Shaded by austerity, this is a contained but eloquent cryptofable very much of and for our time and stepping just beyond it to a point where we seem to be continually at war — for war simply grows like ""a tree."" And about Stringer, rarely amplified with another name, a loner, stealthy by instinct, remote, careful, who turned his back on his own ""history, the special persistent echo of small American towns, confident families, secure futures"" to join a civilian branch of the army, SAG, where with his closest friend Steinberg he performs secret missions fought with scopes adn sensors and bombs and codes and coordinates.

Stringer

Just, Ward S.

Kramerbooks

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

Nicholson at large: A novel

Little,Brown

William North, a foreign service officer, is determined to find his son, Bill Jr., who has joined a West German terrorist organization

The American Ambassador

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

This masterly volumn contains the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. "The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boat sets sail," Just writes. He is intimately at home in places where most writers simply dare not venture, and his accounts of life as it is lived behind the scenes in places of power have the ring of flawless authenticity. Here is a generous selection of the work that has earned Just the reputation as "one of the most astute writers of American fiction."

Twenty-One: Selected Stories

An old friend betrays linguist Sydney Van Damm by revealing his language skills to intelligence sources who are trying to create a new Eastern Europe out of the remnants of the old communist order

The Translator

An epic chronicle of American politics and influence chronicles the story of the Behl family, three powerful generations of men in Washington, D.C., as they pursue power, money, and women and strive to protect their many dangerous secrets. Tour.

Echo House

Genre Fiction

In 1965 Saigon, French planters, American "democratizers," and the Vietnamese become caught up in the growing unrest in Southeast Asia, in a novel that follows political scientist Sydney Parade as he begins to discover the roots of the conflict that is tearing the country apart. 50,000 first printing.

A Dangerous Friend

United States

Tired of the studio intrigues and glittering lifestyle of Hollywood, film director Dixon Greenwood, creator of a single great work that has become a cult film, heads for postwar Germany to rediscover the meaning in his life and work and becomes involved in the production of a German television program that reunites him with an actress with whom he had worked thirty years before. 20,000 first printing.

The Weather in Berlin: A Novel

Class struggle and family tensions explode in this novel of life in a Chicago suburb in the 1950s, as a teenager watches his father's psyche crumble in the wake of union problems and marital difficulties.

An Unfinished Season: A Novel

A former part-time spy for the CIA now living as a respected painter in the south of France, Thomas Railles finds his life turned upside down when his beloved wife Florette is murdered by unknown assailants, until he discovers that four Moroccan terrorists have been charged with her murder. By the author of An Unfinished Season. 50,000 first printing.

Forgetfulness

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