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FaceOff by Lee Child, Lincoln Child, Michael Connelly, John Sandford, Lisa Gardner, Dennis Lehane, Steve Berry, Jeffery Deaver, Douglas Preston, James Rollins, Joseph Finder, Steve Martini, Heather Graham, Ian Rankin, Linda Fairstein, M. J. Rose, R.L. Stine, Raymond Khoury, Linwood Barclay, John Lescroart, Peter James, T. Jefferson Parker & F. Paul Wilson
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Length 10 hours 49 minutes
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2015 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller! Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci and including stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, and more, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide!

In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the worldā€™s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers have paired their series charactersā€”such as Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and Lincoln Rhymeā€”in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). All of the contributors to FaceOff are ITW members and the stories feature these dynamic duos:

Ā· Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in ā€œRed Eye,ā€ by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly
Ā· John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in ā€œIn the Nick of Time,ā€ by Ian Rankin and Peter James
Ā· Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in ā€œGaslighted,ā€ by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child
Ā· Malachai Samuels vs. D.D. Warren in ā€œThe Laughing Buddha,ā€ by M.J. Rose and Lisa Gardner
Ā· Paul Madriani vs. Alexandra Cooper in ā€œSurfing the Panther,ā€ by Steve Martini and Linda Fairstein
Ā· Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport in ā€œRhymes With Prey,ā€ by Jeffery Deaver and John Sandford
Ā· Michael Quinn vs. Repairman Jack in ā€œInfernal Night,ā€ by Heather Graham and F. Paul Wilson
Ā· Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber in ā€œPit Stop,ā€ by Raymond Khoury and Linwood Barclay
Ā· Wyatt Hunt vs. Joe Trona in ā€œSilent Hunt,ā€ by John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker
Ā· Cotton Malone vs. Gray Pierce in ā€œThe Devilā€™s Bones,ā€ by Steve Berry and James Rollins
Ā· Jack Reacher vs. Nick Heller in ā€œGood and Valuable Consideration,ā€ by Lee Child and Joseph Finder

So sit back and prepare for a rollicking ride as your favorite characters go head-to-head with some worthy opponents in FaceOffā€”itā€™s a thrill-a-minute read.

Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.

Michael Connelly is the author of the recent #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ The Drop,Ā The Fifth Witness, The Reversal,Ā The Scarecrow,Ā The Brass Verdict, andĀ The Lincoln Lawyer,Ā as well as the bestselling Harry Bosch series of novels. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He spends his time in California and Florida.

John SandfordĀ is the pseudonym for the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. He is the author of thirty-three Prey novels, two Letty Davenport novels, four Kidd novels, twelve Virgil Flowers novels, three YA novels co-authored with his wife, Michele Cook, and five stand-alone books.

Lisa Gardner is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including seven thrillers in the D.D. Warren series. With more than twenty-two million books in print, she is published in thirty countries and counting. Lisa lives in New England with her family, as well as two highly spoiled dogs and one extremely neurotic three-legged cat.

Dennis Lehane is the author of ten novels, including theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ Gone, Baby, Gone;Ā Mystic River;Ā Shutter Island;Ā The Given Day;Ā Moonlight Mile; andĀ Live by Night, as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Patriot Threat, The Lincoln Myth, The Kingā€™s Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperorā€™s Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room. His books have been translated into forty languages with 19,000,000 copies in fifty-one countries. For more information, visit SteveBerry.org.

Jeffery DeaverĀ is the #1 internationally bestselling author of forty-four novels, three collections of short stories, and a nonfiction law book. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into twenty-five languages. His first novel featuring Lincoln Rhyme,Ā The Bone Collector, was made into a major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie and a hit television series on NBC.Ā Heā€™s received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world, including Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers and the Steel Dagger from the Crime Writersā€™ Association in the United Kingdom. In 2014, he was the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. He has been named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America.

