Completely revised and updated throughout, the new edition of this successful guide is for everyone who ventures into the wilderness.

"It's Just Business" is a work of fiction depicting a Mafia family which runs a modern operation with college graduates and carefully selected recruits. All monies are accounted for or squirreled away in foreign banks. Each operative has a legitimate cover job and faithfully pays taxes. No show of opulence is allowed, no freelancing, members are closely monitored, and deviation is quickly corrected. A low profile is maintained, average citizens have nothing to fear, surveillance by authorities is stifled, and legitimacy is a cover and part of the operation. Business transactions are conducted with the confidence that both parties will be satisfied.

About these Mysts: They emerged as silent invisible vapors from the gentle currents of our neighborly river. We hardly knew they were there until cool weathers would demand appearance from them. As mists, they would rise, roll, or disappear on their own terms, but we would still barely notice them. Native Miltonians paid attention to our river only when she acted up with accidents, floodings or ice floes. At such times our mists would become our Mysts. We were a small town. Our dramas were meager or kept hidden from view until new Mysts would become our legends. Such Mysts would encase the Great Depression, the Fears we were not to fear, Days of Infamy, and the Second World War. Not only we children of the 1930s, but all good citizens along the Stillwater River were bathed by her mists, swept by her currents, and etched by the legendary Mysts formed as we concluded the first half of the twentieth century. As the fifty two members of the graduating class of 1949 were sweeping into the second half of our century, we had created some Mysts of our own. As a member of that class, with help from others, I have recorded my views of our passage into adulthood and the rest of our lifetimes.

A fascinating and insightful look at the legends, facts, and fiction behind your favorite sports teams' names.

A community harbouring dark secrets...a murdering ghost from the past..and a love that simply refuses to die. On sick leave since the suspicious death of his wife Jenny, Bone Mountain Inspector Steve Christ is haunted by her ghost, and hitting the bottle hard. When a series of murders unfolds Christ seeks his dead wife's help in a mystery that will tear at the very fabric of the town and reveal its disturbing history.

“Another winner . . . Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot.”—Atlanta Journal and Constitution Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters’ motel—and back in time to a U.S. Open twenty-three years ago, when Jack Coldren should have won, but didn't. Suddenly Myron finds him self surrounded by blue bloods, criminals, and liars. And as one family's darkest secrets explode into murder, Myron finds out just how rough this game can get. In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction—Myron Bolitar—a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance. “Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks.”—Publishers Weekly