| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 384 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson -- Comrade 35 / Jeffrey Deaver -- Police report / Joseph Finder -- The last confession / John Lescroart -- A card for Mother / Gayle Lynds and John C. Sheldon -- Miss Bianca / Sarah Paretsky -- The essence of small people / Gary Alexander -- Checkpoint Charlie / Alan Cook -- Crush depth / Brendan DuBois -- The honey trap / Ben Vincent -- House of a thousand eyes / Katia Lief -- A neighbor's story / Vicki Doudera -- East meets West / Jonathan Stone -- Showstopper / Gigi Vernon -- Deep submergence / Joseph Wallace -- Sparks to the bear's hide / Robert Mangeot -- Side effects / T. Jefferson Parker -- The everyday housewife / Laura Lippman -- Cuba Libre / Caterine Neville -- His mother's son / J.A. Jance -- Ghosts / Raymond Benson -- About the editors and authors. |
| Summary |
Nuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops. The Cold War--a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button--provides a chilling backdrop to this collection of all-new short stories from today's most celebrated mystery writers. Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson--the only American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels--have joined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, and psychological drama. In Joseph Finder's "Police Report," the seemingly cut-and-dry case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots in Soviet-controlled Armenia. In "Miss Bianca" by Sara Paretsky, a young girl befriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herself unwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver's "Comrade 35" offers a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy--with a signature twist. |
| Local Note |
BRLNADFIC |
| Subject |
Cold War -- Fiction.
|
|
Short stories, American.
|
| Added Author |
Deaver, Jeffery. Editor.
|
|
Benson, Raymond, 1955- Editor.
|
|
Mystery Writers of America.
|
| Added Title |
Ice cold |
| ISBN |
9781455520718 (paperback) $16.00 |
|
1455520713 (paperback) $16.00 |
|
145552073X |
|
9781455520732 |
|
