DAVID BALDACCI - Deliver Us From Evil , in Hardback , First Edition / Impression published by Macmillan in 2010 .

This book is signed by the author - I met David at the Harrogate Crime Festival .

By the author of Split Second and The Escape - this is the second book in the Shaw and Katie James series .

" In South America a wealthy ninety-six year old man reads a book late into the night . Within an hour , he is dead , the secrets of his past starkly revealed . Six months later , in Provence , Shaw - the shadowy operative from The Whole Truth - witnesses the murder of a mysterious man , his body left lifeless at the bottom of a pool . Shaw barely escapes the incident himself ; and with a new partner in tow , begins to realise that there has to be another organization at work that rivals his own in secrecy ... Meanwhile , half a world away , journalist Katie James is working on a story of international importance . But shortly after meeting with a potential inside source she is smuggled unconscious onto an aeroplane , headed to an undisclosed destination . In the days to come , Katie and Shaw will be reunited in a deadly dual of nerve and wits against a surprising , secretive enemy and lead around the world at a breakneck pace . "

About David Baldacci

David Baldacci attended law school at the University of Virginia , and went on to work as a trial lawyer , and later as a corporate lawyer , in Washington , D.C. He is now a full-time writer whose bestselling novels include Absolute Power , Total Control , The Winner , The Simple Truth and Saving Faith . He lives in Virginia with his wife and two children .