Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold: Tales of Intrigue From the Cold War

✍ Scribed by Jeffery Deaver; Raymond Benson; Joseph Finder; J. A. Jance; Laura Lippman; John Lescroart; T. Jefferson Parker; Sara Paretsky

• Book ID: 108963187
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 299 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781455520725

✦ Synopsis

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.

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