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Jeffrey Archer, author of Mightier Than the Sword

When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called Uncle Joe, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published that he puts his own life in danger.

Week of August 17, 2015

Releases for the week of August 17th include John Grisham's latest bestseller, GRAY MOUNTAIN, in which Samantha Kofer’s new job at a legal aid clinic takes her into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, and within weeks she finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly; EISENHOWER, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct profile of Dwight D. Eisenhower's life and enduring legacy; and TIMELESS, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lucinda Franks' compelling memoir that tells the intimate story of her marriage to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.