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March 5, 2012
Ministers of Fire: A Novel
"Spies with Families" PW Talks with Mark Harril Saunders (by Everett Jones)
"Veteran cold warriors confront the post-9/11 world in Saunders's impressive first novel, a complex spy thriller . . . . While the intricate plotting and vivid action scenes are sure to please genre fans, more general readers should also find plenty to enjoy, from Saunders's meticulous prose to his closely observed characterizations."
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
'A Chinese puzzle thriller–intricate and richly layered.' –Joseph Kanon, author of The Good German and Istanbul Passage
"Ministers of Fire is a beautifully written, restrained and passionate work by a writer who knows the ins and outs and intrigues of the New World Order all too well. His prose is alive with insight, his characters are both recognizable from the news and internally realized. His novel has psychological depth, action, and suspense. It's a fine work and its author is a writer of great promise."
–Robert Stone, National Book award-winning author of Dog Soldiers and Damascus Gate
"Ministers of Fire belongs on the bookshelf with John Le Carre and Eric Ambler. It is a spy-and-action story but also a very smart appreciation of the minds and emotions of intelligence agents. There is the shrewdness of their spy craft and also the wear and tear on their psyches. I enjoyed it enormously."
–John Casey, National Book award-winning author of Spartina and Compass Rose
Ministers of Fire, the debut novel from Mark Harril Saunders, will be published in May 2012 by Swallow Press. Find the book on the press's Web site.
Advance reading copies of Ministers of Fire are available for media and booksellers. Please request from Jeff Kallet, publicist at Swallow Press, by writing to: kallet@ohio.edu.
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(Photo credit/header: Richard Trenner)
