Warren Adler Books In Order

Fiona FitzGerald Books In Order

  1. American Quartet (1981)
  2. American Sextet (1982)
  3. Death of a Washington Madame (2005)
  4. The Witch of Watergate (1992)
  5. Senator Love (1991)
  6. Immaculate Deception (1991)
  7. The Ties That Bind (1994)
  8. Washington Masquerade (2013)
  9. Red Herring (2016)

War of the Roses Books In Order

  1. The War of the Roses (1981)
  2. The War of the Roses: The Children (2013)

Novels

  1. Options (1974)
  2. The Henderson Equation (1976)
  3. Banquet Before Dawn (1976)
  4. Trans-Siberian Express (1977)
  5. The Casanova Embrace (1978)
  6. Blood Ties (1979)
  7. Natural Enemies (1979)
  8. Random Hearts (1984)
  9. Twilight Child (1985)
  10. We Are Holding the President Hostage (1986)
  11. Madeline’s Miracles (1989)
  12. Private Lies (1991)
  13. The Housewife Blues (1992)
  14. Mourning Glory (2001)
  15. Cult (2002)
  16. Children of the Roses (2004)
  17. Funny Boys (2008)
  18. The David Embrace (2010)
  19. Empty Treasures (2010)
  20. Flanagan’s Dolls (2010)
  21. The Womanizer (2010)
  22. Residue (2010)
  23. The Serpent’s Bite (2012)
  24. Target Churchill (2013)
  25. Treadmill (2014)
  26. Torture Man (2015)
  27. Mother Nile (2016)
  28. Heart of Gold (2017)
  29. Finding Grace (2017)
  30. High Noon in Hollywood (2018)
  31. The Norma Conquest (2018)
  32. Last Call (2018)

Collections

  1. The Sunset Gang (1977)
  2. Never Too Late for Love (1995)
  3. Jackson Hole – Uneasy Eden (1997)
  4. The Washington Dossier Diaries (2007)
  5. New York Echoes (2008)
  6. New York Echoes 2 (2011)
  7. New York Echoes 1 (2016)
  8. New York Echoes 3 (2018)

Plays

  1. The War of the Roses – The Play (2013)

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Warren Adler Books Overview

American Quartet

In this first book of the Fiona series, Fiona FitzGerald, a senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, pursues a serial killer in the nation’s capitol with a bizarre MO. In her search to solve the crimes, she uncovers the disturbing sexual and homicidal obsessions of a socially prominent but failed Washington politician. American Quartet was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Sextet, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, and The Ties That Bind.

American Sextet

Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate the death of a beautiful young woman found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona, possessed by a painful personal dilemma, is determined to find out, even if her demons might drive her from the police force. As Fiona travels deeper into the fire, a sexual conspiracy is uncovered involving six men from the highest offices in the country a great American Sextet!American Sextet is the second book in Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, The Witch of Watergate, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, and The Ties That Bind.

Death of a Washington Madame

Washington D.C’s struggling underclass and the U.S. Capitol s socially prominent and politically aggressive upper strata collide in a horrifying crime. Homicide Detective Fiona FitzGerald once again battles prejudice and privilege to uncover the truth, confronting her own demons and the violet eyed wife of a powerful politician determined to erase the sinful secrets of the past. Death of a Washington Madame is the seventh book in Warren Adler s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on the New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, The Witch of Watergate, and The Ties That Bind.

The Witch of Watergate

Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. An infamous Washington Post reporter whose poison pen has destroyed many a politician’s career is found hanging in her Watergate apartment. ‘The Witch of Watergate‘ is dead! Although suicide for this lonely and miserable woman seems the logical conclusion, Fiona is determined to find the truth. The Witch of Watergate is the fifth book in Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, and The Ties That Bind.

