Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is acollection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today’s top writers.

Nuclear brinksmanship,psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…

The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between theworld’s two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibilitythat could be set off at the touch of a button—provides a chilling backdrop tothis collection of all-new short stories from today’s most celebrated mysterywriters.

Bestselling authors Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson—theonly American writers to be commissioned to pen official James Bond novels—havejoined forces to bring us twenty masterful tales of paranoia, espionage, andpsychological drama. In Joseph Finder’s “Police Report,” the seeminglycut-and-dried case of a lunatic murderer in rural Massachusetts may have roots inSoviet-controlled Armenia. In “Miss Bianca” by Sara Paretsky, a young girlbefriends a mouse in a biological warfare laboratory and finds herselfunwittingly caught in an espionage drama. And Deaver’s own “Comrade 35” offersa unique spin on the assassination of John F. Kennedy—with a signature twist.