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"A terrific holiday gift from David Morrell--the father of the modern action novel delivers a unique, edge-of-your seat thriller with amazing twists and riveting characters."

- Vince Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Protect and Defend

"Exciting, moving, and terrifically clever--once again, David Morrell proves that he is a titan among thriller writers."

- Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play

THE SPY WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS
by David Morrell

The Spy Who Came for Christmas is a genre-breaking holiday story unlike any other - a thriller with intense, edge-of-your seat action, set against a spy's perspective on the traditional Nativity story. As bestselling author Joseph Finder has said about the novel: " - once again, David Morrell proves that he is a titan among thriller writers."

It's Christmas Eve in Santa Fe. But among the revelers on snow-blanketed Canyon Road, a decidedly unholy scene is taking place. A desperate undercover agent, Paul Kagan, feverishly seeks refuge for himself and the squirming bundle he holds tightly against his chest, a baby who has the power to change the course of global events.

His pursuers are his former colleagues-members of the Russian mafia who will stop at nothing to reclaim the child that Kagan has risked his life and blown his cover to steal from them. Now he is a spy on the run who must ensure the baby's survival, even if it costs him his own life.

Just a short distance away, Kagan will find an unexpected pair of allies-a mother and her young son who huddle together after an incident of domestic violence leaves them alone, their phone lines cut, and with no means of transportation.

Kagan quickly realizes that he must enlist their help to survive. With the exquisitely honed skills of his profession and the good faith of a weary woman and a disillusioned boy, he takes on forces that will stop at nothing to get to them. In the course of a wild and violent night, the unlikely trio learns lessons of generosity, courage, and selflessness, discovering within themselves the luminous strength of the Christmas spirit.

Few thriller writers are as praised as David Morrell, who has been called "the father of the modern action novel." Now this New York Times bestselling author delivers a masterwork of suspense that is sure to become a holiday classic, one of his most emotional and gripping stories to date.

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DAVID MORRELL is the award-winning author of thirty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Creepers and Scavenger. He holds a Ph. D. in American literature from Pennsylvania State University and was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa until he gave up his tenure to devote himself to a full-time writing career. Co-founder of the International Thriller Writers Organization and creator of Rambo as well as the classic Brotherhood of the Rose spy trilogy, he is considered by many to be the father of the modern action novel. His The Successful Novelist: A Lifetime of Lessons about Writing and Publishing discusses what he has learned in his three-and-a-half decades as an author. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages.

*Author David Morrell will be touring nationally for The Spy Who Came for Christmas beginning November 2008.

"Writing The Spy Who Came for Christmas, I felt good revisiting my former espionage territory but with a decade's perspective that allowed me to approach it in a new way."

- David Morrell

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