Howard Blum, Author . HarperCollins $23.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-06-001399-8
Like Blum's The Brigade, this work is more reportage than history. While Blum takes advantage of both newly available Israeli documents and a growing number of memoirs from both sides, the core of this book, and its heart, is the more than 200...
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Howard Blum, Author . Crown $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-307-34694-0
In 1911, Iron Workers Union leaders James and Joseph McNamara plea-bargained in exchange for prison sentences instead of death after bombing the offices of the Los Angeles Times
—killing 21 people and wounding many more. The bombing had been...
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Howard Blum, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-671-90015-1
Former New York Times reporter Blum reveals how the FBI captured mob leader John Gotti, an investigation that lasted seven years and cost $75 million. (Aug.)
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Howard Blum, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-80918-2
The search for the ""real"" site of Mt. Sinai, where Moses was said to have received the Ten Commandments, is the basis for this briskly paced and often comic nonfiction thriller from Blum (Gangland). The quest mixes the religious with the mercenary:
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Howard Blum, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66260-8
Blum ( I Pledge Allegiance ) here offers a curious amalgam of science and apparent science fiction, ranging in subject from the bona fide quests of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) astrophysicists and radio astronomers to unverified...
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Howard Blum, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68758-8
A blockbuster, this suspenseful and superbly written expose by former New York Times reporter Blum ( I Pledge Allegiance . . . The Story of the Walker Spy Family ) will surely hit the headlines. Blum chronicles the struggle from 1987 to 1992 to...
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Howard Blum, Crown, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-307-46172-8
Blum, author of the bestselling and Edgar-winning American Lightning, displays all his creative gifts here. Using primary source materials from the three individuals around whom the narrative revolves, he tells a fascinating story of the 1897...
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Howard Blum. HarperCollins, $27.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-230755-2
Vanity Fair contributing editor Blum tells the story of a sabotage campaign that began in 1914 when the German ambassador to the U.S., Johann von Bernstoff, was instructed to develop an intelligence network to keep America out of WWI and prevent the
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Howard Blum. Harper, $28.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-06-230767-5
Passion fuels the missions of WWII secret agent “Cynthia,” aka Betty Pack (1910–1963), in this scrupulously researched profile of the “blonde Bond” from Vanity Fair contributing editor Blum (Dark Invasion). Taking advantage of access to newly...
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Howard Blum, Author, John H. Mayer, Read by , read by John H. Mayer. Random House Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-7455-9
This fabulous tale by acclaimed investigative journalist Blum relates the events of October 1, 1910, when the Los Angeles Times
building was bombed. America's greatest detective, William J. Burns, hits the scene to investigate and uncovers a...
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Howard Blum, Author, Entertainment Hardscrabble, Author . HarperCollins $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-019486-4
Although the official history of the Jewish Brigade Group (a unit of some 5,000 Jews who fought with the British Eighth Army in Italy in the waning months of the conflict) has been written, Blum (Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America) breaks new...
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Howard Blum. Harper, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-245824-7
In this gripping exploration of Cold War spycraft, Blum (The Last Goodnight) lays out the complex chain of circumstances that led to the exposure of a major Soviet spy ring responsible for stealing America’s atomic secrets during and after WWII, and
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Howard Blum. Harper, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-287289-0
Edgar Award–winner Blum (In the Enemy’s House) delivers a digressive rundown of Operation Long Jump, the Nazi plot to assassinate Allied leaders Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Tehran Conference in November 1943....
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Howard Blum. Harper, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-305421-9
Did the KGB have a mole with access to some of the CIA’s most sensitive information who was never caught? That tantalizing question is at the heart of this nail-biting account from former New York Times investigative reporter Blum (Night of the...
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Howard Blum. Harper, $32 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-334928-5
Journalist Blum (The Spy Who Knew Too Much) expands on his Air Mail coverage of the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students in this mesmerizing true-crime account. Drawing on court documents and interviews, Blum reconstructs the early...
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