Posts from the ‘Thriller’ Category

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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Citadel: official release day today

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Today is the official release day of
Citadel

Read more about it here

Please come back daily to visit the book bloggers
from now until March 27,
and enter giveaways for a chance to win this great book!
Already a very happy review published yesterday about it!

Citadel

Author Kate Mosse

on Tour

March 17-27, 2014

with

Citadel

[Thriller/Historical Fiction]

 Release date: March 18, 2014
by William Morrow

ISBN-13: 978-0062281258

   680 pages
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SYNOPSIS

From the internationally bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre comes a thrilling novel, set in the South of France during World War II, that interweaves history and legend, love and conflict, passion and adventure, bringing to life brave women of the French Resistance and a secret they must protect from the Nazis. In Carcassonne, a colorful historic village nestled deep in the Pyrenees, a group of courageous and determined operatives are engaged in a lethal battle. Like their ancestors who fought to protect their land from Northern invaders seven hundred years before, these women—codenamed Citadel—fight to liberate their home from the Germans.But smuggling refugees over the mountains into neutral territory and sabotaging their Nazi occupiers is only part of their mission. These members of the resistance must also protect an ancient secret that, if discovered by the enemy, could change the course of history.A superb blend of rugged action and haunting mystery based on real-life figures, Citadel is a vivid and richly atmospheric story of a group of heroic women who dared the odds to survive [provided by the publisher]

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Kate MosseKate Mosse is the multimillion selling author of four works of nonfiction, three plays, one volume of short stories and six novels, including the New York Times bestselling Labyrinth and Sepulchre.  A popular presenter for BBC television and radio in the UK, she is also cofounder and chair of the prestigious Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize) and a member of the board of the National Theatre of Great Britain. In 2013, she was named as one of the Top 100 most influential people in British publishing and also awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature. She divides her time between England and Carcassonne, France.

Website | Facebook | Twitter @katemosse

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 17
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Tuesday, March 18
Review at The Reading Life

Wednesday, March 19
Review + Interview + Giveaway
at Kerrie Ann Salsac – Writing For Life

Thursday, March 20
Review at Jorie Loves A Story

Friday, March 21
Review + Interview at Just Reviews

Sunday, March 23
Review at Making My Mark

Monday, March 24
Review at Diary of an Eccentric

Tuesday, March 25
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net

Wednesday, March 26
Review at The French Village Diaries

Thursday, March 27
Guest-post at Caffeinatedlife.net

Review at Impressions In Ink

Review + Giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

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First Chapter First Paragraph — Dancing With Paris

first paragraphEvery Tuesday,
Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea posts the first paragraph of her current read.
Anyone can join in.
Click on the logo to link your post.

I will share here the first paragraph of a book
in the Completed Tours category.

Dancing with Paris

Release date: July 16th 2013,
by Amazon Publishing

 Goodreads

Available as paperback, ebook, or audiobook

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“Claudia, what do I always tell you? Salsa comes from the hips! Now, move!”
My face flamed as Kosta, my Serbian-born salsa instructor, squared himself in front of me, then grabbed my hips and tried to emulate the smooth gyrations that were coming from his own. When I snuck a glimpse of myself in the mirror, I decided I looked more like a swollen purple balloon jiggling atop a pair of stilts than the Latin dance goddess Kosta expected.
And of all nights, tonight was not the night to look like a swollen anything.

Author’s website | The virtual book tour

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WOULD YOU KEEP READING?