by Joseph Kanon
“As he did in Los Alamos, Kanon demonstrates an eerie mastery of the evocative historical detail . . . You can feel the shattered glass crunching beneath your feet as you read. You can smell the smoke-scorched broken bricks . . . Kanon is as ambitious a novelist as he is a gifted one.” —The Washington Post
“Gripping . . . Kanon has written a tale about the untenable choices war entails, and about the moral dangers of demonization. For American readers, the book cuts to the bone, coming at a time when we have become the demonized and are doing our best to avoid becoming the demonizers.” —Newsday
“The kind of book that reads so easily that it’s almost impossible to put down once you’ve started it.” —The Baltimore Sun
“What the The Third Man World did for Vienna immediately after World War II, Kanon’s superb thriller does for Berlin during the same period.” —Booklist
Alibi
“Burrowing deeply into Patricia Highsmith territory, Kanon has crafted an absorbing tale . . . [Kanon is frequently compared to the likes of john le Carré and Graham Greene. With Alibi, he shows that he’s up to the comparison.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Kanon’s richest, most full-blooded work to date . . . [He] has mastered the art of the historical thriller.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Disturbing and hypnotically readable, Alibi is a mystery, a love story, and a work of philosophy—and a perfect companion for the thriller reader who wants a philosophical challenge, as well as entertainment.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Joseph Kanon is a specialist in superior historical thrillers. . . . Moody, deeply atmospheric, and as labyrinthine as the streets of Venice.” —The Seattle Times
“Alibi is a thriller with a slide-rule perfect plot . . . Wholly engrossing and one of the finest thrillers you will read this year – up there with the classics of the genre.”—The Daily Telegraph (London)
“Once again, Kanon has written a novel set against the backdrops of World War II that is evocative and sensitive, moody and thought provoking.” —Arizona Daily Star
“Kanon juxtaposes a powerful love story and a gripping thriller against a palpable historical moment. . . . The novel holds us completely, with its vision of a sadly inadequate hero striking deep at our fears about ourselves.”—Booklist
“Kanon offers such vivid sensory detail that a reader emerges as steeped in atmospherics as a seasoned diplomat with a passport full of visa stamps. You feel initiated, as if you’ve been let in on some dark and well-kept secrets from some of the twentieth century’s most pivotal moments. . . . In Kanon’s eclectic cast of policemen, soldiers, revolutionaries, and ex-pat socialites, no one is spared the deep, dark smudges offered by war and its aftermath.” —Baltimore Sun
“If you want to explore life, love, death, beauty, and moral confusion, you won’t do much better than this.” —San Jose Mercury News
The Prodigal Spy
“An edgy spy thriller . . . [and] a tale of love—between father and son, man and woman—set against a foreboding background that is poignant and imminently believable.” —The Denver Post
“Compelling . . . intriguing . . . reads beautifully and convinces utterly.” —The Wall Street Journal
Los Alamos
“Powerful . . . Compelling . . . [Kanon] pulls the reader into a historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness.” —The New York Times
“A well-plotted novel that effortlessly dissolves real people and events into an elegant and moving thriller.” —San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Joseph Kanon is the author of five previous novels Stardust, Alibi, The Good German, The Prodigal Spy, and Los Alamos. Alibi won the 2005 Hammett Award for Best Novel from the International Association of Crime Writers, and Kanon was the 2007 recipient of The Anne Frank Foundation Writes Award. His work has appeared in 24 languages. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City.
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