Ice Cold Tales of Intrigue from the Cold War

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” o...

Author: Lippman Laura, Deaver Jeffery, Parker T. Jefferson, Parker T. Jefferson, Jance J. A., Paretsky Sara, Lescroart John, Dubois Brendan, Cook Alan, Benson Raymond, Finder Joseph, Lynds Gayle, Alexander Gary, Vincent Bev, Lief Katia, Doudera Vicki, Stone Jonathan, Vernon Gigi, Wallace Joseph, Mangeot Robert, Neville Katherine
ISBN: 9781455520725
Year of publication: 2014
Genre: Spy detective, Thriller
Number of pages: 396
Reading time: 6 h. 36 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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