Heat from Another Sun [Import] [Paperback]

David Lindsey (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Corgi Books; New Ed edition (1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552126616
• ISBN-13: 978-0552126618
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,734,492 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Lindsey has published 14 novels in the mystery, thriller, suspense, and spy genres. He began his writing career in 1983 by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. One of those novels, "A Cold Mind" featuring Houston homicide detective, Stuart Haydon, has been called by reviewers "one of the best suspense novels of all time"; and "a classic of the genre." Lindsey began working closely with the Houston Homicide Division for his research, and by the late 1980s Lindsey had written four Haydon novels.

In 1988 he changed directions and began extensive research for a novel that would become one of the first to be published about a then new criminal phenomenon, the serial killer. Published in 1990, "Mercy" became an international bestseller. In 1992 the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), featured Lindsey in an hour-long special program in their "Literature and Culture" series. "Mercy" was optioned for a feature film production, and remained under option for over a decade before it was finally filmed and premiered on HBO in April 2000.

In 1992 "Body of Truth", the fifth and last novel to feature Stuart Haydon, was published and won Germany's Bochumer Krimi Archiv award for the best suspense novel of the year. Lindsey turned to international settings with "Requiem for a Glass Heart" (1996) and "The Color of Night" (1999). The first novel dealt with international crime, while the second was set in the world of spies and international intelligence. "The Rules of Silence", Lindsey's twelfth novel was published in 2003, and was the first to be set in his home city, Austin. It was immediately bought outright by Universal Studios for a feature film production.

After publishing his thirteenth novel, Lindsey spent the next several years pursuing two large teleplay projects before his curiosity brought him back to novels in 2007. He began researching the astonishing rise of the government's outsourcing of national intelligence. Silently, and out of sight, privatized spying had become a multi-billion dollar industry in the years following 9/11. The industry's growth has been so explosive that private contractors now command over 70% of the nation's entire intelligence budget. Some of the corporations have become information industry giants with government contracts in the billions of dollars annually.

Lindsey thought this subject was tailor-made for long form fiction, but he soon realized that the story he wanted to tell was too large to be encompassed in a single volume. In 2011 Lindsey, writing under the pseudonym Paul Harper, published "Pacific Heights", the first volume in a serial novel featuring former intelligence officer Marten Fane. "Sorrow's Spy", the second volume in the Marten Fane Story serial novel will be published in 2012.

Lindsey researches and writes his novels in his library, which is adjacent to his home in Austin, Texas.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heat Indeed, April 28, 2005

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Shannon Deason (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heat from Another Sun (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a riviting book, it simmers throughout. It deals with detective Stuart Heydon, one of Lindseys best protagonists. The story is facinating and the villian is vintage Lindsey. The story is chilling and the material graphic to say the least. Lindsey always captures Houston so well in his books and this one is no exception, you can almost feel the humidity sticking to your skin. I think this is one on his strongest books, it is well paced and well researched, like all of Lindsey's books. It is a taunt thriller and you will not be able to put it down, I just read it again recently and it was just as bone chilling.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tropical Heat Wave, February 5, 2001

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sweetmolly (RICHMOND, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat from Another Sun (Mass Market Paperback)

David Lindsey is a prosemeister. His descriptions are lush; his characterizations have clarity and depth. His Houston Police Department detective Stuart Haydon is a many faceted, sensitive man, perhaps too sensitive to be a homicide cop. Haydon's helpless, nightmare flashbacks were vividly, realistically done.

The plot is unusual. The crime is not a crime: the obsessive collection of violent scenes and film footage. Mr. Lindsey is skillful enough that we feel as repelled by the violence as we would child pornography.

This was my first outing with Mr. Lindsey, and perhaps "Heat from Another Sun" is part of a series, but I never caught any reason for the fabulously wealthy Stuart Haydon to have a motivation for being a member of the Police Department. I became weary of the continual street directions "right on Main, left on Elder, cross Jessamine---" This may be fascinating to Houston residents, but is numbing to outsiders. If you never know another thing about Houston, you will be thoroughly convinced after reading this book; it must be the hottest, most humid place in the USA.

I thought the book should have been slimmed down. It occasionally dragged and felt padded. The pace was uneven; at times I was so lulled by the scene setting and the minute descriptions of apparel that I had to wake up and sit up straight when a graphic, hard-hitting passage popped up. Mr. Lindsey has a unique style; and I will try another book, as the author was recommended to me by a highly respected friend from the Amazon Discussion Boards.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, modern thriller, January 17, 2000

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philip s. watson (dallas, texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heat from Another Sun (Mass Market Paperback)

The title itself is a work of art. A rich recluse loves his violent movies and he's willing to pay for those that will provide bloody flicks for him. And the "fix" of third world war scenes just is not enough, and pruveyors of the sick mind get their video cams primed for more ways to make money. Houston police detective Stewart Hayden is a man of wealth and taste himself and here we go. David Lindsey writes beautifully, and even if the characters and plot were not first rate, the prose would be enough to keep the pages turning.