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010 _a 2011655055
020 _a0345311396 (pbk.)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm14106057
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100 1 _aPatterson, Richard North.
245 1 0 _aPrivate screening /
_cRichard North Patterson.
250 _a1st Ballantine Books ed.
264 1 _a New York :
_bBallantine Books
_cc1985
300 _a441 p. ;
_c18 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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520 _aThe nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead, point-blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock-star girlfriend, Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts into the media event of the decade. But the most shocking gambit ever witnessed in the history of television has yet to unfold.
520 8 _aAs America watches, a mysterious and ruthless figure known only as Phoenix takes to the airwaves in the ultimate act of high-tech terror. Holding the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul and Stacy's manager hostage, Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his own, in which Stacy Tarrant and Tony Lord are helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors, and -- unless his chilling demands are met -- Phoenix is the unstoppable executioner....
650 0 _aPresidential candidates
_vFiction.
650 0 _aAssassins
_vFiction.
655 7 _aLegal stories.
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