"This second novel makes it clear that the debut effort was no fluke. "Tremendous suspense. Passman is clearly a thriller writer to watch."
- Booklist

Don Passman is one of America's top entertainment attorneys and the author of the nonfiction bestseller All You Need to Know About the Music Business. When he decided to turn his hand to fiction, the result was his first gripping suspense thriller, The Visionary, published by Warner Books in hardcover last year and as a mass market paperback this June. Sidney Sheldon hailed it as "a runaway, pulse-pounding adventure." Booklist called it "an edge of your seat thriller." Publishers Weekly said, "Passman's characters are vividly detailed." And Romantic Times said "the suspense crackles like a high voltage wire and the tension is palpable."

Now, Passman returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense, MIRAGE, about a terrorist plot that threatens the lives of millions (Warner Books/October 26, 2000/ $25.95).

The novel opens as a super-secret government project code-named Mirage is suddenly closed down. Three years later, John Berger, a computer cryptographer in Los Angeles arrives at work one Monday to discover his building bombed. The bomb is traced to his desk, making him the likely suspect. But Berger has an alibi—he spent the weekend playing in a chess tournament. There's only one problem—the police tell him the tournament did not exist.

Jill Landis, the FBI agent assigned to the case, is puzzled by Berger. Why would he insist he attended a non-existent tournament? Why do his mental symptoms seem familiar? Jill traces the few leads to Mirage, but somehow all the officers assigned to the project have vanished. With Berger's mind quickly deteriorating and time running out before the attack, Jill and Berger must solve the puzzle of Mirage before it is too late.

A fast-paced novel that explores the hidden powers and terrors of the mind, MIRAGE, maintains the tension until the very last page.