[I've just finished reading Robert Ferrigno's novel, "Prayers For the Assassin", due to hit the bookstores in about 3 weeks. Talk about a power writer! The situation in the United States, at a future time, is so horrendous--the north is Islamic and the south is Bible Belt--one doesn't want to read another word...but there's no way to stop. Not a day has gone by since that I haven't thought about that book. The unbelievable becomes believable and my hair about stood on end. Do not miss it!]
[More: It looks like George Tenent and his publisher have finally made a deal...so the book will be coming. Check the details below.]
[And more: Am VERY impatiently waiting to get my hands on TJ Waters nonfiction, "Class 11", which deals with the first CIA class put together after 9/11. Also, just bought James Risen's nonfiction, "State of War", which is required reading before listening to Bush's State of the Union speech scheduled for next Tuesday, Jan 31st.]
From Publishers Lunch Weekly:
FICTION/DEBUT:
Florida lawyer James Sheehan's THE MAYOR OF LEXINGTON AVENUE, originally published in paperback by Yorkville Press, featuring attorney Jack Tobin, to Marc Resnick at St. Martin's, for publication in mass market in winter 2007, followed by a sequel in hardcover in spring 2007, by Larry Kirshbaum in his first deal at LJK Literary Management (NA).
Rights to Transworld in the UK and to Belfond in France by Susanna Einstein at LJK Literary Management.holly.west@stmartins.com
GENERAL/OTHER:
Naeem Murr's THE PERFECT MAN, a coming-of-age novel about a boy whose parents (from India and England) have abandoned him in the American Midwest, where he must find new friends and a new life, to Judy Sternlight and Dan Menaker at Random House, by Ellen Levine of Trident Media Group (NA).Rights: rbernstein@randomhouse.com
SI-FI/FANTASY:
Christopher Golden's THE MYTH HUNTERS and THE BORDERKIND, of The Veil series, the story of a young lawyer suffering from pre-wedding jitters, who on the eve of his wedding in the midst of a blizzard encounters a being from myth and folklore -- Jack Frost -- and the monster hunting him, and is drawn across The Veil into a place where all myth and legend is real and lost civilizations still exist, and where he will meet his destiny, to Anne Groell at Bantam Spectra, in a very nice deal (world).crdg@comcast.net
WOMEN'S/ROMANCE:
Josie Brown's IMPOSSIBLY TONGUE TIED, a Hollywood satire about a struggling actress who works as a phone sex operator to support her actor husband, only to discover that the director who has just given her husband his big break is one of her most loyal clients, to Lucia Macro at Avon, by Al Zuckerman at Writers House.
UK:
Pieter Waterdrinker's GERMAN WEDDING, a comedy of manners, to Toby Mundy at Atlantic Books, for publication in 2007, in a nice deal, by Michele Hutchison at De Arbeiderspers (world English).louisebrice@groveatlantic.co.uk
FILM:
Rights to Don Kladstrup and Petie Kladstrup's WINE & WAR, to Nicolas Grupe Filmproduktion in Berlin, by Robert Shepard of The Robert E. Shepard Agency.robert@shepardagency.com
BIOGRAPHY:
NYT journalists Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s comprehensive Hillary Clinton biography, focused on her political and professional life, to Little, Brown, for publication in fall 2007, by Christy Fletcher at Fletcher & Parry.
Bill Hamilton at AM Heath will submit to UK publishers shortly.
Ji Chaozhu's THE MAN ON MAO'S RIGHT, the memoir of a Chinese diplomat from a Communist family who grew up in New York, attended Harvard, and then struggled all his life to reconcile the US and China, with an introduction by Henry Kissinger, to Bob Loomis at Random House, by Al Zuckerman at Writers House (NA).
HISTORY/POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS:
Just about a year after walking away from a $4 million-plus deal at Crown and the passage of "more time to both do the extensive research and to gain the necessary perspective," former CIA director George Tenet's AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM, still to be co-written with former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, about his tenure at the CIA and "the actions of national leaders during times of crisis and war," describing what went right and what went wrong in the both skirmishes and the war on terror and positioning himself as having set in motion" a "worldwide operational plan" prior to 9/11, along with illuminating such matters as how the controversial "sixteen words" made it into the President's State of the Union speech, to Jonathan Burnham at Harper, with Kathy Huck-Seymour and David Hirshey co-editing, for publication in late 2006, by Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly (world).
Former Army Counterintelligence Special Agent and course instructor Dave DeBatto's expose on how the prediction of the attacks on 9/11 by Army intelligence was ignored, the prediction itself later denied, and supporting evidence destroyed during what he asserts was a massive and coordinated cover-up, to WND Books, for release in fall 2006
HUMOR:
President of the Harvard Lampoon Simon Rich's collection of humorous pieces, answering such questions as, "What did Abraham say to Isaac after that business on the mountain?" and "What happens when the Swiss Army takes its only weapon into battle?" to Daniel Menaker at Random House, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, by Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg Literary Agency (NA).Rights: rbernstein@randomhouse.com
MEMOIR:
Josh Swiller's story juxtaposing his experiences as the first deaf Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, where village life swings between tragicomic absurdity and the terror of escalating violence, with his formative years relegated to the sidelines of the hearing world, to Supurna Banerjee at Holt, for publication in spring 2007, by Margot Meyers at ICM (world).mlmeyers@icmtalent.com
NARRATIVE:
Josh Kendall's THE MAN WHO MADE LISTS, about Peter Mark Roget, the eccentric genius whose obsession for list-making as a child saved him from the demons of depression and suicide that plagued his family and led him to devise the unique and masterful grid for organizing the English language that we know of today as Roget's Thesaurus, to Dan Conaway and Sarah Landis at Putnam, by Lane Zachary at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (NA).dan.conaway@us.penguingroup.com
REFERENCE:
GRINGOS IN PARADISE author Barry Golson's RETIREMENT WITHOUT BORDERS, about the burgeoning phenomenon of boomers seeking out alternative retirement destinations outside of the United States, exploring many warm and user-friendly places to live where your money goes farther, with interviews, anecdotes, and ideas for resettling in places all over the globe, again to Lisa Drew and Susan Moldow at Scribner, by Ellen Geiger at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (world English). eg@goldinlit.com
PAPERBACK:
Tim Harford's THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, The Poor Are Poor, and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car, an economist's version of THE WAY THINGS WORK, to Jane von Mehren and Tim Bartlett for Ballantine, by Scott Marinaro at Oxford University Press (NA). Harford is represented by Sally Holloway at Felicity Bryan Agency.sh@felicitybryan.com diane.spivey@twbg.co.uk. scott.marinaro@oup.com
FOREIGN:
Israeli Prime minister Ariel Sharon and longtime friend and international reporter Uri Dan discuss the Gaza strip pullout, the founding of new center party Kadima, the prospects of peace, the current threats in the Middle East, and personal takes on life, loss, war, and freedom, to Editions Michel Lafon, in a very nice deal, for publication in April 2006 (world, excl. Hebrew).elsa.lafon@michel-lafon.com
TV:
Ethan Brown's QUEENS REIGNS SUPREME: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler, optioned to Tommy Mottola at the Mottola Company, for development as a TV movie, by Jud Laghi at LJK Literary Management.
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