A New York Times Notable Book: "An elegantly written, strikingly intelligent novel" about wrestling with the past and the future in a reunified Germany ( Newsday).Shot in Germany in the late 1960s, Dix Greenwood's first film, Summer, 1921, is revered as an antiwar classic. Thirty years later and after more than a decade of silence, Dix returns to Berlin on a residency that he hopes will rekindle his genius. He encounters a newly reunited Germany, f...

"A masterfully realized addition to the modern literature of the conflicted shadow world, worthy to be shelved alongside Graham Greene and John le Carré." — Los Angeles TimesNamed One of the Best Books of the Year— The Washington Post , Chicago Tribune , San Francisco Chronicle , T...

A novel about journalism and one man's moral choices, "evoking the rhythms of Ernest Hemingway's early fiction . . . A quietly affecting, mournful achievement" ( Richmond Times-Dispatch).Ned Ayres has never wanted anything but a newspaper career. His defining moment comes early, when Ned is city editor of his hometown paper. One of his beat reporters fields a tip: William Grant, the town haberdasher, married to the bank president's daughter and the father ...

"A gripping international thriller" about a Foreign Service officer—and the son who turns to terrorism to spite him ( Los Angeles Times).William North Jr. inherited his father's keen political instincts and passion for justice. But the last time Ambassador North saw his son he seemed like a stranger—and a hostile one at that. Now, just as North prepares to take a new post in Germany, reports emerge that Bill Jr. is aligned with a German terrorist organizati...

A young man comes of age in Eisenhower-era Chicago in this "stunning" Pulitzer Prize Finalist novel by the author of Echo House ( USA Today).In An Unfinished Season, Ward Just evokes a city, an epoch, and a shift in ideals through the story of nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan. In his summer before college, Wils finds himself straddling three worlds: the working-class newsroom where he's landed a coveted job as a rookie reporter, the whirl of...

This family saga from a National Book Award finalist is a "brilliantly orchestrated tale of several generations of Washington, D.C., insiders" ( Booklist).In this epic and acutely observed novel, three generations of a family of Washington power brokers vie for influence over the fate of the nation. In the 1930s, Sen. Adolph Behl and his wife, Constance, buy historic mansion Echo House with the vision of transforming it into Washington's greatest salon—an a...

Jonathan Yardley called A Family Trust "his longest, his most ambitious and his best a book with serious purposes that manages to entertain at the same timerich in carefully observed details, in quick, sharp perceptions that reveal more than one at first understands fine, satisfying, rewarding book, the work of a mature and accomplished novelist," upon the book's initial publication in 1978. The passing of Amos Rising, town elder and editor of The Dement Intelligencer, le...

A "beguiling and unnerving" novel of a young man haunted by an act of violence, from the award-winning author of An Unfinished Season ( Booklist, starred review).As a small-town boy in the early twentieth century, Lee Goodell learned about a brutal crime—and the efforts of his father, a judge, to help cover it up. Lee would go on to attend a private boys' school, become a sculptor, become familiar with both Chicago's gritty South Side and its weal...

In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess of b...

A young diplomat is torn between two women during the earliest days of the Vietnam War in this "wide-ranging and well-written" novel ( The Christian Science Monitor).Harry Sanders is a young Foreign Service officer in 1960s Indochina when the course of his life is suddenly altered by a dangerous and clandestine meeting with insurgents that ends in quiet disaster—and a brief but passionate encounter with Sieglinde, a young German woman.Absorbing the...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK“A literary triumph that transcends its war story. . . its greatness will stand the test of time.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A master American novelist.” —Vanity FairA Dangerous Friend is a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem...

"One of the most astute writers of American fiction" (New York Times Book Review) delivers the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator’s son who rejects the family business of politics for a career as a newspaper photographer. Alec and his Swiss wife, Lucia, settle in Georgetown next door to a couple whose émigré gatherings in their garden remind Lucia of all the things Americans are not. She leaves Alec as his career founders on his refusal of an assignment to cover the Vietnam ...