FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"With dialogue that can go off like gunfire and a streak of nostalgia that feels timeless, this book takes its place among espionage novels as an instant classic."
In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"At the start of the novel's coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students "books that to me seem secretly about my young life," he begins the list with The Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby. Such comparisons seem well-earned."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A sardonically appealing debut for a detective who assures his long-suffering grandson, "I care about people. I just don't like them.""
A geezer cowboy who's been retired from Memphis Homicide longer than he served there is thrust into the middle of a murderous hunt for Nazi plunder.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A literary page-turner."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A slim novel with a taut narrative line and a sense of impending disaster. "
A tale of identity and tense personal relationships, one that as a film property would have appealed to Hitchcock or de Palma.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Theroux has recaptured the sweep and density of his 1981 masterpiece The Mosquito Coast. That's some achievement. "
A joyful return to Africa turns into a nightmare for the elderly American protagonist of Theroux's extraordinary novel.
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