The Media Tourist

Crime-fiction characters come together to work in tandem

Faceoff

Edited by David Baldacci

Hardcover, 384 pages, $26.99 / Kindle edition $10.99 (Simon & Schuster)

Lovers of thrill-and-chill fiction will get a real kick out of this unprecedented collaboration bringing together 23 bestselling thriller writers, linking up their iconic characters to “face off” together in jointly penned stories to solve all-new mysteries, track down serial killers, settle old scores, or mop up some other messes. The who’s who includes Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, Jeffrey Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme, Steve Barry’s Cotton Malone, Joseph Finder’s Nick Heller and dozens of others who’ll be familiar to all lovers of the arcane, the cloak and dagger, and the dark and the dangerous.

—Neil Pond, American Profile Magazine