<div><B>Howard Fast&rsquo;s bestselling coming-of-age novel about one boy&rsquo;s introduction to the horrors of war amid the brutal first battle of the American Revolution</B><BR /><BR /> On April 19, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper stands among the outmatched patriots, facing a line of British troops.<BR />  <BR /> Determined to defend his home and prove his worth to his disapproving father, Cooper is about to embark on the most significant day of his life. The Battle of Lexington and Concord will be the starting point of the American Revolution&mdash;and when Cooper becomes a man.<BR />  <BR /> Sweeping in scope and masterful in execution, <I>April Morning</I> is a classic of American literature and an unforgettable story of one community&rsquo;s fateful struggle for freedom.<BR />  <BR /> This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.<BR />  </div>

April Morning

<div><b>A collection of thirteen stunning stories by one of the most celebrated American writers of the twentieth century</b><BR>A follow-up to his 1970 science fiction collection, <i>The General Zapped an Angel</i>, Fast&rsquo;s book of thirteen new science fiction stories is brisk and engrossing. In &ldquo;The Hoop,&rdquo; a scientist builds a portal to an unknown destination, which the mayor of New York City hijacks to use as a garbage dump until the location&rsquo;s surprising, and hilarious, revelation. And in &ldquo;The Egg,&rdquo; set three thousand years in the future, a research team discovers an egg, something they have never seen before, cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker. These thirteen stories are bizarre, hilarious, poignant, and sure to entertain. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

A Touch of Infinity

<div><B>The <I>New York Times</I> bestseller that&rsquo;s </B><B>&ldquo;so glowingly human a picture of Tom Paine and America in the revolutionary days&rdquo; (</B><B><I>The New York Herald</I></B><B>).</B><BR />   Thomas Paine&rsquo;s voice rang in the ears of eighteenth-century revolutionaries from America to France to England. He was friend to luminaries such as Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and William Wordsworth. His pamphlets extolling democracy sold in the millions. Yet he died a forgotten man, isolated by his rough manners, idealistic zeal, and unwillingness to compromise. Howard Fast&rsquo;s brilliant portrait brings Paine to the fore as a legend of American history, and provides readers with a gripping narrative of modern democracy&rsquo;s earliest days in America and Europe. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Citizen Tom Paine

<div><b>A rash of political deaths alerts a New York cop to an international assassination plot</b><BR>At a crime scene, Harry Golding has no fear. But put him in front of a few dozen undergraduates, and he begins to sweat. He agrees to give the lecture on criminology for his brother, a New York University professor, and muddles through it, successful until it comes time for questions. A skinny young conspiracy theorist demands to know what the police are doing about the recent death of a presidential candidate. The answer is, they&rsquo;re doing nothing. The man died of a heart attack. Case closed. But when another politician drops dead, seemingly of natural causes, Golding remembers the young student&rsquo;s paranoia. As more politicians die, Harry Golding finds himself in the middle of a terrifying conspiracy that threatens his city, his family, and his life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Wabash Factor

<div><b>A lawyer scrambles to save a judge-killing hooker from the gallows </b><BR>No women have been hanged in San Verdo since 1921, but after four decades it looks like that&rsquo;s about to change. Helen Pilasky is far from a sympathetic defendant. She&rsquo;s a known prostitute, and there is strong evidence that she murdered Judge Alexander Knowton, a supreme court justice beloved statewide. More than one hundred thousand people live in San Verdo, and nearly all of them want Helen Pilasky&rsquo;s neck. It is Blake Eddyman&rsquo;s job to save her. A well-off lawyer whose once promising career has stalled, Blake is caught between his ambition and his fear of failure. Saving Helen seems impossible, but he can&rsquo;t refuse the job. She faces a charge of murder in the first degree. If convicted, the sentence is automatic. Only Blake stands between this enigmatic young woman and the hangman. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Helen

<div><b>Detective Masuto investigates a Hollywood mogul&rsquo;s sudden death</b><BR>The residents of Beverly Hills tend to underestimate a Buddhist homicide detective, and Masao Masuto is happy to let them make that mistake. A second-generation Japanese-American, he relishes the thrill of a puzzling murder case. And Masuto will need all his powers of deduction to understand the murder of Al Greenberg. The producer was giving a party when his heart stopped. After years of bad health, Greenberg&rsquo;s abrupt death is no surprise. But one of the dead man&rsquo;s producing partners claims to have overheard an unknown woman taunting Greenberg, while he pleaded, &ldquo;put that gun away and give me my medicine.&rdquo; It appears Greenberg was frightened to death. To find the killer, Masuto must dig into the darkest secrets of the mogul&rsquo;s past. Greenberg will not be the last to die. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Angry Actress

<div><b>An insurance investigator chases a vanished heiress&mdash; and a huge payday</b><BR><BR>One of the richest girls on Park Avenue is missing. Cynthia Brandon left her father&rsquo;s apartment on Monday, and three days later has not been seen anywhere on the respectable side of town. She may have been kidnapped, or murdered. Or she may have simply gotten bored with her pampered life in a twenty-two-room apartment, and split. Harvey Krim wouldn&rsquo;t care about Cynthia if it weren&rsquo;t for the fact that girls like her pay his rent. His employers have insured Cynthia&rsquo;s life for $3 million, making her more than another missing heiress. Krim agrees to find her in exchange for a hefty bonus, but what he&rsquo;s making is nothing compared to the price on Cynthia&rsquo;s head. As any insurance agent knows, being so valuable to so many people can be very bad for a young girl&rsquo;s health. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Cynthia

<div><b>Detective Masuto investigates a string of strange Southern California crimes that lead all the way back to Nazi Germany<BR><BR></b>Returning from a funeral, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Briggs find their Beverly Hills mansion ransacked. As they wait for the police, they discover something unusual: Despite the chaos, nothing appears to be missing&mdash;a fact that greatly interests Beverly Hills police detective Masao Masuto. But the Zen detective only has a few minutes to ponder the strange break-in before a murder intervenes. The victim is Ivan Gaycheck, a stamp dealer whom Masuto remembers for his stout frame and unplaceable accent. A .22-caliber bullet killed Gaycheck, but&mdash;just like the Briggs&rsquo;s home invasion&mdash;nothing in the shop has been disturbed. Suspecting a connection between the two crimes, Masuto dives into the case, uncovering a strange conspiracy that stretches back to the darkest days of World War II. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the One-Penny Orange

<div><b>A dog&rsquo;s murder leads detective Masuto to a most unusual poisoning case</b><BR>In Beverly Hills, murder has suddenly gone out of style. For five weeks, the head of the city&rsquo;s tiny homicide squad, Zen detective Masao Masuto, has worked only robbery investigations. But after more than a month without a corpse, this dry spell is about to end. The dead woman is Ana Fortez, a Chicana whose death was originally classified as terminal food poisoning brought on by a feast of botulism-infested &eacute;clairs. But because botulism can only grow in an airtight space, the medical examiner warns Masuto that the fatal bacteria must have been purposefully injected into the pastry. When a wealthy housewife&rsquo;s dog drops dead after munching on premium chocolates, Masuto finds that her bonbons have been laced with the same toxin. He begins a search for a killer targeting the sweet tooth of Beverly Hills&mdash;proof that crime in Southern California never stays boring for long. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs

