The Traitor in Us All (Five Star)

A launch party for Los Angeles crime fiction author Robert Levinson and his new book The Traitor in Us All.

The cover art of this new book is a detail from an oil painting by James Strombotne, whose work hangs in major museums and private collections. The author and artist will be signing "limited edition" reproductions of the cover suitable for framing, with complimentary copies offered to the first 12 who attend and purchase the book at the event.

Robert S. Levinson is the best-selling author of seven previous mystery and thriller novels, In the Key of Death, Where the Lies Begin, Ask a Dead Men and four in the Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner "Affair" series. His short stories appear regularly in the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. He is a 2009 Derringer Award winner for "The Quick Brown Fox," which also appears in the new anthology, BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT. He won Ellery Queen Magazine Readers Award honors three consecutive years. His short stories have appeared in "year's best" anthologies five years running, while plays staged at RiverPark Center, Owensboro, KY, were nominated for "Angie" awards of the International Mystery Writers Festival two years running.

The Traitor in Us All (Hardcover)

By Robert S. Levinson

ISBN-13: 9781594148521
Availability: In the Warehouse (Usually ships to store or customer in 2-7 days. Call for time-sensitive orders)
Published: Five Star (ME), 2/2010

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, two teenage girls are brutally murdered and a third kidnapped in Eden Highlands, a quiet, close-knit Southern California community north of San Diego. Jack Sothern, a discredited, down-on-his-luck freelance writer, connects the crimes to Dan Boone, the notorious American "Turncoat Rebel" who found fame and fortune behind the Iron Curtain, and to a long-missing diary kept by sociopath Erich Mielke, sadistic head of East Germany's Ministry of State Security, the dreaded Stasi, and. If found, the diary's mother lode of state secrets would bring millions in a bidding war among countries. Deals are struck, treachery substitutes for the truth and the body count rises in a non-stop series of revelations as Sothern races to locate the diary, save the kidnapped girl and redeem his honor.

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