The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen features a captivating, duplicitious narrator who's a communist sleeper agent living in America after the Vietnam War. Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. While it’s likely that the Vietnam War spawned many bookshelves full of novels written by Vietnamese authors, an awfully small number of these…
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Blacklist by Jerry Ludwig is a murder mystery set in 1959 Hollywood where the refusal to testify landed you on an industry-wide blacklist (available June 10, 2014). The last time the United States looked on its own citizens with suspicion, the results were ruined dreams, shattered lives…and murder. Today, people point fingers and shout, “terrorist!”…
A subway train roars through the night. Sweaty and surly, the crowded passengers inside avoid eye contact. The train lurches to a stop and more people squeeze in. Two men watch a pretty young woman carrying a white purse. A third man pushes his way though the cramped New Yorkers and stands beside the woman.…