<div><b>A rare California deluge unearths a hidden body&mdash;and a decades-old crime</b><BR>Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto&rsquo;s vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morning of his vacation&rsquo;s final day, he is so stir crazy that the call to come to work is a relief. Detective Masuto knows no better cure for boredom than a puzzling murder. Nothing remains of the deceased man but his bones. A mudslide caused by the long, punishing storm destroyed the terrace of a Beverly Hills mansion, dislodging the swimming pool and opening a grave which had been covered for three decades. The skeleton&rsquo;s deep stab wound suggests a professional&rsquo;s hand&mdash;possibly a World War II veteran with commando training. As Masuto pries into the past, the aged murderer takes deadly steps to cover up his long-forgotten crime. The detective finds himself locked in a game of cat and mouse with a brilliant and ruthless killer. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Sliding Pool

<div><b>Detective Masuto reopens an investigation into a murderous film star&mdash;with deadly consequences</b><BR>On the day that Eve Mackenzie murders her husband, Masao Masuto is on a plane to Japan. For years he and his wife, both American-born Japanese, have dreamed of visiting their homeland, and though the trip is a delight, the Zen Buddhist detective cannot help but check the international papers for news of murder on his home turf of Beverly Hills. Part of him regrets missing the sensational Mackenzie killing. Once a high-profile film star, Eve faded from the public eye after wedding a wealthy Scotsman&mdash;an unhappy marriage that ended in bloodshed. When Masuto returns home, Eve is headed toward an inevitable conviction. Why, then, does he reopen the case? The evidence against the Hollywood starlet is so airtight that Masuto suspects a frame-up. As he pries into the closed case, more blood spills. Eve Mackenzie may not have murdered her husband, but she is far from innocent. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie

<div><b>A target&rsquo;s wife makes a cold-hearted assassin question his work</b><BR>The hitman adjusts his rifle sight in an apartment across the street from his mark. For thirty minutes he peers through his scope, watching the man he is about to kill. He waits patiently, for assassinations demand focus. One bullet is all he needs. When the job is done, he disappears. This is an ordinary working day for Richard Breckner, a hired gun on the payroll of one of America&rsquo;s enemies. He kills for the money, holding no allegiance to his country and no scruples about murder. He will kill anyone, no matter whom, from an American reverend in Miami to his superior at the department. But then, on a job in Geneva, he kills a target who dies unafraid. Unnerved by the dead man&rsquo;s steely confidence, Breckner turns on his employers. If he wishes to survive, the world&rsquo;s finest assassin must remember how to care. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Assassin Who Gave Up His Gun

<div><b>Two scientists&mdash;one American and one Russian&mdash;form a pact for nuclear disarmament that threatens to bring civilization to its knees</b><BR>The physicists met during a nuclear conference in London. Wanting to hurry America and the Soviet Union into nuclear non-proliferation, they each construct a crude atomic bomb, hiding one in New York and one in Moscow, and then they disappear. The United States and the USSR have forty days to renounce nuclear weapons, or two world capitals will burn. The American government chooses police detective Thomas Clancy to save his city. As a cop with a background in physics, he enters the faculty of Knickerbocker University to investigate the American professor. Clancy&rsquo;s hope is that Phyllis Goldmark, the vanished physicist&rsquo;s former lover, may know some clue to his location. The clock is ticking as the fate of millions rests on the shoulders of Phyllis and Clancy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Phyllis

<div><b>A freak subway accident traps a New York architect in a deadly conspiracy that will threaten what he loves most</b><BR>John T. Camber is waiting on an uptown subway platform the moment his life changes forever. It happens quickly, when a haggard elderly man utters a sudden plea for help before falling on the tracks in front of an oncoming train. Reeling from the accident, Camber flees the station, only to be accosted by a brass-knuckled thug who believes Camber knows more than he&rsquo;s letting on. And just like that, the suburban commuter finds himself inextricably trapped in a deadly conspiracy beyond his understanding. Dangerous people are after Camber, and if they can&rsquo;t get to him, they&rsquo;ll target his daughter instead. . . . Tense and action-packed, <i>Alice</i> is a stunning thriller about a man caught in events beyond his control, who will stop at nothing to protect his family. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Alice

<div><b>A hard-boiled insurance investigator upends New York in search of a perfect diamond necklace</b><BR>Death follows the Sarbine necklace. Its eleven diamonds are flawless, and all cut from the same stone&mdash;one of the largest ever unearthed from the mines of South Africa. But lately this most elegant piece of jewelry has become a bad luck charm. Its original owner killed himself, and his daughter, who was meant to inherit the piece at eighteen, died shortly after. When the necklace itself goes missing, it becomes Harvey Krim&rsquo;s problem&mdash;and his chance to make a fortune. An insurance investigator with a porous moral code, Krim will collaborate with thieves if it means recovering the necklace. The answer could lie with a Texan maid named Lydia Harvey, but she seems too inept to be a skilled jewel thief. Those who possess the Sarbine necklace have a short lifespan, and with so many others looking for it, if Krim isn&rsquo;t careful, his neck could be next. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Lydia

<div><b>Targeted by a mysterious conspiracy, a clever young woman fights back</b><BR>If Shirley is surprised that someone wants to kill her, she does not let the gunmen know. As far as she knows, Shirley is no different from any other employee at the Bushwick Brothers plastics factory. So why has she been forced from her home and shoved into the front seat of a kidnapper&rsquo;s car? There is no time to wonder why. Shirley Campbel has not cried since she was ten, and she will not start now. She jams her foot on the gas pedal, rocketing the car into a storefront. Her assailants are dead, but she is unscratched. Shirley goes home, knowing that more killers will come. Next time, she will be ready. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Shirley

<div><b>A PR man investigates the tortured life of a mysterious acquaintance&mdash;and winds up knee-deep in the wrong kind of trouble</b><BR>For a public relations guru like Al Brody, witnessing death is not part of the job description. But that is just what the call from Andrew Capestone requires. When Brody arrives at his old friend&rsquo;s bedside, it&rsquo;s not long before the man dies. Brody has not thought of Capestone, his onetime Harvard acquaintance, for decades. In the years since college he has established a successful career, gotten married, gotten divorced, and fallen in love with his assistant Millie. But everything Brody has worked for is put in peril when Capestone&rsquo;s dead body goes missing, and Brody is suddenly involved in a shocking criminal cabal. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Millie

