Books by John Altman and Complete Book Reviews
John Altman, Author . Putnam $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-399-15040-1
In his first two well-received thrillers, A Gathering of Spies
and A Game of Spies, Altman used familiar backgrounds from WWII fiction in imaginative ways. He does the same good service in his latest, an exciting and moving adventure set in the...
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John Altman, Author . Putnam $24.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-399-15173-6
When captured al-Qaeda operative Ali Zattout proves less than forthcoming with his CIA interrogators, they subject him to the manipulations of regretful psychiatrist Louis Finney, who tries everything from mellow conversation to electroshock-induced
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John Altman, Author Putnam Adult $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14641-1
This atmospheric debut thriller smells deliciously of Hitchcock and 1940s British spy films. Beautiful Catherine Danielson Carter is really Katarina Heinrich, a Nazi spy who has gone deep undercover, found work as a housekeeper in Princeton, N.J.,...
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John Altman. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8384-1
An unlikely group of conspirators target President Eisenhower in this solid what-if thriller from Altman (The Watchmen). In the fall of 1955, Ike is holed up in a retreat near Gettysburg, Pa., after a heart attack scare, but the chief of the Secret...
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John Altman. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8509-8
This can’t-put-it-down spy thriller from Altman (The Art of the Devil) introduces the most deadly and proficient young woman warrior since the Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen. Spymaster Julian Quinn has saved homeless Cassie Bradbury from a life on...
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John Altman. Blackstone, $26.99 (364p) ISBN 978-1-5047-9772-6
Altman (Disposable Asset) doesn’t offer anything new in this paint-by-numbers political thriller. The Mossad head (aka the ramsad), who’s worried that the American administration has become less supportive of Israel, believes that a “tragedy on U.S.
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