FORGE BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2015 LEAD FICTION Hank Phillippi Ryan Truth Be Told Truth Be Told is Hank Phillippi Ryan at her best."—Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author Truth Be Told begins with tragedy: a family evicted from their home. In digging up the facts on this and other foreclosures, reporter Jane Ryland soon learns the truth behind a big­bucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. Turns out, there's more than one way to rob a bank. Boston police detective Jake Brogan has a liar on his hands. A man has just confessed to the famous twenty­year­old Lilac Sunday killing, and while Jake's colleagues take him at his word, Jake is not so sure. ON­SALE DATE: 9/1/2015 Financial manipulation, the terror of foreclosures, the power of numbers, the primal need for home and family and love. What happens when what you believe ISBN­13: 9780765374943 is true turns out to be a lie? EBOOK ISBN: 9780765374974 PRICE: $7.99 / $9.99 CAN. KEY SELLING POINTS: PAGES: 448 SPINE: 4IN W | 7IN H | 1LB WT IN • Truth Be Told continues the popular Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan suspense series. It will appeal to suspense, thriller, and mystery fans and women's fiction CTN COUNT: 48 readers as well CPDA/CAT: 05/SUSPENSE/THRILLER • Truth Be Told was a Library Journal Best Book of 2014 and has been nominated SETTING: BOSTON for the RT Book Reviews Reveiwers Choice Award ORIGIN: FORGE HC (10/14, 978­0­7653­ • Ryan's first book with us, The Other Woman, hit #2 on the Boston Globe bestseller list 7493­6) • The Wrong Girl was a Boston Globe bestseller as well. She received starred AUTHOR HOME: BOSTON Booklist and Library Journal reviews and a Top Pick from RT Book Reviews • Ryan has won the Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. The Other Woman was also nominated for the Shamus, RT Reviewers Choice Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award MARKETING • Digital outreach through Twitter, Facebook, and the Tor/Forge blog Praise for Truth Be Told •National print advertising in genre publications "In Ryan's adroit hands, with her brisk prose, appealing protagonists, and well­limned characters, even foreclosures can be sexy."—Booklist, starred review "Terrific—smart, edgy, and a thrilling read to the very last page. A winner!"—Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author 2 FORGE BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2015 Miles Swarthout The Last Shootist The sequel to Glendon Swarthout's classic western, The Shootist, penned by his son Miles Swarthout El Paso, Texas, 1901. A bloody saloon shootout that ended with the death of infamous gunfighter J. B. Books has left seventeen­year­old Gillom Rogers with a new pair of stolen revolvers—and a desire to seek fame and glory. When another midnight gunfight with the same pistols forces him to flee El Paso, though, the young man discovers he must ride a different trail to manhood. Gillom longs to master the art of fast draws and gun tricks like the famous gunmen he so admires, but a string of dangerous confrontations and a run­in with a Mexican saloon dancer his own tender age forces him to consider what kind of man he really wants to be—always on the move defending his gun­slinging reputation, or a grown­up citizen of a booming border city, perhaps raising a respectable family? KEY SELLING POINTS: ON­SALE DATE: 9/1/2015 ISBN­13: 9780765376794 • Miles Swarthout, Glendon Swarthout's son, is the perfect person to pen a sequel that lives up to his father's classic western, The Shootist EBOOK ISBN: 9781466851931 • Spur Award­winning novel The Shootist ranks #6 on the Western Writers of PRICE: $9.99 / $11.99 CAN. America's survey of the finest westerns written in the twentieth century PAGES: 416 • The Shootist is also a seminal western movie, and John Wayne's final film. Miles Swarthout cowrote the screenplay for the film SPINE: 4IN W | 8IN H IN, TALL RACK • Miles's first novel, The Sergeant's Lady, won a Spur Award for Best First Novel CTN COUNT: 48 from the Western Writers in 2004 CPDA/CAT: 40/WESTERN • Glendon Swarthout's The Homesman, another award­winning western novel, was made into a film by Tommy Lee Jones that premiered in May 2014. Miles ORIGIN: FORGE HC (10/14, 978­0­7653­ Swarthout worked on the script 7678­7) •The Last Shootist can be read as a stand­alone novel AUTHOR HOME: PLAYA DEL REY, CA A wonderful ride once again into the western lands that all Swarthout writers know so well—and love to share with all of us." —True West Magazine "Action­packed, funny, impressively researched, and often tenderly romantic. A rambunctious western and a youthful, zesty homage to Glendon Swarthout's forty­year­ old classic." —Ron Hansen, author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford "Crisp prose and earthy details bring the rough reality of the Texas border at the turn of the twentieth century into vivid focus." —Lucia St. Clair Robson... 