<div><b>Detective Masuto investigates a Hollywood kidnapping that leads to a shocking conspiracy</b><BR>Angel is Hollywood royalty. Her husband, Mike Barton, is one of the silver screen&rsquo;s most bankable stars, and their marriage has all the hallmarks of a Beverly Hills fairy tale. But everything about Angel&rsquo;s past is kept secret, including her real name. When reporters ask why Mike dubbed her Angel, she says that she must have fallen from heaven. No one knows where Angel Barton is from, and now no one knows where she has gone. When his wife disappears, Barton readily agrees to a million dollar ransom demanded by her kidnappers, but Zen detective Masao Masuto doesn&rsquo;t buy his performance. As Masuto pries into the strange kidnapping case, he finds that Barton might be much more likely to pay to get rid of his wife than to keep her. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Kidnapped Angel

<div><b>A New York detective&rsquo;s investigation of a Catholic priest&rsquo;s murder leads him to a shocking drug plot that reaches the highest seats of American power </b><BR>Detective Mel Freedman&rsquo;s life changes forever the day Joe Cullen walks into his New York City office to confess to murder. Cullen, a pilot and Vietnam veteran, has come to admit his guilt in the murder of an American priest, thrown from a helicopter to his death in the jungles of El Salvador 800 feet below. But when a prostitute to whom Cullen also confessed turns up dead, Freedman quickly realizes that there is much more to Cullen&rsquo;s story than meets the eye. As he digs deeper into the mystery, Freedman unravels a tangled web of conspiracy stretching from the cocaine fields of Central America all the way to CIA headquarters.   Tense and thought-provoking, <i>The Confession of Joe Cullen</i> is a powerful thriller about government corruption and the individuals who try to combat it, by one of the most masterful American writers of the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Confession of Joe Cullen

<div><b>Bestselling author Howard Fast&rsquo;s final novel&mdash;a page-turning tale of intrigue, power, and betrayal set in one of America&rsquo;s wealthiest suburbs</b><BR><i>Greenwich</i> follows a diverse cast of characters in one of the country&rsquo;s most affluent towns: Greenwich, Connecticut. When evidence emerges that Richard Castle, a wealthy ex-government official, approved the 1980 killings of Jesuit priests and nuns in El Salvador, Castle must find a way to save himself from his ruthless former colleagues, who are bent on keeping the past buried any way they can. Told with Fast&rsquo;s typical brisk pacing, <i>Greenwich</i> explores the links between wealth and power, and the violence waged to maintain them. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Greenwich

<div><b>During the Second World War, a military lawyer is embroiled in the toughest case of his career when he must defend a fellow murderous officer<BR><BR></b>In the midst of World War II, Captain Barney Adams&rsquo;s superiors call on him with a very unusual request. A troubled US army lieutenant has confessed to murdering a British officer, and Captain Adams has been assigned as his defense attorney. Military court officials want the cleanest possible trial for the lieutenant, and they believe that Captain Adams, a war hero and distinguished lawyer, is the best man for the job. But when Adams begins to investigate the murder, he finds that this seemingly open-and-shut case is actually much more complicated. Before long he is absorbed in a dramatic struggle for a fair trial against the most overwhelming odds. Thrilling and thought-provoking, <i>The Winston Affair</i> is a powerful portrait of a man torn between the wishes of his superiors and the call for justice. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Winston Affair

<div><B>The <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling Lavette family saga from the author of <I>Spartacus</I> continues through the turmoil of Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement.</B><BR /><BR /> The fourth installment of the Immigrants saga follows Barbara Lavette, the daughter of a self-made Italian immigrant, through the turmoil of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War, the feminist and civil rights movements, and Israel&rsquo;s Six Day War with Egypt. Though Fast wrote over eighty books, including <I>Spartacus</I>, <I>April Morning</I>, and <I>Freedom Road</I>, his Immigrants novels remain some of his most personal and moving works. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Legacy

<div><B>The <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling novel of one man&rsquo;s journey from New York&rsquo;s slums to become one of America&rsquo;s first film moguls&mdash;from the author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />  <I>Max</I> tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry&rsquo;s beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max&rsquo;s father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan&rsquo;s Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed his business instincts and love of the theater to become one of the first film moguls in the history of American moviemaking. Britsky&rsquo;s life story is tragic and triumphant, and yet another example of the unmatched storytelling prowess of Howard Fast, one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century.  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

<div><B>An epic novel of Berenice, Queen of Israel&mdash;life, love, and war in the shadow of the Roman Empire&mdash;from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />  Throughout her rule in the first century AD, Queen Berenice is idolized by some, and hated by others. Though her fiery red hair makes her instantly recognizable, it is her mysterious charm and steely will that make her unforgettable. The daughter of Israel&rsquo;s King Agrippa I, Berenice is determined to free the kingdom of Israel from the shadow of the Roman Empire. But her plans are derailed after her husband, Shimeon, dies during a bloody civil war. When Berenice falls in love with Titus, son of the Roman Emperor, they devise an impossible plan to join the ruling lines of Rome and Israel. <BR /> A master of gripping historical fiction, Howard Fast brings the ancient world to vivid life in this enthralling, epic drama.<BR /><I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Agrippa's Daughter

<div><B>The &ldquo;</B><B>epic and stirring story&rdquo; of 4,000 years of Judaism&mdash;told by a #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author (<I>Jewish Quarterly</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> From their nomadic beginnings and the rise of Moses to the kings David and Solomon through the Diaspora and the unthinkable horror of the Holocaust&mdash;and culminating in the founding of the state of Israel&mdash;this is the sweeping tale of the Jews. Howard Fast, author of the classic <I>Spartacus, </I>displays his gift for compelling narrative throughout this eminently readable and well-researched saga.<BR />  <BR /> In Fast&rsquo;s telling, truth is stranger, and more inspiring, than fiction. &ldquo;Here, I decided, was one of the most exciting and romantic adventures in all the history of mankind,&rdquo; he explains in his introduction. &ldquo;It had a continuity that spanned most of recorded history. It was filled with drama, passion, tragedy, and faith; and with all due reverence for the scholars, it pleaded for a storyteller to tell it as a story, indeed as the story of all stories.&rdquo;<BR />  <BR /> Fast&rsquo;s accomplishment is required reading not only for lovers of great literature but also for anyone interested in the march of civilization. Barry Holtz, the editor of <I>The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books</I> hails <I>The Jews </I>as &ldquo;an exciting and pleasurable [introduction] to a four-thousand-year epic.&rdquo;<BR />  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Jews

<div><b>Stories of courage against oppression by one of twentieth-century America&rsquo;s most fearless writers</b><BR>These nineteen stories follow the paths of men and women, immigrants, minorities, and the poor, suffering from injustice and inequality. Written in the 1940s, Fast&rsquo;s clear-eyed and lively tales examine a world reeling from war and plagued by social unrest. With stories set in New York City, Europe, and India, this collection shares a remarkable global vision. Written during the rising Communist scare, <i>Departure</i> is a defiantly leftist portrait of a complex and ever-changing world. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Departure

