With the help of a cloaked Washington contact, high-stakes mission pilots Frank and Zoot find themselves up to their cockpits in trouble in the middle of the Iraqi conflict and are charged with retrieving a priceless object before the Gulf War starts.

Tiara: A Novel

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Burke, Martyn

Fantasy

Harpercollins

The Commissar’s Report, originally published by Houghton Mifflin, was lauded as “a wonder of intense, cinematic storytelling…honest, inventive, and memorable.” (Wall Street Journal). In this comic novel of the Cold War, Dimitri, a young hero of the Russian Revolution and Kremlin spy is secretly smitten by the sirens of capitalism. His posting to the Soviet consulate in New York is a dream come true.The dream quickly becomes a nightmare. Dimitri’s Soviet boss despises him, his wife is obsessed with the unsocialist pursuit of a Bergdorf’s charge account, and his boyhood friend is now a CIA agent who stalks him. On Wall Street, he is plagued by his wild talent for making money in the stock market. His bosses in Red Square would find this difficult to overlook if they knew. And, as Dimitri fears, the old men of the Kremlin have a deadly habit of knowing everything sooner... or later.Burke creates a unique and highly entertaining tale of dark humor and rich understanding.“...original…plot is fast and wildly complex and the twists are clever.”People Magazine“...consistently funny, surprising and inventive.”LA Times

Commissar's Report

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Originally published by Doubleday.   Bien Hoa airbase, outside Saigon, wasn't a very funny place, but Barney's job had one advantage:  he always played to a packed house. The soldiersflocked to his shows, and the war-zone comedian coaxed his battle-weary audiences first into chuckles and then into guffaws of healing laughter with material drawn from the lunacy aroundthem: the little old VC with the single-shot rifle taking potshots at the jets, the international "peacekeeping" mission,  the Vietnamese "car wash" racket, the numbing routine of army life,the officers... .. .One officer in particular: Colonel Isaacs, the blood-and-guts commander of the base, a driven man whose soldiers pay the price of his obsessions.  Barney  often ridiculed his authorityfrom in front of the footlights, and afterhours he wooed the colonel's woman, Donna, a beautiful singer with a secret.So far, he had gone unpunished.... . . the band began blasting out an off-key Colonel BogeyMarch. The audience went wild. But at this point in the eve-ning they usually went wild over almost anything…….   And so Colonel Bogey races across the flatness like atide seeking shore. It is louder than even the laughter and thestrange yelling that comes from the Club and is momentarilylost in the unearthly whine of the F-lOOs as they return frombombing whatever it is that has to be bombed. Colonel Bogeywashes over the lone sentries and rushes on into the darknessthat lies beyond the perimeter. The darkness stretches on andon, beyond the wretches lying soaked and bloody in the swampnear Cambodia listening to the metallic voices in the headsetthat tell them why the F-lOOs cannot come back until dawn,and listening to the noises in the nearby jungle that might bemetal grating on metal. The darkness goes on forever. But thenineteen-year-old from Georgia can no longer hear the curlingchords of Jimi Hendrix s guitar as the Armed Forces Radiobrings him the Best in Rock.  The nineteen-year-old fromGeorgia can hear none of this. A long thin knife protrudes fromhis chest at the place where his flak jacket should have beenbuckled. Thin bubbles of blood drip from his mouth. In hisfinal act as a sentry, he has died with his eyes wide open.

Laughing war

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

DOUBLEDAY

A Russian spy falls in love with life in the United States and pretends to be engaged in subversive activities in order to stay in the country

The Commissar's Report

United States

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

A young girl comes of age in 1950s New York, where her shady father owns a garment district dress factory and her activist mother manages a promising Black musician

Ivory Joe

Bantam]

Tiara

Contemporary

1st Book Library

The Laughing War

Seal Books

Laughing War

Everybody at Bien Hoa airbase hated the war, but Barney was a war-zone comedian whose job it was to make the soldiers laugh at their fears and frustrations. With material drawn from the insanity around them, he would coax his battle-weary audiences into guffaws of healing laughter. The the funny man made a serious mistake: ho chose the base's blood-and-guts commander Colonel Isaacs, as the target of his cynical humor, while offstage he wooed Isaac's woman. In retaliation, the colonel included Barney in a battle that would turn the base into a bloody killing ground - and the scene of Barney's greatest performance.

Genre Fiction

Berkley_Pub Group

Music for Love or War

"Music for Love or War is slash-and-burn funny, but also unexpectedly touching and wise. Few writers can take you in one breath from the hills of Afghanistan to the gates of the Playboy Mansion and make you believe every crazy word. Martyn Burke has that special talent." --Carl Hiaasen, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Bad Monkey According to what we've been told, the source of all knowledge is somewhere just south of Sunset Boulevard. The problem is that Danny has lost the address. So begins Martyn Burke's tragi-comic novel of love and war. Danny, a Canadian sharpshooter, and Hank, in the U.S. Army, have been stationed in Kandahar, but they are in Los Angeles, desperate to find the Hollywood psychic who will reveal the whereabouts of the women they love. Danny is searching for Ariana, the girl he fell in love with in Toronto in the last years of the twentieth century; Hank is searching for Annie Boudreau, known in the tabloids as "Annie of the Boo Two"--twins who were briefly in the gravitational pull of Hugh Hefner. From Grenadier Pond in west-end Toronto, to Afghanistan, to the Malibu colony in LA, the novel follows these moments in the lives of Danny and Hank, revealed by a masterful storyteller and commentator on American culture. When in the mountains of Kandahar, Danny and Hank torture the members of al Qaeda and the Taliban with the music and a larger-than-life-size cardboard reproduction of Liberace in satin short shorts, high-kicking as if on Broadway.

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