Philip Shelby, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-684-84263-9
With each new book, Shelby (who co-wrote The Cassandra Compact
with Robert Ludlum) nicks away at one of fiction's last male bastions—the foreign intrigue thriller—using women as lead characters in the cloaked world of espionage. In
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Philip Shelby, Author Fanfare $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29972-4
A Lebanese man's death in a suspicious car accident draws his daughter, Katherine Maser, his best friend, Armand Fremont, and several more sinister characters into a web of double-crosses, hidden motives and secret identities. Among other things,...
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Philip Shelby, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (318p) ISBN 978-0-684-80177-3
In this fast and furious--but overly calculated--thriller, a female Secret Service agent is set up to take the fall for the assassination of a powerful senator. As a child, little Holland Tylo endured a ``spray of blood'' from the body of her father,
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Philip Shelby, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-82939-5
Burdened with contrived plotting that depends on miraculous timing and fortuitous circumstances, Shelby's sensationalistic second thriller (after Days of Drums) asks for too much reader indulgence. And that's too bad, because its premise is...
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Philip Shelby, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-84260-8
Clever, atmospheric and adroitly paced, Shelby's new thriller (after Lost Rights) features yet another plucky heroine caught in the toils of intrigue. Hollis Fremont, a functionary at the American embassy in Paris, is duped by her superior and...
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