Graveland A Novel [Paperback]

Someone is assassinating the financial industry's most powerful playersin cold blood and in broad daylightin intricate, eerily relevant new thriller from Alan Glynn, the award-winning author ofBloodlandandLimitless.

On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Hours later, one of New York City's savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Are these killings a coordinated terrorist attack, or just a coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch they're neither, and when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, her theory is confirmed. The story blows wide open, and as Ellen races to stay ahead of the curve, her path collides with that of a recession-hit architect, Frank Bishop, whose daughter's disappearance may be tied to the murders.

Set deep in a shadow world of corrupt business deals and radical politicswith a plot that echoes today's headlines in haunting and unexpected waysGravelandis a mind-blowing thriller that intensifies with every page.

Alan Glynnis a graduate of Trinity College. His first novel,Limitless, was released as a film in March 2011 by Relativity Media. He is also the author ofWinterlandandBloodland.

Gravelandpaints wonderfully detailed characters on the broad canvas of greed, with a plot ripped from as-yet-unwritten but disturbingly credible headlines. A hugely relevant, undeniably compelling thriller. Chris Pavone, author of The Expats

Gravelandis an excellent novel -- smart and edgy, yet possessing real substance and depth. Glynn is fast becoming one of the best contemporary thriller writers around. R.J. Ellory, author of Candlemoth and A Quiet Belief in Angels

Glynn takes the pitch-perfect paranoia and the journalist-as-heromotif of the 1970s and matches them up with crimes that are indelibllS"