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Tony Casella Books In Order
- No One Rides for Free (1986)
- You Get What You Pay for (1988)
- Foreign Exchange (1991)
Novels
- American Hero (1993)
- The Librarian (2004)
- Wag the Dog (2004)
- Salvation Boulevard (2008)
- Zombie Pharm (2021)
Non fiction
- How to Write a Mystery (1996)
- Fog Facts (2005)
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The Librarian by Larry Beinhart Books Overview
Foreign Exchange
‘Acerbic…
Original…
Beinhart writes with considerable panache.’ The Philadelphia InquirerA Tony Cassella Mystery by the author of ‘You Get What You Pay For.’Tony Cassella is tired of being a private eye. He has a new baby. Soon he may even have a wife. And he’s also in trouble with the IRS. So he’s traded his trench coat for a quiet but profitable laundromat in the Austrian Alps. But it’s not so easy to retire. When the CIA comes calling, they want more than their shirts done. They want him to find a missing computer disc lost in an avalanche that killed a Japanese playboy and an American girl. A Japanese conglomerate soon appears on the scene with questions of their own. And the girl’s mother is not far behind. Everybody wants Tony’s help. Everybody, that is, except a few out of work East German spies. They want him dead…
American Hero
‘A funny, ingenious and outrageous political thriller joining Hollywood and the Bush administration in a revisionist fiction about the Gulf War.’ Los Angeles Times. Once upon a time, there was a mean, dying GOP chairman named Lee Atwater who had the most brilliant, insane, frightening and do able idea ever concocted to assure that his man, George Bush, would retain the office of the president of the United States. And the only man on the face of the earth who could pull of such an elaborate scheme was none other than the world’s most celebrated Hollywood director. It’s a sure fire hit! A joint D.C./L.A. production that will play not in movie theaters but on the nightly news! Of course, hundreds of thousands of ‘extras’ will die…
. But, hey, that’s show biz!
The Librarian
How on earth did nebbish university librarian David Goldberg end up on Virginia’s Ten Most Wanted Criminals list for besti*ality? And how did he get ensnared in a vast right wing conspiracy to steal the presidency? It all begins so innocently when Goldberg starts moonlighting for eccentric, conservative billionaire Alan Carston Stowe as an archivist. But Goldberg s appointment worries a cabal of ruthless right wingers ostensibly allies of Stowe, whose money lubricates their zany scary conspiracies with very close ties to the White House. They fear that Goldberg will find something in Stowe s records that will compromise the dirty tricks involved in re electing Augustus Winthrop Scott, the dim scion of a powerful Republican political family, for a second term. As the presidential election heads into its final stretch, the hunt is on to remove Goldberg from his position by any means necessary. The acclaimed, Edgar winning mystery writer Larry Beinhart returns with this timely novel. In the tradition of Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, and Joe Klein, The Librarian is a frenetic, scary and hilarious thriller that goes deep into the dark heart of election year politics.
Wag the Dog
Once upon a time there was a mean, dying GOP chairman who had a brilliant scheme to assure that his man would retain the office of president of the United States of America. And the only man who could pull off this elaborate plan was a celebrated Hollywood director. Add to the mix a left coast gumshoe named Broz who is trapped among cover ups, undercover work, and his own morality, a cast of bicoastal desperate characters, and the stage is set for a powerful D.C./L.A. production. From Edgar award winning author Larry Beinhart, Wag the Dog was the most brilliant political satire of the last decade. It was made into a classic film by Barry Levinson, and, fortunately, is now back in print.
Salvation Boulevard
Some cases test a private investigator’s wits, others test his courage, and still others, his character. In Salvation Boulevard, P.I. Carl Van Wagener has found a case that tests them all, and then goes on to test his soul. A professor is dead and a suspect who has confessed is in custody. But nothing is what it seems. After all, the dead man is an atheist professor, the accused an Islamic foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew, and the detective a Born Again Christian. As Carl gets deeper and deeper into the investigation of the death of professor Nathaniel MacLeod, his most basic beliefs and relationships are tried and his world is turned upside down. The mega church, the pastor, and his new wife who have redeemed Carl from a life of grim debauchery insist on his dropping the case. But he can t stop searching for the real killer and the truth no matter what the personal cost. Salvation Boulevard is a page turning thriller in the tradition of John Grisham and Richard Condon that grapples with the ecstatic and entropic nature of religious faith in contemporary America.
How to Write a Mystery
WHODUNIT? YOUDUNIT!So you want to write a mystery. There’s more to it than just a detective, a dead body, and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the candlestick. Fortunately, Larry Beinhart Edgar Award winning author of You Get What You Pay For, Foreign Exchange, and American Hero has taken a break from writing smart, suspenseful thrillers to act as your guide through all the twists and turns of creating the twists and turns of a good mystery. Drawing on advice and examples from a host of the best names in mystery writing from Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane to Scott Turow and Thomas Harris plus some of his own prime plots, Larry Beinhart introduces you to your most indispensable partners in crime: Character, plot, and procedure The secrets to creating heroes, hero*ines, and villains ‘All writers draw upon themselves and their experience. While the whole of yourself might not be capable of being either a serial killer or an FBI agent, there are parts in each of us that are capable of almost anything.’ The fine art of scripting the sex scene The low down on violence ‘A crime novel without violence is like smoking pot without inhaling, sex without org*asm, or a hug without a squeeze.’ And much more!From the opening hook to the final denouement, Larry Beinhart takes the mystery out of being a mystery writer.
Fog Facts
Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or the sordid facts about the O.J. Simpson case. Ask them about the in and outs of the British Royal Family, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer and you’ll find they’re pretty clued in. These facts, or events, or factoids, mysteriously capture the world’s attention and creates a media frenzy. But there’s a flip side to this. Fog Facts the important things that nobody seems able to focus on anymore than they can focus on a single droplet in the mist. They are known, but not known; the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. Such as President Bush’s war record he doesn’t have one, or how Dick Cheney became that rich. Who really won the election in Florida 2000 and how many people have perished since the invasion of Iraq. Beinhart’s book is a dazzling and unsettling exploration of how this has come to pass, about ‘The Soft Machine,’ a mysterious mechanism that manufactures consent in a so called democratic society and how ordinary citizens can fight back.
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