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Contents by Chapter

1. THE FORTUNE by Michael Korda

_Summit_ _Books_

The world of the Bannerman Family was one of fabulous New York City apartments, sprawling country estates. The best tables in the finest restaurants, and privileged positions on the boards of banks, corporations, and innumerable private foundations. Then patriarch Arthur Bannerman died in the bed of Alexa Walden, an unknown young woman whom he had secretly married. Suddenly there was a chance that control of the Bannerman fortune might pass into the hands of an outsider. While the family plots against Alexa, she plays out her own hand, seeking help and finding it from the one person she feared the most.

1. A SEASON IN HELL by Jack Higins

_Simon and Schuster_

Sean Egan is a trained killer who worked for Britain’s antiterrorist forces. Sarah Talbot is an American investment broker seeking vengeance for the drug death of her late husband’s son. They team up and soon find themselves trapped in a hellish underworld where drugs finance terrorism and violent death disciplines those who step out of line

1. NOT THAT YOU ASKED by Andrew A. Rooney

_Random House_

In this latest down-to-earth collection of columns, the veteran 60 _Minutes_ commentator again lets us know what he thinks about us (and himself). For a quick chuckle, check his list of “a hundred opinions I’m stuck with.” Number 100: “After thinking something through as well as I am able, to be sure I’m right, it often turns out that I’m wrong!”

1. Garden of Lies by Eileen Goudge

_Viking_

With the upheaval of the Vietnam war in the background, two young women struggle unknowingly with the consequences of being deliberately switched as babies during a hospital fire. Rachel is raised in a wealthy family and becomes a doctor. Rose grows up in poverty and must work hard for every penny to pay her way through law school. Fate brings them together in a medical malpractice suit in which the larger verdict rests not with the jury, but, in what the two women will do to each other and their loved ones when they find out the truth about their real identities

Hardcover with jacket 480 pages ISSN 1044 212X