<div><b>Bestselling author Howard Fast&rsquo;s straightforward introduction to Zen meditation</b><BR>Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. <i>The Art of Zen Meditation</i>, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press in 1977, is the fruit of Fast&rsquo;s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself. Fast&rsquo;s study of Zen also inspired his popular Masao Masuto mystery series about a Zen Buddhist detective in Beverly Hills, which he published under the pseudonym E. V. Cunningham. <i>The Art of Zen Meditation</i> is illustrated with twenty-three beautiful photographs. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Art of Zen Meditation

<div><b>Fast&rsquo;s epic novel, about one man&rsquo;s family tree stretching through history from the Revolutionary War, portrays the best and worst of the American experiment</b> Broken and sick, a young Revolutionary War soldier from New York is taken in by an innkeeper&rsquo;s family and nursed to health. The soldier, John Preswick, falls in love with the innkeeper&rsquo;s daughter, even as his wife Inez waits back home. Through five generations, the two families he starts share an intertwined fate. The Preswicks take part in some of the country&rsquo;s most significant episodes, from the Civil War to the California Gold Rush, with fortunes discovered, lost, and made on the backs of others. A tenacious chronicler of American history, Howard Fast was one of the most prolific historical novelists of the twentieth century. <i>Strange Yesterday</i> is perhaps his most sweeping, ambitious novel. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Strange Yesterday

<div><B>A stunning novel of American revolutionaries battling the brutal winter at Valley Forge&mdash;from the &ldquo;literary phenomenon&rdquo; and author of <I>Spartacus</I> (<I>The Guardian</I>).</B><BR />   General George Washington&rsquo;s twelve thousand soldiers march into Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, under-fed and under-clothed, their frozen feet leaving bloody tracks in the snow. Shortly after the soldiers establish quarters for the cold months ahead, disease begins to rip through the camp. The men, helpless against sickness and despair, are facing the longest winter of their lives&mdash;and their survival will determine the fate of their young nation.   Passionate and unforgettable, <I>Conceived in Liberty</I> is one of Fast&rsquo;s rawest accounts of the brutality of the Revolutionary War, and of the heroism of its soldiers. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Conceived in Liberty

<div><b>Fast&rsquo;s fascinating biography of Joseph Broz, known to the world as Tito, including his rise to power and his remarkable stand against fascism<BR><BR></b>The world was mired in the Second World War when Howard Fast wrote <i>The Incredible Tito</i>. Upon the book&rsquo;s publication in 1944, there was still no united Yugoslavia, the Axis controlled most of Europe, and D-Day was only in the planning stages. In the Balkans, Tito was a beacon of hope against the advancing Nazis. He led a force of resistance fighters that bedeviled the occupying German army throughout Slavic regions and empowered people&rsquo;s committees to act as local government in all liberated areas. For observers on the political left, Tito seemed uniquely poised to unite the East and West against fascism&mdash;once and for all. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Incredible Tito

<div><b>Twelve tales of the United States&rsquo; early days, capturing moments in the lives of great leaders and farmers alike, all dreaming of the nation to come</b><BR>Written mostly while the United States was engaged in World War II, these patriotic stories imagine the best of the American spirit during its formative years. From &ldquo;The Day of Victory,&rdquo; about a victorious George Washington meeting with his generals one last time to swap stories before they all return to civilian life, to &ldquo;The Bookman,&rdquo; about a tragic day during the Revolutionary War as experienced by a young boy, each story depicts common citizens standing against tyranny, and settlers searching for a better life. Passionate and beautifully written, <i>Patrick Henry and the Frigate&rsquo;s Keel </i>is one of Howard Fast&rsquo;s best story collections, and a moving tribute to the aspirations of a new nation. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Patrick Henry and the Frigate's Keel

<div><B>The #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I> reimagines the life </B><B>of John Peter Altgeld, a courageous politician and forgotten national hero.</B><BR />   Though Abraham Lincoln is often considered the United States&rsquo; most legendary politician, he wasn&rsquo;t the only country lawyer out of Illinois to change the face of the nation. John Peter Altgeld fought for Lincoln as a foot soldier in the Union Army, then followed in his footsteps from law to politics, eventually becoming governor of Illinois in 1896. Howard Fast&rsquo;s dazzling fictional account of Altgeld&rsquo;s life offers an inspirational example of a man who made great sacrifices for quintessentially American ideals. Inspired by Altgeld&rsquo;s social reforms, such as his fight against the dehumanizing economic injustice of the Gilded Age and his trailblazing implementation of some of the nation&rsquo;s first child labor laws, Fast celebrates the compelling life of an unsung American luminary. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The American

<div><b>When a factory strike turns violent, neighbors clash in a sleepy New England company town </b><BR>It is 1945, and soldiers have returned home from Europe and the Pacific to take up their former lives. But in Clarkton, a small Massachusetts factory town, a high-stakes labor battle quickly turns violent, turning what should be a time of peace and prosperity into a bloody conflict that draws in every citizen. No one remains untouched, from rigid factory owner George Clark Lowell, to a small army of labor organizers of every background, to reptilian strike-buster Hamilton Gelb, to the shopkeepers, barbers, and priests that watch in confusion and horror as the nightmare unfolds. <i>Clarkton</i> is a potent novel of one town&rsquo;s fight against oppression, and a chilling reflection on the American labor movement after the Second World War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Clarkton

<div><B>A &ldquo;profoundly shocking&rdquo; tale of immigrant children growing up in New York tenements from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I> (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B><BR />  Ishky is Jewish; Marie and Shomake are Irish; Ollie is Italian. All children of immigrants, they are confronted daily by the prejudice that rules in one of the world&rsquo;s greatest urban centers: New York City. Living in slums, they must rely on each other to overcome hunger, disease, violence, and the bigotry of those who arrived before them. Fighting for a better life against the tide of poverty, the children must overcome their own city&rsquo;s barbarism, or be consumed by it.  Heartrending in its scope and harrowing in its realism, <I>The Children</I> is an elegy of the ghettoes and a moving cri de coeur against bigotry and oppression in all its forms. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Children

<div><b>A soldier in the American Revolution must struggle for his country&rsquo;s existence and its most precious ideals&mdash;even though it means fighting against his commanding officers<BR><BR></b>In 1781, Jamie Stuart is a twenty-three-year-old soldier serving amongst Jews, free slaves, Catholics, Native Americans, and others grouped together in a &ldquo;Foreign Brigade.&rdquo; They are part of a larger Pennsylvania Line that is forced to fight without pay, re-enlist without end, and survive without basic provisions. Enslaved and abused, Stuart and his friends join the mutiny of the entire Pennsylvania Line against its officers, holding their superiors accountable to the principles promised by their developing nation. In <i>The Proud and the Free</i>, Fast brilliantly imagines a forgotten moment in American history that marked one of the nation&rsquo;s earliest struggles for freedom against tyranny. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Proud and the Free

