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First edition (publ. Hodder & Stoughton) Cover art by Eleanor Poore. Wildfire at Midnight is a novel by Mary Stewart which was first published in 1956. [1] Stewart herself described the book as "an attempt at something different, the classic closed-room detective story with restricted action, a biggish cast, and a closely circular plot".
Wild Fire is a 2006 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille. It is the fourth of DeMille's novels to feature Detective John Corey, now working as a contractor for the fictional FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force in New York City. The novel is the sequel to Night Fall and takes place approximately one year later.
Rodman Philbrick (born January 22, 1951) is an American writer of novels for adults and children. He has written popular children's books such as Freak the Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Last Book in the Universe, and has written other mysteries and thrillers for adults.
James Kirke Paulding (August 22, 1778 – April 6, 1860) was an American writer and, for a time, the United States Secretary of the Navy.Paulding's early writings were satirical and violently anti-British, as shown in The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan (1812).
Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World, also published as Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World, is a 2023 book by Canadian-American journalist John Vaillant published by Knopf, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House.
Science journalist M.R. O'Connor's new book "Ignition," published Tuesday by Bold Type Books, will make you fall in love with the flickering, challenging mystery of fire, and even, cautiously ...
The novel is told mainly from the viewpoints of three Marines: 2nd Lt.Robert E. Lee Hodges, who comes from a long line of soldiers; "Snake" (no full name given), a squad leader in Hodges' platoon, a tough kid from the streets; and "Senator" (Will Goodrich), an impressionable and sensitive Harvard student who volunteers for service.
Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent.