J. F. Freedman, Author . Warner $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-52823-8
Bird-watching is the clever hook for Freedman's compulsively readable thriller about a troubled former college professor who witnesses a murder of international consequences while he's hidden in a swamp watching for his beloved whooping...
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J. F. Freedman, Author . Warner $19.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-446-53189-4
Beyond lust, beyond vengeance, beyond murder lie the dark truths of retirement planning, all of them revealed in this flabby suspense novel by Freedman (Bird's-Eye View, etc.). When famed archeologist Walt Gaines ends up with unexplained wealth...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Signet Book $7.99 (456p) ISBN 978-0-451-17308-9
Freedman's provocative tale of a renegade lawyer and his outlaw-biker clients--a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection in cloth--exults in nonconformity. (Aug.)
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J. F. Freedman, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-525-94334-1
Unlike many thriller writers, Freedman is willing to experiment. He followed his debut crime blockbuster, Against the Wind, with a coming-of-age drama, The Obstacle Course, and the mystery melodrama House of Smoke. Now he's written a legal thriller.
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J. F. Freedman, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (452p) ISBN 978-0-525-94479-9
Former DA Luke Garrison is back in another tricky and exciting Freedman thriller (after The Disappearance). Now a defense attorney in Santa Barbara, he gets a surprise call from an old law school friend, Nora Ray. As the DA in remote Muir County in...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Madison Park Press $0 (481p) ISBN 978-1-58288-224-6
Set in Southern California, this legal thriller from Freedman (Against the Wind) opens with a brutal date rape and murder. After the victim's corpse is found on the grounds of the estate of Juanita McCoy, one of Santa Barbara's leading citizens,...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Viking Books $19.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-670-84115-8
This provocative tale of a renegade lawyer and his outlaw-biker clients exults in nonconformity. Will Alexander, a womanizing, booze-guzzling Santa Fe, N.M., lawyer, is sent by his legal partners on indefinite if not permanent leave with a warning...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Viking Books $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-85346-5
Set in southern Maryland during the first three months of 1957, this excellent novel by the author of Against the Wind is a first-person narrative by 14-year-old Roy Poole, who runs the obstacle course at nearby Annapolis and hopes to become a...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Signet Book $5.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-17988-3
PW called this rite-of-passage novel set in Maryland in 1957 ``a wonderfully truthful tale about youthful choice and change.'' (Feb.)
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J. F. Freedman, Author Viking Books $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-670-85347-2
From its first few pages, Freedman's third novel (after Against the Wind) offers readers the feeling that they're in the hands of a writer who can tell a good story and give them a protagonist worth caring about. Freedman takes the premise of what...
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J. F. Freedman, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-94425-6
After forays into the coming-of-age (The Obstacle Course) and PI (House of Smoke) genres, Freedman seems to have settled back, with last year's Key Witness and this new novel, into the sort of rambunctious legal thriller that made his reputation...
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J. F. Freedman, Author, Gregory Harrison, Read by , read by Gregory Harrison. Time Warner Audio $24.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-097-7
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