In September 2001, Mike, the 19-year-old hero of THE THIRD BROTHER (2005), returns to New York from a stint in Kong Kong and Bangkok. There he is confronted with not only his alcoholic parents` death in a horrendous fire at their Long Island beach house but, soon after, the smoking ruins of 9/11. Mike`s brother Lyle is seriously unstable, and may have caused the fire. Now he may be trapped inside the World Trade Center. This is the second novel by Nick McDonell, whose bestselling first book, TWELVE, was published to great acclaim in 2002, when he was 17. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.