In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped - but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and ...
New York City at the end of the 20th century alternates with London in the 1690s in this novel about high finance. Only the setting changes, as the same story is told in two time periods, illustrating the uncanny similarities between the 17th and 20th centuries, and the truth of the idea that greed is a universal human quality.
When two teenage boys try to buy marijuana in Washington, D.C., one evening, the deal goes sour, an undercover cop ends up dead, and the boys soon realize they've stumbled onto a major conspiracy of epic proportions.
For the Garden State, his 1988 collection of short stories, Gary Krist received the highly prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The reviews were entusiastic. "Smart and tender short stories written with enticing crispness...Krist is a remarkable writer, and just starting," said the Los ...
When her druggie husband disappears, a former cop named Kate Baker sets out to find out what happened to him, and discovers that he is involved in a project that will provide a cure for drug addiction. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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