Check out the trailer for Thick As Thieves. The book drops tomorrow (26 July)!
PETER SPIEGELMAN
author | official websiteA very nice early review of THICK AS THIEVES in BookPages!
No, not the Journey tune. I’m talking about iced coffee. Cold-brewed, hot pour-over (which sounds
Not skunky
a little dirty), whatever–even the skunkiest stuff is good on a day like today. This, by the way, was not at all skunky.
I’m catching up on all the stuff I missed while I was away, including some early reviews of THICK AS THIEVES. I was glad to see Booklist’s starred review (“Ever read a thriller so nicely written you flip back a few pages to re-experience an especially well-turned bit of prose? Spiegelman’s caper novel is like that . . . The fine writing adds a layer of aesthetic pleasure to a good crime story . . . [The crew] brings off a sweeping symphony of a con, a grand attempt to relieve a bad guy of his gazillions . . . The ending is great, but it’s an even greater trip getting there.”), and Entertainment Weekly’s kind words (“Spiegelman weaves a complex, satisfying tale around gang leader Carr, a onetime CIA trainee with a level head and an increasingly untrustworthy bunch of co-conspirators…[his] sharp prose and deft plotting elevate this Ocean’s Eleven-style caper story.”) And I am deeply grateful to Chris Reich for his very generous review on Amazon.
The book drops on July 26th!
I was in London for a couple of weeks and had a very fine time. One of the high points was a get together that Quercus, my publisher in the UK, arranged with several crime fiction reviewers, including many of the charming folks at Shots Magazine (many of whom, I was pleased to learn, will be at Bouchercon in St. Louis). We gathered at the excellent Goldsboro Books, in Cecil Court. The wine flowed freely, as did the good conversation. Thanks again to Jon Riley and his team at Quercus for making it happen.
I’m in the middle of The Wizard of Lies, Diana Henriques’ book on Bernie Madoff. It’s excellent and gripping, particularly her harrowing “tick-tock” of the days and hours immediately before and after Bernie’s revelation to his brother and sons. Really puke-inducing (but in a good way).
Check out my Q&A for Thick As Thieves on peterspiegelman.com
On Sale 26 July '11
At least once a week–or maybe daily–I see a piece of news that brings William Gibson to mind, and makes me think that the various futures he’s been imagining so brilliantly for nearly 30 years are already all around us, or even a few years behind us at this point. Lately, it’s been the many stories on cyber-security–the RSA hack, the Citi hack, the CIA hack, Anonymous, etc. Today it was something a bit different, but no less Gibson-esque (from NYT): Upending Anonymity, These Days the Web Unmasks Everyone
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Available July 26th from Knopf
