Stephen L. Carter's brilliant debut thriller, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was followed by two nationwide best sellers, New England White and Palace Council. Now, in Jericho's Fall, Carter returns us to the high-stakes world of power, privilege, and conspiracy.

In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and longtime Wall Street titan, lies dying. Jericho summons to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw his career away twenty years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is there to say good-bye, but she is quickly and unwittingly drawn into a battle of wits being fought over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.

An intricate, fast-moving thriller that plumbs the emotional depths of a failed love affair and a family torn apart by mistrust, Jericho's Fall embraces a wide range of issues, from the morality of intelligence operations to the meltdown of the world financial system. And it creates, in Beck DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our turbulent modern age.