Exile
Richard North Patterson, Henry Holt & Co.
$26.00

Exile by Richard North Patterson, Henry Holy & Co., $26.00.  From one of America's most compelling novelists comes the mesmerizing story of a Jewish lawyer who must defend the Palestinian woman he loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate the prime minister of Israel. At once an intricate tale of betrayal and deception, a moving love story, and a fascinating journey into the lethal politics of the Middle East, this is Patterson at his most brilliant and engrossing. Patterson's Exile is one of the best suspense novels we've read in six months. This is a big robust novel that never fails to satisfy.