FATHERS AND GODFATHERS   Father Quelloni ha a talent for playing at Robin Hood.  Until he got murdered.  Then the Vatican hired Peter Reno and the sharp-shooting ex-cop soon found himself up to his neck in brutal slaughter and multi-million dollar theft.  But Reno was tough enough to discover the shattering truth.  And that's when the REAL trouble started.

The good thief

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Rosenblum, Robert J

Thrillers & Suspense

DOUBLEDAY

Kirkus Review;  A realpolitikal thriller graced with none of the excesses of the genre and involved with the U.S.S.R.'s. arrest of young Roy Keeper as a spy --  he was said to have secured a Pasternakian memoir The Mushroom Cave wanted by everyone including a French publisher. Roy is promised freedom  if he confesses but is released only to be killed and his father attempts to find out the real reasons behind all of this which keep changing. Plausible and peremptory -- a hard-to-beat combination.

The mushroom cave

Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday

The author of The Sweetheart Deal has come up with a novel that takes suspense out of the realm of genre fiction and makes it  as special as his writing.  From Athens to Washington and back to Greece winds a labyrinth of intrigue in which two former enemies-an American and a Russian- join forces against the agencies they once supported.  The two men- and one woman- risk their fortune and their lives in a scheme dotted by death and shadowed by the fact that even the  inventors of the cover stories don't know which ones are real. Harry  Nial left the CIA in large part because of what it had done to Chrisi, the beautiful young Greek woman he loved.  He became a charter boat captain sailing the Greek islands. But hi is in Washington, broke and boatless, when he is offered a job by a splinter intelligence group: Go back to Greece to buy a KGB agent's defection with a million dollars as bait.  The mission seems easy until he meets the Russian.  And then it turns out to be impossible.  yet with a million dollars at stake  and two professionals to collaborate, why not turn to invention?Here,  in a novel with enough twists to delight and confound anyone, is a story as strong in atmosphere as it is in plot, as chillingly realistic as it is absorbing.

Cover stories: A novel

DELACORTE PRESS

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The good thief

The mushroom cave

Cover stories: A novel