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Stephen Amidon Author Of Locust Lane: A Novel

From Stephen's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Novelist Screenwriter Italian food lover Horror film enthusiast Compulsive traveler

Stephen's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Stephen Amidon Why Stephen loves this book

A spy story with a heart. A secret agent is sent to a small city to assassinate a woman who was once a terrorist, but there's one snag - he must choose the right one among three different suspects. (The other two are innocent). His mission gets increasingly complicated when he develops relationships with each of his potential targets while performing his due diligence. The last novel by the great Spanish novelist Javier Marías.

By Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa (translator) ,

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1 author picked Tomás Nevinson as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence • “Marías’s best work.” —El País

“Compelling, hypnotic, and exciting at the same time.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Retired spy Tomás Nevinson—once an agent for the British Secret Service, now living a quiet life in his hometown, Madrid—is approached by his former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold for one last assignment.

The mission: to go undercover again, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Stephen Amidon Author Of Locust Lane: A Novel

From Stephen's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Novelist Screenwriter Italian food lover Horror film enthusiast Compulsive traveler

Stephen's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Stephen Amidon Why Stephen loves this book

The trilogy by Parisian novelist Virginie Despentes seems to have an unpromising premise - a record shop owner loses his business and his home and is forced to wander the streets of Paris in search of redemption. But through an accumulation of comic detail, varied characters, and a mesmerizingly acerbic style, the three novels blossom into an Homeric epic than threatens to capture all of contemporary France.

By Virginie Despentes , Frank Wynne (translator) ,

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1 author picked Vernon Subutex 1 as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex―short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing…


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