Lemur, The
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ISBN: 0330461257 / Publisher: Picador, January 2008
William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When he gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the line.
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John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. He works in a big office in Mulholland Tower, rent-free, and goes home (most nights) to his wealthy and well-preserved wife, Big Bill's daughter. He misses his old life sometimes, but all in all things have turned out well.But when his shifty young researcher - a man he calls the "Lemur" - turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened. Then the young man is murdered, and it's up to Glass to find out what the Lemur knew, and who killed him, before any secrets come out - and before any other bodies appear.Shifting from 1950s Dublin to contemporary New York, crime writer Benjamin Black returns in this standalone thriller - a story of family secrets so deep, and so dangerous, that anyone might kill to keep them hidden.
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