Agents of Treachery

Zusatztext "Only Otto Penzler could bring together this dream team of espionage fiction-the short stories by some of America's most original thriller writers constitute an instant classic. Joseph Finder might be said to have supplied the tone for this splendid collection with the first line of his yarn: 'I can't shake the feeling that they're up to something.' The members of this dream team all are!"--Robert Littell "The sheer variety of distinctive voices here gives us espionage fiction at its most pleasurable--impossible to read just one."--Joseph Kanon "In Agents of Treachery! Otto Penzler doesn't just get A-plus talent--he does the real magic trick--he gets A-plus stories out of them.  Embrace your inner spy and join the secret club."--Brad Meltzer Informationen zum Autor Otto Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. He was publisher of The Armchair Detective , the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Armchair Detective Library, and created the publishing firm Otto Penzler Books. He is a recipient of an Edgar Award for The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection and the Ellery Queen Award by the Mystery Writers of America for his many contributions to the field. He is the editor of The Vampire Archives and The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps , which was a New York Times bestseller. He is also the series editor of The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year . His other anthologies include Murder for Love , Murder for Revenge , Murder and Obsession , The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time , and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. He wrote 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery & Suspense . He lives in New York City. Klappentext For the first time ever! legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last! this stellar collection signals mission accomplished. Including: * Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special ops cell. * James Grady writing about an Arab undercover FBI agent with an active cell. * Joseph Finder riffing on a Boston architect who's convinced his Persian neighbors are up to no good. * John Lawton concocting a Len Deighton-esque story about British intelligence. * Stephen Hunter thrilling us with a tale about a WWII brigade. Full list of Contributors: James Grady! Charles McCarry! Lee Child! Joseph Finder! John Lawton! John Weisman! Stephen Hunter! Gayle Lynds! David Morrell! Andrew Klavan! Robert Wilson! Dan Fesperman! Stella Rimington! Olen Steinhauer The End of The String Charles McCarry I first noticed the man I will call Benjamin in the bar of the Independence Hotel in Ndala. He sat alone, drinking orange soda, no ice. He was tall and burly--knotty biceps, huge hands. His short-sleeved white shirt and khaki pants were as crisp as a uniform. Instead of the usual third-world Omega or Rolex, he wore a cheap plastic Japanese watch on his right wrist. No rings, no gold, no sunglasses. I did not recognize the tribal tattoos on his cheeks. He spoke to no one, looked at no one. He himself might as well have been invisible as far as the rest of the customers were concerned. No one spoke to him or offered to buy him a drink or asked him any questions. He seemed poised to leap off his bar stool and kill something at a moment's notice. He was the only person in the bar I did not already know by sight. In those days, more than half a century ago, when an American was a rare bird along the Guinea coast, you got to know everyone in your hotel bar pretty quickly. I was standing at the bar, my back to Benjamin, but I could see him in the mirror. He was watching me. I surmised that he was gathering information rather than sizing me u...

Product details

• Authors: Otto Penzler, Otto (EDT) Penzler
• Assisted by: Otto Penzler (Editor)
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780307477514
• ISBN: 978-0-307-47751-4
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense