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THEN WE TAKE BERLIN
LAWTON, JOHN
Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from common morality.
Cat burglar, card sharp, and Cockney wide boy, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in 1946 he
finds himself in the Royal Air Force, facing a stretch in military prison . . . when along comes Lt Colonel
Burne-Jones to tell him MI6 has better use for his talents. Posted to occupied Berlin, interrogating ex-
Nazis, and burgling the odd apartment for MI6, Wilderness finds himself with time on his hands and the
devil making work. He falls in with Frank, a US Army captain, with Eddie, a British artilleryman and with
Yuri, a major in the NKVD and together they lift the black market scam to a new level. Coffee never tasted
so sweet. And he falls for Nell Breakheart, a German girl who has witnessed the worst that Germany
could do and is driven by all the scruples that Wilderness lacks. Fifteen years later, June 1963.
Wilderness is free-lance and down on his luck. A gumshoe scraping by on divorce cases. Frank is a big
shot on Madison Avenue, cooking up one last Berlin scam . . . for which he needs Wilderness once more.
Only now they're not smuggling coffee, they're smuggling people. And Nell? Nell is on the staff of West
Berlin's mayor Willy Brandt, planning for the state visit of the most powerful man in the world: "Ich bin ein
Berliner!"
MYSTERY
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
9780802121967
$28.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
400 PAGES
THINGS FALL APART
TURTLEDOVE, HARRY
An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape
and into the atmosphere, forever altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the
tainted soil. Stalled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food
and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling.
And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family—and for humanity....
SCIENCE FICTION 1ST PRINTING 30,000
ROC
416 PAGES
9780451465689 SERIES: SUPERVOLCANO
$28.50 HC
DECEMBER 2013
THINGS WITHERED
MOLONEY, SUSIE
A middle-aged realtor trying to get ahead any way she can. A bad girl pays for cheating with a married
man. A wife with a dark past lives in fear of being exposed. The bad acts of a little old lady come home to
roost. A young man with no direction finds power behind the wheel of a haunted truck. From behind the
pretty drapes of the average suburban home, madness peers out. Stories of suburban darkness from the
award-winning author of A Dry Spell, The Thirteen, and The Dwelling prove that life can turn on you, or
you can turn on it!
HORROR
CHIZINE
9781771481618
$18.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013