"The Abelard Sanction" by David Morrell The Brotherhood of the Rose is a special book for David Morrell -- his first New York Times bestseller. The "brotherhood" refers to two young men, Saul and Chris, who were raised in an orphanage and eventually recruited into the CIA. Morrell's second book was a similarly titled thriller, The Fraternity of the Stone, in which he introduced a comparable character, Drew MacLane. Then in The League of Night and Fog, Saul from the first thriller meets Drew from the second. Morrell intended to write one more thriller in the series and left a deliberately dangling plot thread that was supposed to propel him into a fourth book, but Morrell never got around to it, until now. Other Stories "Assassins" by Christopher Reich Numbered Account was inspired by the author's wanderings of the snowy, cobblestone alleyways of Geneva, on his way to and from work at the Union Bank of Switzerland. There, he learned the sophisticated art of handling money for the richest people in the world. "Assassins" (also removed a comma here) finds the hero of Numbered Account, Nick Neumann, back on Swiss soil with a new mission. "The Double Dealer" by David Liss Benjamin Weaver is a daring and reckless thief-taker--roughly a combination of modern-day private eye, police officer for hire and hired muscle meets danger head-on on the lawless streets of 18th century London. "The Double Dealer" has at its center an aging highwayman who wants to tell one last story before he dies, the story of an encounter years ago with the young Benjamin Weaver, once a highwayman himself. "Falling" by Chris Mooney Deviant Ways was Chris Mooney's first thriller. In the novel, Mooney introduces a secondary character named Malcolm Fletcher, a mysterious, enigmatic former profiler who's hiding from the FBI. Mooney was surprised by the numerous queries he received wanting to know more about Malcolm Fletcher. What happened to him? Was he still being chased by the FBI? What other secrets did Fletcher have? Here, in "Falling," Mooney introduces a new character, a young woman who has been asked to help set a trap to capture the dangerous former FBI profiler. So what has Malcolm Fletcher been up to all these years? "Surviving Toronto" by M. Diane Vogt Karen Ann Brown is a young lawyer disillusioned enough with the law's compromises to leave her job as a prosecutor and strike out on her own. She now works as a "recovery specialist," with a cover identity as a travel writer. Karen is forced to make tough choices when her clients' needs are thwarted by gaping holes in the law, particularly concerning children abducted by their parents. "Surviving Toronto" is a tale of irrational anger and rage, something all too familiar to many divorces. But, luckily, Karen Brown is watching.