Precipice
By Robert Harris
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers; hardcover, 464 pages; $30.00; available today, Tuesday, September 17th
Robert Harris has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for London's Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. He is the author of Act of Oblivion, Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. Most of his fifteen cinematic thrillers have been made into films, including Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow, and it is set to be released this fall. His novels have sold over ten million copies, and have been translated into thirty languages.