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Steve Anderson

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Born

in Portland, Oregon, The United States

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http://www.stephenfanderson.com

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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June 2008

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Steve Anderson writes the Kaspar Brothers historical thrillers and other novels. His latest novels are Show Game and Lines of Deception. Anderson was a Fulbright Fellow and has translated bestselling German fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon and Vienna, Austria.

More about Steve Anderson:
Years ago, Steve Anderson planned to become a history professor. He even landed a Fulbright Fellowship in Munich. Then he discovered fiction writing — he could make stuff up, he realized, using actual events and characters to serve the story. Now he writes novels that often introduce a little-known aspect of history, mixing in overlooked crimes, true accounts, and gutsy underdogs.

Steve has also written narrative nonfiction, short stories, and screenplays ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 21,622 ratings · 1,585 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Losing Role 3.60 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2010 — 10 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
	Sitting Ducks 3.53 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Lost Kin 3.72 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Liberated 3.78 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Double-Edged Sword 3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Other Oregon: A Thriller 3.10 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Under False Flags (The Wendell Lett Novels) 3.89 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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
	Rain Down: A Crime Novella 3.45 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2016 — 5 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
	The Preserve (The Wendell Lett Novels) 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Lines of Deception 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings — 6 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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Two more audiobooks out soon

More audiobooks are on the way, just in time for listening this fall. Out November 3 are the two books in my Wendell Lett series: Under False Flags, and The Preserve.

Follow tormented combat vet Wendell Lett as he fights for survival in the dark underbelly of WWII and the early Cold War.

The new audiobooks are available on most major platforms:

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Steve Anderson liked Steve Anderson's blog post: Two more audiobooks out soon "More audiobooks are on the way, just in time for listening this fall. Out November 3 are the two books in my Wendell Lett series: Under False Flags, and The Preserve. Follow tormented combat vet Wendell Lett as he fights for survival in the dark u..." Read more of this blog post »
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“Let’s honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.”
― Steve Anderson, Under False Flags

tags: war

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“In decades from now, I’m sure they’ll say we Joes were all noble, every one of us grimy but patriotic cherubs. Because we won a war. Back home they already do think it, thanks to the publicity teams, the ads, correspondents, censors. I’m not buying it. If we have to come here and fight to do away with your Hitler and the sorry mess he created, then people ought to know just how much the effort sucks all our souls. That way, maybe no one will try a war again.”
― Steve Anderson, Under False Flags

tags: war, wwii

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“I don’t blame Germans,” Emil said. “I don’t even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.”
― Steve Anderson, Liberated: A Novel of Germany, 1945

tags: wwii

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Steve’s Quotes

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

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“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."

("The Castle")”
― Michael Connelly

tags: perseverance, writing, writing-craft

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“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

tags: class-struggle, war

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“I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there.”
― Erich Maria Remarque

tags: antiwar, war

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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

tags: noir

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