by Ed McBain

The first of two novellas from the collection of previously unpublished works includes pieces by two of today's top writers and features Lawrence Block's Keller's Adjustment, in which the popular assassin sets out to reexamine his life in the wake of September 11, and Forever, by Jeffery Deaver, in which police statistician Talbot Simms begins to smell a rat when wealthy county residents begin killing themselves. Reprint.