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'Meltzer's third high-octane thriller . . .Nothing gets in the way of the adrenaline jolt Meltzer delivers like a master' Kirkus Reviews

Breakneck . . . an action-packed read (Mail on Sunday on Dead Even)

'This continued certainty provides much of the tension binding Meltzer's story together and is sustained right to the dramatic - and surprising - end.' Yorkshire Evening Post

Gets the blood pumping (New York Times on Dead Even)

'Meltzer's dark political thriller pulses with adrenaline in a mean and dangerous race to the final revelation' The Oxford Times

Grisham had better beware, for there's a new kid on the block. In The Tenth Justice young Brad Meltzer - all of 26 - has formulated a thriller that fairly crackles, having pace, confidence and velocity-charged story-telling (The Irish Times on The Tenth Justice)

Legal mega-thriller which plumbs the dark depths of deceit, greed and treachery (The Northern Echo)

A thriller to rival Grisham (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)

Meltzer's dark political thriller pulses with adrenaline in a mean and dangerous race to the final revelation. (Oxford Times)

Terrific (Bookseller)

Brad Meltzer paces his thrid novel so well that pages literally fly past my eyes... as pure entertainment, THE FIRST COUNCIL works very well indeed (Deadly Pleasures)

Brad Meltzer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Book of Fate, and five other bestselling thrillers: The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel, The Millionaires and The Zero Game. He is also one of the co-creators of the American TV show, Jack & Bobby, and is the writer of the #1 selling graphic novels, Identity Crisis and Justice League of America. He is also the host of Brad Meltzer's Decoded for the History Channel, the second season of which airs in October 2011. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School, he currently lives in Florida. Visit Brad's website, www.bradmeltzer.com; find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BradMeltzer; or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/bradmeltzer.