arms. “You mean I’m supposed to keep it on display?” The plate looked like the one awarded to the women’s singles champion at Wimbledon. This one, however, was engraved with the words “Thomas F. Bolden. Harlem Boys Club Man of the Year.” He’d won plaques, medals, scrolls, and trophies, but never a plate. He wondered what joker at the club had thought it up. Curling an arm over Jenny’s shoulders, he drew her close and said, “No, no, no. This beautifully crafted hunk of lead is going straight into the closet.” “You should be proud of it,” Jenny protested. “I am proud of it, but it’s still going in the closet.” “It doesn’t have to be the first thing you see when you walk in. We’ll put it someplace discreet. Mayb...
