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An uneasy man in a brutal business: Nine stories, including the Edgar-nominated "Marley's Revolution, " follow CIA case officer Charles Marley in his career of lies and seduction. He is adept, according to the people who run him, at turning other countries' spies with money and empty promises. His other talent is self-deception, about women and politics. By the author of The Man Who Knew Brecht. John C. Boland's short fiction has been nominate...

A breezy tale of financial intrigue." Baltimore Sun. New York stockbroker Don McCarry doesn't rate high on scruples or fair-dealing. If he can land a fat account of European money managed by Gustav Raab, he figures he can milk it like a farmer with four hands. He wouldn't share that plan with his waspy girlfriend Stacy Kimball or her father, who knows a thing about guys looking for the main chance. It's McCarry's bad luck that the Feds are aft...

Boland scores big with this tale of complicated money maneuvering and family strife": Kirkus Reviews. Richard Welles, youngest member of a prominent Maryland investment banking family, takes a sour pride in his knack for pressuring the firm's clients to reveal all they know about upcoming business deals. When a Gulf Coast company that provides boat service to offshore drilling platforms tilts toward bankruptcy, Welles discovers a hidden menace...

Love and murder in Key West. Stories from Alfred Hitchcock's and Ellery Queen's magazines. Tropical storms come and go, but human nature remains deadly all year long. Young Meggie Trevor, cast adrift emotionally--and into jeopardy--by the apparent death of her CIA agent father, takes on all the villains that rowdy Key Wasted has to offer: money-launderers, murderers, double-dealing gamblers and even a literary thief. In six stories, including ...

Richard Welles, the younger son of a Baltimore investment-banking family, is out for a rough-weather sail with his wife Anne when they rescue the young daughter of a real estate tycoon from a plane crash in the Chesapeake Bay. The child's father, Harry Wollenschaft, asks for help in a small financial matter, entangling Richard and Anne in a game of big-time money and murder. First paperback edition of 1995 hardcover.

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Publishers Weekly: "A mix of old-line Commies, red-diaper babies and more recent Russian emigres. . . . Engaging." Tamar Gillespie, a young artist married to a disabled policeman, cares nothing for the political passions that roiled her small Connecticut community fifty years ago. But when the community board agrees to host a family of Jewish refugees from the new Russia, Tamar finds that idealism can hide darker truths. Are these truths bette...

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