Books by Pete Earley and Complete Book Reviews

Pete Earley, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0783-5

Edgar-winning true crime writer Earley (The Hothouse , etc.) delivers a fast-paced but uneven fiction debut. U.S. Senate investigator Nick LeRue spends most of his time vetting nominees for federal judgeships—that is, until he's contacted...

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Lethal Secrets

Pete Earley, Author . Forge $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0784-2

What could have been an explosive novel of international intrigue exploiting post-9/11 paranoia sparks brilliantly before sputtering out. Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Conway is charged with guarding Sergey Pudin, a Russian mafiosi. Meanwhile, Russian...

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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

Pete Earley, Author . Putnam $25.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-15313-6

Suffering delusions from bipolar disorder, Mike Earley broke into a stranger's home to take a bubble bath and significantly damaged the premises. That Mike's act was viewed as a crime rather than a psychotic episode spurred his father,...

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The Apocalypse Stone

Pete Earley, Author . Forge $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1025-5

Earley (The Big Secret ) offers a confusing blend of religious magic, courtroom drama, political machinations and sexual hijinks in a potboiler that's more readable than believable. Evan Spencer, a Virginia Circuit Court judge, appears to have...

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Comrade J: The Untold Story of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War

Pete Earley, Author . Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15439-3

Former journalist and bestselling author Earley (Family of Spies ) tells the story of Russian spymaster and defector Sergei Tretyakov—code-named Comrade J—in an exposé with few surprises. A career intelligence officer, Tretyakov...

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Hot House

Pete Earley, Author Bantam Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07573-1

With the cooperation of the Bureau of Prisons, Earley ( Family of Spies ) spent much time from mid-1987 to mid-1989 at Leavenworth, a maximum-security institution whose nickname, the Hot House, derives from its lack of air conditioning despite the...

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Family of Spies

Pete Earley, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05283-1

Based on family papers, wiretapped conversations, trial transcripts and interviews with the principals, this is the most comprehensive look we are likely to get at the inception and operation of what has been called the most damaging spy ring in...

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Super Casino: Inside the ""New"" Las Vegas

Pete Earley, Author Bantam Books $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-09502-9

For a portrait of razzle-dazzle Las Vegas, this is a curiously sober book. Earley, an Edgar and Robert F. Kennedy Award winner (Circumstantial Evidence), gained the cooperation of Circus Circus Enterprises, owners of the new pyramid-shaped Luxor...

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The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man’s Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World’s Most Terrifying Killers

Pete Earley. Touchstone, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9902-2

Tony Ciaglia’s life changed forever when a traumatic brain injury at 15 left him uninhibited and struggling to control his temper and emotions. Searching for a way to connect, Tony turned to the unlikeliest of pastimes: writing letters to serial...

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Circumstantial Evidence

Pete Earley, Author, Pete Farley, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-09501-2

``I wanted to show just how difficult it can be in a death penalty case to discover the truth,'' declares Earley (The Hot House), and he proves his point with an engrossing, challenging trip into the labyrinth. Monroeville, Ala., was the...

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WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program

Pete Earley, Author, Gerald Shur, Author, Gerald Shur, Joint Author . Bantam $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80145-3

Earley, an Edgar fact-crime award winner for Circumstantial Evidence, and Shur present a fascinating third-person account of Shur's 25-year career with the Department of Justice. Starting out as a federal attorney who recruited witnesses to take

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Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness

Jessie Close, with Pete Earley. Grand Central, $27 (300p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4882-8

In a heartfelt journey through self-destructive manic-depressive states, Close (The Warping of Al) chronicles her journey to recovery and activism with the help of actress Glenn Close, her older sister. The author was born in Connecticut in 1953,...

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Collusion

Newt Gringich and Pete Earley. Broadside, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-285998-3

This overwrought political thriller from bestsellers Gingrich and Earley (the Major Brooke Grant series) addresses all kinds of issues dominating the headlines, from domestic terrorism and Antifa to campus protests and fake news, but it mainly...

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Shakedown

Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley. Broadside, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-286019-4

In bestsellers Gingrich and Earley’s unoriginal sequel to 2019’s Collusion, former Navy SEAL Brett Garrett and sidekick Valerie Mayberry, who has recently been fired from the FBI, are surprised to learn that a Middle Eastern terrorist they thought...

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