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MIKE LAWSONHouse Justice
Booklist starred: " An American spy in Iran is exposed by a female journalist, and the spy is tortured, then executed. Enraged, the director of Central Intelligence blames the leak on Congress. Speaker of the House John Fitzpatrick Mahoney isn’t sure who leaked the information, but he’s certain the journalist, jailed for refusing to name her source, will spill the beans about their one-night stand 20 years earlier... The dialogue is sharp, cynical, and often funny, but the book succeeds because of its characters. Readers may reasonably wonder if these twisted individuals and the bent cultures that animate them might be shaping our lives. A superb example of the post–cold war espionage novel." And Library Journal concluded: "Lawson has honed his skill to write a perfect political thriller..."
JIM NISBET
Windward Passage
"Nisbet, whose cult appeal has never really translated to the mainstream, hits another one out of the park... Nisbet isn't one of those guys who say: OK, reader, here's the fictional world I've created, and here are all the things you need to know about it. Instead, he just plunges right in and asks us to keep up with him. Here the story is set in a sort of alternate-reality version of our world ... lovers of the unorthodox, the intellectually challenging, and the aggressively offbeat will enjoy themselves immensely," said Booklist. "Jim Nisbet is a cult favorite in Europe and it's easy to see why. In the tradition of Jim Thompson and Damon Runyon, Nisbet is too good to miss and [this] is a masterpiece that raises the bar even for such a master storyteller," said the San Francisco Chronicle.
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