Jeff Long, Author . S&S/Atria $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-0611-6
The sum of this complex tale is more than its parts of medical thriller, archeological fiction, action/adventure and doomsday scenario, as Long (The Descent) thrills with an intricate puzzle. A Greek collector of religious relics searching for...
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Jeff Long, Author . Atria $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6300-3
Long (Year Zero
, etc.) delivers a suspenseful, tightly written tale of a nightmarish journey into the dark past—and present—of Cambodia's former killing fields. Molly Drake, a would-be photojournalist, accompanies a U.S. Army-led...
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Jeff Long, Author . Atria $25 (296p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6616-1
A widowed geologist makes one final, perilous attempt to scale Yosemite's El Cap and winds up running for his life in Long's atmospheric, aggressive thriller (after The Reckoning
). Hugh Glass and his climbing buddy Lewis Cole revisit the...
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Jeff Long, Author Atria Books $25 (420p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8454-7
Fans who hoped for a sequel to Long's 1999 bestseller The Descent may be sorry to have their wish granted, as this fumbling thriller fails to expand on the tantalizing concepts explored in its predecessor. Set 10 years after spelunkers stumbled into
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Jeff Long, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $4.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-07-038690-7
Claude Dallas tried to lead a primitive life in the wilds near the junction of the Nevada-Idaho-Oregon bordersuntil he murdered two game wardens and was sent to prison in 1983. PW observed: ""The story's interest is less in Dallas's saga than in...
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Jeff Long, Author Beech Tree Paperback Book $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07251-3
Set in beautiful Yosemite Valley, Long's first novel explores the passions and values of hard-core mountain climbers, here a band of mavericks living in tents or under National Park benches in Camp Site Four. When a ton and a half of marijuana is...
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Jeff Long, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (284p) ISBN 978-0-688-10888-5
The memory of a Wyoming climbing disaster 18 years earlier links two members of an expedition striving to conquer Mt. Everest. Long ( Angels of Light ) sets his second novel on the mountain's remote, virtually impassable Tibetan side, where a 12-pers
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Jeff Long, Author William Morrow & Company $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07252-0
Long states bluntly that the ``so-called Texas Revolution was designed only to wrench a huge chunk of Mexican territory free of Mexican control long enough for the United States to annex it.'' How the Anglo-Americans accomplished it is the subject...
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Jeff Long, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-12252-2
Long , a trenchant critic of Texas mythologizing in such historical studies as Duel of Eagles, takes a fictional look at the origins of his home state in his third novel (after The Ascent) . Subtitled A Novel of Sam Houston and the Mexican...
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Jeff Long, Author Crown Publishers $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-609-60293-5
The premise of this millennial thriller is as audacious as it is problematic: ""if there can be a historical Christ,"" one character hypothesizes, ""why not a historic Satan?"" Demystification of the ultimate Bad Guy is no easy feat, but Long (Angels
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Jeff Long, Author, Jeffrey Long, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-07-038692-1
A group of mountain climbers discovers a huge cache of marijuanaand is rewarded with headlines and bad fortune. ``Climbers will relish this rapturous and penetrating, slightly macho paean to their passion,'' reported PW . (November)
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