James Patterson and Chris Mooney. Little, Brown, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5422-1
Patterson (James Patterson by James Patterson) and thriller author Mooney (Remembering Sarah) mix biography and imagined dialogue in this intimate portrait of Princess Diana and her sons, William and Harry. Opening with the 1978 wedding of Diana’s...
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Chris Mooney, Author . Pocket $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-04063-5
You can't keep track of the psychopaths without a scorecard in Mooney's second nonstop action thriller (after Deviant Ways). There's Amon Faust, aka Angel Eyes, a semibenevolent terrorist with a germ fetish, who just wants to cleanse the
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Chris Mooney, Author . Atria $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6378-2
The stolen child plot has become a popular category in the thriller genre. Mooney (Deviant Ways
; World Without End
) takes the basic scenario and adds a few clever twists before serving up a rather pallid solution. Mike Sullivan's wife, Jess,...
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Chris Mooney, Author . Basic $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-465-04675-1
Does the Bush administration ignore or deny mainstream research to please its conservative base? Have business groups and certain religious lobbies helped it do so? Does Bush-era treatment of scientists differ from that of Clinton, George H.W. Bush...
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Chris Mooney, Author . Atria $25 (360p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6380-5
At the start of this competent but unoriginal thriller from Mooney (Deviant Ways
), it's 1984 and teenager Darby McCormick is hanging out in the woods with her friends Melanie Cruz and Stacey Stephens when they stumble across a man killing a...
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Chris Mooney, Author . Harcourt $26 (392p) ISBN 978-0-15-101287-9
H
aving witnessed Katrina’s devastation of his mother’s New Orleans house, science writer Mooney (The Republican War on Science
) became concerned that government policy still ignored worst-case scenarios in planning for the future,...
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Chris Mooney, Author Pocket Books $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-04059-8
The familiar device of revenge killing is given horrific new twists in this gripping debut, as Mooney propels the reader into breathless suspense. The action kicks off with a literal bang: it's July 4 in Marblehead, Mass., where a serial killer,...
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Chris Mooney. Berkley, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-593-19763-9
In this imaginative near-future crime novel from Mooney (the Darby McCormick series), some people have become carriers of an enzyme that produces “unbelievable amounts of energy.” Abductions of carriers by criminals who want to monetize their blood...
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Chris Mooney, Author, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Author . Basic $25.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-465-01305-0
Mooney, author of the bestselling The Republican War on Science
, and Kirshenbaum, a marine scientist at Duke and former congressional science fellow, argue that the public ruckus caused when astronomers stripped Pluto of its planetary status...
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