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Library Journal: Since winning the Pulitzer Prize for his 1995 novel, Independence Day, Ford has cultivated a reputation for writing lucid and compelling prose. Here, he lives up to that reputation. The story unfolds around 15-year-old Dell Parsons, whose world collapses when his parents are jailed for a bank robbery, his twin sister flees, and […]
The Blind Spy
Library Journal When Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin said, "Ukraine is not even a state," he expressed a view commonly held in his country. In Dryden's third espionage thriller (after Red to Black and Moscow Sting), an election is impending in the embattled country. With Putin's blessing, the patriotiy—a cadre of unreconciled Cold Warriors—sets out […]
Lost Memory of Skin
“Russell Banks really does know how to pull his readers into a dark, dark world only to deliver us into the light.†(Boston Globe )