F. Paul Wilson says: "One of the great joys of reading is stumbling across a good book that neither you nor anyone you know has ever heard of. I'd never heard of Boland (though he's written a slew of books over the last quarter century) and never heard of this novel despite a starred review in PW. I picked it up because I'm interested in evolutionary genetics and the title caught my eye. I'm glad I did. I love a good science thriller and this one is a helluva read--a ballsy book that keeps taking unexpected turns. It's got a booby-trapped, centuries-old crypt with 3 lead-lined coffins, archaeological secrets, mind-boggling genetic mysteries, many murders and even a few explosions, a mysterious foundation, a relentless NIS investigator, and much more. I might have hesitated to tackle such a combustible farrago, but Boland plunges in and brings it off. As a lagniappe, I learned a few things. Recommended."
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: 4 Stars "A tightly written thriller."
The Big Thrill, newsletter of the International Thriller Writers, interviews the author here.
Publishers Weekly: "A mix of old-line Commies, red-diaper babies and more recent Russian emigres. . . . Engaging." "Tamar Gillespie, a young artist with a disabled husband, lives in a rural Connecticut village . . . and paints dog portraits for a living. The village population includes Ultra-Orthodox Jews as well as old Communists and red-diaper babies who consider Prague Spring a betrayal. When the community board offers a run-down house to a family of Jewish refugees from the new Russia, old political feuds reappear. . . . Historical-mystery readers who enjoy political debates will find much to appreciate here." Booklist
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"Roars along like a BMW in heat." Kirkus
"Hang on around the corners." Washington Times
It's not that Don McCarry is less scrupulous than the average stockbroker. He's just got a keen eye for what's possible. When a client drags him into a desert-farming scheme outside Jerusalem, McCarry figures not much can go wrong, overlooking kidnapping, Russian gangsters, missing millions, and Israeli cops. At least there's a pretty Sabra named Esther to distract him from business. "A wry, intelligent Wall Street mystery." Publishers Weekly
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"Hang on around the corners." Washington Times
It's not that Don McCarry is less scrupulous than the average stockbroker. He's just got a keen eye for what's possible. When a client drags him into a desert-farming scheme outside Jerusalem, McCarry figures not much can go wrong, overlooking kidnapping, Russian gangsters, missing millions, and Israeli cops. At least there's a pretty Sabra named Esther to distract him from business. "A wry, intelligent Wall Street mystery." Publishers Weekly
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"One of the most surreal, savage and compelling crime novels I've ever read . . . wholly original in story and so witty and elegant and brutal by turns you just don't want to let go of it." Ed Gorman
A year after the death of his wife, Clete Dowski has sought refuge from his grief in a quiet Florida trailer park. He hasn't begun to wonder who owns the place . . . or how they deal with nosy old men. 198 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
A year after the death of his wife, Clete Dowski has sought refuge from his grief in a quiet Florida trailer park. He hasn't begun to wonder who owns the place . . . or how they deal with nosy old men. 198 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Meggie Trevor's father, a free-lance troublemaker for the CIA, is missing on the Gulf of Mexico. Clearing up his estate in Key West, Meggie makes ends meet by hiring out for security gigs. When local politico Hub Bennell asks her help guarding his small planes, she should know better. This is the town where big shots used to import anything you could smoke.
Now she's mixed up with a young pilot, a middle-aged cop, and a Cuban gun-runner with a grudge. All in the city at the end of the road, where anything goes.
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Meggie Trevor (Last Island South) is back, working security for the guy who wants to be Porn King of the Florida Keys. Her mother had better not find out! Mixing it up with arts patrons, amateur sex stars, a homicidal banker, and a shotgun-toting chef, she's not even sure of her friends in a town that's never been scruffier or more dangerous. Another fling with life and homicide in rowdy Key Wasted.
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"Boland scores big with this tale of complicated money maneuvering and family strife." Kirkus Richard Welles, black sheep of a Baltimore investment banking family, is the firm's go-to guy for finding out more than clients want to reveal. When a Gulf Coast company involved in offshore drilling tilts toward bankruptcy, Welles discovers a hidden menace that threaten family, friends and the young colleague he loves. "Intriguing . . . He excels at rendering epiphanies and, more impressively, in the painstaking creation of a sympathetic character from a dense tangle of inner conflicts." Publishers Weekly
First paperback of 1993 hardcover novel.
