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FORGE BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014 LEAD FICTION Glenn Kaplan Poison Pill New York Times bestselling author Glenn Kaplan looks inside the heart of today’s business world and finds page­turning suspense Caught in a war that pits greed and ambition against conscience and love, Emma Conway faces the fight of her life. She's finally living the dream—a happy second marriage and a great career. She's built Percival & Baxter’s painkiller, Acordinol, into a huge success. But her dream becomes a nightmare when a Wall Street raider threatens a hostile takeover. Worse, the raider is no ordinary cutthroat but her ex­ husband Josh Katz, father of their teenage son. Her ex’s game traps Emma in a web of secrets locked within secrets. A shadowy Russian oligarch behind Josh is lusting after the holy grail of drugs, the first Viagra for women. And a clandestine romance between Emma’s son and the oligarch’s estranged daughter puts them in the crosshairs of their parents’ mortal combat. ON­SALE DATE: 10/28/2014 KEY SELLING POINTS: ISBN­13: 9780765370792 EBOOK ISBN: 9781466829855 • A highly nuanced, multi­layered story that explores the personal lives of the stressed­out, conflicted players in a major corporate takeover battle, and a PRICE: $9.99 / $11.99 CAN. fascinating look at sex, romance, and mind­games among the super­rich. PAGES: 480 • Kaplan’s previous book, Evil, Inc., was a New York Times bestseller in SPINE: 1.156 IN, TALL RACK hardcover. • Kaplan is the author of All for Money, a novel, and The Big Time: How Success CTN COUNT: 48 Really Works in 14 Top Business Careers, a nonfiction title. Both books received CPDA/CAT: 05/SUSPENSE/THRILLER critical acclaim from the Los Angeles Times, Advertising Age, Publishers Weekly, ORIGIN: FORGE HC (10/13, 978­0­7653­ the Chicago Tribune, and Fortune 500 CEOs. 3690­3) AUTHOR HOME: NEW YORK, NY "High suspense, big money, romance, murder, very good storytelling—who could ask for anything more?" —James Patterson, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Tension and turmoil add up to high stakes suspense in a thriller that resonates with MARKETING reality, tragedy, and triumph…. All I want is more." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author • National ad in USA Today. • Facebook and Goodreads ads targeting thriller readers. "Kaplan’s plotting and pacing are superb, his writing is crisp, and his characters come • Digital outreach through Twitter, Facebook, alive on the page. A sophisticated and thoughtful thriller." and the Tor/Forge blog. —Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author 2 FORGE BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014 MacKinlay Kantor Long Remember "As a spectacle of war, the book has no equal." —The Nation Long Remember is the first realistic novel about the Civil War. Originally published in the 1930s, and out of print since the 50s, this book received rave reviews from the New York Times Book Review and was a main selection of the Literary Guild. It is the account of the Battle of Gettysburg, as viewed by a pacifist who comes to accept the nasty necessity of combat, and lives an intense and skewed romance along the way. KEY SELLING POINTS: • Long Remember was originally published in 1934, and made the bestseller lists then. • Kantor won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for the novel Andersonville. • Films based on Kantor novels include: Best Years of Our Lives (1946), starring ON­SALE DATE: 10/28/2014 Myrna Loy, winner of Best Picture, Actor, and Director Academy Awards; ISBN­13: 9780765377814 Andersonville (TV film, 1970), starring Martin Sheen and directed by George C. EBOOK ISBN: 9781466841789 Scott; and Happy Land (1943), starring Don Ameche. PRICE: $7.99 / $9.99 CAN. PAGES: 480 SPINE: 1.156 IN "How such an epic and dramatic talk has not before been told in American fiction is CTN COUNT: 48 one of the mysteries of our literary history. Passion is piled upon passion in his words, and war, marked and flaming, stalks through the pages." —Chicago Daily Tribune CPDA/CAT: 20/HISTORICAL FICTION ORIGIN: FORGE TPB (8/00, 978­0­312­ "A novel that tastes and smells of war till the reader hates the smell and taste of it, and still is above and beyond war with the saving humanity that survives slaughter and does 87520­6) FORGE HC (7/00, 978­0­312­ its slight part to prevent a future built on the past." —The New York Times 86552­8) AUTHOR HOME: KANTOR IS DECEASED 3 FORGE BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014 Clarence E. Mulford The Man From Bar­20 and Johnny Nelson A continuation of the original saga of Hopalong Cassidy: two complete novels in one low­priced edition The Man From Bar­20 When Hoppy's friend, Johnny Nelson, left Bar­20 searching for even greater adventure and joined the CL Ranch, he found more than he