IT WAS THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD On 22nd November 1963, John F. Kennedy's presidential motorcade rode through Dealey Plaza. He and his wife Jackie greeted the crowds on a glorious Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. BUT WHAT IF IT MISSED? Mitch Newman is a photojournalist based out of Washington, D.C. His phone never rings. When it does, a voice he hasn't heard in years will tell him his former fiancee Jean has taken her own life. WHEN THE TRUTH IS BIGGER THAN ALL THE LIES Jean was an investigative reporter working the case of a lifetime. Somewhere in the shreds of her...

The mission was simple: prove his friend was dead. A gripping, globe-trotting espionage thriller from critically acclaimed, prize-winning author R. J. Ellory.

THE GRIPPING NEW ESPIONAGE THRILLER FROM AWARD-WINNING RJ ELLORY 'This tense, atmospheric, totally believable thriller harks back to the golden age of espionage but is also about how well we really know our friends' THE SUN * * * * * The mission was supposed to be simple. Stroud is a former war photographer who left the frontline before his luck ran out. His closest friend and mentor, Vincent Raphael, was not so fortunate. To prove his friend is dead. When Raphael is allegedly sighted in Istanbul - six years after his death - Stroud is drawn back into a life that nearly...