Adam LeBor, Author . Yale Univ. $35 (448p) ISBN 978-0-300-10317-5
Drawing on pithy interviews with key players, LeBor (Hitler's Secret Bankers
), who covered the Yugoslav wars for the Independent
and the London Times
, traces Milosevic's rise from a provincial childhood to leader of the Serbian Communist...
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Adam LeBor, Author . Norton $14.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-393-32984-1
As any student of the Middle East can attest, there's almost no way to approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with objectivity; virtually every word about it comes weighted with ideology or political mission. But English journalist LeBor (the
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Adam LeBor, Author Citadel Press $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55972-421-0
While the issue of Holocaust survivors trying to recover their assets held by Swiss banks is LeBor's focus, his extensively researched story examines a range of issues regarding Switzerland's conduct during WWII--and his depiction is largely...
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Adam Lebor. Harper/Bourbon Street, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-220855-2
British journalist Lebor (Hitler’s Secret Bankers) introduces brilliant and beautiful Yael Azoulay, a behind-the-scenes negotiator for the United Nations, in his gripping debut thriller, the first in a trilogy. In Goma, Congo, Yael tries to persuade
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Adam Lebor. PublicAffairs, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61039-254-9
Budapest-based journalist and literary critic Lebor (Hitler’s Secret Bankers) offers a critical history of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), a complex financial enterprise founded in 1930 and located in Basel, Switzerland, that serves the
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Adam LeBor. Harper/Bourbon Street, $15.99 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-233001-7
In LeBor's solid sequel to 2013's The Geneva Option, the skills of Yael Azoulay, the unofficial special negotiator for United Nations Secretary-General Fareed Hussein, have led to the upcoming Istanbul summit, to be attended by all major world...
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Adam Lebor. Harper, $15.99 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-233003-1
Lebor’s overstuffed final book in his trilogy featuring United Nations covert negotiator Yael Azoulay (after 2014’s The Washington Stratagem) takes Yale from Istanbul to New York City, where she has to deal with an array of problems, past and...
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Adam LeBor. Pegasus Crime, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-68177-734-4
In this superior series launch from LeBor (The Reykjavik Assignment), set in Hungary, Balthazar Kovacs, of the Budapest murder squad, is caught between the bias of his people, the Roma—who have turned against him because of his choice of profession—a
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Two British journalists who lived and worked in Eastern Europe, LeBor (Hitler's Secret Bankers) and Boyes (The Naked President) are sensitive to the myriad moral choices made by ordinary and extraordinary Germans in the face of evil. As the...
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