An American diplomat--reformed alcoholic, unreformed gambler, and inveterate smart-ass-- finds himself under threat of disgrace and murder even as he seeks love and redemption on the strange and spirit-ridden island of Madagascar. Author Steve Holgate brings the mystery and mysticism of Madagascar to life in his haunting and exciting second novel.

A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURETANGIER tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, and the other a spy story set fifty years apart and told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944—or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon...

A diplomat's past collides with a nation's future in a web of intrigue and betrayal.When Philip Reid, an aging American diplomat, attends a Paris dinner party, a chance encounter catapults him back to his time in Sri Lanka. Twenty years prior, he befriended Bandula, heir to the island's most powerful family. Now, Bandula is a bitter shadow of his former self. As Philip navigates a landscape of terrorist bombings, political assassinations, and forbidden romance, he ...

“Once this one has you in its grip, it never lets go.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling writer of The Atlas Maneuver“[A] twisty tale of honor, deception, and bygone love.” —Matt Coyle, author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime seriesYou don’t ignore a man’s dying wish.Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the fi...

Kip Weston, young scion of a fabulously wealthy American family, has become a fugitive, wanted by the police. Out of money and desperate, he flees his seedy quarter of Paris one step ahead of a private detective and heads for the countryside. Here, he takes a job on the Celeste, a small tourist barge plying the canals of Burgundy. But Kip quickly finds that in running from one peril he has landed in far greater danger from another. A tale of mounting suspense, it ends in a spasm of violenc...

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This timely volume brings together the latest basic and clinical insights on the cellular and mediator mechanisms involved in the induction and persistence of airway dysfunction of asthma by over 90 experts in the field-paving the way for developing novel and more effective antiinflammatory therapeutic agents and strategies.Furnishing a comprehensive and up-to-date view of the expanding and interrelated components underlying asthma pathogenesis, Inflammatory Mechanisms in Asthma...

“Once this one has you in its grip, it never lets go.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling writer of The Atlas Maneuver“[A] twisty tale of honor, deception, and bygone love.” —Matt Coyle, author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime seriesYou don’t ignore a man’s dying wish.Retired diplomat Sam Hough boards a transatlantic flight to Paris after making a seemingly innocent promise to find the fi...

How far can fraternal love stretch?> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Summer 2019 - Best Literary Fiction> FINALIST: Beverly Hills Book Awards 2019 - Historical Fiction"...a superbly atmospheric work of historical fiction with characters that, once met, are never forgotten." ~ K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite Book Reviews (5 Stars)Samuel and Aron Katz's fragile childhoo...

After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján - fanatical underground journalist - would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison.Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and hur...

Nathan Troy, an American freelance journalist, stumbles onto an unusual rash of rabies cases in Beijing, China. While translating for a french W.H.O doctor, Helene Laroque, sent to help contain the spread of the virus, he learns of the puzzling anomalies of the disease and how it is being dealt with by the local doctors. When Helene starts asking the wrong questions of the wrong people and gets sent home, Nathan is the last person left to find the answers.Left to unravel the clues ...

"Pugh excels at weaving together different historical threads into a single narrative...The book is sure to appeal to fans of the works of Dan Brown and other conspiracy-curious storytellers." Kirkus Reviews1565. Their last mission on behalf of the Lord Chancellor nearly got them killed. Now back in England, former soldier Matthew Longstaff and his Italian wife, Aurélie, are living quietly in the countryside when news arrives from France;...