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Michael Wall


Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction


Michael Wall is a former Chief Press Secretary for the New Zealand Government. He has also worked in the Office of the Prime Minister, under the administration of Sir Robert Muldoon.

He now lives at Te Ore Ore in the Wairarapa where he writes and breeds sports horses. He has written a series of thriller novels, including Museum Street, Friendly Fire, The Cassino Legacy, The Temptations of Frederick Weld, and Cardinal Sins.

He has also written other books, including the non-fiction book Wairarapa: A Place Apart

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Average rating: 3.95 · 207 ratings · 27 reviews · 80 distinct works • Similar authors
The Cassino Legacy
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999
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Amongst Barbarians
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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Friendly fire
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Cardinal Sins
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000
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Lost Andalucía: Rediscovere...
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015
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My Story, My Life, So Far
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Museum Street
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Goodnight Mr Zero
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Women Laughing
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Reflections on Life: A coll...
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“Maybe ET will use math to get our attention—a string of prime numbers, perhaps, or the apparently omnipresent, omni-important Pythagorean theorem. High school trig teachers should rebrand it the alien communication formula. That would’ve kept you from daydreaming in class, right?”
― Michael Wall, Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
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“(Not with your carbon, though, unless you like skin burns, convulsions, and liver damage.)”
― Michael Wall, Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
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“we became truly modern only in 1999, with the launch of LiveJournal.”
― Michael Wall, Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel
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