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Congressman Steve Israel was sworn into office in 2001 and serves in the House Leadership as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee since 2010.  He represents New York’s third Congressional District, including the communities of Huntington, North Hempstead, Queens, Oyster Bay, and Smithtown. Born and raised in Brooklyn and on Long Island, Israel graduated from George Washington University. In his debut book, The Global War on Morris: A Novel (Simon & Schuster) we meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn’t enjoy the news; he doesn’t like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants the world to leave him alone. Morris does not make waves. But one day Morris is seduced by a lonely, lovesick receptionist on his sales route, and in a moment of weakness charges a non-business expense to his company credit card. No big deal, you might think. Easy mistake. But the government’s top-secret surveillance program, anchored by a giant, complex supercomputer known as NICK, thinks differently —and Morris becomes the US government’s new public enemy number one.

James Grippando is the bestselling author of Hear No Evil, Last to Die, Beyond Suspicion, A King's Ransom, Under Cover of Darkness, Found Money, The Abduction, The Informant, and The Pardon, which are enjoyed worldwide in more than twenty languages. He lives in Florida, where he was a trial lawyer for twelve years. In his suspenseful caper novel inspired by actual event, Cash Landing (Harper), a band of amateur thieves pulls off one of the biggest airport heists in history with deadly consequences.

The author of nineteen novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award. A former trial lawyer, he also wrote more than twenty episodes of the CBS military drama JAG and co-created the Supreme Court drama First Monday. The critically acclaimed international bestseller To Speak for the Dead was his first novel and introduced readers to linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter, who returns in Levine’s latest novel, Bum Rap (Thomas & Mercer). Lassiter has had it with shifty clients, dirty prosecutors, and a legal system out of whack. It’s enough to make a man want to leave Miami and never look back―until he gets a call from Victoria Lord, the better half of hot local legal team Solomon & Lord. Her partner in life and law has been arrested for murder. What’s worse, the only person who can clear him has fled the city. Now it’s up to Jake and Victoria to track down the witness, a stunning “Bar girl,” before she’s roped in by the feds or eliminated by the Russian mob. Jake knows that if he doesn’t get to the witness first, his client’s case is lost.

Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999 and is the author of ten previous novels that highlight the laughter and lunacy of the Sunshine State: Florida Roadkill, Hammerhead Ranch Motel, Orange Crush, Triggerfish Twist, The Stingray Shuffle, Cadillac Beach, Torpedo Juice, The Big Bamboo, Hurricane Punch, and Atomic Lobster. In his latest, the Sunshine State’s favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile, Serge Storms, comes to the aid of a former flame in Shark Skin Suite (Serge Storms) (William Morrow).