Joseph Kanon, Author . Holt $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6422-3
Again taking one of the 20th century's most momentous periods as a backdrop, Kanon recreates Berlin in the months following WWII in this lavishly atmospheric thriller overburdened with political and romantic intrigue. Though driven by strong...
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Joseph Kanon, Author . Holt $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7886-2
It's late 1945 at the start of this atmospheric historical thriller, and G.I. Adam Miller, officially assigned to ferret out Nazi war criminals in Germany, joins his widowed mother, Grace, who has recently arrived in Venice from New York to...
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Joseph Kanon, Author . Atria $27.95 (506p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5614-8
James Ellroy fans will find a lot to like in this gritty look at post-WWII Hollywood from Edgar-winner Kanon (Los Alamos
). Ben Collier, recently returned to the U.S. from service in the Signal Corps in Europe, travels to California after his sister-
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Joseph Kanon, Author Broadway Books $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-06224-3
It's always pleasing to publishing folk when one of their own turns a hand successfully to writing; and there will be general rejoicing that Kanon, former head of trade publishing at Houghton Mifflin, has made a smashing debut as a novelist in what...
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Joseph Kanon, Author Broadway Books $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7679-0142-0
Kanon's second novel, after the very well-received Los Alamos, is somewhat disappointing. He ventures into John le Carre territory, telling the tale of an American State Department official, hounded by the McCarthyites in 1950, who proves them right
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Joseph Kanon. Atria, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5641-4
As this tense, complex, and fascinating espionage novel opens, Leon Bauer is on the Bosphorus shoreline north of Istanbul, shivering in the dark, waiting to take custody of a mysterious passenger who is being smuggled from Romania. It is late 1945,...
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Joseph Kanon. Atria, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-0464-7
In his new novel, Kanon (Istanbul Passage) stays firmly in his traditional milieu—intrigue in post-World War II Europe—with this solid story about a German emigre, Alex Meier, returning to the divided city of East Berlin in 1949. It's not an...
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Joseph Kanon. Atria, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-2139-5
Edgar-winner Kanon’s fast-moving, well-written espionage thriller offers few surprises for genre devotees. In 1949, after Frank Weeks, who worked for the Central Intelligence Group’s Office of Policy Coordination, was unmasked as a Soviet spy, his...
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Joseph Kanon, read by John Bedford Lloyd. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-5082-3289-6
It’s a pleasure to listen to actor Lloyd read this spy novel set in Europe in 1949. He manages Russian, Polish, and British accents that are convincing but not exaggerated. His pace is slow enough to be clear but quick enough to carry us along with...
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Joseph Kanon, Author, Boyd Gaines, Read by , read by Boyd Gaines. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-9793-7
Tony-winning actor Boyd Gaines brings an impressive range of vocal characterizations to Kanon's fusion of classic Los Angeles crime noir and international intrigue set in the era when the exuberance following America's victory in WWII was...
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Joseph Kanon. Atria, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-2142-5
Edgar-winner Kanon (Defectors) goes through the motions in this uninspired historical thriller. In 1962 Hamburg, Germany, Max Weill, who has dedicated his life since the Holocaust to getting justice for its victims, is hoping to convince his nephew...
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Joseph Kanon. Scribner, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-9821-5865-1
American physicist Martin Keller, the protagonist of this tense spy thriller from Kanon (The Accomplice), was one of the scientists entrusted with the secrets of the Manhattan Project, but he later betrayed that trust by sharing top-secret plans and
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Joseph Kanon. Scribner, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6680-0642-9
In this superbly written WWII espionage thriller, Edgar winner Kanon (The Berlin Exchange) introduces Daniel Lohr, a German Jew who escapes 1938 Berlin for Shanghai, the only port city that doesn’t require an entry visa. On the journey there, Daniel’
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