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Campbell Armstrong, Author Crown Publishers $20 (256p) ISBN 978-0-609-60531-8
Heartbreaking and beautiful, Armstrong's memoir turns on a family drama fraught with savage irony: a mother and the out-of-wedlock daughter whom she abandoned shortly after birth are reunited after 42 years--but both are suffering from advanced...
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Campbell Armstrong, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-688-07701-3
This thriller lives up to the name and is also a wonderful puzzle that keeps us guessing almost until the end. Estonian Communist Party boss Romanenko, on a trade mission to Britain, is shot to death in Edinburgh's railway station. His Scotland Yard
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Campbell Armstrong, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-06-017917-5
A darkened street is ``razored by flashing lights'' and a killer has learned the ``delicate beauty of patience'' in this handsomely crafted espionage tale, likely to be another winner for the bestselling Armstrong ( Mambo ; Jig ). When Charlie...
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Campbell Armstrong, Author HarperCollins Publishers $18.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-06-016285-6
Completing a trilogy begun with Jig and Mazurka , Armstrong presents a conspiracy against an aging, isolated Fidel Castro. Exiles and resisters dream of a free, democratic Cuba, while a secret cartel of businessmen plans for an island once more made
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Campbell Armstrong, Author HarperCollins Publishers $20 (244p) ISBN 978-0-06-017946-5
In his sixth novel, a narrative that sounds notes both chilling and nostalgic, Armstrong ( Agents of Darkness ) evokes a paranoia that may strike familiar chords in survivors of the '60s counterculture. Ex-hippie Harry Tennant is busted in upstate...
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Campbell Armstrong, Author Little Brown and Company $21.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-316-04821-7
On forced leave from Scotland Yard's Special Branch for political reasons, Campbell's counterterrorism expert Frank Pagan (Jig) is called back into service after a London subway car is incinerated by a bomb during rush hour. None of the usual Irish...
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Campbell Armstrong, Author, Thomas Congdon, Editor William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06879-0
Armstrong's topnotch thriller gets off with a bang as wealthy American supporters of the IRA are shocked out of their complacency when the distant war comes to their own homeground. The theft of $10 million bound for the Cause provokes the secret...
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