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The Warsaw Anagrams
The Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw 1940, a world of almost half a million living dead, is the setting for…
The Camelot Conspiracy: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the CIA
Jimmy Hoffa said one kills a snake by cutting off its head, referring to the need to remove John F.…
The School of Night
Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
Fear Itself
In 1937 Milwaukee, young FBI agent Jimmy Nessheim comes across several odd bits of information (and a murder) leading to…
When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
I’m told the author of this book would like to see this volume shelved in history rather than science fiction/alternate…
Champagne Haze
A group of former rugby players, all veterans of WWI who knew each other before the war, decide to have…
Grant Me Timely Grace
A spy thriller set in Washington DC during the American Civil War, Grant Me Timely Grace is relentless, grabbing you…
The Katyn Order
Poland’s dilemma has always been based on geography. Located between Germany and Russia, Poland and its people have time and…
Field Gray
Editors' choice
This latest installment in the Bernie Gunther series finds the former Berlin detective doing well in 1950s Cuba, that is,…
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