<div><b>Howard Fast&rsquo;s controversial essay on the proper role of literature, offering insight into his life and works</b><BR>In this 1950 essay, Howard Fast argues that all writers have a duty to reflect the truth of the world in their works, particularly regarding social justice. Fast&rsquo;s treatise on literary criticism allows for a fuller understanding of his early novels, in which his political beliefs remain inseparable from his writing. <i>Literature and Reality</i>, which Fast wrote around the time of the 1949 Peekskill riots, offers a unique window into his worldview during the mid-twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Literature and Reality

<div><B>The #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author&rsquo;s firsthand account of the civil rights benefit concert attacked by a violent mob in upstate New York.</B><BR />   In 1949, author Howard Fast found himself in the middle of a violent and terrifying anticommunist riot in Peekskill, New York. Fast was the master of ceremonies at a civil rights benefit concert featuring Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger, and others. But local newspapers stoked anticommunist anger, and the event was besieged by a mob armed with rocks, clubs, fence posts, and knives. Fast&rsquo;s <I>Peekskill, USA</I> is a blow-by-blow account of the bloody riots, which led to the beating of the first black combat pilot in the US Air Force, Eugene Bullard.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Peekskill USA

<div><b>Fast&rsquo;s powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain&rsquo;s fight for freedom from governmental oppression</b><BR>Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the names of other supporters of that hospital to the House Un-American Activities Committee. In this pamphlet, published in 1951, Fast gives an overview of Spain under the rule of General Francisco Franco, including the mass strikes that were organized to weaken him. Fast&rsquo;s fervent appeals to readers to reject American military agreements with Spain demonstrate his passionate opposition to fascism. As Fast writes, &ldquo;Spain fights on, and in those three words there is a miracle. . . . There is no Spanish worker, professional, intellectual or peasant who strikes a blow for freedom without our being intimately concerned.&rdquo; This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Spain and Peace

<div><B>A novel based on the controversial case of two immigrants executed for murder in 1927, from the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />   Seven years, two trials, and three appeals after their arrest for robbery and murder in 1920, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti await execution in their prison cells. Supporters around the world have passionately argued their innocence, particularly when Celestino Madeiros, a young mobster, confesses to the murders along with other members of his gang. But no retrial is ordered; on August 23, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. Howard Fast&rsquo;s heartrending fictional account offers a window into the thoughts and feelings of a presumed-innocent Sacco and Vanzetti, and is a withering indictment of the American justice system. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

<div><b>As the Red Scare grips America, a midwestern literature professor becomes an unlikely hero in the struggle for freedom<BR><BR></b>Professor Silas Timberman has never been one for theatrics. A quiet American literature professor at a mid-sized college, Timberman decides to build a semester&rsquo;s course around the democratic ideals of Mark Twain&mdash;a subject that under normal circumstances would not arouse the suspicions of the university administration. But as the Korean War rages on and congressional investigations of potential Communists gain traction, no amount of ideological nuance is safe. When Timberman is asked to renounce his work or face the repercussions, he finds that not only his tenure but also his very freedom is at stake. Inspired by Fast&rsquo;s own persecution at the hands of the House Un-American Activities Committee, <i>Silas Timberman</i> is a gripping record of the injustices of McCarthyism and a rousing ode to those who fought against it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Silas Timberman

<div><b>A couple in Washington, DC, is torn apart when a friend is accused of treason<BR><BR></b>Jane and David Graham live upper-middle-class lives in mid-century Washington, DC. Jane minds the home with the help of a fulltime maid, and David works at the Treasury Department. But when the FBI visits their house one evening to ask questions about a friend&rsquo;s political beliefs, the answers the two give separately cause them both to wonder whether they truly know each other. Soon nothing is certain as the ideological fears plaguing the nation threaten to destroy Jane and David&rsquo;s family. Howard Fast&rsquo;s first play, <i>Thirty Pieces of Silver</i> was performed in several countries, from Australia to Europe, and offers an insightful look at the destructive power of reactionary politics in America. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Thirty Pieces of Silver

<div><b>Sixteen stories that depict America&mdash;and the world&mdash;emerging from the wreckage of World War II</b><BR>From a glimpse of Coca-Cola&rsquo;s first appearance in a remote part of the Arabian desert to the tale of a wealthy, paranoid man building a shelter after the first hydrogen bomb tests, the stories in <i>The Last Supper </i>depict a world coming to grips with the new post-war reality. As always, Howard Fast has an ear for the way history echoes through the generations, and his tales of American ascendency are complemented by crisp fictional portraits of the country&rsquo;s earliest days, including three stories drawn from the life of colonial statesman Samuel Adams. Compelling and insightful, <i>The Last Supper</i> is an absorbing collection of mid-century Americana and a window into the mind of one of the country&rsquo;s greatest modern writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Last Supper

<div><b>As the sinister shadow of McCarthyism spreads across America, a woman fights to save everything she holds dear<BR><BR></b>Lola Gregg grew up the daughter of a respected physician in a tiny factory town. She married and had children, perfectly content in her quiet suburban existence. But Lola has a problem: At a time when progressivism is considered a national threat, Lola and her husband are on the wrong side of the political spectrum. When the FBI begins to tail her husband due to his leftist affiliations, Lola is forced to choose between her deeply held beliefs and the very safety of her family. Intense and thought-provoking, <i>Lola Gregg</i> is a potent thriller about one woman&rsquo;s struggle to preserve ideological freedom against the reactionary forces of her day. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Story of Lola Gregg

<div><b>Fast&rsquo;s book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidity</b><BR><i>The Naked God</i> is Howard Fast&rsquo;s public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The bestselling author of <i>Spartacus</i> and <i>Citizen Tom Paine</i>, Howard Fast lent his writing talents and celebrity to the communist cause as a steadfast advocate and public figure. However, he felt increasingly ill at ease with the superior manner Party leaders took with rank-and-file members and with rumors of Soviet anti-Semitism. In his first book after officially leaving the Party in 1956, Howard Fast explores the reasons he joined and his long inner struggle with a political movement in which he never felt he truly belonged. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Naked God

<div><B>The epic life story of Moses, from orphan child to leader of the Israelites, from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />   In <I>Moses,</I> Fast breathes new life into the legendary story of the infant found among the reeds of the Nile. From Moses&rsquo;s adoption into the home of Pharaoh Ramses II, to his upbringing in Egypt&rsquo;s royal court, to his controversial support of monotheism and eventual leadership of a nation, <I>Moses</I> is a stunning look at the life of one of world history&rsquo;s most celebrated men.   <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Moses

