Douglas Kennedy

Since being downsized, Laura's husband has become withdrawn. Jumping at the respite of a weekend conference in Boston, she meets an outwardly dull insurance salesman that she discovers is grappling with the same big questions she has, and they make a personal connection.

Like all would be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television. Before you can say "overnight success", he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Suddenly a major player, he finds that he's reinventing himself at a great speed, especially when...

Travel writer Thomas Nesbitt, age 50, retreats into his house in Maine to wallow in memories of living in Germany 25 years earlier after the success of his first book. In West Berlin as a worker for Radio Liberty, Thomas meets his soul mate, Petra Dussmann, a translator with an iron curtain around her heart. Petra's mysterious melancholy proves irresistible, and as Thomas is drawn into a passionate affair, he also becomes entangled in spy games played...

Le lendemain des obsèques de sa mère, Kate Malone reçoit l'appel d'une certaine Sara Smythe, qui dit être une amie de ses parents. Face au scepticisme de Kate, elle lui confie un manuscrit. L'histoire de plusieurs vies entremêlées un demi-siècle auparavant. 1945. L'Amérique se remet de la guerre. Mais, très vite, les heures noires du maccarthysme résonnent, avec leur cohorte de trahisons et de lâchetés conformistes. Et dans la tourmente,...

Vincent Parry, a man unjustly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from San Quentin and sets out to clear his name; but, he needs the help of someone he can trust. He finds both help and love in Irene, a San Francisco artist who is convinced he's innocent.

Lane is an Australian transplant looking to buy grazing land. But the cattle-raising locals won't sell to interlopers, especially one they consider the most contemptible excuse for a human being ever to cross the Great Plains: a sheep rancher. A flame-haried beauty has her eye on the newcomer, until she learns his occupation.

"In the Philippine jungles, club singer Claire hastily marries a GI, only to see him cut down by attacking Japanese troops. Rescued by underground US guerillas, she's inspired to get revenge in a most unusual manner, by opening up a ritzy Manila nightclub. The joint's high-ranking enemy patrons know Claire as Madame Tsubaki, while the Yanks code-name her "High Pockets" for stashing enemy intelligence in her décolletage. After smuggling valuable Axis...