Books

Song for Katya
Pocket Books

In a freezing winter at the height of the Cold War, jazz pianist Drew Fisher travels from New York to Moscow as part of a government-sponsored musical tour. His music is sublime, but beneath the surface he is haunted by the demons of past addiction and personal failure. Tour organizer Katya Timoshenko is locked in a very different battle; trapped in a loveless marriage to a high ranking official, she is fighting to keep herself and her children safe from the menace of the Soviet state. When Drew and Katya meet, the attraction is instantaneous, and their love unfolds beneath the suspicious eyes of both governments. Against seemingly impossible odds they plan a future together, but the authorities move to frustrate their love and leave them with the most difficult of choices.

Song for Katya evokes the spirit of a time and place when the purest of human emotions could be the most dangerous.

The Rizzoli Contract
Pocket Books/TownHouse

A tense and compelling story of mafia conspiracies - and murder With nothing to lose, and a legal safety net to protect all profits - Harry Donohue is on to a winner. By publishing the story of Bobby Rizzoli, and the notorious New England bank heist, Harry hopes to put an end to the financial worries that have been hanging over him and the crooked accounts of the family printing business for good. The more Harry knows though, the more complicated things become, and in a world where knowledge can be dangerous, Harry finds himself at the centre of a sinister political scam - one far bigger than he ever anticipated. Caught up in the dealings of the bureaucratic underworld, the difficulty Harry now faces is not whether he can pull off the Rizzoli deal, but who he can trust to help him do it.

Bird Era: History of the Boston Celtics, 1978-88
by Bob Schron and Kevin Stevens
Quinlan Press, 1989

Winchester, Massachusetts: The Architectural Heritage of a Victorian Town
Winchester Historical Society, 1988

The Cops are Robbers: A Convicted Cop's True Story of Police Corruption
by Gerald W. Clemente and Kevin Stevens
Quinlan Press, 1987

Like the proverbial hooker who cries rape, Clemente, a bent cop, voices protest: he was not accorded the deference due an officer during investigations into allegations linking him to a bank heist but, rather, was treated as a suspect. On the job he himself was always humane, an attribute he stresses perhaps to temper his admission of personal corruption and which also may underpin his charge that corruption is indigenous to law enforcement. One year into his 30-year sentence for robbing a bank in his Massachusetts hometown of Medford in 1980 and while awaiting trial for a scam involving civil service exams this former police lieutenant here throws himself on the reader's sympathy, aided by Stevens, a book editor, with arguments that his five brethren in the robbery, two of them junkies, turned out to be less than honorable, and that his mistress, a "manipulator" who testified against him, played him for a "sucker." Clemente's wife and son have only cameo roles in his memoir, the roles one senses they are assigned in his life as well.