Larry Collins

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1969
  • Latest Book:
    October 2005
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About the Author

Larry Collins was born in West Hartford, Connecticut.
after graduating from The Loomis School and Yale University, he served in the US Army at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe) outside Paris, where he met Dominique Lapierre. Collins later became a journalist with United Press International in Paris, Rome and the Middle East, where he joined Newsweek as its Middle East correspondent in 1958. In April 1961, he returned to Paris as the Newsweek Bureau Chief. Later that year he teamed up with Dominique Lapierre on the first of their internationally known bestsellers - Is Paris Burning?, followed by O Jerusalem!, Freedom at Midnight. Or I'll Dress You in Mourning and The Fifth Horseman.
In 1966, Collins married Egyptian princess Nadia Sultan. They had two sons, Michael and Lawrence.
He died in 2005.

Book List in Order: 7 titles

  • Or I'll Dress You In Mourning

    From the City of Light to the Suit of Lights with the authors of Is Paris Burning? as they trace the rise of matador El Cordobes from anonymous, impoverished boyhood to fame and multi-millionaire. Collins and Lapierre have again chosen a magnetic sub...

  • Fall from Grace

  • The Fifth Horseman

    In a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat, Libyan leader Qaddafi holds New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb...

  • Maze

    SHADOW WAR - A BATTLE OF MINDS While the CIA is doing its research into psychic powers - aided in their experiments by a woman who has the uncanny ability to locate the co-ordinates of Soviet submarines - the Russians have an altogether bigger and m...

  • Black Eagles

    Idealistic DEA agent Kevin Grady locks horns with Jack Lind, a tough CIA operative, as they find themselves on opposite sides of the violent and deadly world of drug smuggling in Manual Noriega's Panama. Reprint....

  • The Road to Armageddon

    When Iran's deadly nuclear game is revealed, CIA agent Frank Williams realizes there is only one man made for the job of traveling to the other side of the world to neutralize this threat -- his disgraced former partner, agent Jim Duffy. Williams tra...

  • Is New York Burning?

    The clock is ticking toward an inexorable deadline... Three years after 9/11, terrorists have hidden an atomic bomb in the heart of New York. If the President of the United States does not force his Israeli allies to abandon all the land they have oc...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Larry Collins has published 7 books.

Larry Collins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Is New York Burning?, was published in October 2005.

The first book by Larry Collins, Or I'll Dress You In Mourning, was published in June 1969.

No. Larry Collins does not write books in series.
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