Allan Topol, Author . Onyx $6.99 (467p) ISBN 978-0-451-41064-1
John Grisham and Richard North Patterson may have a new successor in Topol. The Washington D.C. lawyer's second thriller (after Spy Dance) exposes a power-hungry group of people in the White House's inner sanctum. When womanizing Secretary...
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Allan Topol, Author . Onyx $7.50 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-41107-5
This Washington, D.C.–set thriller from Topol (Dark Ambition
) seethes with political intrigue, a cast of shady characters and enough deception, smart dialogue and behind-closed-doors deals to keep readers hooked until the final scene. When...
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Allan Topol. SelectBooks (www.selectbooks.com), $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59079-141-7
This humdrum contemporary thriller takes Craig Page, the CIA assassin who starred in Topol’s trilogy that concluded with 2013’s The Russian Endgame, to Argentina. There fellow CIA agent Ted Dunn, a friend of Page’s, has disappeared while gathering...
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Allan Topol. SelectBooks, $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-59079-266-7
Topol (The Argentine Triangle) successfully portrays the panicked terrors of that Washington staple, the public figure trying to escape a scandal by lying his way out of trouble. Sen. Wesley Jasper has slipped off to the island of Anguilla for some “
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Allan Topol. SelectBooks, $16.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59079-366-4
In Topol’s action-packed if simplistic fifth Craig Page thriller (after 2014’s The Argentine Triangle), the former CIA director, who has undergone plastic surgery and is now known as race car driver Enrico Marino, returns to the espionage world...
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Allan Topol. SelectBooks, $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-59079-425-8
Topol’s pedestrian sequel to 2015’s The Washington Lawyer pits FBI counterterrorism agent Kelly Cameron against Liu Guan, the head of China’s Ministry of State Security, who aims to neutralize U.S. influence in Asia. Kelly’s success in stopping an...
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Allan Topol. SelectBooks, $16.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-59079-449-4
The global ambitions of Russian president Fyodor Kuznov drive Topol’s lackluster sixth Carter Page thriller (after 2016’s The Italian Divide). Kuznov intends to use Hungary, whose prime minister is a key ally, as a stepping-stone to dominating...
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