Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is acollection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship,psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops...The Cold War-a terrifying time when nuclear war between theworld's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibilitythat could be set off at the touch of a button-provides a chilling backdrop tothis collection of all-new short stories from today's most celebrated mysterywriters.Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson-theonly American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels-havejoined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, andpsychological drama. In Joseph Finder's 'Police Report,' the seeminglycut-and-dried case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots inSoviet-controlled Armenia. In 'Miss Bianca' by Sara Paretsky, a young girlbefriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herselfunwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver's own 'Comrade 35' offersa unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy-with a signature twist.