Senator Love

Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, ‘The War of the Roses’ and ‘Random Hearts’ were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. Soon, bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered, and both murders share the same starling clues that point to a powerful and seductive Senator. Besides solving the mystery, will Fiona submit to the powerful sexual forces of ‘Senator Love?’ Senator Love is the third book in Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Immaculate Deception, The Witch of Watergate and The Ties That Bind. ‘A fast paced political mystery Adler’s depiction of Washington rings true. Sure to entertain.’ Booklist ‘Tightly plotted everything that fans of political intrigue could want.’ Mystery News ‘A fingernail chewer plus…
a quirky mix of politics, police, protocol and high noon drama.’ San Antonio Express News ‘Well written and worldly a particularly satisfying crime novel.’ Pittsburgh Press

Immaculate Deception

Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when a powerful female pro life Senator is found dead. It appears to be suicide. But the case gets more baffling when one shocking clue contradicts the entire investigation. Immaculate Deception is the fourth book in Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, The Witch of Watergate, and The Ties That Bind.

The Ties That Bind

Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, ‘The War of the Roses’ and ‘Random Hearts’ were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate when the daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered. All clues begin to point to a revered Supreme Court Justice with a sadomaso*chistic fetish. The Ties That Bind is the sixth book in Warren Adler’s Fiona FitzGerald series. The first mystery, American Quartet, was on The New York Times list of top ten crime novels of the year. Try the other Fiona mysteries: American Quartet, American Sextet, Senator Love, Immaculate Deception, and The Witch of Watergate. ‘Adler sets well connected Washington homicide dick Fiona FitzGerald another high profile puzzle most satisfying.’ Kirkus Reviews ‘The Welcome return of an intense, likeable hero*ine.’ St. Louis Post Dispatch

The War of the Roses

The Roses met at an auction on Cape Cod. Oliver had just bought a Staffordshire figurine one of a pair but Barbara outbid him for its mate. The figurines belonged together, and so did the Roses. Now the two objets d’art sat together on a shelf in the Roses’ home symbols of the passion their owners shared. A passion that united them and now was about to tear them apart . Sharing, for Oliver and Barbara Rose, was a way of life. Living in the mansion they had restored together, with the antiques they had collected together, their rare wines, their orchids, and their children all the beautiful things they owned they were happy. Their latest project had been the kitchen, which was to be the core of Barbara’s new found career as a caterer of gourmet foods. Though Oliver was a busy and successful attorney, he had shared all the planning chores with her. The tripping point occurred when Oliver collapsed with what seemed to be a heart attack, and Barbara, as he had expected, did not rush to his side. Her indifference to his fate was both galling and an eye opener about the truth of their marriage, a truth based more on materialism than mutual sharing and love. The War of the Roses is a timeless novel. Yet, this is a story uniquely of our own time, where more and more people measure their happiness and success in terms of the things they possess. This is the book that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce ever produced. Shown somewhere in the world every week, the movie is an excellent adaptation of the book that has been translated in almost every language on the planet. The impact of both the book and the movie have made them both classics and brought the title The War of the Roses into the accepted jargon of divorce, describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in the process. A Major Motion Picture starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Options

Senator Donald James, his party’s most promising candidate for the presidential nomination, possesses that rare combination of charisma and frankness necessary to topple the incumbent. In his private life, James is a womanizing married man. Enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home with a beautiful black woman who works for him, he discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political chicanery has familiar overtones and exposes the dilemma faced by any public figure who chooses the path of dissimulation and lying to protect his or her career. This story mirrors today s headlines and provides insights into the dark netherworld of political manipulation. Here is a primer for anyone in public life determined to hide his darker side from an overly curious and often predatory press. This is Adler s first published novel, originally titled Options.

The Henderson Equation

The people who run the influential newspaper the Washington Chronicle have just exposed and brought down a President with their investigative reporting. Flushed with power, they now attempt to create their own choice for Chief Executive. Clashing relationships within the media and in the political arena reveal the motives, insecurities, and thirst for ascendancy between rival factions fighting for power. With rich emotional characterizations, this story tears away the curtain from the spin doctors and sinister figures that populate the corridors of power in the nation’s capital. Here is the ultimate Washington insider novel that reveals the machinations of a media that will stop at nothing to achieve power and influence over the political agenda.

