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NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE IN SOME COUNTRIES.;Cataloged from publisher supplied information.;Spoken audio file.;Duration: ca. 13:59:53 hr.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Performed by Various Narrators.;Originally released by Blackstone Audio. <p>Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a<br>collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today?s top writers.</p><br><br><p><i>Nuclear brinksmanship,<br>psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops?</i></p><br><br><p>The Cold War?a terrifying time when nuclear war between the<br>world?s two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility<br>that could be set off at the touch of a button?provides a chilling backdrop to<br>this collection of all-new short stories from today?s most celebrated mystery<br>writers.</p><br><br><p>Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson?the<br>only American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels?have<br>joined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, and<br>psychological drama. In Joseph Finder?s ?Police Report,? the seemingly<br>cut-and-dried case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots in<br>Soviet-controlled Armenia. In ?Miss Bianca? by Sara Paretsky, a young girl<br>befriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herself<br>unwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver?s own ?Comrade 35? offers<br>a unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy?with a signature twist.</p>