Colin Burke Books In Order
- Soviet Sources (1990)
- Cover Story (1994)
- Dispatch from a Cold Country (1996)
- Heirs of the Fire (1997)
Novels
- A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe (2001)
Non fiction
- Twilight of Empire (1991)
- The Killer Department (1993)
- Why Golf? (2000)
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Soviet Sources
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year It was going to be a busy day. The Russians were committing news. American journalist Colin Burke may have been in Moscow long enough to lose his naivet , but he’s still got his reporter s ambition for that One Big Story the one that will run on the front page above the fold. After all, something s got to justify the years he s spent living in a grim Soviet flat with an iffy supply of hot water and working with a rotating roster of assistants who report his every move to the KGB. Burke s an old pro, much too savvy or so he thinks to be manipulated by government officials out to use the press for their own ends. But when a source presents him with the story of a lifetime, his ambition could prove fatal. It blinds Burke to the fact that he s got only part of the story a story that stretches to the Kremlin and the White House. He knows just enough to make some powerful, dangerous people extremely uncomfortable. But can he learn the rest of the story in time to save his own skin?
Cover Story
Journalist Colin Burke may have escaped with his life at the end of Soviet Sources, but he hasn’t gotten any savvier about protecting it; he’s still snooping around Moscow. True, the regime has changed his sources aren’t Soviets anymore but the men in the corridors of power still have little interest in answering questions, and still employ an army of thugs to prevent people like Burke from asking them. For the moment, Burke’s questions are almost painfully benign: His bosses at the magazine in Washington want a feel good piece about Moscow’s Jewish community. However, what Burke discovers at a run down synagogue has little to do with latkes, and everything to do with the possibility that Russia’s nuclear scientists are now making bombs for Syria. Burke’s got a hot story again, and he couldn’t be happier. But he may not survive to collect the Pulitzer.
Dispatch from a Cold Country
‘ AN EXCELLENT THRILLER…
Will keep readers tied up with its clever twists and sleek styling.’ Publishers WeeklyWhen Jennifer Morelli disappears, Colin Burke, the disillusioned editor of The Washington Tribune, suspects foul play. After all, the eager young reporter insisted that she had stumbled onto a story too hot to handle in St. Petersburg. So Burke returns to Russia where he had put in long, hard years as a reporter and tries to piece together the story that Morelli uncovered. And as he gropes through the dark, seedy maze of Russian politics, he suspects that the Hermitage, a place of pure beauty filled with the world’s most breathtaking art, is at the center of the dark scandal Morelli was about to expose. Yet what Burke discovers blows all his expectations out of the water: a crisis that could explode the fragile Russian government…
. ‘Richly detailed and relentlessly suspenseful, Dispatch is a real page turner.’ West Coast Review of Books
A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe
From Bob Cullen coauthor with Dr. Bob Rotella of Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect comes a wise, warm, and hilarious novel. In this unforgettable story, the secret fundamentals of golf, friendship, competition, and the inscrutable relationships between fathers and sons all combine to form an extraordinary tale. Bobby Jobe is a gifted golfer whose swing is much better than his attitude. Leading a major tournament in the final round, he gets distracted as usual and chokes, blowing his lead. Also as usual, he blames his caddy, Greyhound Mote, who stomps off the course: Greyhound is loyal, but Bobby’s gone just one insult too far. Shortly thereafter, as he’s leaving the golf club, Greyhound spots Bobby obsessively practicing the shot that earlier lost him the tournament. Overhead, the clouds of an approaching thunderstorm roil, and as Greyhound watches, lightning strikes and both of their lives are changed forever. Months later Greyhound has retreated to his small hometown, where he helps his mother run a shabby but proud nine hole golf course. All he knows of Bobby since their last bitter farewell in a hospital room is that he has been permanently blinded. What he doesn’t know is that an extraordinary woman has come into Bobby’s life, determined to save him by convincing him he can still play competitive golf. And she believes that Greyhound is the person to help him do it. Full of great golf lore and tremendous wisdom about what it means to be human, A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe is the kind of novel that people don’t just read. They fall in love with it and carry it in their hearts forever.
The Killer Department
An account of the search for a Russian serial killer describes how Rostov detective Victor Burakov, obsessed with finding the killer, faced formidable odds among them the maze of the Soviet system to do so.
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