Banquet Before Dawn

Congressman John J. Sullivan is a boozy, old school politician who has lost touch with his constituency. After a quarter century of Washington entrenchment, he is unprepared for the steamroller primary challenge by the idealistic young reformer Aram Yomarian and his well financed professional campaign managers. Sullivan’s world has largely disappeared. His friends among the Poles and Irish and Italians who first elected him have almost all moved away, and the language and style of the Blacks and Puerto Ricans who have replaced them are unfamiliar. The old neighborhoods which he loved have become decaying ghettos. Yomarian is a fresh breeze in the old district. He knows the language and has visions of renewal, and the energy and determination to fight for the rights of these new constituents. But ‘Sully’ is a fighter. For him, victory means survival in a career he has spent a lifetime building. For Yomarian, this victory will be the beginning of a career he hopes will lead to the White House. The drama played out with such stark authenticity in these pages leads not only to the startling confrontations between two strong men of conflicting political motivation and to the confrontation of each man with his own soul, but also to chilling revelations, for the reader, of the basic realities of democratic government itself.

Trans-Siberian Express

The six thousand mile route of the world’s longest, most exotic railway, the legendary Trans Siberian Express, is the setting for this powerful and enthralling tale, which reveals a diverse cast of unforgettable characters in the tense atmosphere of a speeding train traversing two huge and lonely continents.

Dr. Alex Cousins, a famous American cancer specialist is sent to Russia by the President of the United States to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo during the bad old days of the Soviet Union. During his treatment of this powerful patient, he learns that the Soviet’s top secret plans to attack the People’s Republic of China. Suspecting that he knows this secret, the Soviets send him home via a long trip on the Trans Siberian Express in the hope of keeping him silent until it will be too late to stop the Soviet attack.

Trapped, incessantly watched by a cadre of KGB agents, he has no one to turn to but his fellow passengers, whose reasons for riding the Trans Siberian Express become tragically enmeshed with his own desperate flight.

On the train he meets a beautiful KGB Agent, Anna, who shares his cabin and has been coerced to keep him under surveillance until the trip is ended. The inevitable occurs as both Cousins and his gorgeous cabin mate transcend the political implications and fall desperately in love. This powerful love story will keep the reader transfixed and absorbed as the Trans Siberian Express speeds its way over the vastness of Siberia.

The Casanova Embrace

A charismatic South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in a bombing plot to kill a political rival. Hungry for the man’s sexual favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat’s bizarre, destructive and lethal plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover. This highly praised erotic thriller is explicit and explores the raw power of sexuality and desire.

Blood Ties

During a family reunion in their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family, who have been engaged in arms dealing for a hundred years, suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium able to create the most destructive weapon on earth. Always aloof from the moral implications of their business, the family is torn apart by the potential of this material and it ignites conflicts that have long been avoided by their family solidarity and the insulation of their wealth and power. Through fascinating and startling relationships within the family the reader is drawn into the web of power and intrigue that motivates people who had once believe they are above any moral or ethical considerations. As Baron Charles Von Kassel lies on his deathbed, the legendary armaments clan gather to select his successor and consider a quarter billion dollar plutonium sale to an unknown buyer. Jockeying for power and the family’s honor, one by one the Von Kassels reveal themselves: Karla: The baron’s sister, intent on remaining the power behind the throne, no matter who occupies it. Albert: The middle son and likely successor until he betrays his qualms about the plutonium sale. Rudi: Ever in Albert’s shadow, he is determined that the plutonium deal be consummated and win him supremacy within the family. Olga: The beautiful Russian widow of the baron’s Communist brother, fifty years her late husband’s junior a dutiful mother or an agent of the KGB? As rivalries escalate and alliances form only to be broken, this powerful novel of family pride, personal ambition, and individual ethics moves to its compelling and ingenious climax.

Natural Enemies

A young New York couple whose marriage seems to be sputtering and who cannot conceive children are advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more bucolic environment in the hope that they can repair their lives and conceive offspring. Out West they are suddenly confronted by a band of drunken rednecks who chase them into the wild Colorado wilderness where they lose their way and are thrown up against the vicissitudes of nature. Braving floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face to face with death. This test of endurance and their passion to survive gives them new insights into themselves and their future together. This gripping, fast moving, and suspenseful story will hold the reader’s interest until the last turn of the page.

