The Wall Street Murder Club by J.G. Sandom
ISBN-10: 0985695412
Publisher: Cornucopia Press (September 14, 2013)
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Print Length: 317 pages

Gone Girl meets American Psycho

The second book in the author’s two-book deal with Doubleday/Bantam/Dell. Like Gospel Truths, this novel was also edited by Kate Miciak, who later edited another Amherst College author, Harlan Coben. Scott Turow (whose physician father delivered the author in Chicago’s Edgewater Hospital), also an Amherst College alumnus, offered to write a review of the novel that helped generate a movie option from Lee Rich of Warner Bros (screenplay by Ron Bass, directed by Joel Schumacher), but the project went into turnaround after the script was submitted.

Five successful New Yorkers out for a bachelor party leave their trendy restaurant in SoHo and go slumming at a seedy local strip club called the Party Girl Lounge. The last bachelor in “The Hunting Club” — as they call themselves after a college excursion — is getting married and there will be debauchery. John Payne would rather stay home with his pregnant wife but Glenn Morrow won’t hear of it. It’s hard to say no to a guy who’s a Prince of Wall Street, who introduced you to your wife, and who helped get you your job as a helicopter traffic radio announcer. Glenn Morrow does not take no for an answer.

One after the other, in a bacchanalian night of drugs and liquor, the five privileged young white men have their way with a willing young Puerto Rican stripper whom they follow home when the Lounge closes. But after John Payne comes to with the girl dead in his arms, Glen Morrow insists that instead of facing the music, they mop up their mess, dump the body into New York harbor, and count on the unlikelihood of anybody caring about some cheap missing hooker. They count wrong.

Scott Turow called The Wall Street Murder Club, “A gripping story, well-told . . . not only a tale of murder and betrayal, but an intelligent exploration of issues of male identity.”

Kirkus Reviews termed the book, “A Big Apple Deliverance, endowing New York culture with all the corrosively dehumanizing power of Dickey’s wild nature … Slickly entertaining right down to the last, inevitable twist.  (Film rights to Warner Brothers — and there’s no mystery why.)”

And Booklist said, “(Sandom) writes with stunning elegance and nearly poetic beauty … A sure hit with any suspense reader.”

Blackmail and murder, loyalty, honor and betrayal — all come into play. Slowly but surely, the ties that once held these lifelong friends together begin to unravel, the bonds of friendship are broken, and the members of “The Hunting Club” start to hunt . . . one another.

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This book was originally released by Doubleday/Bantam/Dell under the title, “The Hunting Club,” and was published in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Holland, Germany, England, Japan, and Denmark (including an audio book). Here are the original covers:

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Gospel Truths by J.G. Sandom
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005FNYQ52
Publisher ‏ : ‎ CORNUCOPIA PRESS (November 8, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 434 pages

Sherlock Holmes meets Da Vinci Code

They have been drawn into a plot more insidious than anything they could have imagined—a battle to control one of religion’s greatest secrets.

For English detective Nigel Lyman, it begins with the suspicious suicide of a corrupt Italian banker in London. For French-born Mariane Soury-Fontaine, it starts with the mysterious disappearance of her lover, a construction worker specializing in ancient renovations. For Italian mobster Marco Scarcella, it’s about strengthening his pseudo-Masonic lodge, the P2, used to blackmail and threaten Roman magistrates and politicians. And for American architect/mathematician Joseph Koster (protagonist in the sequel, The God Machine), the search leads through France’s soaring Notre Dame cathedrals in Chartres and Amiens to the baffling labyrinths that Medieval masons once inscribed in their floors.

Booklist called Gospel Truths, “a splendid, tautly woven thriller … (and) an intelligent mystery of tremendous spiritual and literary depth.” 

Library Journal said,” By turns contemplative, descriptive, and emotive, this mixture of mystery and intrigue reveals intense preparation and fine writing.”

And Mostly Murder characterized it, “A fascinating mystery … captivating and engrossing.”

[NOTE: The character of the Archbishop is modeled on J.G. Sandom’s actual cousin, Paul Marcinkus, Archbishop, former head of the Vatican Bank (IOR), and once Mayor of the Vatican City.]

These strangers are about to crack a code that dozens have died for, a puzzle whose power reaches back to the birth of the Christian faith, through the echoing halls of the Vatican, and into the dark, corrupt realms of Italian organized crime.

For each of these characters, finding this ancient text is no longer the ultimate challenge. Now, the ultimate challenge is simply staying alive.

Published a decade before Da Vinci Code,
read the theo-thriller that started it all

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404 by J.G. Sandom
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 098569548X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cornucopia Press (October 7, 2014)
Edition: 1st
Language: ‎English
Print Length: ‎332 pages

Homeland meets The Matrix

AI or Not to Be

An exciting, fast-paced, well-spun yarn of a patriot betrayed by his wife, his friends, his senses and, ultimately, even himself, 4o4 explores our nation’s vulnerability to cyber-attack and how the United States is coping with the 21st century struggle to balance the right to privacy with our cyber vulnerability.

Here is what the experts are saying:

“Team up with FBI code-breaker John Decker as he tries to stop a mysterious hacker, recently discovered penetrating government defense systems. Now, the cyber villain has set his sights on Decker and his family. As a former Special Agent, I found this novel not only plausible, but riveting and truly alarming. If you care about our nation’s cyber-security, you MUST read this book.”

Ron Jaco, Special Agent (Ret.)
FBI

“After reading 404, you’ll never look at your tablet or notebook computer quite the same ever again.”

