No Time for Heroes - Hardcover

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Freemantle has no peer when it comes to writing espionage thrillers. His latest book is as good as they get, with Russia and the U.S. cooperating--yes, cooperating--to track down the who, how, and why behind the bizarre, Mafia-style murder of a Russian diplomat in Washington. Dimitri Danilov, the stolid, solid Soviet cop who's having trouble coping with the "new" Russia and his own personal problems, teams up--as he did in Freemantle's earlier The Button Man (1993)--with William Cowley, semirenegade FBI investigator who has an alcohol problem on top of his tough, politically sensitive job inside the Beltway. The two find themselves globe-trotting, from Geneva to Brighton Beach to Sicily to Moscow, in hopes of unearthing the brilliantly conceived, highly complex, big-bucks-at-stake plot behind the brutal murder. Freemantle includes a mile-a-minute action, a mind-boggling story line, edge-of-your-seat suspense, subtle wit, and two heroes whose occasional feet of clay don't keep them from being superb investigators and genuinely good human beings. An absolute must for every collection. Emily Melton