Random Hearts

There was no earthly reason why Vivien Simpson and Edward Davis should ever have met. But when two unidentified bodies are discovered amid the wreckage of a plane disaster, their separate lives collide and they find themselves thrown together by a passion far beyond their comprehension.

Twilight Child

When Charlie and Molly’s son dies in an accident, their daughter in law remarries quickly and is vaulted into a new world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and to keep her son free from the blue collar influences of his gran

We Are Holding the President Hostage

Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli is furious when fanatical Islamic terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with ineffective diplomatic measures and a lack of governmental action, the Don and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House posing as waiters at a State dinner and take the President and his wife hostage. Now the Don calls the shots. This classic confrontation between two men on utterly opposite sides of the law is laced with humor and illustrates how fierce paternal love can motivate even the most ruthless of gangsters into reckless acts of courage and bravery.

Madeline’s Miracles

Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, ‘The War of the Roses’ and ‘Random Hearts’ were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. An artist, her stockbroker husband and their twin daughters move to Los Angeles and unwittingly fall prey to a Madeline, a self professed ‘psychic’ who can foresee the future. By persuading them that she holds the key to their success and can protect them from danger, Madeline gradually takes full control over their lives, their careers, their parenting even their sex lives, until they become her willing accomplices. This page turning thriller rises to a tense crescendo as Madeline cruelly manipulates the family’s beliefs and paralyzes their will to protect themselves. A chilling and in depth look into the how power of suggestion can wreak havoc on the unsuspecting and gullible. Praise for Warren Adler ‘Warren Adler has a fine ear for dialogue and a remarkable ability to plumb the depths of human obsession.’ Nelson Demille, author of Up Country ‘Warren Adler writes with skill and a sense of scene.’ New York Times Book Review

Private Lies

This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library. HP’s patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.

The Housewife Blues

Warren Adler is the acclaimed author of 25 novels, published in 30 languages. Two of his books, ‘The War of the Roses’ and ‘Random Hearts’ were made into major motion pictures. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and New York City. Jenny, a ‘nice’ girl from the Midwest, is swept off her feet by a handsome advertising executive and whisked from her small town into the super charged world of New York City. A control freak, her new husband warns her to beware of strangers and avoid making friends. But Jenny cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence, eventually forming relationships with many of the quirky tenants in their brownstone building and entering into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives. Jenny’s journey of self discovery from naivet through disenchantment to eventual wisdom is wonderfully wrought and builds to an astonishing climax. ‘Heart stopping plot twists, surprising insights the book is sure to enter the public consciousness and generate controversy.’ Oklahoma Daily Journal

Mourning Glory

Thirty eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm Beach’s fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to keep her 16 year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they’re scraping by…
until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, Grace reluctantly pursues a cynical and bizarre scheme to snare a rich widower. But when she finally comes within a hair’s breadth of her goal, she finds herself enmeshed in a self spun web of deception and danger that threatens to rob her of everything she holds dear. Brilliant and bittersweet, daring, erotic and darkly humorous, Mourning Glory pulls readers into one woman’s tangled web. Here is another blockbusting and timely novel about the cost of getting what you want when what you really want is priceless.

Cult

A thriller with a chilling climax that shows how the power of sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into weapons of destruction. Barney Harrigan, a successful computer entrepreneur, discovers that his young and impressionable wife has been lured by her fanatical sister into the ‘Glory Cult,’ a ruthless and powerful group in Oregon run by a charismatic ‘Guru.’ Finally able to make contact with her, he learns just how much control the cult and its members now exert over her. Determined to free his wife from the cult’s grasp and return her to him and their four year old son, he prevails upon an old lover in Washington D.C., Naomi Forman a human rights activist to use her political connections to help him. After her initial reluctance to become involved, Naomi eventually enlists in his cause, despite her own conviction that people make their own choices and that ‘brainwashing’ is a myth. She will soon come to realize how wrong she is. Barney and Naomi travel to Oregon and team up with a pair of tough, cunning deprogrammers. They plan to kidnap Barney s wife from the cult. However, they soon find themselves in a deadly cat and mouse game with Jeremiah, the ‘David Koresh’ like leader of the Glories. Their rescue attempt triggers a surprising and horrific climax that will keep the reader absorbed and on edge throughout this page turner of a novel.

