Robert Ward, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $26 (358p) ISBN 978-0-15-101480-4
In Ward's overblown crime novel, two Los Angeles FBI agents, Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo, are thrilled when their successful sting brings down South African jewel smuggler Karl Steinbach. They laugh off Steinbach's promise that everyone...
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Robert Ward. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2601-6
In Ward’s disappointing sequel to 2009’s Total Immunity, Los Angeles FBI agent Jack Harper has just started a two-week vacation. While attending a lacrosse game that his 15-year-old son, Kevin, is playing in at Culver City High, he receives a phone...
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Robert Ward, Author Pocket Books $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-88266-2
Novelist and TV writer Ward presents a thriller about an undercover DEA agent trying to bust a group of drug smugglers. (Sept.)
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Robert Ward, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Pocket Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-79568-9
Ward, best known for Cattle Annie and Little Britches but most admired for the somber proletarian novel Red Baker , has worked in Hollywood for years; as with Richard Price, scriptwriting seems not to have affected his prose style. In fact, style is
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Robert Ward, Author, William Grose, Editor Pocket Books $22 (294p) ISBN 978-0-671-88265-5
Ward is an interesting writer who has never repeated himself, from the quintessential hippie '60s novel Shedding Skin (just reissued in trade paperback) to the gritty proletarian Red Baker and the lighthearted growing-up saga The King of Cards. He...
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Robert Ward, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (277p) ISBN 978-0-312-35780-1
Robert Wells, the hapless psychiatrist hero of Ward's superior noir novel, has spent many thousands of hours helping people at his free clinic in Baltimore. While treating art dealer Emile Bardan, who's suffering from paranoid delusions,...
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Robert Ward, Author St. Martin's Press $20 (228p) ISBN 978-0-307-44007-5
Novelist and TV producer Ward returns to the Baltimore of his childhood in this fictional memoir of his politically active paternal grandmother, Grace. In 1961, 15-year-old Bobby Ward's parents' marriage is disintegrating. Bobby moves in with Grace...
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