Todd Watson
Social Media Communications, Influence, and
Outreach Director for IBM’s $20 Billion software business

“Strap yourself in . . . you’re in for a Mach 2 ride with John Decker. As someone who has worked national security issues for decades, this story is all too scary and all too real. You’ll love it!”

Colonel Jim “Chip” Marchio (Ret.)
US Air Force

Planes crash into one another midair. Nuclear power plants go berserk. Railroad crossing gates rise, letting cars pass just as trains whistle by. Thousands are injured or killed. The only connection between these seemingly unrelated events is that the systems controlling them are all Internet-based.

FBI cryptanalyst forensic examiner John Decker, working at the National Counter Terrorism Center in Northern Virginia, uncovers a deadly plot to sabotage a key U.S. defense contractor.  When the plot leads to an old Islamist adversary, long thought dead, Special Agent Decker has no idea he is about to be thrust into a diabolical conspiracy that winds to the heart of our national defense.

In the course of a week, America is paralyzed by a series of devastating cyber-attacks that cripple the nation’s security, financial markets and transportation systems.  Assisted by beautiful and brilliant computer expert Xin Liu (Lulu), Decker must unravel the mystery behind whoever—or whatever—is taking over the Net.

Who’s responsible for these deadly cyber-attacks? Is it Jihadists of the Crimson Scimitar cell led by Decker’s old nemesis, El Aqrab? Is it North Koreans working out of Dandong, China? Or, is it somebody else altogether instead?

In this chilling new techno-thriller, international #1 best-selling novelist J.G. Sandom grabs the reader by the nape of the neck and never lets go. An exciting, fast-paced, well-spun yarn of a patriot betrayed by his wife, his friends, his senses and, ultimately, even himself.

Ripped from the headlines, 4o4 explores our nation’s vulnerability to cyber-attack, how the US is coping with the twenty-first century struggle to balance the right to privacy with our cyber vulnerability, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

AI chatbots were just the beginning.

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dEATH in dAVOS by J.G. Sandom
ISBN-10: 0997673915
Publisher: Cornucopia Press (July 4, 2016)
Edition: 1st
Language: ‎English
Print length: ‎274 pages

Dexter meets Gossip Girl
meets Kill Bill

Seventeen-year-old wunderkind Robin Beauvais is a teen dream. She’s earned a scholarship at one of the most prestigious prep schools in the nation. She’s a world-class biathlete. She’s a brilliant hacker and YouTube personality interviewing the rich and famous about tech. In fact, Robin’s just won a trip to Davos, Switzerland, to give a presentation at the World Economic Forum.

While in Davos, billionaires start dropping like golden flies. Robin gets caught up in the investigation after being in the wrong place at the wrong time on more than one occasion. In the midst of global economic giants, celebrities and hangers-on, Robin has to use all of her skills and faculties to make sure she doesn’t end up becoming a permanent guest of the Swiss government . . . in jail.

As the Swiss Inspector working the case narrows down suspects, Robin is also narrowing down her list: a list of powerful men with terrible secrets and hideous lies . . . lies that Robin plans to get to the bottom of once and for all. And as Robin makes her list and checks it twice, the bodies continue to pile up.

If Robin were capable of empathy, she might feel sorry for the dead. If Robin were capable of feeling sorrow, she might fear the consequences. And if Robin were capable of fearing the consequences, she might not be a teen serial killer.

Davos is an opportunity to die for . . . and Robin’s out to make sure at least a few people do.

A combination of Dexter and Gossip Girl and Kill Bill, dEATH in dAVOS brings us a teen female antihero for our times. As Robin herself says, “When it comes to class warfare, as far as I’m concerned, there’s far too much class and not enough warfare.”

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The Blue Men by J.G. Sandom
ISBN-10: ‎0997673931
Publisher: ‎Cornucopia Press (August 12, 2023)
Edition: 2nd
Language: ‎English
Print Length: ‎319 pages

(formerly The Travels of Thurston Powell)

Pale Fire meets Lawrence of Arabia

Published in the United States for the first time, J.G. Sandom’s debut novel is set in Algeria in the early 1980s, when Thurston Powell travels to the town of Tamanrasset in the heart of the Sahara ostensibly to study the poetry of the local Tuareg Berber tribes.

He meets a collection of political defectors, refugees, and smugglers, all of whom have lost faith in something — in love, in science, in the ability to effect political change, in God. Mistaken for a smuggler, Powell is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with the local police and with an Islamist fundamentalist smuggler named Mustafa, who is also Powell’s rival for the affections of the beautiful poetess Dassina. As each outlandish character struggles to regain their faith in that which they have lost, Powell begins to piece together his own life and heart, and to regain the most important sense of faith of all — his belief in himself.

Part journal featuring the incredible adventures of Thurston Powell as he caravans through the Sahara; part historico-anthropological examination of the Tuareg, a people who have controlled the oases of North Africa since the days of Herodotus and Pliny, and who once served as the shock troops for the Hilalian Moorish invaders that conquered Spain and brought the number zero, pharmacology, and astronomy to Europe; part ethno-poetical analysis of desert verse; and part elegy to the poetry of the famous Blue Men of the Desert (The Tuareg), this literary tour de force is also a paean to writing itself, and the faith required to create a world of fiction and the characters within.

Lastly, the book reveals the inner workings of a talented young writer who has since become an international bestselling author, and whose award-winning work has been listed “Top Ten” by The Washington Post, and celebrated in such journals as Kirkus, Hollywood Reporter, and Library Journal.

Like The Publicist, this black comedy is part of the Tuareg collection, books the author has written that feature the Berbers of the Sahara.

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