Dan Simmons THE CROOK FACTORY First Edition Signed
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Dan Simmons THE CROOK FACTORY First Edition Signed
First American edition, first print hardback of THE CROOK FACTORY, by Dan Simmons and published by Avon Books Inc., New York, in 1999. Signed and dated by Simmons on the title page. With full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on copyright page. Jacket design by Nadine Badalaty.The book is in near fine condition (Clean quarter black cloth over beige boards with copper lettering on the spine) with only very minor shelf wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped and protected in a mylar archival sleeve. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
The award-winning Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year. Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to develop a gifted education program.
Simmons is one of the few writers who consistently work across genres, producing novels described as science fiction, horror, fantasy, and mainstream fiction, while winning major awards in all these fields. His first successful short story won a contest and was published in 1982.
His first novel, Song of Kali, won the 1986 World Fantasy Award. His next novel, 1989's Carrion Comfort, won the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America. Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and nine Locus Awards, the French Prix Cosmos 2000, and the British SF Association Award. His first science fiction novel, the Hyperion won the Hugo Award (1989).
Since then his work has included contemporary literary fiction Phases of Gravity, The Hollow Man, Entropy's Bed at Midnight, award winning psychological suspense and horror novels Summer of Night, Children of the Night, Fires of Eden, A Winter Haunting, three collections of shorter fiction Prayers to Broken Stones, Lovedeath, Worlds Enough & Time, three hardboiled noir novels in the ongoing "Joe Kurtz" series Hardcase, Hard Freeze, and Hard as Nails, a screenplay adaptation of Children of the Night, several film treatments, two produced TV scripts, and completion of his four-volume science-fiction several award winning Hyperion Cantos epic - Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion and The Rise of Endymion.
"In 1942, at the height of World War II, Ernest Hemingway sought permission form the U.S. Ambassador to Cuba to operate a spy ring out of his ranch house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true...
In a beautifully realized work of fierce originality, award-winning author DAN SIMMONS expands a little-known fact into a tour de force of historical suspense.
It is the summer of '42, and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Ernest Hemingway, who has recklessly decided to play spy in the Caribbean. Lucas has been instructed to somehow gain the great writer's trust and friendship, but all the agent's cool intellect and training has left him unprepared to withstand the human whirlwind known as "Papa."
Hemingway has assembled a spy ring that he calls the 'Crook Factory' - including an American millionaire, a twelve-year-old Cuban orphan, a Spanish jai alai champion, a priest, and a fisherman, among others - to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. Then, against all odds, Hemingway uncovers a critical piece of intelligence, and the game turns deadly for himself, Lucas, and for untold innocents.
In THE CROOK FACTORY, Dan Simmons weaves an unforgettable tale of riveting suspense, peopled by larger-than-life characters who inhabit the sensual, intoxicating Cuban landscape of the 1940s. It is a novel of honor, passion and chilling conspiracy.
And it could very well have happened..."
'Delightfully spry. The plot quickly evolves into a real page-turning espionage story, complete with corrupt police officials, double agents, secret codes, and multiple murders. Fun reading for both Hemingway aficionados and spy novel enthusiasts.' Library Journal
436 pages.
ISBN: 0380973685
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