William Dietrich, Author Simon & Schuster $25.5 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-79650-1
Washington's mighty Columbia River has been transformed in 60 years from an unruly river into a series of placid pools; it is the most heavily dammed river in the world, and the greatest producer of hydroelectricity. Dietrich (The Final Forest),...
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William Dietrich. Burrows Publishing, $13.99 paper (306p) ISBN 978-0-9906621-0-5
In this uneven tale, two modern teens are selected by aliens to travel back in time to prehistoric Africa, in order to protect the ancestors of the human race—the genetic Adam and Eve—from premature extinction. Picked seemingly at random, 16-year-old
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William Dietrich. Harper, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-219410-7
Dietrich's seventh Ethan Gage adventure (after 2013's The Barbed Crown) delivers more of the usual action-packed, at times implausible, intrigue with little character development. In November 1805, Gage, who describes himself as the "American...
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William Dietrich. Harper, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-219407-7
Set in 1804, Dietrich’s exuberant sixth Ethan Gage adventure finds Gage back in Europe, after his frantic search for Montezuma’s treasure in 2012’s The Emerald Storm, spying for the British on his sometime friend and usual nemesis, Napoleon...
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William Dietrich. Harper, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-198920-9
Dietrich’s entertaining fifth Napoleonic-era thriller starring Ethan Gage (after 2010’s The Barbary Pirates) finds our reluctant hero dreaming of retirement, but the kidnapping of his nearly three-year-old son, Harry, starts Ethan and his wife,...
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William Dietrich. Harper, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-198918-6
Once again the occult delusions of the murderous Nazi regime prove to have a basis in fact, as shown by this diverting thriller from Dietrich, best known for his Ethan Gage historical adventure series (The Barbary Pirates, etc.). In 1938, Heinrich...
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William Dietrich, Author Warner Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-446-52675-3
The title of Dietrich's third novel (after Getting Back) refers to the season that hero/geologist Jed Lewis and some 20-odd fellow scientists and staff spend at Amundsen-Scott research base, at the South Pole. During that winter, several of them are
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William Dietrich, Author Grand Central Publishing $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-52457-5
It's the late 21st century and all's right with the world, which is exactly what's driving Daniel Dyson nuts. Unemployment, hunger, war, are all in the past since mass privatization has revolutionized the quality of life and the entire planet is now
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William Dietrich, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-06-056371-4
The limit of Roman imperial expansion in Britannia is marked by Hadrian's Wall, a fortification constructed in the second century A.D. to keep the northern barbarians from invading Rome's island province. Award-winning author Dietrich's...
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William Dietrich, Author Simon & Schuster $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72967-7
The chief science correspondent for the Seattle Times here examines the many sides of the ongoing debate over the logging of America's last remaining ancient forest, on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. Using the town of Forks as a focal point,...
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William Dietrich, Author . Harper $25.99 (328p) ISBN 978-0-06-156796-4
Dietrich's fourth entry in the Ethan Gage series (after The Dakota Cipher
) continues the high-octane saga of the intrepid diplomat during the reign of Napoleon. Our hero is in Paris with his three “savant” friends, British...
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William Dietrich, Author . Harper $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-156800-8
Fast, fun and full of surprises, Dietrich's rollicking third Ethan Gage escapade (after The Rosetta Key
) takes the expatriate American diplomat and soldier-of-fortune home to investigate the Louisiana territory, preceding Lewis and Clark, for...
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William Dietrich, Author . Harper $25.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-06-123955-7
Last seen in Dietrich's Napoleon's Pyramids
, fleeing the forces of evil in a runaway hot-air balloon over Egypt, Ethan Gage undergoes further life-threatening adventures in this rollicking sequel. Nine months before the balloon incident,...
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William Dietrich, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-06-084832-3
At the start of Dietrich's superb historical thriller, his swashbuckling hero, American Ethan Gage, who's living in Paris during the waning days of the French Revolution and was once apprenticed to Benjamin Franklin, wins a curious Egyptian...
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William Dietrich, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-06-073499-2
Set in the dark final days of the Roman Empire, Dietrich's rousing fifth novel (after Hadrian's Wall
, etc.) chronicles the bid of the charismatic Attila the Hun to conquer the West and dominate all of Europe. Standing in his way are the...
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William Dietrich, Author, Bill Dietrich, Author Warner Books $24.5 (375p) ISBN 978-0-446-52339-4
The terrifically quirky start of a speed-read action adventure in exotic locales with fascinating scientific facts dips too soon into breathless romance to achieve a clear voice. The result: a cinematically layered novel with an identity crisis....
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William Dietrich, Author, Jeff Woodman, Read by , read by Jeff Woodman. HarperAudio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-146885-8
The packaging of this audiobook says “performed by Jeff Woodman,” and does he ever perform! Woodman executes a variety of accents in both sexes as he brings to life this rollicking Indiana Jones–like story of an adventurer in...
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