Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War

Deaver, Jeffery; Benson, Raymond

ISBN 10: 1482971437 ISBN 13: 9781482971439

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2014

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Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is acollection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship,psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops...The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between theworld's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibilitythat could be set off at the touch of a button—provides a chilling backdrop tothis collection of all-new short stories from today's most celebrated mysterywriters.Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson—theonly American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels—havejoined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, andpsychological drama. In Joseph Finder's Police Report, the seeminglycut-and-dried case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots inSoviet-controlled Armenia. In Miss Bianca by Sara Paretsky, a young girlbefriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herselfunwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver's own Comrade 35 offersa unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy—with a signature twist.

Biografía del autor:

Jeffery Deaver is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of mystery and crime novels. His novels have won the Nero Wolfe Award, three Ellery Queen Readers' Awards, a British Thumping Good Read Award, and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger awards from the British Crime Writers' Association. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association. The Cold Moon was named the Book of the Year by the Mystery Writers Association of Japan, as well as by Kono Mystery Wa Sugoi magazine. The Japanese Adventure Fiction Association awarded The Cold Moon and Carte Blanche their annual Grand Prix award. His novels have hit bestsellers lists around the world, including the New York Times, London Times, Los Angeles Times, the Milan Corriere della Sera, and Sydney Morning Herald. He received his BA in journalism from the University of Missouri and has a law degree from Fordham University. Since becoming a full-time writer in 1990, he has written over thirty-five books. Some of his novels have been made into films, including The Bone Collector starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1482971437
• ISBN 13: 9781482971439
• Einband: CD MP3