Les Standiford, Author . Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14874-3
Among mystery buffs, John D. MacDonald may be the poet laureate of South Florida, but now Standiford—whose work has been praised by Elmore Leonard and Stephen King, among others—bids fair to be MacDonald's heir apparent. (Travis...
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Les Standiford, Author . Crown $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-609-60748-0
A good idea—to have a novelist tell the story of Henry Morrison Flagler, the 19th-century mogul credited with developing Florida as a vacation paradise—goes sadly astray here. Readers hoping to learn about the man will be disappointed,
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Les Standiford, Author . Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15059-3
This rock-solid novel, number eight in Standiford's line of South Florida crime capers (Deal on Ice; Raw Deal;
etc.) is as blunt and powerful as a punch to the head from series hero John Deal himself. Deal is rebuilding the failed Miami...
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Les Standiford, Author . Crown $19.95 (241p) ISBN 978-0-307-40578-4
Charles Dickens was almost 32 in late 1843, and his career trajectory was downward. Since the megasuccess of The Old Curiosity Shop
, dwindling sales of his work and problems with his publisher left little doubt in his mind: he would support his...
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Les Standiford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-018655-5
Standiford again proves he has the right stuff with this fifth--perhaps breakout--episode in the ongoing misadventures of unassuming, dilemma-prone Miami builder John Deal (Deal on Ice, etc.). Overnight, Deal achieves national hero status when he...
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Les Standiford, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14584-1
In 1991, before Standiford launched his popular and acclaimed John Deal thriller series (Presidential Deal, etc.), he published Spill, an undistinguished novel about environmental disaster in Yellowstone. Now he's written another non-Deal novel. It,
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Les Standiford, Author Putnam Adult $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-14704-3
After a 30-month-long hiatus that produced the Deal-less action chiller Black Mountain (Forecasts, Jan. 31), erudite suspense author Standiford brings back urban Miami builder John Deal--a sort of ""Galahad with a claw hammer""--in this artfully...
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Les Standiford, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (326p) ISBN 978-0-87113-438-7
Standiford's debut is a riveting thriller about a lethal biological weapon. A scientist has developed a supergerm that produces a hemorrhagic fever, with which he plans to blackmail his company, PetroDyne. The company's executives order Skanz, a...
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Les Standiford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (282p) ISBN 978-0-06-017732-4
There's no question about Standiford's terrific ability to move a story along, but, judging by this generally sharp sequel to his debut novel, Done Deal, his characterizations could use some tuning. Building contractor John Deal, eventually...
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Les Standiford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $22 (327p) ISBN 978-0-06-017621-1
This suspenseful third John Deal crime thriller from Standiford finds the Miami building contractor tangling with Chinese gangsters who are trying to move in on a scheme hatched by two Hollywood porno magnates to create X-rated films for the huge...
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Les Standiford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $23 (239p) ISBN 978-0-06-017620-4
Miami contractor John Deal hopes to reconcile with his wife, Janice, after her nervous breakdown. But it's slow going. In this fourth and best installment in a first-rate thriller series (Deal to Die For, etc.), Standiford litters the road back to...
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Les Standiford. Ecco, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-225142-8
Standiford (Last Train to Paradise) takes on and defends (despite claims that the book is merely factual) the controversial and steadfast William Mulholland, who developed and oversaw the seemingly impossible construction of an aqueduct from Owens...
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Les Standiford with Det. Sgt. Joe Matthews, Ecco, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-198390-0
On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh disappeared from a Sears store in Hollywood, Fla., and his partial remains were found in a canal two weeks later. Novelist and nonfiction author Standiford (Last Train to Paradise) charts with devastating...
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Les Standiford. Atlantic Monthly, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2849-2
History writer Standiford (Last Train to Paradise) delivers a readable history of the wealthy Americans who developed Florida for their vacationing pleasure. Oil and railroad magnate Henry Flagler, seeking new business opportunities in the 1880s,...
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Les Standiford. PublicAffairs, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-5417-6228-2
Historian Standiford (Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu) delivers a zippy history of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus. He traces the roots of the modern circus to 18th-century England, and notes that “a truly indigenous...
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