Derek Haas, Author . Pegasus $24 (216p) ISBN 978-1-933648-44-6
Screenwriter Haas's debut features a darkly compelling narrator. When a young hit man who refers to himself as “Columbus” learns his next job is to assassinate presidential candidate Abe Mann, Columbus is not taken aback so much by...
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Derek Haas, Author . Pegasus $24 (260p) ISBN 978-1-60598-068-3
At the start of Haas's less than compelling second thriller to feature the world-weary assassin who calls himself Columbus (after Silver Bear
), William Ryan, who serves as Columbus's middleman, hires him to kill Jiri Dolezal, a Czech...
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Derek Haas. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60598-271-7
At the start of Haas’s solid third Silver Bear thriller (after 2009’s Columbus), the assassin known as Columbus, who spent his youth “incarcerated in a juvenile detention center” outside Boston, has retired to a seaside Italian village with his rare-
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Derek Haas. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-19846-2
This hard-edged contemporary spy thriller from Haas (Dark Men) covers a lot of ground with great narrative economy. Austin Clay, “an intelligence officer for 15 years, six of those in black ops,” executes missions so secret that his CIA bosses will...
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Derek Haas. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $24.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-60598-899-3
Haas’s absorbing fourth thriller featuring the contract killer known as Columbus (after 2011’s Dark Men) tests the proposition expressed in the book that “lies are popular and truth is the uninvited guest who spoils the party.” Columbus is enjoying...
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Derek Haas. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-68177-662-0
Haas’s gripping fifth thriller featuring contract killer Columbus (after 2015’s
A Different Lie) finds the assassin, who has changed his name to Coleman, uneasily settled in a remote area of Michigan’s Mackinac Island, where he grieves over the...
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