Children of the Roses

The children in The War of the Roses were determined not to repeat the devastation, destruction and self immolation engendered by their parents, which were evoked in that bestselling novel and then the most famous movie ever made about divorce. In The Children of the Roses, Josh marries Victoria for evermore, and his hugely overweight, happy go lucky sister Evie finds pleasure at the trough and through a series of live in lovers. But in all too human, unpredictable and often hilarious turns, the betrayals begin. Soon Josh and Victoria are on their way to their own form of internecine warfare and disaster. Victoria’s demonic and male hating mother and the overstuffed and ever sympathetic Evie are their constant counterfoils. Antagonists include a suave headmaster, who turns out to be a relentless sexual predator, and a blackmailing husband. The couple’s children, Michael and little Emily, engineer some stunning surprises of their own that will forever change their parents’ wayward ways. From noted storyteller Warren Adler, The Children of the Roses is an absolute page turner. ‘A funny new spin on dysfunctional family life engrossing, unpredictable and touching.’ Sidney Sheldon

Funny Boys

Since the fame attending the publication and film of Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses, Adler has been chronicling the American experience in novels and screenplays. Now, with Funny Boys, Adler takes on the New York of his childhood in a new novel with bestseller written all over it a dark comedy of errors about success, the mob, and true love. Mickey Fine is a young man with a promising future in comedy. Attracted to the applause of the crowd at a lavish hotel casino in the Catskills, he gets a job as a tumler part entertainer, part host, all funny boy. But he is na ve to the more sinister side of his audience. They are mobsters and power players of New York’s scandalous underbelly men with whom Mickey had run ins during his childhood. When Mutzie Feder, a Jean Harlow esque gangster girlfriend, gets into the act with dreams of escaping her brutal reality, sparks fly between her and Mickey. But as their circumstances start to catch up with them and the body count starts mounting from the rough crowd they’re running with Mickey and Mutzie start angling for a way out. That, of course, isn’t as easy as it sounds. With film rights already optioned to a major producer, Funny Boys is a timeless love story and a sweeping American tale told as only Warren Adler could tell it. Smart, wry, and beautifully written, it’s as unforgettable and authentic as anything Damon Runyon or Ring Lardner ever wrote, from a writer with a keen eye, an acute ear, and a very big heart.

Flanagan’s Dolls

Josh and Emily Flanagan return to their hometown in upper Michigan where they open a funky antique shop which they hope will provide a sane and comfortable retirement. Both have pursued successful careers in Manhattan, she as an appraiser of antiques for an auction house and he as an insurance adjuster in the field of art and antiques. A man seeking to purchase an antique doll for his ailing grandchild opens up a Pandora’s Box of hidden family secrets and intrigue that results in bitter hostility and murder. Josh and Emily, through brilliant deduction and imaginative enterprise discover the clues that lead to the solution that lies at the heart of this mystery. As characters they are similar in conception to the witty bantering loving couple, Nick and Nora Charles of the famed Thin Man series created by the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett.

The Womanizer

A respected family man, a lawyer, pillar of the community is offered the Presidency of a major University. The former President has been fired for sexual misconduct with a student. The potential new President is to be subjected to a thorough vetting by a wily investigator hired by the University board. The lawyer, who yearns for the job, has been a man who has had a long secret life of extra marital infidelities, especially three intensely traumatic love affairs, each of which have been mysteriously aborted by unknown circumstances. Fearful that these affairs will be exposed to the investigator and lose him the job, he retraces his steps and seeks the women with whom he has had these liaisons in an attempt to beg for their silence. He finds all but one, who is missing. The two he does find turn out to have relegated him to irrelevance and have no wish to interfere with his life and career. The mystery of the missing girlfriend and the surprise of how his affairs have been aborted make this an unusual and suspenseful story of cover up and intrigue with a surprise denouement.

