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MORTAL BONDS
SEARS, MICHAEL
William von Becker ran one of the largest privately held investment banks in North America, until the
bottom fell out, and the whole edifice was demonstrated to be a fraud. After von Becker dies in prison,
financial investigator Jason Stafford is hired by his family. There is still a lot of missing money out there,
he’s told, and they want Stafford to find it before the Feds do—and certain other parties, some of whom
are nowhere near as scrupulous in their methods. Bad things start happening to the people Stafford talks
to. Soon bad things are happening to him as well. Making it worse, his treacherous ex-wife has come to
town, ostensibly to visit their young son. Stafford suspects there’s more to it than that, but even he has no
idea how much that visit is about to change all their lives—and send him off to the next chapter of his life.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 50,000
PUTNAM
352 PAGES
9780399158674 SERIES: JASON STAFFORD
$28.50 HC
OCTOBER 2013
THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
SUNDARESAN, INDU
By the time Queen Victoria slipped the Mountain of Light diamond on her wrist, claiming it for England,
the gem had traveled around the world, changing hands over the centuries from one ruler to another in
Persia, Afghanistan, and India. The fascinating story of this 105-carat diamond opens in 1830, when the
Indian Maharaja and founder of the Sikh empire Ranjit Singh takes possession of the massive jewel that
has been passed from man to man, king to king, and emperor to emperor, through bloodshed and
destruction, since the 1200s. But India in the nineteenth century is a very different place. Now the British
Empire has claimed territories all across the country and the colonization of India takes root. When Ranjit
Singh dies, four of his sons are slaughtered in wars with the British, and the diamond is left to Prince
Dalip Singh, a six-year-old child. The British governor-general orders that the Mountain of Light be
secreted out of India in 1850, and the teenage-king Dalip Singh follows the diamond to London to officially
present it to the queen as a spoil of the Sikh War. He is feted and petted by the British monarchy for a
long while—until he realizes that all that Britain gives him cannot make up for the loss of his country and
its celebrated diamond.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 60,000
WASHINGTON SQUARE
352 PAGES
9781451643510
$18.99 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2013
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