<div><b>Howard Fast&rsquo;s thrilling story of Benjamin Holt, mineworker and hero of the modern labor movement</b><BR>Benjamin R. Holt, the tough-as-nails leader of the International Miners Union, has a grand and controversial plan: to unite American coal miners in a major strike. His goal is not to advance any political cause, but simply to grab as much power as he can for the miners, and by any means necessary. Based on the life story of John L. Lewis, who for forty years served as president of the United Mine Workers of America, <i>Power</i> is an unforgettable portrait of one man whose courage changed the lives of countless others. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Power

<div><B>An &ldquo;eerily successful&rdquo; novel of the fifteenth-century Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of Spartacus (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B><BR />   Bestselling author Howard Fast&rsquo;s 1966 novelization of the Spanish Inquisition, <I>Torquemada</I>, is a terrifying drama about one of history&rsquo;s most notorious individuals. Prior Thomas de Torquemada and Don Alvaro de Rafel, a Spanish knight, have been friends for many years. But when Torquemada is named Spain&rsquo;s Grand Inquisitor by King Ferdinand and begins to hear whispers that Alvaro may have a secret Jewish past, he transforms from Alvaro&rsquo;s old friend into a menacing new enemy.Inspired by Fast&rsquo;s experiences being investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his subsequent jailing and blacklisting, <I>Torquemada</I> is a thrilling historical tale from a master of the genre.  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Torquemada

<div><B>A novel about George Washington&rsquo;s trip across the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton by the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />  <BR /> Immortalized on canvas by Emanuel Leutze, Washington&rsquo;s journey across the Delaware River is one of the most celebrated moments in American history. But the true story of the crossing, and of what came after, is often lost in the legend. In <I>The Crossing</I>, Howard Fast, author of <I>The Immigrants</I> and <I>April Morning</I>, writes with striking historical detail and relentless narrative drive about Washington&rsquo;s surprise attack, leading the Continental Army to its Revolutionary War victory against the one thousand Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey&mdash;a momentous occasion in American history.<BR />  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Crossing

<div><b>A collection of Fast&rsquo;s best short fiction, from science fiction and fantasy to philosophy and suspense</b><BR>This collection of short stories encompasses twenty years of work by Howard Fast, including some of his best-known and most treasured tales. Not merely fantasy or science fiction, these &ldquo;Zen stories&rdquo; explore the world&rsquo;s mysterious and unanswerable questions, big and small, and the results are at once bizarre, humorous, chilling, and poignant. An American general shoots down what appears to be an angel during a Vietnam War battle, a celebrated author becomes a hunted man, and a mouse is granted human thought and emotion by a group of alien beings. The thirty-one stories in <i>Time and the Riddle</i> showcase Fast&rsquo;s range and supreme talent as a storyteller. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Time and the Riddle

<div><B>The fifth installment of Fast&rsquo;s bestselling Immigrants series<I>, </I>continuing the story of one of his most beloved characters, Barbara Lavette.</B><BR /> Howard Fast&rsquo;s immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of his long career. This <I>New York Times</I> bestseller is the fifth entry in the series and focuses on one of his most beloved characters, Barbara Lavette, whom Fast based on his first wife. At sixty, Barbara is living a quiet life in San Francisco, grieving after the death of a longtime male friend. However, her spirits revive when she mounts an unexpectedly competitive congressional campaign. After narrowly losing the election, Barbara begins to reconnect with her past as a journalist and human rights activist, two passions that reignite the spark of adventure in her life. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Immigrant's Daughter

<div><b>When a starry-eyed model walks off with a powerful woman&rsquo;s mink coat and diamond bracelet, New York City&rsquo;s police race to find her&mdash;before gangsters get her first</b><BR>Margie Beck has always been a magnet for calamity. When she accidentally walks off with a $17,000 mink coat and the $90,000 bracelet contained within it, she finds herself again at the center of an exciting&mdash;and possibly deadly&mdash;criminal plot. As the city&rsquo;s police search for Margie, its criminal class joins the hunt. With only the help of her boyfriend and a clever dress designer, Margie must outsmart her pursuers before it&rsquo;s too late. This will be a thrilling day, but it could be Margie&rsquo;s last. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Margie

<div><b>A small-town girl flees from the assassin she hired to kill her</b><BR>When the doctor in her small hometown tells Sally Dillman that she has six months to live, the quiet young schoolteacher sells her house and moves to New York City. She comes not to see the sights, not for one last thrill, but to die as quickly as possible. Savings in hand, she pays a mobster $3,000 to put a contract out on her life. She wants to be killed before leukemia saps her strength, and she wants it to be a surprise. Only later does she learn of her terrible mistake. As the date of her appointed death draws closer, Sally feels none of the effects of her disease. A visit to the hospital confirms that the first diagnosis was wrong. She is no longer in danger from leukemia, but it is too late to stop the assassin. No longer prepared to die, Sally must fight to escape the deadly trap she laid for herself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Sally

<div><b>A murder investigation at a high-priced hotel reveals a deadly plot reaching the highest seats of power</b><BR>They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel &ldquo;the naked hooker.&rdquo; To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women there are so high class that it&rsquo;s impossible to distinguish guests and girlfriends from professionals. Women flock to the lavish hotel because it teems with film stars, businessmen&mdash;and America&rsquo;s richest criminals. Tonight, to detective Masao Masuto&rsquo;s chagrin, there is the body of a naked man in the pool. Though the management insists the death was accidental, Masuto doubts that any man would hide his own clothes before taking a midnight swim. The woman who reported the body is gone by the time the police reach her room, and the man they find there, Jack Stillman, insists there was nobody staying with him. The next day Stillman is dead, and Masao Masuto has a killing spree to deal with&mdash;one that leads to a tangled web of espionage and international conspiracy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Case of the Russian Diplomat

<div><B>Neighbors on a New York City street struggle to achieve their dreams during the Great Depression&mdash;from the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR />  On Apple Place, John Edwards aspires to poetry and love, while his neighbor Claus Silverman dreams of a life of music. Meyer runs a cigar stand, saving each penny to build a better future for his family, while Mary sells herself on the corner to provide for her children. Ground down by poverty during some of the city&rsquo;s bleakest years, the characters that mix and mingle in <I>Place in the City</I> all yearn for more, striving constantly for the American Dream lying just beyond their reach. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

Place in the City

<div><B>Science fiction stories from the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I>.</B><BR /><BR /> From one of the most prolific and versatile writers of the twentieth century, <I>The Edge of Tomorrow</I> is a collection of tales that journey outside everyday boundaries to offer insight into our own universe. Featuring big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children, these unconventional, thought-provoking stories reveal much about the America of their time, when the Cold War and the nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.<BR />  <BR /> From &ldquo;The First Men,&rdquo; about scientists tampering with genetic engineering, to &ldquo;The Large Ant,&rdquo; about a man&rsquo;s thoughtless violence against nature, these stories by the author of <I>April Morning</I> and <I>The Immigrants</I>&mdash;described by the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> as &ldquo;one of our very best&rdquo;&mdash;are as relevant today as when they were first written.<BR />  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Edge of Tomorrow

