A dialogue between a middle-aged man and the child within him. In the course of a hand-gliding session the narrator, 50, remembers that as a nine-year-old boy he pledged that when he became an adult he would write a book on everything he learned and give it to himself. Just to keep things impartial, he hires his wife as editor. By the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

A cat-and-mouse game between New York police and a killer, hired to eliminate a trio of witnesses in a trial. He has already killed one and detectives Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic, and Amelia Sachs have to catch him before he kills the other two. By the author of The Bone Collector.

This is a story of a woman whose apparently secure life is disrupted by a new passion.