New releases -- Bill O'Reilly and thrillers
This week, we get a memoir from TV talker Bill O'Reilly, as well as the latest from Dennis Lehane and our own Stephen Hunter. Out Tuesday:
A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity by Bill O’Reilly (Broadway, $26). O’Reilly goes back in time to examine the people, places, and experiences that launched him on his journey from working-class kid to TV personality.
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane (Morrow, $27.95). This epic brings alive the social turmoil, political chicanery and racial prejudice encompasses the Spanish flu pandemic, the Boston police strike of 1919, red-baiting and anti-union violence.
Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter (Simon & Schuster, $26). Bob Lee Swagger tries to figure out who wanted to kill his daughter.
Heat Lightning by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95). Investigator Virgil Flowers takes on a puzzling — and most alarming — case: A murder victim found near a veteran’s memorial with a lemon in his mouth.
Planet Google by Randall Stross (Free Press, $26). The New York Times columnist Randall Stross looks at Google’s ambitious aim to organize the world’s information.
Tsar by Ted Bell (Atria, $26.95). Alex Hawke fights the leaders of a new and invigorated Russia, where Vladimir Putin has been locked up in a lethal prison built over a massive radioactive waste site.
Amazon.com, Publishers Weekly
