Except for himself—and even he doesn't seem all that certain—no one knows exactly how many people Adam Whistler has killed. Now, however, at age 34, Whistler, the star of Maxim's slick, darkly comic bad guy vs. bad guy crime...
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John R. Maxim, Author . Morrow $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-000584-9
Travelers to Westport, Conn., should keep an eye open for unusual characters. That distinguished old gent who runs an antique shop? He's an ex-KGB colonel. That red-haired woman whose bookstore sells a lot of Harry Potters? She's a...
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John R. Maxim, Author Bantam $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29920-5
Super-agent/assassin Paul Bannerman returns from semi-retirement in suburbia to confront hoodlums exploiting the chaos in post-Soviet Russia. A gang of rogue KGB agents and cartoonishly brutal Russian mobsters aims to take advantage of the vacuum of
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John R. Maxim, Author Avon Books $6.99 (393p) ISBN 978-0-380-78668-8
Maxim abandons his usual spy-vs.-spy milieu for this tale of counterfeit prescription drugs, which received a starred PW review. (Sept.)
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John R. Maxim, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-97544-0
Leave it to someone as clever as the author of Haven to come up with a crackerjack thriller premise based on MPD (multiple personality disorder). Dr. Norman Zales is the director of Project Chameleon, whose sinister experiment aims to produce a new...
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John R. Maxim, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (502p) ISBN 978-0-395-36801-5
Every time it snows, Jonathan Corbin sees people and scenes that haven't existed for 100 years. Is he being haunted or has he lost his mind? Sturdevant, the psychiatrist his girlfriend Gwen brings in, has another explanation: Jonathan is in the grip
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John R. Maxim, Author Avon Books $23 (380p) ISBN 978-0-380-97300-2
Maxim's crackjack thriller inaugurates not only Avon's new hardcover line but also a fresh direction for the author, who here abandons his usual spy-vs.-spy milieu (Bannerman's Law, etc.) to highlight the terrifying dimensions of the manufacture and
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John R. Maxim, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (374p) ISBN 978-0-380-97301-9
By hinging plot twists on mistakes in reasoning and identity, Maxim (The Shadow Box) puts a smart spin on this tense, clever new thriller. What seems to be the main objective in the tale--an Islamic group's plan to gain access to nuclear weapons in...
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