Patrick Dillon, Author . Justin, Charles & Co. $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-932112-00-9
This remarkable cultural history of England's 18th-century craze for gin—which first was called Geneva after the Dutch name for the juniper berries used to flavor the drink—is an illuminating trip through many layers of British...
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Pat Dillon, Author, Patrick Dillon, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (350p) ISBN 978-0-684-83614-0
Lampooning the excesses and eccentricities of Silicon Valley's hi-tech moguls with up-to-the-minute detail, this tale of deception, greed, revenge, Internet hype and vaporware was serialized in the San Jose Mercury News and on an interactive site on
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Patrick Dillon, Author Dial Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-31421-3
The Wall Street Journal recently noted that last year ""commercial fishing lost its place as the most dangerous occupation."" If so, part of the reason must be traced back 15 years to February 14, 1983, when 14 men from the town of Anacortes, Wash.,
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Patrick Dillon. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-68177-155-7
Dillon’s vibrant retelling of The Odyssey is set during the aftermath of the Trojan War and centers on Telemachus, son of the Greek war hero Odysseus. The book deftly chronicles the 16-year-old’s feelings of abandonment, humiliation, and anguish as...
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