<div><b>Dissatisfied with life on the Upper East Side, a socialite finds a new favorite pastime: robbing banks</b><BR>When James R. Hastings, president of the City Federal Bank, began construction of a new branch on Madison Avenue, he vowed to make it burglar proof. Vaults set forty feet below ground, an array of cameras, and a quartet of burly guards were intended to deter any bandit. But James Hastings did not count on being robbed by his wife. Three weeks after the bank opens, a demure old woman removes a Luger from her handbag and asks a clerk to empty her register, then disappears into the bathroom with a haul of over $50,000. When the guards arrive, a scared young woman flees the bathroom and points them to the stalls. Inside, they find nothing but a discarded disguise, while the young woman walks calmly out the front door. This is Penelope Hastings&mdash;a bored banker&rsquo;s wife who, now that she has taken up crime, will never be bored again. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Penelope

<div><b>Two tales of speculative fiction from bestselling author Howard Fast</b><BR><i>The Hunter and The Trap</i> presents two thrilling and suspenseful stories by Howard Fast, one of the most prolific authors of the twentieth century. In &ldquo;The Hunter,&rdquo; celebrated but down-on-his-luck novelist Andrew Bell returns to New York from an African safari only to find himself the prey in someone else&rsquo;s big game hunt. Bell must seek the help of an old friend in order to escape with his life. In &ldquo;The Trap,&rdquo; an ex-soldier is tasked with traveling the world to find children for a daring social and scientific experiment. In a secret compound in California, a group of government-funded US scientists are attempting to win the Cold War by developing a race of super-humans. Isolated from the shortcomings of human society and nurtured to their full potential, these brilliant children begin to develop powers, including telekinesis and telepathy, which represent the next leap in human development. These two engrossing stories are at once horrifying, thrilling, tragic, and uplifting, demonstrating Fast&rsquo;s range and versatility. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Hunter and the Trap

<div><b>&ldquo;<i>The General Zapped an Angel</i> was written for fun, and offers me a chance to smile at the absurdity of human existence. Therefore, these stories of fantasy and science fiction are among the most serious writing I have done.&rdquo; &mdash;Howard Fast</b><BR>Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, &ldquo;The Wrath of Purple,&rdquo; in the science fiction magazine <i>Amazing Stories</i>, Howard Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day&rsquo;s <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion. Fast, one of the bestselling authors of the twentieth century, skewers war hawks, oil speculators, and profit-at-all-costs capitalism, issues that are still relevant today. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The General Zapped an Angel

<div><B>The <I>New York Times&ndash;</I>bestselling author of <I>Spartacus </I>evokes the postwar Jewish-American experience through the story of a compassionate but conflicted rabbi.</B><BR />  <BR /> After witnessing the inhumanity and devastating suffering of Dachau, chaplain David Hartman returns to post&ndash;World War II America seeking meaning and purpose. As a young rabbi, he accepts a post in the sleepy, WASPy Connecticut suburb of Leighton Ridge, where a handful of Jewish families want to build a religious community. Accompanied by his lively wife, Lucy, a self-proclaimed &ldquo;Jewish atheist,&rdquo; and aided by a kindred spirit in the local Congregational minister, David meets skepticism with sincerity, and poverty with humility and humor&mdash;and faces anti-Semitism with quiet courage.<BR />  <BR /> Over the next quarter century, David and his family and congregation weather the social upheavals of McCarthyism, the establishment of Israel&rsquo;s statehood, the trial and execution of the &ldquo;atom spies,&rdquo; civil rights marches, and Vietnam War protests. David finds both his faith and his marriage tested as he continues to struggle with feeling marginalized as a rabbi and a Jew in American society, haunted by the Holocaust and challenged to respond to the prejudice, inequality, and warmongering he sees locally and nationally.<BR />  <BR /> Capturing a tumultuous time when humanity was rapidly figuring out how to destroy itself and eager to declare God if not dead, then irrelevant, Howard Fast&rsquo;s sweeping historical novel offers an intimately personal portrayal of a rabbi&rsquo;s life&mdash;and fearlessly probes questions of personal morality, spiritual identity, and social responsibility that continue to resonate in the twenty-first century.<BR />  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

The Outsider

<div><b>Howard Fast&rsquo;s 1987 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, a tight political drama that remains just as relevant today as when it was first written</b><BR>Fast&rsquo;s 1987 novel <i>The Dinner Party</i> confronts issues including American intervention in Latin America and the AIDS epidemic. Often compared to a play, <i>The Dinner Party</i> takes place during a single day, culminating in a party hosted by Richard Cromwell, a US Senator whose wealthy entrepreneur father-in-law is building a controversial highway across Central America, though powerful government interests want the highway stopped stopped. International politics become deeply personal in this novel, and unfailingly serve as a commentary on contemporary politics. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Dinner Party

<div><b>A foreign correspondent is targeted by the US government after aligning with the Communist Party for a controversial story </b><BR>In what many consider his most autobiographical novel, bestselling author Howard Fast revisits the McCarthy-era anticommunist witch hunts he endured during his years as a member of the Communist Party. In <i>The Pledge</i>, Bruce Bacon, a war correspondent stationed in Bengal near the end of World War II, investigates a terrible famine that has left millions in India starving to death, despite ample food supplies stored&mdash;and allegedly withheld&mdash;by the British. Seeking to tell his story back in New York, Bacon meets members of a communist organization, including a <i>Daily Worker</i> reporter named Molly Maguire. But the America he returns to is not the same one he left behind, and soon Bacon discovers that associating with communists has put him squarely in the crosshairs of the House Un-American Activities Committee. This suspenseful and powerful novel revisits the guilt-by-association fear and suspicion that gripped America during the second Red Scare, which had harrowing consequences for those unfortunate enough to be accused. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

The Pledge

<div><B>From the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>The Immigrant</I>: The conclusion to the Lavette family saga is &ldquo;addictive as candy&rdquo; and &ldquo;genuinely touching&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).</B><BR />  In the sixth and final installment of the Immigrants saga, Fast revisits the charismatic Barbara Lavette. In this emotional farewell, Barbara, the rock and matriarch of her family, marries a Unitarian priest, and together they travel the world. Though Fast wrote over eighty books, including <I>Spartacus</I>, <I>April Morning</I>, and <I>Freedom Road</I>, his Immigrants saga remains some of his most personal and moving work.  <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</I></div>

