EDITOR’S CHOICE
The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva, $25.95
Silva stalwart Gabriel Allon is back, investigating the murder of terrorism analyst Ephraim Rosner by a Muslim immigrant in Amsterdam. The plot thickens with the kidnapping of the U.S. ambassador’s daughter in London. | Library Journal
FICTION
Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux, $25.95 | In Deveraux’s latest, Jace Montgomery’s fiancée, Stacy, commits suicide while they’re vacationing in England – or so, three years after her death, everybody but Jace believes. | Publishers Weekly
New Bedlam by William Flanagan, $24.95 | Flanagan’s snarkily entertaining second novel (after “A&R”) is a smorgasbord of colorful personalities and riotous events that would only be slightly less at home on a reality TV show. | Publishers Weekly
NONFICTION
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, $25.95 | Journalists Farah and Braun center their absorbing exposé on the arms trade’s most successful practitioner, the Russian dealer Victor Bout. | Publishers Weekly
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington by Robert D. Novak, $29.95 | The barbs start flying on Page 1 and continue to nearly the end of this thick memoir by the conservative journalist and pundit. Novak recounts his journey from Associated Press cub reporter to ubiquitous talk-show talking head. | Publishers Weekly
In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia by Ronald H. Spector, $27.95 | Americans considered World War II over in August 1945, but in this enthralling sequel to “Eagle Against the Sun,” historian Spector recounts the brutal postwar conflicts inside former Japanese conquests. | Publishers Weekly
PAPERBACKS
Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan, $13.95 | In this sweeping novel about the career lives of NASA astronauts, Harrigan (“The Gates of the Alamo”) has created a dynamic and intimate portrait of the hardships and sacrifice space exploration requires. | Library Journal
Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar by Moazzam Begg, $18.95 | In a fast-paced, harrowing narrative that’s likely to become a flash point for the right and the left, Begg tells of his secret abduction by U.S. forces in Pakistan, and his detainment at American air bases and at Guantanamo as an enemy combatant. | Publishers Weekly
From Soup Lines to the Front Lines: Denver During the Depression and World War II 1927-1947 by Phil Goodstein, $29.95 | The fourth and final installment of Goodstein’s history of the city of Denver from the days of the Pikes Peak gold rush through the end of World War II. | The Denver Post
COMING UP
SEPTEMBER
Dexter in the Dark by Jeff Lindsay, $23.95 | Dexter Morgan is not your usual serial killer. He works for the Miami police and kills only people who are worse than he is. In this newest, Dexter’s Dark Passenger, the nasty voice in his head abandons him, leaving him vulnerable. | The Denver Post
OCTOBER
Blonde Faith by Walter Mosley, $25.95 | In Mosley’s 10th Easy Rawlins novel, Easy comes home from work and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day than most men encounter in a lifetime.
