Higher Authority » (Abridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs.)

Writers often use elements of their own personalities to craft their most-enduring characters, and Stephen White has certain done so in creating fellow-clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory. However, White s electrifying series of crime thrillers aren t likely to be mistaken for autobiographies anytime soon.

Dr. Alan Gregory's fiancée, attorney Lauren Crowder, is thrown into a maelstrom of violence when a sexual harassment case embroils the nation's most powerful leaders, a killer strikes-and a trail of deadly secrets shows no signs of ending.

Nelson DeMille

Stephen White writes thrillers of the first order.