Tongues of Fire: A Novel [Hardcover]

Peter Abrahams (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: M Evans & Co; 1st Ed. edition (April 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087131374X
• ISBN-13: 978-0871313744
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,773,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Abrahams - "criminally gifted" according to the New York Times Book Review - is the author of 27 novels. These include the New York Times bestselling Echo Falls mystery series for middle-graders (DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE, BEHIND THE CURTAIN, INTO THE DARK) and REALITY CHECK (2009) for teens. Among his adult books are OBLIVION (Shamus prize finalist), THE FAN (made into a movie with Robert DeNiro) and LIGHTS OUT (Edgar award finalist). DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE was a finalist for the Edgar best young adult mystery award and won the Agatha in the same category. BEHIND THE CURTAIN and INTO THE DARK were Agatha finalists. In her Cleveland Plain Dealer review of NERVE DAMAGE (2007), Michelle Ross wrote: "I swear, if one more literary person says in that oh-so-condescendng tone, 'Oh, I don't read ... mysteries,' I'm going to take a novel by Peter Abrahams and smack him on his smug little head." REALITY CHECK won the best young adult mystery Edgar award in 2010. ROBBIE FORESTER AND THE OUTLAWS OF SHERWOOD STREET, January 2012, is first in a new middle-grade series about a twelve-year-old Robin Hood in contemporary Brooklyn.
As Spencer Quinn, Abrahams also writes the New York Times bestselling Chet and Bernie mystery series: DOG ON it, THEREBY HANGS A TAIL, TO FETCH A THIEF, and THE DOG WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. He has a website - peterabrahams.com; and so does Chet - chetthedog.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Return of the "Mahdi", June 22, 2011

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ThorBjorn "Norseman" (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tongues of Fire (Paperback)

The tragic destruction of Isreal at the hands of barbarians...

An Israeli army-reserve officer, Isaac Rehv, finds himself alone after his unit is over-run and decimated. In the rubble of his old neighborhood in Haifa, ...he finds that his wife, daughter, and mother have been viciously raped and murdered by the enemy. His nation, his family, his life destroyed, ...he will never be the same again...

Isaac Rehv finds himself living a life of aimless despair as a refugee in America.
A chance encounter with Israeli-resistance, and the aftermath of a botched assassination attempt, inspire Mr. Rehv to take his own unique revenge against the islamic world.

Isaac Rehv is a professor of Arabic literature.
He understands the islamic world even more than most muslims.
With very little resources, Isaac Rehv undertakes a deceptively obscure scheme destined to have enormous impact.

The weapon: his own son!

However, one CIA agent has figured out that Isaac Rehv is up to something...