Mystery Writers of America presents Ice cold : tales of intrigue from the Cold War

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Mystery Writers of America presents Ice cold : tales of intrigue from the Cold War

ISBN:

9781482971422

9781482971446

Edition:

Unabridged.

Physical Description:

12 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Compact discs.

Contents:

Introduction / by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson -- Comrade 35 / by Jeffery Deaver -- Police report / by Joseph Finder -- The last confession / by John Lescroart -- A card for mother / by Gayle Lynds and John Sheldon -- Miss Bianca / by Sara Paretsky -- The essence of small people / by Gary Alexander -- Checkpoint Charlie / by Alan Cook -- Crush depth / by Brendan Dubois -- The honey trap / by Bev Vincent -- House of a thousand eyes / by Katia Leaf -- A neighbor's story / by Vicki Doudera -- East meets West / by Jonathan Stone -- Show stopper / by Gigi Vernon -- Deep submergence / by Joseph Wallace -- Sparks to the bear's hide / by Robert Mangeot -- Side effects / by T. Jefferson Parker -- The everyday housewife / by Laura Lippman -- Cuba libre / by Katherine Neville -- His mother's son / by J.A. Jance -- Ghosts / by Raymond Benson.

Subject Term:

Cold War -- Fiction.

Short stories, American.

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Added Author:

Benson, Raymond, 1955-

Added Corporate Author:

Mystery Writers of America.

Local Subject:

Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary:

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 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-dried 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 own "Comrade 35" offers a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy--with a signature twist.

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Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.

Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes 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-dried 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 own Comrade 35 offers a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy-with a signature twist.

Author Notes

Jeffery Deaver was born on May 6, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois. He received a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University. Before attending law school, he worked as a business writer. After law school, he worked for a Wall Street law firm practicing corporate law. In 1990, he decided to stop practicing law and become a full-time writer.

His first novel was a horror story entitled Voodoo. He is the author of more than 25 novels and has written some of those stories under the pseudonym William Jeffries. He writes the Lincoln Rhyme series and the Kathryn Dance series. A Maiden's Grave was adapted into a film by HBO called Dead Silence and The Bone Collector was adapted into a feature film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. He received the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association, the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year three times, and the British Thumping Good Read Award.

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