Before settling in Williamsburg, Virginia,
Edward Cline lived and wrote in New York,
Las Vegas, and California, among other places.
He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels
in the SPARROWHAWK series, set in the period
leading up to the American Revolution.
His detective novels include
PRESENCE OF MIND and FIRST PRIZE,
published by Perfect Crime Books.
A third novel featuring private eye
Chess Hanrahan, HONORS DUE,
will appear later this year.
Writing in The Armchair Detective, Allen J. Hubin
praised FIRST PRIZE as
"Exceptionally strong . . . firm characterization . . .
A striking tale."
In Chess Hanrahan, Cline has created
an unusual detective, a man of thought
and action, "a thinking man's Mike Hammer"
who finds that beneath every crime
lies a deadly idea.
Edward Cline's non-fiction has appeared in The Wall Street Journal
and many other publications.
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Chess Hanrahan is back in a challenging new novel.
It's 1987 and a cabal of social scientists are shaping
American thought, while Soviet agents make a grab
for an obscure computer company. When a woman
working undercover is murdered, the FBI is ordered
to keep "hands off" the politically charged case.
Enter Chess Hanrahan, a
"thinking man's Mike Hammer."
Chess doesn't like dictatorships, or social theorists,
or devious intellectuals. (He's not sure about a sexy
short-story writer who has dropped into his life.)
The Russians and their friends are about to run smack into
a private detective who uses both his mind and his fists.
Because Hanrahan knows the cold truth:
Ideas can kill.
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FIRST PRIZE
Edward Cline
With a new preface by the author.
A brilliant novelist wins
a literary award and disappears.
Private investigator Chess Hanrahan, a "thinking
man's Mike Hammer" who reads books and people,
turns up more than murder in this sharp-edged,
provocative tale by the author of the
popular Sparrowhawk series.
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