New York Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper returns in Night Watch (Dutton $26.95) in an evening in our Books at the Biltmore program with fellow author Joseph Kanon. Our event will be in the GOLD ROOM at the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and kicks off a Poisoned Pen Conference continuing on Friday July 13. Details to come re Conference and the Hotel Rate for attendees.
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Joseph Kanon paints another nuanced thriller, this time with the ancient city of Istanbul as background, in Istanbul Passage (Atria $26.95) in an evening in our Books at the Biltmore program with fellow author Linda Fairtstein Our event will be in the GOLD ROOM at the fabulous Arizona Biltmore and kicks off a Poisoned Pen Conference continuing on Friday July 13. Details to come re Conference and the Hotel Rate for attendees.
Joseph Kanon was born in Pennsylvania and was educated at Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge (U.K.).
While still an undergraduate at Harvard, he began a career in publishing as a reader for The Atlantic and subsequently held editorial positions at The Saturday Review, Little,Brown, and Coward, McCann. Executive positions followed: President and CEO of E.P. Dutton and Snr. Vice-President and Head of Trade and Reference Publishing at Houghton Mifflin.
In 1995, on a visit to the Southwest, he visited Los Alamos and conceived the ideal for a novel about the Manhattan Project. Los Alamos, published in 1997 was a best-seller, translated into 20 languages, and won the Edgar Award for best first novel. Now a full-time writer, he followed it with The Prodigal Spy (’98), The Good German (’01), Alibi (’05), and Stardust.
In 2005, The Good German was made into a film with George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
That same year Kanon won the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers for Alibi and in 2007 was given The Anne Frank Human Writes Award by The Anne Frank Foundation for his writings on the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Joe lives in New York with his wife, literary agent Robin Straus. They have two sons.
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From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos—a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era.
A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion.
Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon’s attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.
Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Joseph Kanon’s latest novel flawlessly blends fact and fiction into a haunting thriller about the dawn of the Cold War, once again proving why Kanon has been hailed as the “heir apparent to Graham Greene” (The Boston Globe).
Join us on Friday July 13!! - An auspicious date for mystery lovers
Conference $40: register via the bookstore 888 560 9919 or sales@poisonedpen.com
Arizona Biltmore room rate: $95/night plus taxes Call 800-950-0086 using Rate ID 2726435
or go to http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/reservations/index.jhtml?hotel=PHXBMWA&corporateCode=N2726435
Probable program time: 11 AM – 5 PM
Cash Buffet lunch
Hotel summer room rate details to come, as will registration fee
Confirmed authors so far: Francine Mathews/Stephanie Barron, Dana Stabenow, Mark DeCastrique, Timothy Hallinan and Alex Kava
Our conference kicks off July 12 at 7 PM with Linda Fairstein and Joseph Kanon, see their Events
The Fallen Angel (Harper $27.99)
Join us at the Arizona Biltmore’s Grand Ballroom. Doors open 6:00 PM
Cash bar and buffet Free valet parking ($2 tip appreciated). Ask the hotel for its special low summer rate.
The event is free but copies of The Fallen Angel to be signed must be purchased from The Poisoned Pen Bookstore. Pre-order a copy online, here.
Make a night of it. Reserve a room.
Arizona Biltmore room rate: $95/night plus taxes Call 800-950-0086 using Rate ID 2726435
or go to http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/reservations/index.jhtml?hotel=PHXBMWA&corporateCode=N2726435
Gabriel Allon—art restorer, spy, and assassin—returns in a spellbinding new thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling master of intrigue and suspense
When last we encountered Gabriel Allon in Portrait of a Spy, he was pitted in a blood-soaked duel with a deadly network of jihadist terrorists. Now, exposed and war-weary, he has returned to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican.
But while working early one morning in the conservation laboratory, Gabriel is summoned to Saint Peter’s Basilica by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman lies smashed and broken beneath Michelangelo’s magnificent dome. The Vatican police rule the death a suicidal fall, though Gabriel, with his restorer’s eye and flawless memory, suspects otherwise. So, it seems, does the monsignor. Concerned about a potential scandal, Donati fears a public inquiry will inflict more wounds on an already-damaged Church; he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents and experience to quietly pursue the truth—with one important caveat.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child(via Skype) join us once again at The Arizona Biltmore for the launch of their latest Pendergast Novel entitled TWO GRAVES. The doors open at 6pm. There is a cash bar/buffet. The event begins a 7pm. Q&A, booksigning and cocktails with Doug.
Doug and Linc have already posted excerpts from the upcoming novel on Facebook(see below) and rumor has it they are planning on releasing full chapters as we approach the launch date. Keep up with all the ins and outs by checking out their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/PrestonandChild.
More details to come!
Pendergast laid a pseudo-friendly hand on Gibb’s shoulder. “I can see, Agent Gibbs, that you and I are not only going to be colleagues working hand in glove, but we are also going to be good friends.”
“I look forward to it,” said Gibbs uneasily, deeply put out but struggling to maintain his composure.Pendergast patted Gibbs on the shoulder, and—D’Agosta thought he saw—gave it the slightest of pushes, as if propelling the man toward the door. “We shall see you tomorrow, Agent Gibbs?”
“Yes,” said Gibbs. He had recovered his equanimity and his face was darkening. “Yes, we shall. And then I would be glad to exchange credentials with you, hear about your background, and properly liaise our two departments.”
“We shall liaise until you are surfeited,” said Pendergast, turning his back on Gibbs in a gesture of dismissal.
