The Lost Key

Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison

ISBN 10: 0399164766 / ISBN 13: 9780399164767

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2014

About this Item

AA5 - A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by J.T. Ellison on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease and some small tears and taped small tears on the edges and corners, inside flaps taped on the top and bottom to the book cover, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling and few tiny tears on the spine edges, light tanning and shelf wear. A Brit in the FBI. The newest entry in the sizzling international thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond, from #1 New York Times - bestselling author Catherine Coulter. 9.5"x6.5". 450 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In his first hour on the job in the New York field office, freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. They quickly learn that the victim, John Pearce is more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer he appeared to be. He's known as The Messenger, but that's where the trail ends. Drummond and Caine must navigate their way through a labyrinth of deadly secrets dating back to an incredible theft during World War I. They're up against a brilliant madman, Manfred Havelock, who will do anything to retrieve what's been lost for nearly a century. Only one person, Pearce's nineteen-year-old son, Adam, a gifted hacker, known where to look. And he's gone missing. John Pearce's cryptic dying words - "The key is in the lock" - set into motion an eleventh-hour race to solve the riddle of what key, and what lock, with Havelock one step ahead of Drummond and Caine, leaving mayhem and death in his wake. They must find Adam and stop Havelock before he changes the world forever. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lost Key
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399164766
• ISBN 13: 9780399164767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::Signed Fiction
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

"A thriller packed with nonstop action, real-life name-dropping and enough cutting-edge science to make you wonder how much of it could be true." —Kirkus Reviews

The newest entry in the sizzling international thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond, from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Catherine Coulter.

Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street.  

     Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers. It quickly becomes clear that the victim, John Pearce, was more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer he appeared to be. What Drummond doesn’t know is that buying and selling rare books was Pearce’s cover, and that he had devoted his life to discovering the whereabouts of a missing World War I U-boat concealing a stash of gold bullion, and an unexpected surprise that only raises more questions. When Drummond and Caine find both of Pearce’s adult children have disappeared, the case assumes a new sense of urgency. The FBI agents know their best lead lies in the victim’s cryptic final words—“The key is in the lock.” But what key? What lock?

     The search for Adam and Sophia Pearce takes them on an international manhunt, which threatens to run them afoul of an eccentric billionaire industrialist with his own plans not only for the lost gold, but the creation of a weapon unlike anything the world has ever seen.

About the Author

Catherine Coulter is the author of the New York Times–bestselling FBI thrillers The Cove, The Maze, The Target, The Edge, Riptide, Hemlock Bay, Eleventh Hour, Blindside, Blowout, Point Blank, Double Take, TailSpin, KnockOut, Whiplash, Split Second, Backfire, Bombshell, and Power Play. She is also the author of the New York Times–bestselling The Final Cut, the first in a new international thriller series featuring Nicholas Drummond. She lives in Sausalito, California.

J. T. Ellison is the bestselling author of eleven critically acclaimed novels, including When Shadows Fall and Edge of Black, and her work has been published in more than twenty countries. Her novel The Cold Room won the International Thriller Writers Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original. She is also the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Final Cut. She lives in Nashville with her husband.