Martin Booth, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26804-6
Booth (Industry of Souls; Hiroshima Joe; etc.) offers a dreamy allegory of lost innocence in this novel about a young British archeologist who loses a chance at love when he's forced to serve in WWI. Alec Marquand is an old man, lying dying in a
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Martin Booth, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $23.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-30908-4
Booth's brilliantly creepy psychological suspense novel follows a so-called "shadow-dweller" (a technical weapons expert who creates and supplies the tools for high-level assassins) to a rural village in southern Italy where he poses as &
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Martin Booth, Author . Little, Brown $14.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-15575-5
The convoluted and unfocused first book in Booth's (War Dog
) new series begins with a promising hook, but then mostly just meanders through its countryside setting. Twins Pip and Tim and their parents have just moved into an enormous 15th-centur
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Martin Booth, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-34817-5
In this genial, absorbing memoir of life in Hong Kong during his civil servant father's three-year (1952–1955) post there, British poet, novelist and popular historian Booth (Opium
; Cannabis
; Hiroshima Joe
; Industry of Souls
; etc.)...
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Martin Booth, Author Minotaur Books $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-24251-0
Although the burly Edinburgh doctor who believed in fairies will always be linked with an angular, coolly rational English consulting detective, Booth (a Booker Prize nominee for Industry of Souls) is only one of many Sherlock Holmes fans and Arthur
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Martin Booth, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-32220-5
Quick?what do Napoleon's troops, Asian cooking, Armani jeans, the Gutenberg Bible and the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company have in common? According to British novelist Booth (Opium; Hiroshima Joe; etc.), all of these have used some part of the...
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Martin Booth, Author Grove/Atlantic $17.95 (442p) ISBN 978-0-87113-056-3
Joe Sandingham, in his halcyon days a British army officer, now scrounges food in the seedy Hong Kong hotel where he lives, steals and runs errands for Leung, a sinister drug dealer and racketeer, to support his drink and dope habits. A ruined heap...
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Martin Booth, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (441p) ISBN 978-0-14-009730-6
In 1952, Joe Sandingham, a former British army officer who lives in a seedy Hong Kong hotel and has only a prostitute for a friend, is tormented by memories of being held prisoner of war by the Japanese and of his lover Bob, who died in combat. PW...
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Martin Booth, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $0 (466p) ISBN 978-0-87113-239-0
Booth, an English author with extensive knowledge of the Far East, who made a good impression with Hiroshima Joe , offers a tale set in prewar and wartime Hong Kong and Macao that for all its exotic color and authentic atmosphere never really takes...
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Martin Booth, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-312-05524-0
Like Italy's Mafia, China's Triads, whose history may go back as much as 2000 years, were originally secret societies whose spirit and purpose were patriotic. Their power increased substantially after 1644, when the native Ming dynasty was...
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Martin Booth, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0735-5
In an indisputably important and extravagantly detailed account, Booth (author of the lauded Opium: A History and Booker-nominated author of the novel The Industry of Souls) examines the history of the notorious international crime groups known as...
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Martin Booth, Author, Joann Pendola, Illustrator Margaret K. McElderry Books $16 (144p) ISBN 978-0-689-81380-1
The heroine of this stimulating British import is orphaned, abandoned, requisitioned, and strafed at Dunkirk--and she endures it all for a biscuit and a pat on the head. Jet, a Labrador retriever, falls into police custody when her owner is arrested
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Martin Booth, Author, Booth, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-18643-2
Opium was a common drug among the ancient Greeks (who extolled the ""healing dreams"" it brought on), a convenient poison for the Romans, a narcotic in medieval England and a popular painkiller and sedative in 19th-century Europe and America....
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