Hemingway Cutthroat

A historical mystery starring Hemingway as he sleuths out the murder of a fellow WWI veteran in a series as “brash and daring as Papa Hemingway himself” (Tess Gerritsen, New York Times–bestselling author of The Spy Coast).

There were no bullfights in 1937 Madrid, just bombs, freedom fighters, journalists, and plenty of corpses. Ernest Hemingway, covering the Spanish Civil War for the American press, came looking for stories and danger, and found something else: a friend murdered amid the ruins.

With a new novel stirring in his head and his veins pumping with booze, Hemingway sets out to find who killed Jose Robles Pazos, a bureaucrat in the Popular Front, and who’s covering it up. There is, after all, nothing like risking death in a war zone if it means living fast, nailing the bastards, and avoiding a deadline. With the writer John Dos Passos at his side, Hemingway wades into the darkness, discovering that his old WWI buddy is no mere casualty of war—but victim of something far more terrible.

Boisterous, bare knuckled Hemingway Cutthroat captures the writer at the height of his career and in a Europe teetering on untold cataclysm, struggling to find out not just for whom, but why the bell tolled.

Praise for Michael Atkinson's Ernest Hemingway mysteries:

“Although Hemingway lived one of the twentieth century's most remarkable, adventurous lives, Atkinson's version even better!” —Library Journal

“Good fun for classic hardboiled fans and, of course, for Hemingway aficionados, who will enjoy both Papa’s boisterous charisma.” —Booklist

“As reminiscent of Bukowski as it [is] of Hemingway.” —The New Yorker