Archive for March, 2014

Bernard Besson on 2nd Tour: The Greenland Breach

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 2ND TOUR!

Greenland Breach

“Le French Book is a publisher that brings France’s best mysteries, thrillers, novels, short stories, and non-fiction
to new readers across the English-speaking world.”

Publishing only digital books so far, they are now also publishing books in print!
The Greenland Breach had a very successful tour last October, so author Bernard Besson is on tour again,
as his book will be available in print on April 30!

Author Bernard BESSON

on Tour

April 28-May 7

with his spy thriller:

The Greenland Breach

 E-Release date: October 30, 2013
Print release: April 30, 2014
from Le French Book

   113,000 words/285 pages

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SYNOPSIS

A stylish, fast-paced spy thriller about the intrigue, economic warfare and struggles for natural resources promised by global warming. The Arctic ice caps are breaking up. Europe and the East Coast of the Unites States brace for a tidal wave. Meanwhile, former French intelligence officer John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained, steamy Eurasian partner, Victoire, and their bisexual computer-genius sidekick, Luc, pick up an ordinary freelance assignment that quickly leads them into the glacial silence of the great north, where a merciless war is being waged for control of discoveries that will change the future of humanity.
A plausible vision of climate catastrophe combines with French freelance spies and Bond-like action forming a gripping page-turner of a thriller.[provided by the publisher]

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AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR

Award-winning thriller writer Bernard Besson, who was born in Lyon, France, in 1949, is a former top-level chief of staff of the French intelligence services, an eminent specialist in economic intelligence and Honorary General Controller of the French National Police. He was involved in dismantling Soviet spy rings in France and Western Europe when the USSR fell and has real inside knowledge from his work auditing intelligence services and the police. He has also written a number of prize-winning thrillers and several works of nonfiction. He currently lives in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris, right down the street from his heroes.
Julie Rose is a prize-winning, world-renowned translator of major French thinkers, known for, among other works, her acclaimed translation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, which was published by Random House in 2008. She has translated twenty-eight books, including many French classics, and writes on the side. She lives in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, with her husband, dog and two cats.

ADVANCE PRAISE
[AS FEATURED ON THE PUBLISHER’S WEBSITE]

 

“Original and harrowing.”–Cosmopolitan

This is a remarkable book that is fascinating, frightening, instructive and fun all at once.”

–Inter-Ligère

“Suspense is omnipresent from beginning to end. The story navigates between climate change, subsequent natural disasters, corporate rivalries, murder, espionage, mysteries and love. Besson progressively weaves a web that entraps the readers. Each page make you want to turn the following one quicker to find out what happens next.”–Culture et Plaisir par la lecture

If you still need encouragement to read this great thriller, please come this way and have a look at the enthusiastic reviews we had last October

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, April 29
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Wednesday, April 30
Review + Giveaway at Valli’s Book Den

Monday, May 5
Review + Giveaway at Making My Mark

Tuesday, May 6
Review at The Adventures of an Intrepid Reader

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France Book Tours stops for March 23-29

 Citadel Sunday, March 23
Review at Making My Mark

Tuesday, March 25
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net

Wednesday, March 26
Review at The French Village Diaries
Review at Diary of an Eccentric

Thursday, March 27
Guest-post at Caffeinatedlife.net
Review at Impressions In Ink
Review + Giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

My Wish List cover Sunday, March 23
Review at Jorie Loves A Story

Monday, March 24
Review + Giveaway at Walkie Talkie Book Club

Tuesday, March 25
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Wednesday, March 26
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway
at Queen Of All She Reads

Thursday, March 27
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net

Collector of Dying Breaths cover Tuesday, March 25
Review + Giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

Wednesday, March 26
Review + Giveaway at A Bookish Affair

Thursday, March 27
Review + Giveaway at
Musings of a Writer and Unabashed Francophile

Friday, March 28
Review + Interview + Giveaway at
Vvb32 Reads

Saturday, March 29
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

April Smith on tour: A Star For Mrs. Blake

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Author April Smith

on Tour

May 4-13, 2014

with

A Star For Mrs. Blake

[historical fiction]

 Release date: January 14, 2014
at Knopf

ISBN-13: 978-0307958846

 Hardcover, 352 pages
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SYNOPSIS

In 1929, The U.S. Congress passed legislation that would provide funding for the mothers of fallen WWI soldiers to visit the graves of their sons in France. Over the course of three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made this trip.  Smith imagines the story of five of these women, strangers who could not be more different from each other. One of them is Cora Blake, a librarian and single mother from coastal Maine. Journeying to the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, the lives of these women are inextricably intertwined as shocking events – death, scandal, and secrets – are unearthed. And Cora’s own life takes an unexpected turn when she meets an American, “tin nose,” journalist, whose war wounds confine him to a metal mask.  [provided by the author]

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April Smith

April Smith is the author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey mystery series,
starting with North of Montana.
She is also an Emmy-nominated writer and producer of dramatic series and movies for television.
She lives in Santa Monica with her husband.

Visit her website.
Get in touch with her on Facebook and Twitter

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Sunday, May 4
Review at The Avid Reader – rescheduled, see below

Monday, May 5
Spotlight + at Simplistic Reviews

Tuesday, May 6
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed

Wednesday, May 7
Review + at Making My Mark

Thursday, May 8
Review at Words And Peace
Review at Just Reviews

Friday, May 9
Review + at Book Nerd

Saturday, May 10
Review + at The Fictional 100
Spotlight at Queen of All She Reads

Sunday, May 11
Review + Guest-Post at Historical Tapestry
Review at Books Are Cool

Monday, May 12
Review at Turning The Pages

Tuesday, May 13
Review at Caffeinatedlife.net
Review at The Most Happy Reader
Review at Historical Tapestry
Review at The Avid Reader
Spotlight at Literary Chanteuse

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