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Publishers Weekly Review
"Fans of hard-edged spy novels will hope that this outing for disgraced Wall Street banker Patrick McCarry is but the first of many from Ross (Long Pig). When McCarry’s firm makes him the scapegoat after a hedge fund disaster, he manages to find a new position in London. . . . Assigned to handle Chester Holt, an American looking to open a factory making engines in Hungary, McCarry learns on arriving in Budapest that his new client is actually in the arms business. Members of the American intelligence community fear Holt may be pouring fuel on the continually combustible Balkans. . . . The job turns dangerous, with twists straight out of a John le Carré novel. The narrator’s sardonic wit ('The skyway began to fill up with other nightcap drinkers, no more than half of them well-dressed prostitutes”) helps keep the tone from getting too gloomy, despite the story’s basic darkness." Available February 2012
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Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Superior science thriller. . . . Boland's taut atmospherics are top-notch, and the evolutionary themes he explores are easily accessible to nonscientists." Mystery Scene Review:
"A riveting scientific suspense novel on the order of the popular Preston and Child thrillers. . . . Boland makes complicated theories about DNA and genetically linked illnesses easily understood. And in contrast to many science-heavy suspense novelists, Boland also has the ability to create three-dimensional characters. [The hero's] love life is a mess; . . . and even brutish Luther turns out to be much, much more than your average killer. . . . Hominid never fails to make for exciting reading." (Betty Webb)
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BOOKS
DEATH IN BUDAPEST (February 2012) HOMINID (October 2011)
LONG PIG (February 2011) LAST ISLAND SOUTH (a Key West mystery)
OUT OF HER DEPTH (a Key West mystery) 30 YEARS IN THE PULPS (24 stories from Hitchcock's & Ellery Queen's)
SHORT STORIES
"Bears in Mind" (Hitchcock's - January/February 2012) "Marley's Rescue" (Hitchcock's - coming) "Swimming in Fog" (Hitchcock's - October 2011) "Marley's Revolution" (Hitchcock's - June 2011)
"Marley's Havana" (Hitchcock's - March 2011)
"Family Place" (Ellery Queen's - coming)
"Out of Her Depth" (Hitchcock's December 2009)
"200 Big Ones" (Hitchcock's March 2009)
"Last Island South" (Ellery Queen's Sept/Oct 2008)
"Sargasso Sea" (Hitchcock's September 2008)
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