Tom Dades, Author, Mike Vecchione, Author, David Fisher, Author William Morrow & Company $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-087426-1
The 2005 case of ""mafia cops"" Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa rocked New York and the brotherhood that protects it. Two crooked NYPD officers who, throughout their careers, worked as hitmen for the Lucchese crime family, the duo came to...
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Ron Luciano, Author, David Fisher, Author Bantam Books $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05136-0
The third book by former baseball umpire Luciano (The Umpire Strikes Back, Strike Two is an odd idea gone wrong. After a delightful introductiondespite coauthorship with Fisher, the introduction is written in Luciano's voicein which he makes telling
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David Fisher, Author, Ralph Albertazzie, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-56984-0
Fisher ( Crisis ) and Albertazzie (former pilot of Air Force One) have pooled their resources to come up with a twisting page-turner of a thriller. In 1990, Col. Qadaffi plots to kidnap President Bush in delayed revenge for Reagan's attack on Libya.
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David Fisher, Author Random House (NY) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41116-1
Only July 27, 1991, the Sovetskiyok/gs Soyuz , a Russian nuclear-powered ship, sailed from Murmansk on a three-week luxury cruise across the polar ice cap. Fisher ( Fire and Ice ), a nuclear physicist from the University of Miami, was among the...
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David Fisher, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (316p) ISBN 978-0-671-79369-2
True-crime fans will savor this room-by-room, machine-by-machine tour of the FBI Criminal Laboratory in Washington, D.C., perhaps the world's best forensics department. Fisher (Killer) introduces readers to units that involve chemistry (with a...
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Rick Murdock, Author, David Fisher, Author, David Fisher, Joint Author Crown Publishers $24 (308p) ISBN 978-0-609-60391-8
In 1996, Murdock used an experimental procedure--which involved removing stem cells from his bone marrow, cleaning them with chemotherapy and radiation and then reintroducing the cleansed cells back into the marrow--to treat his advanced lymphoma....
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Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, with David Fisher, St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-59280-6
In this intriguing memoir, Cianci details how he became the longest-serving mayor in the history of Providence, R.I. Elected in 1974 as a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, he held the position until 1984 when he was forced to step...
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Warren Sapp with David Fisher. St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00438-3
With his outsized personality, Sapp, a former defensive star with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders, assisted by David Fisher, pulls the covers off the professional gridiron league in this blunt memoir with gleeful tidbits about the
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Grand Central, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4227-7
Anyone inclined to dismiss John Wooden and Abdul-Jabbar’s relationship as merely coach and player— Abdul-Jabbar led Wooden’s basketball teams at UCLA to three NCAA titles in the late 1960s—will rethink that miscalculation after reading this compact,
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William Shatner, with David Fisher. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-16669-2
Shatner, with the assistance of Fisher (coauthor of Shatner’s previous memoirs), opens this frank and witty memoir by admitting, “I have lived a fortunate life.” Shatner, known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on TV’s Star Trek (and later in the...
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Gary O’Neal, with David Fisher. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00432-1
Most recent military memoirs have come from relatively young veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This one, however, details one warrior’s decades-long career in the killing fields, from Vietnam to the Gulf Wars. O’Neal was fascinated from...
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William Shatner, with David Fisher. St. Martin's, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-08331-9
Shatner and Leonard Nimoy shared an off-screen relationship as deep, complex, and sometimes testy as their Star Trek characters Kirk and Spock, according to this fond elegy. Shatner is warmly effusive, calling Nimoy his only "real friend… to whom I...
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Dan Abrams and David Fisher. Hanover Square, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-335-01644-7
Abrams, chief of legal affairs for ABC News, and Fisher follow up Lincoln’s Last Trial with another intriguing presidential courtroom procedural. This one is centered on a highly public 1914 libel claim brought by a New York state politician,...
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David Fisher. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-18345-3
In this underwhelming near-future political thriller from Fisher (The Pack), the failures of the Biden administration set the stage for the election in 2024 of President Ian Wrightman, a career politician considered a lightweight by his Senate...
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