An Independent Woman

<div><b>When the love of his life is accused of murder, a university professor will stop at nothing to prove her innocence</b><BR>On a late night drive home, Ike Goldman, a retired Columbia University law professor, saves a woman from killing herself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The woman&rsquo;s name is Elizabeth Hopper, and Ike, a widower, unexpectedly finds himself falling in love. But everything changes when Elizabeth&rsquo;s estranged husband, a rich Wall Street executive she claims abused her, is found murdered, and Elizabeth is the prime suspect. Now Ike must uncover the truth, even as he fights to protect the woman he loves. Fast-paced and suspenseful, <i>Redemption</i> is one of Howard Fast&rsquo;s last novels, and a remarkable story of love and loyalty amid the most harrowing of circumstances. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s estate.</div>

Redemption

<div><B>From activist to family matriarch, Barbara Lavette takes center stage in the final three volumes of the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling Immigrants saga.</B><BR />  <BR /><I>New York Times&ndash;</I>bestselling author Howard Fast&rsquo;s immensely popular Immigrants saga spanned six novels and more than a century of the Lavette family history. The series was considered one of the crowning achievements of the prolific author, who also penned <I>Spartacus</I>,<I> Freedom Road</I>, and <I>April Morning</I>.<BR />  <BR /><I>The Legacy</I>: In this <I>New York Times </I>bestseller, Barbara, the daughter of self-made Italian immigrant Dan Lavette, navigates the turmoil of the 1960s, including the Vietnam War, the feminist and civil rights movements, and Israel&rsquo;s Six Day War with Egypt.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A wonderful book.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Los Angeles Times</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Immigrant&rsquo;s Daughter</I>: At sixty, Barbara is living a quiet life in San Francisco, grieving after the death of a longtime male friend. But when she mounts an unexpectedly competitive congressional campaign, she reconnects with her past as a journalist and human rights activist, and her spirits revive, in this <I>New York Times </I>Bestseller.<BR />  <BR /><I>An Independent Woman</I>: In this emotional farewell, Barbara, the rock and matriarch of her family, marries a Unitarian priest, and together they travel the world&mdash;until she faces the toughest challenge of her life.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Eventful and well-crafted . . . Loyal fans of Fast&rsquo;s opus will welcome this bittersweet reunion with a woman they have come to know and admire.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>People</I></div>

The Lavette Legacy

<div><B>A pair of imaginative science fiction story collections from the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus, Freedom Road</I>, and the Immigrants saga.</B><BR />  <BR /> Over his long and illustrious career, <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author and prolific novelist Howard Fast proved himself a master of any literary genre, from historical fiction in <I>Spartacus </I>to family generational drama in his bestselling Immigrants saga. Although his output in fantasy and science fiction is relatively modest, these two short story collections, reminiscent of classic <I>Twilight Zone</I> episodes, demonstrate that Fast&rsquo;s imagination knew no boundaries.<BR />  <BR /><I>The General Zapped an Angel</I>: Nearly forty years after the publication of his first story, &ldquo;Wrath of Purple,&rdquo; in the science fiction magazine <I>Amazing Stories</I>, Fast returned to the genre with a set of nine supremely entertaining tales. In this collection, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel, a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day&rsquo;s <I>Wall Street Journal</I>, and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotion.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;These stories amply display Fast&rsquo;s considerable gifts as a writer&mdash;his clear, concise, often elegant prose, his sense of humor, his gift of sympathetic imagination, and sheer talent as a storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Tangent</I><BR />  <BR /><I>A Touch of Infinity</I>: This follow-up to <I>The General Zapped an Angel</I> offers thirteen brisk and engrossing science fiction stories. In &ldquo;The Hoop,&rdquo; a scientist builds a portal to an unknown destination, which the mayor of New York City hijacks to use as a garbage dump until the location&rsquo;s surprising&mdash;and hilarious&mdash;revelation. And in &ldquo;The Egg,&rdquo; set three thousand years in the future, a research team discovers an egg, something they have never seen before, cryogenically frozen in a nuclear bunker.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Fast, a master of economy . . . spins his stories quickly and most effectively.&rdquo; &mdash;Associated Press</div>

Collected Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction

<div><B>A collection of thrilling murder mysteries featuring &ldquo;an unusually interesting detective&rdquo; from the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I> (<I>The Washington Star</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Japanese-American Beverly Hills homicide detective Masao Masuto is a karate expert, a devotee of roses, and a Zen Buddhist. He does his job with a cool, caustic wit&mdash;and with surprising force when necessary. He possesses a singular sense of justice, taking action on his own and occasionally pushing the boundaries of the law . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Angry Actress</I>: When a Hollywood mogul drops dead at his own party, Detective Masuto must dig into the darkest secrets of the magnate&rsquo;s past. Now he must uncover a secret worth killing for before someone else dies.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A good fast-paced thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Reader&rsquo;s Syndicate</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the One-Penny Orange</I>: Masuto has a break-in and a murder to solve, both of which are baffling. But when he suspects a connection between the two crimes, he uncovers a bizarre conspiracy that reaches back to the darkest days of World War II.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A finely perceived mystery puzzle . . . an unusually interesting detective.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Washington Star</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Russian Diplomat</I>: When a dead body is found in a pool at a high-class hotel notorious for its illicit activities, Matsuo finds himself hunting for a killer and tangled in a web of espionage and international intrigue.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;An enjoyable, highly professional entertainment.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New Yorker</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs</I>: A pleasant lull in murder cases is broken when a series of unusual poisoning deaths puts Masuto on the hunt for someone whose terrifying vendetta has only just begun.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A consummate storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Baltimore Sun</I><BR />  </div>

The Masao Masuto Mysteries Volume One

<div><B>A collection of thrilling murder mysteries featuring &ldquo;an unusually interesting detective&rdquo; from the #1 <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>Spartacus</I> (<I>The Washington Star</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Japanese-American Beverly Hills homicide detective Masao Masuto is a karate expert, a devotee of roses, and a Zen Buddhist. He does his job with a cool, caustic wit&mdash;and with surprising force when necessary. He possesses a singular sense of justice, taking action on his own and occasionally pushing the boundaries of the law . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Sliding Pool</I>: After a decades-old hidden grave is uncovered by a rainstorm, Detective Masuto must look into the distant past to find a murderer who was very good at his job&mdash;and who is about to come out of retirement.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;An interesting conception.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Kidnapped Angel</I>: The wife of one of Hollywood&rsquo;s biggest movie stars has been kidnapped for ransom&mdash;one that is willingly paid. But Masuto doesn&rsquo;t believe the worried husband&rsquo;s performance. He suspects the payoff was for something deadly . . .<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A talent for all times.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Moscow News</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Case of the Murdered McKenzie</I>: When a faded movie beauty is accused of killing her rich husband, it seems like an open-and-shut case&mdash;until Masuto investigates. And it soon appears that murder is only the beginning of an even more shocking conspiracy.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;One of the best in the series.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I><BR />  <BR /> As witty as he is wise, Detective Masuto is the brilliant creation of &ldquo;one of the 20th century&rsquo;s busiest writers&rdquo; known for &ldquo;creating stories that even his critics admired as page-turners (<I>The New York Times</I>).<BR />  </div>

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