Lots of good books coming..including Pelosi's...

From Publishers Lunch Weekly:

FICTION/DEBUT:

Justin Peacock's A CURE FOR NIGHT, in which a fallen lawyer from a white shoe firm lands at the Brooklyn Defenders Office and, when assigned to a drug-related murder case, his past catches up with him with terrifying consequences, to Gerry Howard at Doubleday, by Betsy Lerner at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (World).

TitanTV SVP of news and programming, and former MSNBC and Washington Post Newsweek VP of News Mark Effron's FOLLOWING THE NEWS: Death at 11, a tale that starts in the newsroom and spills over into many lives as a man uses his "nose for news" to get to the heart of the crime, the first in a series, to Rachel Palmer at Journey Publications, in a very nice deal, by Mark Miller at Mark B Miller Management (NA).
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Antony Moore's THE SWAP, centering on an out-of-shape comic book dealer who, haunted by the loss of a priceless comic book, tries to reverse his fortunes at his high school reunion, to Kerri Buckley at Bantam Dell, by Sophie Hicks at Ed Victor Ltd. (NA).

UK rights to Harvill Secker, for publication in July 2007. Foreign rights to Liana Levi in France and to Kowalski at Italy.

Film rights optioned to Columbia Pictures for John Calley to produce, along with Lisa Medwid and Diana Napper.

THRILLER:

Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry's PATIENT ZERO, in which a Baltimore police detective is recruited by a secret government organization to help stop a group of terrorists from launching a weaponized plague against America that turns its citizens into zombies, to Jason Pinter at St. Martin's, in a three-book deal, by Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger (world).
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Lisa Black's TAKEOVER, about an attractive female forensic scientist, a major bank robbery gone wrong, a cop held hostage, and an unexpected twist, pitched as reminiscent of Kathy Reichs Jeffrey Deaver, to Carolyn Marino at William Morrow, at auction, in a two-book deal, by Elaine Koster at Elaine Koster Agency (NA).
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GENERAL/OTHER:

Author of John Crow's Devil Marlon James's THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN, set in Jamaica at the turn of the 19th century about a spirited young slave woman named Lilith, as she becomes embroiled in a long-plotted revolt organized by a group of female slaves, and attempts to find her way through the complicated personal relationships among masters, overseers, and slaves, to Sean McDonald at Riverhead, by Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group (NA).

NON-FICTION:
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:

Former Los Angeles Times coloumnist and founding editor of Truthdig.com's Robert Scheer's THE PORNOGRAPHY OF POWER: How the Military-Industrial Complex Ruins America and Endangers the World, to Jonathan Karp at Twelve, by Steve Wasserman of Kneerim & Williams (world).

Michael Farquhar's untitled book chronicling the history of the British Monarchy, featuring stories about each ruler and highlighting the tragedy, romance, heroism, incompetence, madness, and adventure that have made the British throne the world's most famous, plus a second untitled book, to Jill Schwartzman for Random House Trade Paperbacks, by Jenny Bent at Trident Media Group (world).

Former Los Angeles Times coloumnist and founding editor of Truthdig.com's Robert Scheer's THE PORNOGRAPHY OF POWER: How the Military-Industrial Complex Ruins America and Endangers the World, to Jonathan Karp at Twelve, by Steve Wasserman of Kneerim & Williams (world).

MEMOIR:

Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's memoir, covering both her personal and professional life, "telling my story for my grandchildren and in recognition of the contributions of all women across America," to Stephen Rubin at Doubleday, to be edited by Phyllis Grann, by Norman Brokaw, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, and Mel Berger at William Morris Agency (NA).

NARRATIVE:

ABSOLUTELY AMERICAN author David Lipsky's behind-the-scenes hour-by-hour journey into the heart and soul of what makes a great city run throughout the course of a single day -- its water supply, traffic, electricity, food distribution, transportation, crime control, communications -- drawing chiefly on NY and LA, to Tim Bartlett at Random House, in a two-book deal, by Lisa Bankoff at ICM (World).

POP CULTURE:
Film historian David Thomson's THE MOMENT OF PSYCHO, a look at how Alfred Hitchcock's genre-busting 1960 movie changed popular culture, to Lara Heimert at Basic, by Steve Wasserman of Kneerim & Williams (world).

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