Matt Richtel, Author . Hachette/Twelve $24.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-446-58008-3
This oddly flat thriller from first-time novelist Richtel opens with a warning in a dead girlfriend's handwriting, followed by an explosion in a San Francisco cafe. Matt Idle, who barely escapes, is perplexed by the note: his girlfriend AnnieR
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Matt Richtel. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-59058-887-1
In Richtel's deft follow-up to Hooked (2007), medical reporter Nat Idle thinks someone taking potshots at him and his beloved grandmother, Lane, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, may be payback for his snide exposé involving city officials and...
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Matt Richtel . Harper, $9.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-0619-9969-7
In Richtel's deft follow-up to Hooked (2007), medical reporter Nat Idle thinks someone taking potshots at him and his beloved grandmother, Lane, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, may be payback for his snide exposé involving city officials and...
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Matt Richtel. Morrow, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-228406-8
A deadly driving-while-texting car crash illuminates the perils of information overload in this scattershot saga of digital dysfunctions. New York Times reporter and novelist Richtel (The Cloud) recounts the story of Reggie Shaw, a 19-year-old Utah...
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Matt Richtel. Harper, $8.99 mass market (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-199970-3
Richtel's exciting third novel featuring Nathaniel "Nat" Idle (after Devil's Plaything) finds the San Francisco reporter literally shoved into an investigation that explores the ramifications of the vast technological changes being wrought by the...
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Matt Richtel. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-220118-8
In the tantalizing prologue of this technological thriller from Richtel (The Cloud), a woman uncages a zoo lion for an unknown reason. Meanwhile in San Francisco, Jeremy Stillwater has developed a mind-blowing algorithm that harnesses big data to...
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Matt Richtel. Morrow, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-244327-4
Richtel (The Doomsday Equation) grabs his audience by the throat from the start of this intelligent nail-biter, which riffs on the story line of The Langoliers, a Stephen King novella. Despite the absence of any ground communications, Eleanor Hall,...
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Matt Richtel. Morrow, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-269853-7
New York Times reporter Richtel (A Deadly Wandering) takes on “one of the world’s most complex organic systems” in this entertaining survey of the science of immunology. In punchy prose (“Picture a festival—a wide-open, take-all-comers bash. This is
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Matt Richtel. Mariner, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-302553-0
Richtel (A Deadly Wandering), a science reporter for the New York Times, explores the origins and outcomes of creativity in this remarkable guide. Consulting musicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, and other creatives, Richtel argues that creativity “i
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Matt Richtel. Mariner, $29.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-328206-3
Pulitzer-winning journalist Richtel (Inspired) provides an uneven investigation of modern adolescence. Building on his New York Times series on the adolescent mental health crisis, the author makes two major arguments: first, that adolescence helps...
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