The Blackbird Papers: A Novel

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When a Nobel prize-winning professor is found murdered with a racist epithet on his body, the man's younger brother, FBI agent Sterling Bledsoe, is accused of the crime when he investigates a suspicion that the killing is related to his brother's research on the mysterious deaths of hundreds of local blackbirds. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first

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Ian Smiths debut novel, The Blackbird Papers, is exceptional on all levels: the characters and setting are fresh, the plot is riveting, and you feel like you are in totally new territory. Take note of a career about to soar.Harlan Coben, author of No Second Chance

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Ian Smith, M.D., has been an award-winning medical correspondent for NBC News and a contributor to the Today show. He is a medical columnist for Men's Health magazine and a commentator for NPR's Tavis Smiley show and for the nationally syndicated TV talk show The View. He lives in New York City.