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Collateral DamageSt. Martin’s Press “If you’ve ever heard the Buddy Morrow Orchestra play “Night Train,” you can form a perfect mental image of Cindy Shepherd walking into the living room at Calvert Manor. That at least was the opinion of Richard Michaelson, who had.”
"...this is the cleverest
whodunit of the season, wrapped up in the cleverest dialogue." |
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Worst Case ScenarioCrown Publishers, Inc. “Richard Michaelson, for several good reasons, thought Deborah Moodie was a saint. For pretty much the same reasons, a number of other people in Washington thought she was a royal pain.”
"...Worst Case
Scenario is an old-fashioned locked-door murder mystery filled
with dry wit and shrewd deduction." "...Bowen seems to have
the real stuff. He's funny and cynical and is capable of conjuring
up a credible scenario." "Half a dozen
paragraphs into Worst Case Scenario, I lost my skepticism.
If Michael Bowen doesn't really know the nitty-gritty of Washington
politics, he's got me fooled." "Michaelson's fourth
case is as ebullient as his earliest work, filled with hacks to
scabrously clever and dialogue so rioutously understated that you'll
cruise through the whole story with an uninterrupted smirk of
complicity." "The volatile mixture
of politics and government secrets, all of which are deadly,
explodes in a tale of innuendo run amok that would make Joe Klein
proud."
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Corruptly ProcuredSt. Martin’s Press “The leaders of the world’s seven most industrialized countries visited the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress one evening in mid-June, making it for seventeen minutes the most dangerous place on earth. Remarkably, though, none of them was the target of the bomb that exploded there that night.” |
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Faithfully ExecutedSt. Martin’s Press “The day before he was supposed to kill Henry Luttwalk, Alex Cunningham tilted at the rings. He enjoyed himself.”
“Nicely detailed,
intriguing tale…Bowen gives readers a highly satisfying peek at the
machinations of bureaucratic Washington.” “Effervescent enough
to make you forget how hard the puzzle’s making you work.” “Bowen’s latest
shores up his deserved reputation for producing intricately designed
plots, complete with satisfying twists and turns that lead to a
stunning climax.”
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Washington DeceasedSt. Martin’s Press “The human body isn’t designed to survive a collision with eight grams of lead moving twenty-five hundred feet per second, and Sweet Tony Martinelli’s body didn’t. His extinction had both positive and negative implications for former United States Senator Desmond Gardner. On the plus side, it perceptibly improved the immediate quality of Gardner’s life. On the other hand, Gardner thought it might interfere with his parole application.”
“Bowen…writes with
such swift and cynical humor that you are sure to be entertained.” “The fun of this
novel…is in the characters and the way they maneuver and manipulate
their way around the Washington political and bureaucratic jungles.” “Bright and funny…Who
says they don’t make them like this anymore?” “All of Bowen’s
fiction has one element in common—a wry comedy sense.”
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