The Little Tokyo Informant

The Little Tokyo Informant

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

Autumn, 1941. FBI Assistant Director Harry Guttman hears a rumor that the Soviet Uion has infiltrated the highest levels of the United States government.Looking deeper, Guttman finds that fifty thousand dollars have been mysteriously wired from the Russians to a Japanese bank in Los Angeles. But there the trail goes cold, so he taps his man on the street, Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim, to track it down.Hailed as the "successor to Frederick Forsyth" (Independent), Andrwe Roseinheim continues the adventures of Nessheim and Guttman that began Fear Itself. The Little Tokyo Informant is a skillfully rendered portrait of America on the cusp on the world stage.
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Keeping Secrets

Keeping Secrets

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the boy was certain the man was in the woods below him. And then a voice fractured the unnatural hush.'I know you're in there.' The voice was harsh but high-pitched, sounding strained.It chilled the boy.Thirty years ago, Jack Renoir's idyllic childhood on his uncle's California apple farm was shattered when he witnessed a brutal murder. With a single shot, his life changed forever.Three decades later, Renoir is a man preoccupied with secrets and lies - a man who's forgotten how to trust. But when Kate Palmer walks into his San Francisco office, his carefully-controlled world is turned upside down. As his defences dissolve, Renoir moves to England with Kate to make a new start. But old habits die hard, and he is soon drawn into a murky world he hoped he had left behind for good. When his efforts to help Kate backfire, Renoir finds his unresolved past threatening to destroy...
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Holly Lester

Holly Lester

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

James Billings is a West End art dealer struggling to make ends meet, when out of the blue Holly Lester, wife of the Labour Party leader, steps into his gallery. As they embark on an illicit affair, Billings soon finds himself drawn into the ruthless world of power politics that sweeps Holly's husband into Number Ten – and threatens to destroy Billings' own reputation and career.In the late 1990s rumours circulated of a provocative new work of fiction scrutinizing Britain's politics from the inside. Here at last is the satirical romp, dubbed 'the British Primary Colors,' that had publications from the Observer to the Sunday Times racing to find out who wrote it. For those who remember the early halcyon days of New Labour, this novel will bring back memories; for those too young to know better, it will provide an intriguing education.
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The Accidental Agent

The Accidental Agent

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

The spellbinding conclusion to the Jimmy Nessheim trilogy, by the author of Fear ItselfFall, 1942. In the midst of war, Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim has asked for extended leave from the FBI. Becoming a law student at the University of Chicago seems like the perfect way to re-enter normal civilian life. But the University of Chicago is home to more than an erstwhile FBI agent. Deep under the stands at Staff Field, renowned scientist Enrico Fermi is beginning work on what will become known as the Manhattan Project, research that could not only change the course of the war, but change the face of war itself. Perfectly placed to assist, Nessheim is persuaded by his superiors to return to duty to guard this precious research. Soon he begins to suspect a Nazi infiltrator has gained access to the project, and he must track down the traitor. Almost simultaneously, Nessheim's old flame Madison, an heiress with left-wing sympathies, finds him in Chicago. But is...
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Stillriver

Stillriver

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

Michael Wolf felt he had escaped his past - Stillriver, the small town in Michigan where he grew up, his troubles with his father, the petty jealousies and competitiveness of his younger brother, and most of all the disaster that ended his relationship with Cassie, the love of his life. As the book opens, Michael is forced to return to Stillriver when he is told of his father's brutal murder. He finds the town's new prosperity only partly masks old hurts and humiliations. But when he discovers that Cassie has also returned to Stillriver, he is thrown into total turmoil while trying to solve the mystery of his father's death. A powerful love story, Stillriver, is also a novel about family relationships and the tensions of life in a small close-knit community.
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Fear Itself

Fear Itself

Andrew Rosenheim

Mystery

Set in the tense and uncertain years before the Second World War, when America was still largely conflicted about entering the war on either side, Andrew Rosenheim's thriller Fear Itself offers a rich depiction of history as it was—and as it might have been.Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new German–American organization known as the Bund. Ardently pro-Nazi, the Bund is conspiring to sabotage American efforts against Adolf Hitler. But as Nessheim's investigation takes him into the very heart of the Bund, it becomes increasingly clear that something far more sinister is at work, something that seems to lead directly to the White House. Drawn into the center of Washington's high society, Nessheim finds himself caught up in a web of political intrigue and secret lives. But as he moves closer to the truth, an even more lethal plot emerges, one that could rewrite history.With sharp wit and a keen eye for...
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