From Simon & Schuster, Year of the Gun is Michael Mewshaw's novel about one writer's quest for the truth.In Rome, where anarchy prevails under The Red Brigade, American writer David Raybourne finds inspiration for a novel on terrorism. But when an ov...
Zack McClintock, an over-the-hill "security consultant," knows he isn't up to traveling to Central Asia in search of his kidnapped son-in-law. A group claiming to be Islamic fundamentalists has first demanded a million-dollar ransom, then suddenly of...
Living on the exclusive resort island of Eden off the coast of Florida after being forced into retirement after a corporate takeover, Frank Pritchard spends his days quietly, reminiscing about his late wife and dreaming up ways to get back at the cor...
In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest human emotions.A family matriarch -- half Medea, half Clytemnestra -- calls home ...
When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants...
The son of a Spanish mother and an American father who claimed to have worked for the CIA, Paul Stewart lives in his family home, a carmen in the Albaicín district of Granada. The house, which surrounds a lush courtyard, has foundations that dat...