Private Screening

"Thrilling...Succeeds on all counts. It's a footrace of a read, daring you to put it down." THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION After a presidential hopeful is shot dead in front of his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant, fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord takes on the the defense of the accused. And that erupts into the media event of the decade. But there is more. As America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves, the wife of a newspaper mogul and Stacy's manager, his hostages. Then Phoenix mounts of a televised trial of his own--in which Stacy and Tony are helpless defendants, millionsof viewers are jurors, and--unless his chilling demands are met--Phoenix is the unstoppable executioner....Patterson, Richard North is the author of 'Private Screening' with ISBN 9780345385727 and ISBN 0345385721.