Tag Archives: Historical
The Great State of West Florida
by Kent WascomFrom the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring…
Winter
by Len Deighton“What raises Deighton’s genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail . ….
The IPCRESS File
by Len DeightonWith its sardonic, cool, working-class hero, Len Deighton’s sensational debut and first bestseller The IPCRESS File broke the mold of thriller writing and became the…
SS-GB
by Len Deighton“Deighton’s best book . . . an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation.”—The New York Times Book…
Funeral in Berlin
by Len Deighton“Deighton, Greene and John le Carré comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale.”—Seattle Times
Bomber
by Len DeightonLen Deighton — one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction — combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World…
Black Cloud Rising
by David Wright FaladéAlready excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment…