Someone is assassinating the financial industry's most powerful players―in cold blood and in broad daylight―in intricate, eerily relevant new thriller from Alan Glynn, the award-winning author of Bloodland and Limitless . On a bright Saturday morning, a Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Hours later, one of New York City's savviest hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. Are these killings a coordinated terrorist attack, or just a coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch they're neither, and when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, her theory is confirmed. The story blows wide open, and as Ellen races to stay ahead of the curve, her path collides with that of a recession-hit architect, Frank Bishop, whose daughter's disappearance may be tied to the murders. Set deep in a shadow world of corrupt business deals and radical politics―with a plot that echoes today's headlines in haunting and unexpected ways― Graveland is a mind-blowing thriller that intensifies with every page. Investigative journalist Jimmy Gilroy, who first appeared in Bloodland (2011), has a small role in Glynn’s third crime story, but it’s Gilroy’s hard-bitten colleague, Ellen Dorsey, who’s in the limelight here. The action starts with the murder of a jogger in Central Park. Not just “any guy,” the victim worked for one of the city’s megabucks Wall Street investment firms. Dorsey fleetingly wonders if there’s a story in the murder, but, just when she’s about to go on to another article, a second financial guru—a well-known hedge-fund manger—is killed. Close on the heels of his death is an attack on a member of a hugely successful ­private-equity group. Are terrorists wiping out Wall Street elites? Dorsey is hooked, especially after she meets Frank Bishop, an out-of-work architect caught in the stranglehold of the current economic downturn. What began as a rather routine crime story takes a redeeming left turn midway, but this undisguised attack on the financial district still lacks the punch of Glynn’s previous books and will appeal most to patient readers whose investment portfolios are safe and secure. --Stephanie Zvirin “ Graveland paints wonderfully detailed characters on the broad canvas of greed, with a plot ripped from as-yet-unwritten but disturbingly credible headlines. A hugely relevant, undeniably compelling thriller.” ― Chris Pavone, author of The Expats “ Graveland is an excellent novel -- smart and edgy, yet possessing real substance and depth. Glynn is fast becoming one of the best contemporary thriller writers around.” ― R.J. Ellory, author of Candlemoth and A Quiet Belief in Angels “Glynn takes the pitch-perfect paranoia and the journalist-as-heromotif of the 1970s and matches them up with crimes that are indelibly contemporary…. Graveland is everything a conspiracy thriller should be: paranoid, tense and ultimately exhilarating.” ― The Richmond Times-Dispatch “[Glynn] has a knack for depicting a shifting reality, partly by introducing us to characters who are already at their mental and emotional limits….His heroes exist in contemporary freefall, bracing themselves against whatever surface is available. This constant shift in perspective makes their choices entirely unpredictable and thus endlessly fascinating for readers who have long tired of clichéd denouements...Remarkable.” ― The Los Angeles Review of Books “Hugely impressive…. A book that gleefully surprises at every turn… There are uncanny echoes of [the] recent Boston events, and Glynn uses his scenarios to cleverly analyze the way the media and social media influence narrative in the twenty-first century, without ever being heavy-handed about it. Disturbing yet utterly engrossing, [ Graveland ] a very modern, very original and very good thriller indeed.” ― Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue “ Graveland proceeds at a rattling pace… A host of disparate characters -- among them a pair of radicalized brothers, a bereft father, a crusading journalist, and a Wall Street kingpin -- are skillfully interwoven, creating a story that is both a contemporary take on the timeless clash between the powerless many and the powerful few and a commentary on the perception, interpretation and manipulation of the narratives that shape our lives…. An invigorating slice of conspiracy noir, Graveland is simultaneously a heartbreaking account of the human cost of corporate greed.” ― Declan Burke, The Irish Times “[Glynn is] a writer with a distinct voice and an extraordinary ability to generate pace and tension… A gripping and cleverly constructed thriller. Suffice to say that, given the terrible and violent events in Boston some weeks ago, it is an eerily prescient read…. Graveland really could have been torn from today's headlines.” ― The Irish Independent “Utterly, convincingly unpredictable. This is dark territory, where titans of industry brandish soul-crushing power with