<div><B>A man is endangered by his family&rsquo;s long-ago Nazi ties in this &ldquo;riveting&rdquo; thriller by a <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author (<I>Rolling Stone</I>).</B><BR />  His marriage destroyed by drinking, John Cooper returns to Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to recapture the joy he felt as an undergraduate in Harvard University&rsquo;s sacred halls. He is just beginning to piece his life together when he gets a telegram calling him home to Minnesota. The message comes from Buenos Aires, and with Cooper&rsquo;s family history, that can mean only one thing: The Nazis are staging a comeback. To John and his brother, their grandfather was a kind, distinguished old man. But to the American people, he was the worst kind of traitor. An industrialist who spent the 1930s in business with Fascists, he became infamous as &ldquo;America&rsquo;s Number One Nazi.&rdquo; When Hitler&rsquo;s old lieutenants decide to get together a Fourth Reich, the Coopers are the first family they call. John hasn&rsquo;t even made it to Minnesota when the first attempt on his life comes&mdash;a message that if he isn&rsquo;t ready to honor his family legacy, he will die for it.</div>

The Wind Chill Factor

<div><b>Ancient treason threatens to ignite a new skirmish in the Cold War</b><BR>It&rsquo;s January, 1778, and William Davis is standing guard for the Continental Army at Valley Forge when he witnesses something sickening: an American selling intelligence to the British. The meeting goes wrong, three men die, and William flees the scene, leaving a swatch of his uniform behind. The next day he&rsquo;s arrested, tried, and executed for treason as part of a monstrous cover-up to protect the identity of the officer who tried to sell out the American Revolution: General George Washington himself. Two centuries later, a descendent of Davis finds evidence of Washington&rsquo;s betrayal. Before he can announce his findings, he&rsquo;s murdered by KGB agents hoping to use the information to embarrass the United States. But the crucial document vanishes, and the only man who can secure it is Nat Underhill, a Harvard professor who truly must publish or perish.</div>

The Glendower Legacy

<div><b>A daring fraud makes one man a titan, and brings a nation to its knees</b><BR>The son of a failing undertaker, Alves Reis learned early on that death comes quickly and a man must make his fortune while he can. In 1916, Reis left Portugal for Angola, where the hardships of colonial life dashed his dream of easy riches. In desperate straits, Alves discovers his true talent: forgery. With an unerring hand, Alves begins to counterfeit. He falsifies diplomas, government documents, currency, and countless checks on his way to perpetrating one of the greatest frauds of the twentieth century. Inspired by the true story of a master swindler, Gifford brings to life a breathtaking international scam. Before Bernie Madoff, before Frank Abagnale, there was Alves Reis&mdash;a forger with talent, vision, and an uncompromising drive to succeed, no matter what man, bank, or nation stood in his way. </div>

The Man from Lisbon

<div><B>Edgar Award nominee: Backwoods treachery links a string of grisly Minnesota murders</B><BR /> Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building&rsquo;s door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologizing for the mess. Cavanaugh retreats to his apartment to forget this disturbing scene, thinking the story is over when the police take away the body. But the suicide is only the beginning. A knot of death is tied tight around Blankenship&rsquo;s wife, Kim, an ice-cold beauty from the backwoods of northern Minnesota. As he investigates the string of deaths, Cavanaugh discovers a decades-old atrocity that may explain why the men who know Kim vanish faster than a sunny day in Minneapolis.</div>

The Cavanaugh Quest

<div><b>Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name</b><BR>The police find Toby Challis clutching his bloodstained Oscar statuette, his wife dead at his feet. He claims innocence, but the jury doesn&rsquo;t buy it, believing that such a cinematic murder could spring only from the mind of one of Hollywood&rsquo;s finest screenwriters. Nearly driven mad by the time spent waiting for the verdict, Challis has no idea how he will survive more than a decade in the big house. Lucky for him, he won&rsquo;t have to find out&mdash;yet. To transport Challis to prison, the state provides only an old prop plane. A freak blizzard hits it hard, knocking it out of the sky and killing everyone on board but the convict. Challis escapes into the woods, to find the man who killed his wife and plan what every script needs: a Hollywood ending. </div>

Hollywood Gothic

<div><B>A woman&rsquo;s life is upended after she witnesses the aftermath of a deadly crime</B><BR /> Natalie should have gone home after the party. One of New York&rsquo;s hottest literary agents, she was celebrating her latest coup&mdash;next year&rsquo;s mega-thriller, sold at auction for $1.5 million. As the industry bows at her feet, Natalie can&rsquo;t help but think of her boss, Jay, a handsome dynamo who has been in love with her since her first day on the job. When the party ends, Natalie retreats to the office to clear her head. Lost in thought, she steps to the window&mdash;and sees something that strikes fear into her heart. A man in a trench coat scurries down the sidewalk, stops in front of a construction site, and hurls a pistol over the wall. Natalie doesn&rsquo;t realize the significance of this until the man sees her watching. They make eye contact, and Natalie knows her life will never be the same&mdash;now that a killer knows her face.</div>

