A Benjamin Radcliffe Novel · Out Now
Second for the Dead
The first move is for the living. The second is for the dead.
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Sixty feet under the Nevada desert, billionaires bid on each other's secrets. Benjamin Radcliffe decides who wins. Then his old mentor turns up dead in an Indiana vineyard — tuxedo, throat cut, no footprints in or out — and a postcard in his pocket ends with a chess move that doesn't exist.
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Off the board for a decade. Someone just played him.
Benjamin Radcliffe reads people for a living. He turns human weakness into leverage for clients wealthy enough to weaponize it. Ten years ago, that work cost him everything — his name, his face, his family.
Now his former mentor, Professor “Red” Weinstein, is dead before he could finish the game. The clue points to Limestone, Indiana — and to 1986, when a disappearance broke two families and buried a secret someone is still killing to protect.
Red's murder isn't the mystery. It's the opening move. And Radcliffe never played a game he didn't mean to win.
For fans of Joseph Finder, David Baldacci, and Steve Berry.
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He reads people for a living.
Jim Keplinger has been a working mentalist for forty years — watching how people lie to themselves, to each other, and to the room. Before fiction he was an Air Force weather forecaster, a television meteorologist, a comic book writer, and a serial entrepreneur. He's lived in thirty states and five countries across forty-nine moves.
That training shows up on every page of the Benjamin Radcliffe series.
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