expected. He found a hidden valley between Twin Buttes with over 200 of CL cattle rebranded QE. He found a gang of rustlers out to steal the rest of CL’s beef. He found the country’s fastest gunfighter looking to cut him down. What he should have found was a fast way out of that valley. But Hoppy never told him how to turn tail and run. Johnny Nelson Former Bar­20 cowboy Johnny Nelson, the protégé of Hopalong Cassidy, goes roaming the West in search of adventure. But when he comes to the aid of a ON­SALE DATE: 10/28/2014 rancher and his daughter near the town of Gunsight, he gets more than he bargained for: a land war and a chance at love. ISBN­13: 9780765377784 EBOOK ISBN: 9781466867932 PRICE: $9.99 KEY SELLING POINTS: PAGES: 536 • Hopalong Cassidy is a household name and an American legend, even for new SPINE: 1.281 IN, TALL RACK generations. CTN COUNT: 24 • Fifty­four films were made about Hopalong Cassidy, as well as a TV series, radio CPDA/CAT: 40/WESTERN show, comic books, and a plethora of merchandising. • Mulford’s westerns introduced one of the most popular and well­known fictional ORIGIN: THE MAN FROM BAR­20 characters of the 20th century and inspired The Rustlers of West Fork (1991, (FORGE MM, 2/95, 978­0­8125­5050­4); Bantam), which spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. JOHNNY NELSON (FORGE MM, 7/97, 978­0­8125­6766­3) AUTHOR HOME: MULFORD IS "Rousing adventures, with some of the best action sequences in early Western DECEASED fiction." —Bill Pronzini, editor of Wild Westerns "Mulford was a master." —Roundup Magazine ALSO AVAILABLE: Hopalong Cassidy and Bar­20 Days | 7/14 | 9780765377777 | $9.99 The Coming of Cassidy and Bar­20 | 4/14 | 9780765377722 | $9.99 Bar­20 Three | 10/07 | 9780765359407 | $6.99 Tex | 2/99 | 9780812566871 | $5.99 4 TOR BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014 LEAD FICTION Eric C. Leuthardt RedDevil 4 A spine­tingling techno­thriller based on cutting­edge research from a renowned surgeon and inventor Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Hagan Maerici is on the verge of a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that could change the way we think about human consciousness. Obsessed with his job, he puts his life’s work on the line when a rash of brutal murders strikes St. Louis. Edwin Krantz, a technophobic detective, and his partner, Tara Dezner, are investigating the killings, which were committed by prominent citizens with no history of violence. Krantz and Dezner turn to Dr. Maerici, who thinks that the answer lies within the killers’ brains, that someone is introducing a glitch into the in­brain computer systems of the suspects, turning ordinary citizens into murderers. With time running out, this trio of unlikely allies must face a gauntlet of obstacles, both human and A.I. ON­SALE DATE: 10/28/2014 KEY SELLING POINTS: ISBN­13: 9780765369123 EBOOK ISBN: 9781466800984 • A cutting­edge thriller incorporating research from a gifted doctor and researcher on the leading edge of his field. PRICE: $9.99 / $11.99 CAN. • Dr. Leuthardt’s research has focused on neuroprosthetics—devices linked to the PAGES: 432 brain that may lead to cures for paralysis, allow patients to move artificial limbs, or SPINE: 1.031 IN, TALL RACK restore other neurological functions. He uses an integrated approach, employing multiple domains of expertise ranging from biomedical engineering, clinical CTN COUNT: 48 neurosurgery, mathematical modeling, complex signal analysis, and computer CPDA/CAT: 05/SUSPENSE/THRILLER programming. ORIGIN: TOR HC (2/14, 978­0­7653­ • His work in the field of neuroprosthetics and neurosurgical devices has yielded him numerous accolades as a scientist, neurosurgeon, and inventor. Dr. Leuthardt 3256­1) was named one of the Top Young Innovators by MIT’s magazine Technology AUTHOR HOME: ST. LOUIS, MO Review. "Provocative and scary, there’s an utter realism that leaps from every page." MARKETING —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author • Digital outreach through Twitter, Facebook, "Here is a thriller that is as cutting­edge as the keenest scalpel." and the Tor/Forge blog. —Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author "Intriguing and smartly constructed…boasts a cast of memorable characters." —Booklist "Leuthardt puts his expertise as a neurosurgeon to good use in his impressive debut." —Publishers Weekly 5 TOR BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014 F. Paul Wilson Dark City The new novel in the bestselling saga of Repairman Jack It’s February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq, but twenty­two­year­old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack’s friend. Jack has been something of a tag­along to this point, but now he takes the reins and demonstrates his innate talent for seeing biters get bit.

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