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Mystery Writers of America Edgar Nominee Best Short Story (2011): "Marley's Revolution"
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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) * Edgar Nominee Best Short Story 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) * Shamus Nominee Best Short Story 2009
* International Thriller Writers Finalist 2009
"Sargasso Sea" (Hitchcock's September 2008) * Best Horror 2008 Honorable Mention
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