by John E. Boyd
Gary Bernsten served for more than two decades in the Central Intelligence Agency. He operated at the highest levels in the Middle East and Latin America and led the CIA’s major counterterrorist deployments in East Africa following the attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. In hunting down Osama Bin Laden, he also commanded the most successful CIA paramilitary team ever assembled, a tale spellbindingly told in the New York Times bestseller Jawbreaker. Berntsen is a recipient of the CIA’s distinguished Intelligence Medal and Intelligence Star.
Ralph Pezzullo is a former journalist, an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and poet, and the author of At the Fall of Somoza, Plunging into Haiti, and the mystery novel Eve Missing. His novel The Resurrection of Thomas Lear was a semifinalist for the Faulkner Prize.
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by Tony Attwood
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
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by Steve Seddon
Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
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by Jean Palmer
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
In his career as writer, critic, and teacher, JOHN J. CLAYTON has published two novels and two collections of fiction, all to critical acclaim. His stories have appeared in O.Henry Prize Stories, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize Stories. The Man Who Could See Radiance was read at Symphony Space in New York and has been aired often on NPR as part of the Selected Shorts series. His collection Radiance, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in 1998. In recent years Commentary magazine has published many of his stories. His work has also recently appeared in Missouri Review, Agni and Virginia Quarterly Review. John J. Clayton has written a good deal about modern fiction, including Gestures of Healing, a psycho??logical study of modern British and American fiction and Saul Bellow: In Defense of Man. This is his second novel with Permanent Press; his first, The Man I never Wanted to Be, was published in 1998. John J. Clayton lives in Western Massachusetts, where he teaches literature and creative writing.
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Dr. Frederick Ramsay was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois—Westside Medical Campus. After a stint in the Army, he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland, School of Medicine and also served as an Associate Dean. In 1971 he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He lives in Surprise, Arizona with his wife and partner, Susan.
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by Jean Palmer
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Minette Walters is the author of twelve previous novels, two novellas, and a number of short stories. Her work, which has been published in more than thirty-five countries, has received several major awards, including two Gold Daggers from the Crime Writers’ Association in Great Britain and the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Dorset, England.
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by Janet Julian
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Denise Mina is the author of The Dead Hour, Field of Blood, Deception, and the Garnethill trilogy, the fi rst installment of which won her the John Creasey Memorial Prize for best fi rst crime novel. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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by Sue Rosenzweig
Sat, Nov 29, 2008
Kate Atkinson lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, was named Whitbread Book of the Year in the U.K. in 1995, and was followed by Human Croquet, Emotionally Weird, Not the End of the World, Case Histories and One Good Turn.
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by Jean Palmer
Mon, Nov 03, 2008
Michael Connelly, a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and a former journalist, has won numerous crime fiction prizes. He lives in Florida.
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