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"Deftly entertaining!" Easton Star Democrat Who is out to kill Harry Wollenschaft? Richard and Anne Welles rescue a financier's daughter from a plane crash in the Chesapeake Bay, beginning an adventure that takes them to an isolated island, Las Vegas and into the crosshairs of an enemy who will kill anyone to make his fortune. "The Welleses' prickly marital relationship adds substance. Anne, forging a strong bond with [the financier's] 11-year-old daughter, begins to break out of her shell. Distinguished by Boland's skill at keeping several plots going at once." Arizona Star
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First paperback of 1995 hardcover novel. 240 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
"Boland hits pay dirt with this sparkling first novel featuring greed, vengeance, and murder on Wall Street." Publishers Weekly USA Today: "Entertaining whodunit! Great fun!" Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine: "Very much in the Dick Francis tradition." Baltimore Sun: "Nice plot swerves . . . a polished work."
Kirkus : "A wry insider's view of stock fraud, corporate raiders, genteel brokerage houses, and Wall Street ethics. Breathtakingly plausible, both in its Wall Street manipulations and in its emotional center. A trenchant, sly first novel--and cerebral fund throghout." Philadelphia Inquirer: "A nice job, reminding us that in the category of mean streets, Wall is up there."
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Kirkus : "A wry insider's view of stock fraud, corporate raiders, genteel brokerage houses, and Wall Street ethics. Breathtakingly plausible, both in its Wall Street manipulations and in its emotional center. A trenchant, sly first novel--and cerebral fund throghout." Philadelphia Inquirer: "A nice job, reminding us that in the category of mean streets, Wall is up there."
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"A breezy tale of financial intrigue." Baltimore Sun
Old money knows how to protect itself from the taxman . . . and from a hungry stockbroker like McCarry. From Wall Street to Paris, McCarry is on the run . So are his girlfriend and the girlfriend's yummy sister (not that anything's going on there). McCarry doesn't know who's more dangerous: hired killers or the suave gentlemen who view treachery as a noble birthright. 222 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Old money knows how to protect itself from the taxman . . . and from a hungry stockbroker like McCarry. From Wall Street to Paris, McCarry is on the run . So are his girlfriend and the girlfriend's yummy sister (not that anything's going on there). McCarry doesn't know who's more dangerous: hired killers or the suave gentlemen who view treachery as a noble birthright. 222 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Evil in a winter landscape. The narrator of this disturbing short novel has come to his estranged brother's country house with his daughter hoping for reconciliation. But John Singleton - actor, artist, philanderer - has discovered something terrible in the deep wood that surrounds him. Where wild dogs prowl but no children roam, a truth waits, ancient and hungry. And the narrator's daughter would make an ideal sacrifice.
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We forget the divine visitations. "Impressively creepy jump scares . . . bravura set pieces. . . well-crafted moments of suspense." Publishers Weekly
Kathy Bell's bad day at the office is about to get worse. On the twenty-third floor, her boss has disemboweled himself with a letter opener. He feels he's on the verge of becoming something magnificient . . . an angel, maybe. 160 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
Kathy Bell's bad day at the office is about to get worse. On the twenty-third floor, her boss has disemboweled himself with a letter opener. He feels he's on the verge of becoming something magnificient . . . an angel, maybe. 160 pages Trade Paperback and ebook amazon barnes & noble walmart
An ageless girl's kisses. The 1871 tale of lesbianism and vampirism, plus the famous ghost story "Green Tea." With a new Introduction by Max Gersh.
CARMILLAJ. Sheridan Le Fanu 140 pages Trade Paperback amazon barnes & noble walmart
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Creatures from the Pit lay siege to a remote house built by the Devil. The 1908 classic of cosmic horror. With a new Introduction by Max Gersh.
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLANDWilliam Hope Hodgson140 pages Trade Paperback amazon barnes & noble walmart
THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLANDWilliam Hope Hodgson140 pages Trade Paperback amazon barnes & noble walmart
An ancient, subterranean beast with a human avatar in the form of beautiful Lady Arabella March.The last novel by the author of Dracula. With a new Introduction by Max Gersh.
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Wells's dramatic tale of a scientist seeking power and finding a curse.
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THE INVISIBLE MANH. G. Wells150 pages Trade Paperback amazon barnes & noble walmart
The ghosts of Christmas visit Scrooge in Charles Dickens's classic. This edition restores passages - including Dickens's most rhapsodic description of the holiday - cut from many editions.
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