Berlin Game

Contact Wounds

From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times Notable Book, The Dressing Station, comes an electrifying memoir of a doctor’s education in the classroom and on the battlefield….

Giantkillers

“Scammell’s book offers a compelling argument for the importance of tort claims in protecting consumers and the government.” –Robert Bryce, The Washington Post…

The Great Leader

A black-comic detective novel in the vein of No Country for Old Men, Jim Harrison’s The Great Leader follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister…

Had a Good Time

“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He favors strong plots and strong twists….

How It Is

“The absolute sureness of design. . . built phrase by phrase into a beautifully and tightly wrought structure–a few dozen expressions permuted with deliberate redundancy accumulate meaning even as they…

The Love Machine

“[Susann’s] pulp poetry resonates to this day. With her formula of sex, drugs, and show business, Susann didn’t so much capture the tenor of her times as she did predict…

Moscow Exile

From “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to a KGB prison near Moscow’s Kremlin…

Off to the Side

“A sprawling, impressionistic memoir as roundabout as one of the author’s famous road trips. . . . A celebration of the hearty, sensual life.” —Bruce Barcott, The New York Times…

The Ordinary Seaman

“A stunningly well-written second novel from a major talent of great style and soul.” —The Miami Herald…