<DIV><DIV><P>A Picador Paperback Original<BR><BR>A helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland sends unexpected ripples through the international community in this intricate new thriller from the author of <I>Winterland</I> and <I>Limitless </I>(now a major motion picture).<BR><BR>Susie Monaghan was on the cusp of stardom when her life was cut short by a tragic helicopter crash. After a full investigation, her death was ruled an accident: case closed. But a hungry young journalist named Jimmy Gilroy isn't buying the official story. Before dying, Susie's path had crossed with an unlikely gallery of powerful men: an ex-Prime minister with a carefully guarded secret; the businessman brother of a U.S. Senator angling for the Oval Office; and a billionaire investor with his eye on an extremely rare commodity. Might there also be a link between Susie's death and a deranged security contractor operating in Congo? Piece by piece, Jimmy uncovers a bizarre nexus of coincidence among these disparate people and events, revealing a conspiracy of frightening reach and consequence--one that could cost him his life.<BR><BR>Set against a vividly drawn world of corporate and political intrigue, Alan Glynn's <I>Bloodland</I> is a riveting paranoid thriller of uncommon depth and page-turning suspense.</P></DIV></DIV>