3 FORGE BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2015 Harold Coyle, Barrett Tillman Pandora's Legion An explosive and timely military thriller from Harold Coyle and Barrett Tillman A new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder. With the military and intelligence agencies spread thin, the Unites States is constantly calling upon the services of these organizations­and Strategic Solutions, Inc., led by former Read Admiral Michael Derringer, is among the best. Members of al­Qaida have triggered a vicious biological attack. Men and women infected with the highly communicable and deadly Marburg virus have been sent to major cities and sensitive locations throughout the world in the hopes of creating a deadly global epidemic. Using every resource it has, SSI launches an all­out search for the walking plague carriers before thousands more become infected. ON­SALE DATE: 9/1/2015 Filled with the details of the military world that have made Coyle's books ISBN­13: 9780765383051 bestsellers, Pandora's Legion poses a frightening scenario that could become all EBOOK ISBN: 9781466891425 too real in the near future. PRICE: $8.99 / $10.99 CAN. PAGES: 384 KEY SELLING POINTS: SPINE: 4IN W | 7IN H | 0LB WT IN With its gripping story of al­Qaida and the threat of a global epidemic, Pandora's CTN COUNT: 48 Legion is very relevant at a time when the fights against ISIS and the spread of CPDA/CAT: 05/SUSPENSE/THRILLER Ebola feature so prominently in the news Upon its original publication, Pandora's Legion received great praise from several ORIGIN: FORGE HC (2/07, 978­0­7653­ New York Times bestselling authors including Tom Clancy, W. E. B. Griffin, and 1371­3) Clive Cussler AUTHOR HOME: HAROLD COYLE ­ This is the first of three books in the Strategic Solutions, Inc. series New York Times bestselling author Harold Coyle spent fourteen years on active FAIRFAX, VA; BARRETT TILLMAN ­ duty with the U.S. Army and incorporates this first­hand experience and MESA, AZ knowledge of the military world into this novel Coyle is a master at high­tech suspense. He spins his story with such power that you're swept along to the climactic finish." ­Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author of the Dark Pitt series "Engrossing and believable." ­Publishers Weekly "Harold Coyle is the best natural storyteller I know." ­Tom Clancy, New York Times bestselling author of The Hunt for Red October 4 TOR BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2015 LEAD FICTION Glen Hirshberg Motherless Child Weaves love, desire, revenge, loyalty, and sacrifice into a blockbuster narrative." ­Publishers Weekly, starred review It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the musician known only as "the Whistler." Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded, their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire, and Natalie and Sophie his latest victims. The women leave their babies with Natalie's mother and hit the road, determined not to give in to their unnatural desires. Hunger and desire make a powerful couple. So do the Whistler and his Mother, who are searching for Sophie and Natalie. The violent, emotionally moving ON­SALE DATE: 9/1/2015 showdown between two who should be victims and two who should be monsters will leave readers gasping in fear and delight. ISBN­13: 9780765370990 EBOOK ISBN: 9781466834415 PRICE: $7.99 / $9.99 CAN. KEY SELLING POINTS: PAGES: 272 Motherless Child received a starred Publishers Weekly review as well as rave SPINE: 4IN W | 7IN H IN reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Locus, Fangoria, and online Small­town/rural, Southern setting and sexy opening chapters should appeal to CTN COUNT: 72 fans of True Blood and Hannibal CPDA/CAT: 32/FANTASY Hirshberg has won the Shirley Jackson Award for outstanding achievement in the SETTING: SOUTHEAST UNITED literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic Hirshberg has won three International Horror Guild Awards and is a multiple STATES, PRIMARILY IN RURAL finalist for the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award NORTH CAROLINA First of a projected trilogy featuring Sophie and Natalie. ORIGIN: TOR HC (5/14, 978­0­7653­ 3745­0) AUTHOR HOME: LA CRESCENTA, CA Always one of his generation's finest stylists, its most able students of character, [Hirshberg] has written one of the best books of the year." ­The Los Angeles Review of Books MARKETING • Digital outreach through Twitter, Facebook, "Moves at a crackling pace...a healthy dollop of good old­fashioned horror.