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James Siegel (2003) Derailed. It starts on a commuter train to Penn Station, New York, where Charles Schine meets a sexy young lady. Exhausted from his work and troubled marriage and worried about his diabetic daughter Charles engages in what seems to be a harmless little affair. But then everything turns into a nightmare. A fast-paced page turner.
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Daniel Silva (2005) A Death in Vienna. This superb spy thriller deals with the unfinished business of the Holocaust. Undercover Mossad agent Gabriel Allon hunts down the infamous and still deadly Erich Radek, who lives quitely in Vienna.
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Daniel Silva (2003) The English Assassin. Silva, a former CNN correspondent, has created an crisp spy thriller in which a Mossad agent gets entangled in Switzerland's secretive power structure and has to fight for his life.
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Georges Simenon (2008) The Widow If I hadn't read Ticket of Leave (The Widow), I couldn't have written The Stranger (Albert Camus). A psychological masterpiece! Nasty and brutal.
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Georges Simenon (2006) The Strangers in the House. Hector Loursat has been a hermit in his own house ever since his wife abandoned him years ago. Only when a gunshot raises him from his alcohol-induced stupor he takes notice of his teenage daughter and her dangerous friends living in his house. Simenon's dispassionate masterpiece is a philosophically profound examination of emotional decay and resurrection.
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Georges Simenon (2005) Tropic Moon. In the former French colony of Gabon, Joseph Timar has taken on a job with a timber company. He stays at a small hotel in Libreville, where he gets obsessed with the hotelier's wife, Adèle. In the sweltering heat of the tropical sun, Joseph is dragged into the moral decay of crude lust, drinking and brutality of the French expatriates.
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Georges Simenon (2003) Dirty Snow. (First published in 1950) Set in occupied France during WWII, Simenon's bleak masterpiece is a dispassionate description of human cruelty. No other writer has achieved the psychological intensity of Simenon. “What many regard as the finest of all noir novels…"--Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times
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Georges Simenon (2005) The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. (First published in 1938) Kees Popinga, a Dutch bourgeois and model husband, likes to play chess and look on impassively as the trains to the outside world go by. But then his life falls apart as his company goes into bankruptcy. He quickly degenerates into a amoral creature and embarks on a journey of ruthless brutality.
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David Simon (2006) Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Police reporter David Simon from the Baltimore Sun spent a year with three homicide squads - following the officers from crime scenes to interrogations to hospital emergency rooms. Brutal, bureaucratic, authentic police procedural.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer (1991) Scum. Nobel Price winner Singer evokes a lost world: the Yiddish culture of Warsaw in 1906. Max Barabander, a Polish Jew, forsakes his adopted home of Argentina and returns to Poland, ostensibly to visit the graves of his parents. Instead, he gets involved with the criminal underworld. He engages in deceitful liaisons and shoots one of the women.
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