Philip Gerard, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-18730-3
First novelist Gerard obviously has great affection for the lore of the seafaring people of Hatteras Island off the coast of North Carolina, but this historical fiction about lighthouse keepers and sailors threatened by a German U-boat toward the...
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Philip Gerard, Author John F. Blair Publisher $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89587-108-4
No, this is not another sequel to the 1962 movie; it is a complex and convincing (if slightly overwritten) story of a little known incident that took place amidst the chaos of the post-Reconstruction South. The villain is not a twisted individual...
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Philip Gerard, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (270p) ISBN 978-0-688-12641-4
Gerard's third novel (after the praised Hatteras Light and Cape Fear Rising ), is a first-rate psycho-thriller that promises to be his commercial breakthrough. Dexterously crafted, this macabre story of the hunt for a serial killer in Phoenix is a...
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Philip Gerard, Author Dutton Books $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-94664-9
Although it includes some U.S. Navy deception activities carried out by the late actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., among others, novelist Philip Gerard's Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception concentrates on the WWII ...
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Philip Gerard. Hub City (John F. Blair, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-891885-89-1
Reading Gerard's well-crafted first essay collection is like spending time with an easygoing yet erudite uncle, with whom you're happy to sit around on the front porch on "lazy afternoons…drinking beers and [speculating]" on all manner of personal...
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Philip Gerard. John F. Blair, $17.95 trade paper (262p) ISBN 978-0-89587-660-7
This well-wrought suspense novel from Gerard (Hatteras Light) entwines the tale of five residents of North Carolina’s Hatteras Island coming to manhood in the early days of WWII with that of PR man Nick Wolf, whose company is drilling for oil off...
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