Thriller. While attending to his usual challenges as the head of security for an upscale Peruvian hotel, Irish mercenary Michael Forsythe receives an impassioned summons from ex-girlfriend Bridget, who wants Michael to find her missing daughter. The summons, delivered at gunpoint, propels Michael to Dublin; he arrives on June 16th, the day the city is full of James Joyce fans celebrating Bloomsday. He then travels to Belfast, where he faces off against IRA kidnappers, the Irish mob, and, of course, Bridget, for whom he still carries a torch--and who has been trying to kill him for ten years. Although this is the finale of a trilogy, you don't have to have read the first two books to get caught up in Michael's story.

Psychological Thriller. After a Venice tutoring job falls through, aspiring writer Adam Woods lands a job as personal assistant to Gordon Crace, a famous but extremely reclusive novelist. One of Gordon's strict rules is never to mention his fame, but as Adam, who is more or less restricted from leaving the house, pokes around in Gordon's past, he begins to uncover dark secrets. Soon, Adam is secretly writing Gordon's unauthorized biography; when the manipulative writer discovers what Adam is doing, he launches a psychological contest to determine how the biography will end... Publishers Weekly recommends this "standout debut" for fans of Patricia Highsmith (of whom Wilson wrote a biography) and Alfred Hitchcock.