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Reader's Digest Condensed Books 2004 (UK)

#1: The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer

#2: The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly

#3: The Promise of a Lie by Howard Roughan

#4: The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood

539 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

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Ben Sherwood

11 books213 followers
Ben Sherwood is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist and founder of TheSurvivorsClub.org. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as executive producer of ABC’s Good Morning America during the two most successful seasons in the program’s history. Sherwood guided prize-winning coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastation of hurricane Katrina, and the presidential election of 2004

From 1997 to 2001, Sherwood served as senior broadcast producer and senior producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.

From 1989 to 1993, he worked as a producer and associate producer at ABC News PrimeTime Live with Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson.

Sherwood is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling novels: The Man Who Ate the 747 and The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. Sherwood’s books have been published around the world in 15 languages.

Charlie St. Cloud has been adapted as a feature film starring Zac Efron and was released by Universal Pictures in July 2010. The Man Who Ate the 747 is also being developed as a major motion picture and Broadway musical.

Sherwood’s latest book, The Survivors Club, is a non-fiction exploration of the science and secrets of who bounces back from everyday adversity and who doesn’t; who beats life-threatening disease and who succumbs; and who triumphs after economic hardship and who surrenders.

In January 2009, Sherwood founded TheSurvivorsClub.org, an online resource center and support network for people surviving and thriving in the face of all kinds of adversity.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a Rhodes Scholar, Sherwood earned masters degrees in history and development economics at Oxford University.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Karen Kehela Sherwood and their sons Will and Charlie.

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The Zero Game by Brad Meltzer (3 Stars)

The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly (3 Stars)

The Promise of a Lie by Howard Roughan (4 Stars)

The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood (4 Stars)
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"Legislative aides and lobbyists get trapped in an elaborate plot over an empty goldmine in S. Dakota. Very entertaining."
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