Peter Maas, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-019480-2
Maas, best known for his chronicling of the urban underworld (Underboss, Serpico, etc.), takes readers underwater for a thrilling account of the world's first rescue of a submarine. Before WWII, submariners were second-class citizens. Worse, until...
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Peter Maas, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (316p) ISBN 978-0-671-63172-7
Maas has always brought a novelist's sense of pace and drama to his nonfiction (most notably Serpico ), so it should come as no surprise that his accomplished second novel is sharp and surehanded, especially in its depiction of people caught up in a
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Peter Maas, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69416-6
In 1984 Ken Taylor, a dentist in Marion, Ind., cracked open the skull of his third wife, Teresa, with a dumbbell. Driving her body halfway across the country, he dumped it along a Pennsylvania road, then went to visit an ex-wife in Pittsburgh....
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Peter Maas, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69417-3
Known primarily for his nonfiction, Maas (Serpico) delivers in his third novel (after Father and Son) a fact-based and fast-moving thriller about Chinese drug smuggling. Hong Kong businessman Y.K. Deng approaches the New York law firm of Needham &...
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Peter Maas, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74619-3
Wife-beater, philanderer and drug-abuser Ken Taylor murdered third wife Teresa in 1984; after Taylor's incarceration, his parents and former sister-in-law faced off in a dramatic custody battle for his young son, Philip. ``A taut, chilling voyage...
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David Beresford, Author, Peter Maas, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-87113-269-7
Taken inside infamous Long Kesh prison in Belfast, the reader of this searing journal experiences the emotional stranglehold that the legacy of troubled Ireland has on 10 men who in 1981 chose to perish in a hunger strike. Written by a reporter who...
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