Brendan Dubios, Author, Brendan DuBois, Author Otto Penzler Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-1-883402-58-7
Sitting on the deck of his New Hampshire beach house with a couple of Molsons, retired agency man and occasional journalist Lewis Cole is bemoaning the recently oil-soaked coastline when he sees a corpse drift in. Lewis, who is recovering from an...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-31018-9
DuBois, whose Resurrection Day
(1999) had JFK's Bay of Pigs debacle actually starting WWIII, sets up another frighteningly plausible scenario in his latest smart and heartbreaking thriller. Suppose a group of Vietnam MIAs had been secretly...
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Brendan DuBois. Baen, $16 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4814-8343-8
DuBois underwhelms with a predictable conclusion to his alien invasion trilogy (following 2017’s Red Vengeance) that fails to mitigate its pat story line with any emotional depth or evocative imagery. For a decade, Earth has been devastated by the...
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Brendan DuBois. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5401-7
The eponymous Negotiator, the narrator of this smooth standalone from DuBois (Hard Aground and 10 other Lewis Cole mysteries), has found a lucrative if dangerous living as a middleman in potentially violent negotiations. A lone operator, he...
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Brendan DuBois. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-68177-652-1
Unpretentious but thoroughly satisfying, DuBois’s 11th Lewis Cole mystery (after 2016’s Storm Cell) does a lot within its limited scope. Despite being basically confined to his Tyler Beach, N.H., house after surgery, Cole can’t escape disturbing...
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Brendan DuBois. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-68177-233-2
A jumbled plot mars DuBois’s 10th mystery featuring retired Department of Defense intelligence analyst Lewis Cole (after 2015’s Blood Foam). Tough guy Felix Tinios, who claims his official occupation is as a security consultant, is taking a puzzling
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Brendan DuBois. Baen, $15 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8092-4
DuBois (Amerikan Eagle) fills this ambitious but sometimes cheesy SF novel with nail-biting suspense and satisfyingly complex characterization. After a decade of devastating war, humanity has finally won the fight against the alien Creepers—or at...
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Brendan DuBois. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-60598-790-3
Shamus Award–winner DuBois’s serviceable ninth Lewis Cole mystery finds the retired Department of Defense research analyst back in Tyler Beach, N.H., living in the back of his Honda Pilot while awaiting the repair of his “half-burnt home,” which was
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Brendan DuBois. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-60598-562-6
DuBois’s absorbing eighth Lewis Cole mystery picks up where 2011’s Deadly Cove left off. In the previous book, Cole’s friend and police contact, Diana Woods, was beaten into a life-threatening coma when a protest against a nuclear power plant in...
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Brendan DuBois. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-56634-0
Protests at the Falconer nuclear power station on New Hampshire's coast form the backdrop for DuBois's suspenseful, satisfying seventh mystery featuring magazine reporter Lewis Cole, who once "worked as a research analyst for an obscure section of...
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Brendan DuBois, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-14498-1
In his first novel outside of his acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series (Shattered Sand, Forecasts, Feb. 15, etc.), DuBois delivers an alternate-history thriller that deserves to be as popular as Robert Harris's Fatherland. DuBois postulates an...
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Brendan DuBois, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $32 (208p) ISBN 978-1-885941-82-4
Shamus winner Brendan DuBois, the author of Killer Waves (Forecasts, May 20) and other novels in his Lewis Cole series, collects the Edgar-nominated title story and 10 other top-notch crime tales in The Dark Snow and Other Mysteries. An author ...
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Brendan DuBois, Author Otto Penzler Books $21 (290p) ISBN 978-1-883402-45-7
Diane Woods, sole detective in the police department of Tyler, N.H., privately welcomes the unofficial assistance of magazine writer Lewis Cole during what amounts to a crime wave in the coastal town. Soon after an unidentified corpse, buried...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . Five Star $25.95 (521p) ISBN 978-1-59414-616-9
DuBois, known primarily for his Lewis Cole detective series, offers up a stand-alone thriller built around the threat of a massive anthrax terrorist attack. While the Twin Towers are still smoking, three intelligence officers meet to discuss...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-36137-2
With exceptional restraint and the accretion of small but telling details, DuBois, already acclaimed for his 2003 thriller Betrayed
, leaps to the forefront of speculations on the future of the war on terror with this quietly devastating cautionary...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-312-32733-0
In DuBois's stirring sixth Lewis Cole mystery (after 2004's Buried Dreams
), the former Department of Defense employee, now a magazine writer in the small resort town of Tyler Beach, N.H., is preparing to quietly ride out the madness of a...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-312-32731-6
DuBois's suspenseful fifth Lewis Cole mystery, a low-key blend of social issues and history that exposes northern New England's seedy underside, marks a return to form after 2002's disappointing Killer Waves
. The magazine columnist and...
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Brendan DuBois, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-28487-9
Fourth time out is definitely not the charm for DuBois, as his series about Lewis Cole, a New Hampshire magazine writer with a mysterious past, splutters and creaks ominously. Previous entries, like Shattered Shell
(1999), have explored the...
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Brendan DuBois, Author, DuBois, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-19332-4
It's been five years since Dead Sand, the last mystery to feature defense department spook turned slick magazine writer Lewis Cole. This new one was worth waiting for: DuBois tells a strong, poignant story, meanwhile creating an exceptionally vivid...
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James Patterson and Brendan DuBois. Little, Brown, $29 (512p) ISBN 978-0-316-49963-7
Early in this fast-moving thriller from bestseller Patterson (the Alex Cross series) and DuBois (the Lewis Cole series), President Keegan Barrett, a former CIA director, tells CIA officers Liam Grey and Noa Himel that he’s tired of America being “the
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