In the Ramapo Mountains of New York, the nude and mutilated body of a white John Doe is discovered in a car with diplomatic plates. When quick-tempered NYPD Detective Francis X. Byrne finds a photograph of his own mother on the victim, he is soon enmeshed in an investigation that takes him into the seedy underworld of urban darkness to uncover a deadly global conspiracy of double agents and false identities. Simultaneous hardcover release from Warner Books. 2 cassettes.
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Was there a link between Lee Harvey Oswald's years in Russia and the J.F.K. assassination? In this stylish, darkly twisted debut thriller by a former music writer for Time magazine, New York police detective Francis X. Byrne uncovers just such a connection as he probes the grisly murder of a kinky Danish diplomat. Byrne also finds that his own FBI agent brother and their Polish American mother are important pieces of the puzzle.
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Time editor and respected journalist Walsh debuts with an uneven international thriller starring New York cop Francis X. Byrne, Lee Harvey Oswald, a host of Mafia dons, and plenty of Eurotrash. When the sexually molested corpse of a John Doe is discovered in upstate New York in a car with diplomatic plates, it seems the only evidence at the scene is a photograph of Detective Byrne's mother. The victim is Danish cultural attache Egil Ekdahl, a young man who had a penchant for kinky sex. As Byrne finds himself obsessed with stunning Ingrid Bentsen, also of the Danish Consul's office, his brother Tom, an FBI agent, shows up brandishing his own agenda and claiming Ingrid as his fiancee. The Mob, Tom, and a number of factions are after an elusive KGB file on Oswald's stint in the Soviet Union. This novel is raunchy and occasionally rough going, but Byrne is an engaging protagonist, and Walsh shows promise.?Susan A. Zappia, Maricopa Cty. Lib. Dist., Phoenix
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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With five critically acclaimed novels, as well as a hit TV movie, journalist, author and screenwriter Michael Walsh has achieved the writer's trifecta: two New York Times best-sellers, a major literary award and, as co-writer, the Disney Channel's then-highest-rated show.
The 1998 publication of As Time Goes By -- his long-awaited and controversial prequel/sequel to everybody's favorite movie, Casablanca -- created a literary sensation; translated into more than twenty languages, including Portuguese, Chinese and Hebrew, the story of Rick and Ilsa landed on best-seller lists around the world.
His first novel, the dark thriller Exchange Alley, was published by Warner Books in July 1997. Hailed by critics for its moody depiction of a crumbling Soviet Union - which Walsh covered first-hand as a correspondent for Time Magazine - and a violent, dangerous New York City during the darkest days of the early 1990s, the novel was picked by the Book-of-the-Month Club as an alternate selection.
Walsh's third novel, the gripping gangster saga, And All the Saints, was named a winner at the 2004 American Book Awards; even before publication, the movie rights to this fictionalized "autobiography" of the legendary Prohibition-era gangster Owney Madden was bought by MGM.
His 2009 novel, Hostile Intent, the first in a series of five thrillers about the National Security Agency to be published by Kensington Books, was an Amazon Kindle #1 bestseller, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The eagerly awaited sequel, Early Warning, will be published in Sept.
In the spring of 2002, the Disney Channel premiered Walsh's original movie (co-written with Gail Parent), Cadet Kelly, starring teen idol Hilary Duff of "Lizzie McGuire" fame. Until High School Music, the two-hour film reigned as the highest-rated original movie in Disney Channel history, as well as the Disney Channel's highest-rated single program ever.
Walsh is also the author of Who's Afraid of Classical Music (1989) and Who's Afraid of Opera (1994) for Fireside Books, and Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works, a critical biography of the composer for Harry M. Abrams (U.S.) and Viking Penguin (U.K.), published in the fall of 1989; an updated and expanded edition appeared in 1997. With fellow TIME Contributor Richard Schickel, he is the co-author of Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years, a cultural history of the great American concert hall published by Abrams in November 1987. His most recent book about music is So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?, published by Amadeus Press.
The 1998 publication of As Time Goes By -- his long-awaited and controversial prequel/sequel to everybody's favorite movie, Casablanca -- created a literary sensation; translated into more than twenty languages, including Portuguese, Chinese and Hebrew, the story of Rick and Ilsa landed on best-seller lists around the world.
His first novel, the dark thriller Exchange Alley, was published by Warner Books in July 1997. Hailed by critics for its moody depiction of a crumbling Soviet Union - which Walsh covered first-hand as a correspondent for Time Magazine - and a violent, dangerous New York City during the darkest days of the early 1990s, the novel was picked by the Book-of-the-Month Club as an alternate selection.
Walsh's third novel, the gripping gangster saga, And All the Saints, was named a winner at the 2004 American Book Awards; even before publication, the movie rights to this fictionalized "autobiography" of the legendary Prohibition-era gangster Owney Madden was bought by MGM.
His 2009 novel, Hostile Intent, the first in a series of five thrillers about the National Security Agency to be published by Kensington Books, was an Amazon Kindle #1 bestseller, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The eagerly awaited sequel, Early Warning, will be published in Sept.
In the spring of 2002, the Disney Channel premiered Walsh's original movie (co-written with Gail Parent), Cadet Kelly, starring teen idol Hilary Duff of "Lizzie McGuire" fame. Until High School Music, the two-hour film reigned as the highest-rated original movie in Disney Channel history, as well as the Disney Channel's highest-rated single program ever.
Walsh is also the author of Who's Afraid of Classical Music (1989) and Who's Afraid of Opera (1994) for Fireside Books, and Andrew Lloyd Webber: His Life and Works, a critical biography of the composer for Harry M. Abrams (U.S.) and Viking Penguin (U.K.), published in the fall of 1989; an updated and expanded edition appeared in 1997. With fellow TIME Contributor Richard Schickel, he is the co-author of Carnegie Hall: The First One Hundred Years, a cultural history of the great American concert hall published by Abrams in November 1987. His most recent book about music is So When Does the Fat Lady Sing?, published by Amadeus Press.
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I spent a week of backing up, losing which russian character with simular names were which, what the main characters name was and came away totally confused. How "exchange alley" in New orleans or Lee Harvey Oswald became even a part of this book was to entice readers to a subject that wasn't really relevent. I was left in a cloud of confusion at the end with no justice for the evil doers.
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A Bargain and a Half,
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99 cents? You cannot be serious, as the famous tennis player might say. Intrigue, action, a riveting plot, fascinating characters, and writing that jumps off the page. You're almost willing to believe that Walsh lived the events. He knows his stuff; no filler here. Odds are you're going to want to read more from this author.
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Well Written, but Why?,
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Good writing, lots of plot twists, but in the end it was a pointless long book marred by unneeded extremely graphic violence. As another reviewer noted, the author never ties the book's title to the story other than a few offhand references. Things that should be explained aren't, and when I finished the book I felt that I had nothing to show or value for the time taken to read it. And yes, the typhos were extremely irritating.
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