Paul Vidich

Aug 30, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Nick Harkaway |Paul Vidich |Catherine Coulter

Harkaway, who’s John le Carré’s son, slips this spy tale into the 10-year gap between The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). In London in the early spring of 1963, a Hungarian assassin named Miki Bortnik shows up at a literary agent’s office to kill a man named Laszlo Bánáti, on instructions from the Thirteenth Directorate (think KGB). But the repentant killer confesses to Bánáti’s assistant, Susanna Gero, that God has told him not to do it.

Jan 4, 2024 | shotsmag.co.uk | Paul Vidich

Beirut Station is set in Lebanon in the summer of 2006 against the backdrop of the 34-day Hezbollah-Israel War. The novel is a war story, a love story, but it is also a story about the region’s ancient spirit of revenge, which makes it unintentionally timely in light of the current Gaza conflict. Beirut was the epicenter of Middle East spying after World War II and I evoke the city’s Cold War setting and use it with a light touch as part of the story I build around the 2006 war.

Dec 1, 2023 | crimereads.com | Paul Vidich

–Adapted from a Center For Fiction conversation between Joseph Kanon and Paul Vidich, November 9, 2023The Spy Who Came in From the Cold was published in September 1963 in London under the name of a little-known writer, John le Carré, and several months later the novel came to America. This month marks the 60th anniversary of the release of this gritty masterpiece that profoundly influenced the genre of spy fiction.

Nov 19, 2023 | belloflostsouls.net | Dan Fesperman |Paul Vidich |Ben Macintyre |Mars Garrett

From the heart-pounding action to the complex characters, these spy novels will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Inspired by the real-world chaos the intelligence community went through just after the wall fell. On a chilly early morning walk on the wooded outskirts of Berlin, Emil Grimm finds the body of his neighbor, a fellow Stasi officer named Lothar, with a gunshot wound to the temple and a pistol in his right hand. Despite appearances, Emil suspects murder.

Nov 17, 2023 | csmonitor.com | Amanda Peters |Teju Cole |Paul Vidich |Tan Twan Eng

1 The Berry Pickersby Amanda PetersAfter their youngest daughter, Ruthie, vanishes during a summer of berry-picking in Maine, a Micmac family from Nova Scotia struggles to move forward. Indigenous Voices Award winner Amanda Peters delivers an un-put-down-able novel of identity, forgiveness, and insistent hope. 2 Tremorby Teju ColeTunde, a Nigerian professor living in the United States, grounds Teju Cole’s novel of ideas, moods, views, and questions.