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Keith Yocum

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Ridgecrest, CA, The United States

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Fiction, Mystery, History

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Keith Yocum was born in Ridgecrest, California, the civilian town supporting the China Lake Naval Weapons Center in the Mojave Desert. He grew up overseas as an Army brat, including long stints in the Panama Canal Zone and Western Australia. He has an undergraduate degree in philosophy and a graduate degree in journalism. He had an extensive career in publishing, including publications like The Boston Globe and The New England Journal of Medicine. He lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and is the author of eleven novels. His espionage thriller "Valley of Spies," was picked by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best indie mysteries, crime stories, thrillers of 2019. He was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award with his Vietnam ...more

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Average rating: 4.18 · 2,238 ratings · 148 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Color of Blood (Dennis Cunningham, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 855 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Whisper Came 4.13 avg rating — 539 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daniel 3.97 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dark Place (Dennis Cunningham, #2) 4.34 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Valley of Spies (Dennis Cunningham, #3) 4.49 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead In The Water (A Cape Cod Mystery #2) 4.33 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	River of Lies (Cunningham thriller book 4) 4.45 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Titus 3.98 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miraflores - Memoir of a Young Spy 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost in the Crush (A Cape Cod Mystery, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Keith Yocum rated a book really liked it Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze by M.G. Sheftall	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A complicated story involving assumed identities, elaborate subterfuge, and the murky world of Israeli and Palestinian warfare fought in the back alleys of the world. Cornwell penned this beauty in 1984 and for me, it was difficult to latch onto char ...more
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Greene was an towering 20th century author who dug deep into the human condition, flaws and all. The Honorary Consul, set in Argentina, is a tragi-comic walk through the dark underbelly of conceit, self-absorption, failure, and oddly, redemption. The ...more
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Keith Yocum rated a book really liked it Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An enjoyable romp through another dysfunctional dotcom, but with some dramatic side trips through Wynn-Williams’s personal traumas. The book reads as another in a long list of tomes in which the ambitious, naive narrator is thrown into a maelstrom of ...more
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Warner really does a nice job of leading the reader through a complex but satisfying story of a hitman from the US hiding out on the northeast coast of Australia. The protagonist tries to build a new life away from the mob mayhem in America but soon ...more
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An interesting retelling of the history of the CIA's (and US government's) involvement in assassinations and regime change through clandestine means. Jacobsen does an admirable job of summarizing some of the pretzel-logic of US administrations trying ...more
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