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A COLLECTION OF FIVE HEART-STOPPING STORIES FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER. A MIRACLE IN WAR-TORN SIENA THAT BEGINS WITH THE PERSECUTION OF A YOUNG NUN IN THE TURBULENT DAYS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND CULMINATES IN THE BITTER GERMAN RETREAT FROM ITALY; A DRUG SMUGGLING HEIST ON AN INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT WHERE THE KNOCK PIT THEIR WITS AGAINST THE SMUGGLERS; A BRURAL URBAN MURDER, WHERE A BRILLIANT QC DECIDES TO DEFEND THE KILLERS, RESULTING IN A STARTLING JUSTICE; AN INCANDESCENT ART SCAM AT A FAMOUS LONDON AUCTION HOUSE, AND A BRILLIANTLY PLOTTED REVENGE THAT SHATTERS THE ELEGANT WORLD OF THE OLD MASTERS - EACH STORY IS A REMARKABLE TOUR DE FORCE. AND ABOVE ALL HERE IS A BRILLIANT NOVELLA, 'WHISPERING WIND', WHICH BEGINS WITH THE SINGLE SURVIVOR OF CUSTER'S LAST STAND AT THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN. THEN FOLLOWS THE RESCUE FROM RAPE AND MURDER OF A CHEYENNE GIRL AND A FLIGHT ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FORESTS OF THE WEST, ENDING IN A SAVAGE PRESENT-DAY MANHUNT IN THE WILD LANDS OF MON