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The Roundtable
9:45 am
Mon January 28, 2013

"The Third Bullet" by Stephen Hunter

    Stephen Hunter is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Washington Post and best-selling novelist.

His new novel, The Third Bullet, has his recurring hero, Bob Lee Swagger, question details of what happened in shooting death of JFK.

Hunter has written 18 novels — eight of them featuring Swagger, a former Marine sniper.

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The Roundtable
9:35 am
Thu January 24, 2013

"The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller" by John Connolly

John Connolly is best known for his bestselling series starring Maine private detective Charlie Parker. They are literate, hardboiled novels that dabble increasingly in the supernatural.

His latest novel is The Wrath of Angels , the just-published 11th book in the Parker series. It deals with a plane crash in the depths of the Maine woods. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money. It is power.

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The Roundtable
9:35 am
Fri December 14, 2012

"Orders from Berlin" and Hobbit talk with Simon Tolkien

It’s September of 1940. France has fallen and London is being bombed day and night. Almost single-handedly Winston Churchill maintains the country’s morale. Britain’s fate hangs in the balance and the intelligence agencies on both sides of the Channel are desperate for anything that could give them the edge. Thus begins Simon Tolkien's new book, Orders from Berlin .

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The Roundtable
9:40 am
Wed December 12, 2012

"Two Graves" by Preston Douglas and Lincoln Child

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, including the first two books in the Helen Trilogy, Fever Dream and Cold Vengeance. Preston and Child are also the authors of the Gideon Crew series. Their books Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number-one box office hit movie.

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