The Beach House Author:James Patterson&Peter De Jonge Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the news comes that his brother, Peter, has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother practically grew up in the water, and this couldn't be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. But the police say otherswise. As Jack tries to uncover details of hs brother's... more » last night, he confronts a maddening barricade of layers, police, and paid protectors who separate the wealthy summer residents from local workers like Peter. Motivated by a hundred forms of grief, Jack rallies his hometown friends o help him find the truth or Peter's death no matter how rich or corupt the piople who stand in their way. Jack's relentless crusade puts him into a hasd on collision with one of the most powerful and ruthless men in New York. A man who wipes out resisance with a snap of his finger. As it unfolds that his brother was involved with some of the richest women and men in America in ways Jack never imagined his gream of justice fades. Only if he can somehow beat the rich at their own game will he be able to avege his brother.« less