David Lindsey

The Color of Night (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In London, Rome, and Paris-world capitals of art, glamour, and intrigue-the fundamental equations of money and power never change. What is about to change is the life of one haunted ex-spy who has not quite come in from the cold.

Behind Harry Strand is a career in American intelligence that he wants to forget and a wife, killed in an automobile accident, he can't stop mourning. Harry is an art dealer, the profession that he used as his cover during his years of spying.

Then Mara Song enters his life, sharing the lap pool of an exclusive club where Harry swims alone every morning. For weeks they swim together, day after day, never speaking, never meeting, until she disappears. A month later Mara walks into his office with a business proposition: help her sell an extraordinary portfolio of drawings by modern masters. Harry can't resist the art...or the woman.

One night in Rome Harry walks into Mara's home and finds her television is on, a videocassette visible in the VCR slot. When he pushes it in, he sees a nighttime surveillance tape-and with heart-wrenching horror, he witnesses his wife's final, terrifying moments before her death.

The cold war may be over, but Harry's war has just begun.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821086
• Artikelnr.: 75092753

Autorenporträt

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.