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1) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
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In Zurich, Switzerland, American investment banker Ben Hartman has arrived on holiday when he chances upon old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh-- a madman who's armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders-- and Cavanaugh-- are dead. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman's luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare, and suddenly finds himself on the run. Meanwhile in...
3) The set-up
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A financial mystery in which a former head of the American Federal Reserve Board is arrested in Switzerland for illegally using his position to amass a fortune. He is Charles Black, the victim of a frame-up engineered by his political enemies. A study in the manipulation of money by the author of Zero Coupon.