Thomas Laird, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0944-1
Ever since Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lector, fictional serial killers not only have to murder a lot of people, preferably leggy young women, but they have to do it as gruesomely as possible. In this well-paced first thriller by short story writer
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Thomas Laird, Author . Grove $26 (364p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1714-4
Laird, a journalist for Asiaweek
who has lived for many years in Nepal, traces the story of two CIA agents, Douglas Mackiernan and Frank Bessac, sent on an intelligence expedition to Tibet in 1949–1950, at the height of U.S. concern about...
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Thomas Laird, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (234p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1124-6
The two major American traumas of the '60s—J.F.K.'s assassination and the Vietnam War—collide in Laird's second, less gruesome, thriller (after 2001's Cutter) to feature Chicago police detective Jimmy Parisi. Jimmy...
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Thomas Laird, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (243p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1350-9
Chicago homicide detective Jimmy Parisi must contend with his own depression as well as a serial killer nicknamed the Count (so called for his habit of draining his female victims' blood) in British author Laird's third mystery thriller (afte
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Thomas Laird, Author . Grove $25 (470p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1827-1
In a tenderly crafted study that is equal parts love letter, traditional history and oral history, Laird chronicles the development of Tibet from its mythic origins to its takeover by Communist China in 1950. Weaving historical research with...
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