Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter, whose brilliant debut novel The Emperor of Ocean Park was a New York Times bestselling novel, returns with something different: a new book, Jericho's Fall, centered on the shadowy world of spies, government secrecy and financial fraud. It's a riveting thriller for Carter, professor ... (more)of Law at Yale University since 1982. His other books, all featured on many bestseller lists, include Palace Council and New England White. Friday, July 31, 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library Auditorium.

Stephen L. Carter will read from and sign copies of his new novel, Jericho's Fall. In a departure from his previous novels, Carter has written a page-turning spy thriller. "The plot builds layer upon layer, with the precision of a craftsman who knows what he's doing. The voice is strong and pure, the ... (more)narrative tight and immediate, the story intriguing and welcome. Masterful," writes Steve Berry. Carter—the author of the bestselling The Emperor of Ocean Park and other acclaimed fiction and nonfiction titles—is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University.

Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter will read from and sign copies of his latest novel, Palace Council. Set in the time of Watergate and the Vietnam War, this complex and suspenseful political thriller showcases an electrifying portrait of Richard Nixon. Carter also wrote The Emperor of Ocean ... (more)Park and New England White.

Carter (The Emperor of Ocean Park), returns with another tale of intrigue and murder. In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha's Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie ... (more)Wesley, Harlem's rising literary star. When Eddie's younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie is pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth.