William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-51893-6
In this novel of secret computer skullduggery, Kennedy (Code Conquistador neatly packages computer science, introduces a few good actors and punches all the right buttons until some bugs short-circuit the whole program. Fueling the action is a race...
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William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-312-03358-3
Kennedy, author of several successful paperback thrillers ( Toy Soldiers ), takes a tried and true route with his first hardcover. In 1944 in Germany, an American scientist masquerades as a world-renowned Swedish physicist brought in to help the...
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William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-312-01478-0
Kennedy's (The Maskado Lesson) third novel turns on an interesting premise: suppose a terrorist, a cross between Abu Nidal and Yasser Arafat, took over an American boys school in Italy, forcing the politically and industrially powerful fathers to...
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William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-312-09292-4
Kennedy's ( Rules of Encounter ) powerful, crackling study of a conflict between duty and morality is set in a Green Beret training camp in the Appalachian foothills along the South Carolina/Georgia border. A would-be mass killer poisons the camp's...
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William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-312-06182-1
Kennedy ( Toy Soldiers ) floats this war story on the plausibly relayed theory that Churchill's Admiralty tricked the Germans into attacking the Lusitania in order to sink America's neutrality and draw her into WW I. To smuggle badly needed...
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William P. Kennedy, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-312-11768-9
This newest work from the author of Toy Soldiers and Rules of Encounter bears obvious plot similarities to Vincent Bugliosi's true-crime opus And the Sea Will Tell. Unambitious grade-school teacher Bill and his hyper-organized wife, Jeanne, join...
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