Stephan Talty, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-018517-6
Miscegenation, both cultural and biological, brings forth new ideas and undermines narrow conceptions, argues Talty, a noted culture writer for the New York Times Magazine, Spin
and Vibe.
Describing his project not as traditional academic history...
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Stephan Talty, Author . Crown $24.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-307-23660-9
Journalist Talty (Mulatto America
) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain's hegemony in the New World in this informative popular history. Seeking his...
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Stephan Talty, Author . Crown $25.95 (315p) ISBN 978-0-307-39404-0
When Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, typhus ravaged his army, killing hundreds of thousands and ensuring his defeat, according to this breathless combination of military and medical history. After summarizing the havoc this disease wreaked on...
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Stephan Talty, Crown, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-46095-0
Drawing from written eyewitness accounts and interviews with survivors, Talty (The Illustrious Dead) describes the events in 1959 that irrevocably altered the future of Tibet. He skillfully moves between protests in Lhasa and the Dalai Lama's escape
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Stephan Talty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-547-61481-6
Epic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this colorful caper saga. Journalist Talty (Empire of Blue Water) recounts the exploits of Juan Pujol, an idealistic Spanish chicken farmer and hotelier who ran an ingenious free-lance scam to feed German...
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Stephan Talty. Ballantine, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-53806-2
Talty’s first foray into crime fiction, a memorable story of betrayal and vengeance, centers on a working-class Irish enclave in contemporary Buffalo, N.Y. The macabre killing of gas-meter reader Jimmy Ryan brings Det. Absalom “Abbie” Kearney to...
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Stephan Talty. Ballantine, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-53808-6
Talty’s fast-paced sequel to 2013’s Black Irish breaks no new ground and relies on clichés common to serial killer novels. Brilliant Buffalo, N.Y., police detective Abbie Kearney and her colleagues are on high alert when a serial killer nicknamed...
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Stephan Talty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-63338-4
Talty (Black Irish) spins a gripping tale in this true crime account of one man’s crusade to combat organized crime in early-20th-century New York City. His hero is Joseph Petrosino, one of the first Italian-Americans hired by the New York Police...
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Stephan Talty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-86672-1
Talty (The Black Hand) skillfully and engagingly tells the dramatic story of 12 fateful days in the life of then-52-year-old Air Force navigator Gene Hambleton. After he’d bailed out behind enemy lines in South Vietnam when his plane was hit by a...
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Stephan Talty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-328-61308-0
Journalist Talty (Saving Bravo) revisits the 1965 assassination of Latvian war criminal Herbert Cukurs by Israeli secret agents in this brisk and dramatic history. Soon after German forces pushed the Soviet Army out of Latvia in 1941, Cukurs, a...
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Stephan Talty. Mariner, $32.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-358-58128-4
In this searing account, journalist Talty (The Black Hand) paints a detailed portrait of David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian cult. From his unwed teen mother’s religious obsession to his stepfather’s physical and mental abuse, Koresh,...
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Stephan Talty, Author, John H. Mayer, Read by , read by John H. Mayer. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4165-0
Henry Morgan was a Welsh-born sailor who traveled to the Caribbean as a privateer—a “licensed marauder of the sea”—on behalf of the British Empire. But before his career was over, he had become one of the most notorious...
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