When the mysterious Jean More dies in the small plane she learned to fly just two weeks earlier, she leaves her paramour David Lum with seemingly unanswerable questions: How had she come by the scars on her body? Why was she wanted by the FBI? What w...
Haunted by his refusal to help a Basque nationalist years before, former journalist turned New York librarian John Balthasar stumbles upon a connection between Spanish exiles in New York and Cubans in Florida, the FBI, and a conspiracy involving nucl...
Zeeland tracks grandfather and grandson Michel and Michael Beauchamp as they embark on parallel journeys through wartime Europe. Separated by 70 years, Michael, an American soldier, and Michel, a French printer, flee German-occupied France towards Gi...
An American Romance, Hans Koning’s second novel, was originally published in 1960 by Simon and Schuster. It is a story of love and marriage -- and the devastating difference between the two conditions. Two attractive young people marry within three...
The Petersburg-Cannes Express is the story of Anna and Andrew, two early Socialist revolutionaries riding a train across Europe in the year 1900, attempting to catch a sly former Secret Police official. Draskovich is traveling to France to extradite ...
The story concerns an English girl, just turning 20, who leaves a drab life in London and comes to New York. The unnamed girl speaks in her own person, and this almost conversational narrative is interrupted now and then by another, third-person voic...
During the plague year of 1358, Heron, a French student, decides to walk to the sea and then to seek passage to England. His journey symbolizes freedom, as he turns his back on both the ruling oligarchy and the peasant armies forming all over Europe....
It is the 1960's and the Vietnam War is casting its ugly shadow. Stephen is a young journalist who has been abroad for a year running a radio program. Returning to the United States, a chance encounter at a bus stop connects him to a young and innoce...