Joseph Kanon
5) Stardust
Best-selling novelist Joseph Kanon—whose critically acclaimed The Good German was adapted into a major motion picture—constructs masterful thrillers from the years immediately following World War II. Stardust is a riveting tale of international espionage set against the glamorous backdrop of postwar Hollywood. "Kanon is the heir apparent to Graham Greene ... for he writes of moral quandaries that are real and not created to drive a
...In 1949, Frank Weeks, agent of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain....
Similar to the taut WWII-era thrillers Stardust and The Good German, best-selling author Joseph Kanon's latest finds American businessman Leon Bauer doing odd jobs for the Allies in 1945 Istanbul. When a routine assignment goes wrong, Leon is plunged into a web of intrigue and changing loyalties that leaves him no one to trust. Caught up in a deadly manhunt, Leon is faced with a crippling decision—how can he do the right thing when every
...Named "The Book of the Year" by Lee Child in The Guardian
From "master of the genre" (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman connected to them both.
Seventeen years after the fall...