JOSEPH KANON
Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998
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Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. A film based on The Good German was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. Istanbul Passage is a spy thriller set in that city in 1945. Leaving Berlin (2015) concerns an American expatriate who becomes an unwilling double agent of the American and East German intelligence services during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949.
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