Residue

A firebombing of a black church in Brooklyn that was once a synagogue sets off a chain reaction of international intrigue and bloody violence. The fire bombers are young men of Arab extraction who mistakenly believe that this church whose stain glass windows illustrate the Stars of David is still a synagogue. In the wake of the bombing a prominent ‘white shoe’ Wall Street firm sends its young token Jewish lawyer to help the church pro bono in their insurance claim. In a walled off area exposed by the fire in the baseme*nt of the Church the pastor has found three huge trunks filled with gold and precious jewels worth multimillions. The bizarre journey of this treasure, where it has come from and how it got in the baseme*nt of a black church is the heart of this tantalizing story which deals with both the origin and the aftermath of the discovery, and the impact it has on the lives of the young lawyer, his family, the pastor of the Church and numerous other interlocking characters who suddenly surface with claims to its provenance. It makes for a compelling and suspenseful story of terror and greed and illustrates how the long tail of the past can reach into the present with life altering results.

The Sunset Gang

With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset Village prove that sex, love, intrigue and vitality continue to salt the so called golden years. These acclaimed and timeless short stories have become a primer for the twilight years and a message of hope for a rich extended life in today’s world. The retired residents of Sunset Village in Florida continue to thirst for life and love, teaching anyone a lot about living a subject on which they are, after all, experts. The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you’ll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you’ll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot. Indeed, sex and romantic love keep Sunset Village bubbling with activity. If you were to walk down one of its well tended paths, you might spot Jenny and Bill sitting on a bench, acting like young lovers, and never suspect that they are married but to other people. And at the pool Max Bernstein, with an expertise that comes from five decades of skirt chasing, is singling out attractive widows. The real sine qua non at Sunset Village, however, is the love of family and friends. Widowed Molly Berkowitz learns that although her son and daughter may be failures in the eyes of the world, they are well worth bragging about; and Isaac Kramer begins to feel truly at home when the gray haired boys at the laundromat start calling him ‘Itch,’ his boyhood nickname. Other stories, too, will warm the heart and make you laugh until you hurt. A three hour mini series on PBS’s American Playhouse, starring Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, Doris Roberts, Anne Meara, and Jerry Stiller.

Never Too Late for Love

More stories from The Sunset Gang. A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these stories of joy, love, sex, and energy that give a deeper meaning to the aging process, especially in what the young might call ‘the twilight years.’ In these stories, there is no sense of oncoming doom and life goes on in a perpetual sunset. Anyone who has an ‘older’ friend or parent will marvel at this wonderful, inspiring collection and enjoy reading and re reading these stories for years to come.

Jackson Hole – Uneasy Eden

The author tells the truth about the impact of ‘new’ people on a mountain resort. In this collection of fictional short stories, the reader will find insights and truths engendered by the modern invasion of ‘new folks’ to glorious mountain enclaves now dubbed ‘resorts.’ These acclaimed stories capture the truth, warts and all, of how modern life can both corrupt and enhance a traditional environment. Based on the author’s experience as a long time resident of this pristine valley in Wyoming nestled in the heart of the Grand Tetons, America’s most beautiful mountain range. Warren Adler is the Founder of the Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference and the former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Public Library.

New York Echoes

Acclaimed author Warren Adler focuses his laser eye on New York City in these 22 deftly crafted and compelling short stories. New York, the frenetic, tough minded, generous hearted city, magnet for people’s hopes and aspirations, is as vividly and lovingly portrayed here as any of the characters. As in his celebrated novels, Adler’s themes in New York Echoes deal primarily with intimate human relationships the mysterious nature of love and attraction; the fragile bonds between husbands and wives, and parents and children; the divide between generation; the obsessive pursuit of the creative artist and the emotional toll it exacts. In these stories, past memories collide with present realities; with first love comes first betrayal; chance encounters have unexpected consequences; and the devastating impact of 9/11 refuses to fade, wreaking havoc years after the tragedy. All of the hallmarks of Warren Adler’s fiction are everywhere in evidence in New York Echoes in powerful stories that reflect a special understanding of the human condition as seen through the eyes of one of America’s most prolific authors. Above all, these radiant tales are a celebration of the short story and of an author’s return to his much loved, dearly missed native city.

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