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John Messer

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  • Grisly tale is more than skin deep

    Australian writer Michel Faber, now well ensconced in Scotland, has written a wildly imaginative, scorching, bizarre, and insidious first novel that is generating critical praise and word-of-mouth Read more »
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    In his latest international thriller, The Marching Season, Daniel Silva continues the unique blend of fact and fiction that gives his stories the immediacy and urgency of the evening news. Read more »
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    Issue: May, 1999
    In Quicksilver, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens combine intrigue with an impressive extrapolation of the state of the art in orbital weapons. Read more »
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    In his 21st and latest book, A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Garry Wills offers a thought-provoking framework for understanding Americans' pervasive distrust of their government. Read more »
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    Soldiers' stories In the years since the Second World War, historians have described and analyzed many of its battles, campaigns, and theaters. Read more »
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    Best-selling author Charles Wilson has taken the axiom that knowledge is power to its ultimate limit in his tenth thriller and hardcover debut, Game Plan, in which he builds on research exploring t Read more »
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    In Victory 1918, Alan Palmer, the noted historian and author of definitive biographies of Bismarck and the Habsburgs, looks beyond individual battles and campaigns and offers a new and broader view Read more »
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    Issue: July, 2000
    One hallmark of a good writer is the ability to follow a very successful first work with one that surpasses it. April Smith has done just that with her latest suspense thriller, Be The One. Read more »
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    A single mother trying to raise a teenage son; a past affair she cannot forget; a resolute belief in justice despite the death of her husband and the threats issued by his killer. Read more »
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    n his latest thriller, Deep Sleep, Charles Wilson returns to one of his favorite themes: murder and mayhem triggered by a foreign invasion of the mind. Read more »
  • Solving a backwoods murder

    "Mr. Charles LeBlanc, and his companion, Ms. Mildred Spurlock, will be visiting friends and relatives in Cliffside during the coming weeks. Read more »