Woman in the Window

<div><b>At the apex of the New York art world, murder is the newest fad</b><BR>Harry and Sally, Belinda and Jack&mdash;two couples, four best friends. Inseparable since college, they stay close through their twenties and thirties, as they make their way to the top of the New York arts scene. Harry is a playwright, Jack a novelist, Belinda a painter, and Sally, well, Sally has always been happy just to be Harry&rsquo;s wife. But as Harry and Belinda&rsquo;s careers take off, Jack&rsquo;s stalls. Unable to complete a second novel, his attitude becomes poisonous, even violent, until Belinda is forced to throw him out of their beautiful loft apartment. Single again for the first time in decades, she finds that in a city full of wolves, her husband may have the sharpest teeth. As summer heat chokes New York, its most chic addresses are about to be drenched in the bluest blood the city has to offer.</div>

Guilty Parties

<div><b>A mysterious note leads a struggling actress to a strange murder investigation</b><BR>After two decades of striving, Celia is tired of waiting for her big acting break, and finds consolation only in a specific narcotic: mystery novels. After an afternoon binge at the sprawling Strand bookstore, she emerges with a baker&rsquo;s dozen of second-hand thrillers. Inside one of the novels she finds a real-life mystery that will prove to be the greatest she&rsquo;s ever read. She discovers a slip of paper listing nine bullet points, starting &ldquo;in re the murder of the Director.&rdquo; Who is the Director, why would someone want him dead, and what on earth does Dan Rather have to do with it? As Celia dives into the puzzle, she finds herself locked in a life-or-death struggle with a gang of international conspirators. These evil men would scare her to death if she weren&rsquo;t a veteran of New York&rsquo;s toughest battlefield: the audition room.</div>

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

<div><b>At the start of World War II, a football star fights gangsters on the home front</b><BR>Brooklyn Bulldogs star defensive end Lew Cassidy is on his way to a touchdown when a nasty tackle snaps his leg and ends his career. When he wakes up in the hospital, he learns the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor, and America is at war. It&rsquo;s a shame his busted leg will keep him out of the army, because compared to New York, war is kindergarten.  Cassidy&rsquo;s closest friend is Terry Leary, a homicide detective who&rsquo;s too slick for his own good. Just a few hours after Cassidy&rsquo;s injury, someone puts a bullet in Leary&rsquo;s spine. Cassidy leaves the hospital ready to avenge his friend&mdash;a fight that pits him against a gang of crooks who make him yearn for the comparative peace and safety of the gridiron.</div>

Kiss Me Once

<div><b>A mad Nazi plot gives Cassidy a chance to save his estranged wife&mdash;or lose her forever </b><BR>As the dust settles on World War II, detective Lew Cassidy&rsquo;s wife has come back from the dead. A German figure skater with a film-star face, she had returned to her home country when the war began to care for her ailing father; Cassidy later heard she died during an Allied bombing raid. But in the weeks after the German surrender, the US Army finds her in Bavaria, stricken with amnesia and married to Manfred Muller, an SS swashbuckler at the top of the army&rsquo;s most-wanted list. In the war&rsquo;s last days, Muller escaped Germany with a historic golden minotaur sculpture, planning to sell the statue and use the proceeds to establish a Nazi underground in the United States. When Muller disappears in the wilds of Maine, the army gives Cassidy a chance to serve his country. To catch the Nazi, he&rsquo;ll use his wife as bait, and hope he doesn&rsquo;t lose her a second time.</div>

Kiss Me Twice

<div><b>A powerful lawyer&rsquo;s most famous opponent comes back to kill him</b><BR>On his first day at Harvard, working-class student Charlie Nichols is instantly charmed by the debonair rake Victor Saberdene. While Nichols earns tuition playing football, Saberdene&rsquo;s wealth and charm rocket him to the top of Harvard&rsquo;s impenetrable social pyramid and beyond&mdash;to become the most feared defense lawyer in the country, a man who uses his charisma to manipulate juries. Nichols becomes an international crime reporter. He hasn&rsquo;t thought of his old friend Saberdene in years when he reads of the Anna Thorne killing. A beautiful young Massachusetts stagehand disappears after a fling with the handsome, dangerous Carl Varada&mdash;who might have escaped had Anna not been Saberdene&rsquo;s sister-in-law. Saberdene puts Varada behind bars, but years later the killer earns early release. When Varada sets his sights on the great lawyer&rsquo;s family, no amount of charisma can stop him. </div>

The Saberdene Variations

<div><b>A journalist searches for the true story of his glamorous sibling&rsquo;s death</b><BR>When rock star J. C. Tripper died, only his brother Lee was by his side, and in the decades since, Lee has been deviled by questions of what really happened that night in Tangier. He thinks he knows the truth, but his recollection of that final drug-soaked bender is about to be called into question. An old acquaintance mails Lee a Nazi pistol and four Polaroid pictures of a dead body&mdash;an invitation to reopen a long-cold murder investigation. Lee then reconnects with Sam Innis, onetime best friend to the brothers Tripper, who urges him to track down J.C.&rsquo;s former bandmates and music industry contacts. That night, Lee&rsquo;s girlfriend, a bestselling conspiracy theorist, is tortured to death in her tub. As his brother comes back to haunt him, Lee must unravel the mystery of J.C.&rsquo;s last days, or risk joining him behind the velvet rope at the great after-party in the sky.</div>

Thomas Gifford

Books By Thomas Gifford (12 Books)

The Wind Chill Factor

The Glendower Legacy

The Man from Lisbon

The Cavanaugh Quest

Hollywood Gothic

Woman in the Window

Guilty Parties

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Kiss Me Once

Kiss Me Twice

The Saberdene Variations

The Suspense Is Killing Me

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