The Book of Fate

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Wes Holloway, a cocky and ambitious presidential aide, puts Ron Boyle, the chief executive s oldest friend, into the presidential limousine. Minutes later, Wes is permanently disfigured, and Boyle is dead, the victim of a crazed assassin. Eight years later, Boyle is spotted, alive and well, in Malaysia. Trying to figure out what really happened takes Wes back to a decade-old presidential crossword, mysterious facts buried in Masonic history, and a two-hundred-year-old code invented by Thomas Jefferson. But what Wes doesn t realize is that The Book of Fate holds everyone s secrets. Especially the ones worth dying for.

Brad Meltzer wrote his first novel while completing law school and writing for the notoriously demanding Law Review. He lived in Washington, D.C. with his wife Cori, who was his childhood sweetheart and also a lawyer. Brad Meltzer now writes full time and lives in Florida with his family.

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