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series. Blending science and history his action-adventure novels have been praised as ā€œenormously engrossingā€ (NPR) and ā€œsmart, entertaining adventure fictionā€ (New York Journal of Books). Before pursuing a writing career he obtained a degree in veterinary medicine and established a successful practice in California. He currently resides in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of eleven novels, including Suspicion and Vanished. Finderā€™s international bestseller Killer Instinct won ITWā€™s Thriller Award for Best Novel of 2006. Other bestselling titles include Paranoia and High Crimes, which both became major motion pictures. He lives in Boston.

Steve Martini was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. An honors graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, he holds a law degree from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. During his legal career, he worked as a legislative representative for the State Bar of California, served as special counsel to the California Victims of Violent Crimes Program, and was an administrative law judge and supervising hearing officer. In 1984 Martini turned his talents to fiction, and became a New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, including eight featuring his popular lawyer alter ego, Paul Madriani.

New York TimesĀ andĀ USA TODAYĀ bestselling authorĀ Heather GrahamĀ has written more than a hundred novels. Sheā€™s a winner of the RWAā€™s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Thriller Writersā€™ Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America. For more information, check out her websites: TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com, eHeatherGraham.com, and HeatherGraham.tv. You can also find Heather on Facebook.

Ian Rankin is an award-winning, bestselling crime writer best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Crime Writers of America Silver Dagger Award, and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship, among others. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his partner and two sons.

Linda Fairstein was chief of the Sex Crimes Unit of the district attorney's office in Manhattan for more than two decades and is America's foremost legal expert on sexual assault and domestic violence. Her Alexandra Cooper novels are international bestsellers and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives in Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.

New York Times bestselling author M.J. Rose grew up in New York City exploring the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum and the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park. She is the author of more than a dozen novels, the founder of the first marketing company for authors, AuthorBuzz.com and cofounder of 1001DarkNights.com She lives in Connecticut. Visit her online at MJRose.com.Ā 

R.L. Stine invented the teen horror genre with Fear Street, the bestselling teen horror series of all time. He also changed the face of childrenā€™s publishing with the mega-successful Goosebumps series, which went on to become a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Guinness World Records cites Stine as the most prolific author of childrenā€™s horror fiction novels. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane, and their dog, Lucky.

Raymond Khoury is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of four Reilly adventures, as well as two standalone thrillers. His debut novel, The Last Templar, spent twenty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted for television by NBC. His books have been translated into over forty languages and sold over ten million copies.

Linwood Barclay spent twenty-seven years at Canadaā€™s largest paper, the Toronto Star, until 2004 when he published Bad Move and became a full-time writer of thrillers. He has published more than a dozen novels, including the bestsellers No Time for Goodbye and Trust Your Eyes, which has been optioned by Warner Bros. for film.

John LescroartĀ is theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author of twenty-nine previous novels, including theĀ The Rule of Law,Ā Poison, andĀ Fatal. His books have sold more than ten million copies and have been translated into twenty-two languages. He lives in Northern California.

Peter JamesĀ is the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace series, with more than eighteen million copies sold all over the world. His novels have been translated into thirty-seven languages and many are in development for TV and film including the Roy Grace series. All of his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police, with whom he does in-depth research. He lives in England.

T. Jefferson Parker is the author of more than twenty highly successful crime novels. He is aĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author and the recipient of two Edgar Awards

F. Paul Wilson, theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey. In 2008, he won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Dylan Baker's films include Happiness, Along Came A Spider, and 13 Days. He starred on the TV series Feds and Murder One. Mr. Baker's theater credits include La Bete (Tony & Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theatre World Award), and Not About Heroes (Obie Award).

Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side. His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon, and 100 Center Street.

David Baldacci is a worldwide bestselling novelist. With his books published in over 45 languages and in more than 80 countries, and with over 110 million copies in print, he is one of the world's favorite storytellers. David Baldacci is also the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. Still a resident of his native Virginia, he invites you to visit him at www.DavidBaldacci.com, and his foundation at www.WishYouWellFoundation.org, and to look into its program to spread books across America at www.FeedingBodyandMind.com.

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