Books by Mitchell Smith and Complete Book Reviews
Mitchell Smith, Author . Forge $23.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-312-87896-2
Suspense novelist Smith (Reprisal) delivers a dark, creepy tale of human survival set several hundred years after an apocalypse caused by a change in Jupiter's orbit. Almost a sci-fi yarn without the gadgets and gizmos, Smith's thriller...
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Mitchell Smith, Author Signet Book $5.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-451-16930-3
A middle-aged professor convicted of hit-and-run homicide lands in a violent state prison and is coerced by officials to participate in an undercover murder investigation there. ``A compelling narrative, right down to its shocking, yet somehow...
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Mitchell Smith, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $17.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-07-059082-3
From the grisly, yet dreamy, opening scene to the bloody ending and its final, funny line, this thriller is smashing. New York call girl Sally Gaither is tortured and horribly killed. Some NYPD brass join with the Feds, covering up a Vice-Presidentia
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Mitchell Smith, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73877-8
Smith's obvious firsthand knowledge of an unusual subject, combined with a dramatic restatement of a potent contemporary issue, makes this novel a standout. Widowed trapper Sara Maher survives alone in the wilderness of Alaska's Brooks Range. Her...
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Mitchell Smith, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-93773-9
In this bear trap of a thriller, Smith eases up on the literary ambitions of his recent suspense novels (Due North; Stone City) to offer a sinewy chiller that will leave readers wide-eyed. Much is familiar here-the Raos, the ruthless Hindu criminal...
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Mitchell Smith, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-93978-8
There's little to surprise veteran thriller readers in Smith's new crime novel (after Karma, 1994), and not much to please them either. The villain is a familiar sort--a serial killer--as are her pursuers, aging robber Tyler Pierce, who's an ex-con,
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Mitchell Smith, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-93979-5
Quaint New England beaches and disorientingly vast, scary caves are among the effective settings used by Smith (Sacrifice) in this absorbing tale of memory, murder and long-postponed revenge. Smith's sixth novel offers much suspense but little...
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Mitchell Smith, Author . Tor $25.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0009-6
In Smith's gritty conclusion to his trilogy (Snowfall
; Kingdom River
) set during an ice age 600 years from now, young Prince "Baj" Bajazet, formerly the adopted scion of the royal clan that rules the lower Mississippi Valley, is on the
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