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The Empire of Night is a cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot that will have you casting the movie as you read. And Butler's elegant writing elevates the book--he is a master of everything from lyrical description to believable dialogue. -- Tampa Bay Times The Empire of Night is a smart and layered yarn...propulsive reading...Butler has developed a knack for snapping off taut, Hammett-esque sentences at tense moments...Butler is determined to show that genre fiction can be intellectually rich. -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune [A] thrilling historical series...Mr. Butler does a terrific job of depicting both the journalist's facility for teasing information from his subjects and the spy's incessant fear of being discovered. There's something almost magical about the way the author re-creates this 1915 milieu. -- Wall Street Journal Butler combines fascinating historical detail about the pre-WWI period with genuine suspense and a tongue-in-cheek wit that gives the whole a uniquely tart flavor. The multilayered, adversarial relationship between Kit and Isabel grows more fascinating with each installment and will leave readers eager to learn more. -- Booklist (starred review) Set on the cusp of America's involvement in WWI, Butler's exciting third Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel finds the American journalist-turned-spy not only deep in enemy territory in Berlin but paired with an unlikely ally: his mother, famed stage actress Isabel Cobb...The period details are spot on...This tale of shifting allegiances and worldwide consequences enthralls. -- Publishers Weekly

"""The Empire of Night is a cracking good spy thriller, with a cast of memorable characters and a terrifically suspenseful plot that will have you casting the movie as you read. And Butler's elegant writing elevates the book--he is a master of everything from lyrical description to believable dialogue."" -- ""Tampa Bay Times"" ""The Empire of Night is a smart and layered yarn...propulsive reading...Butler has developed a knack for snapping off taut, Hammett-esque sentences at tense moments...Butler is determined to show that genre fiction can be intellectually rich."" -- ""Minneapolis Star-Tribune"" ""[A] thrilling historical series...Mr. Butler does a terrific job of depicting both the journalist's facility for teasing information from his subjects and the spy's incessant fear of being discovered. There's something almost magical about the way the author re-creates this 1915 milieu."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""Butler combines fascinating historical detail about the pre-WWI period with genuine suspense and a tongue-in-cheek wit that gives the whole a uniquely tart flavor. The multilayered, adversarial relationship between Kit and Isabel grows more fascinating with each installment and will leave readers eager to learn more."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Set on the cusp of America's involvement in WWI, Butler's exciting third Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel finds the American journalist-turned-spy not only deep in enemy territory in Berlin but paired with an unlikely ally: his mother, famed stage actress Isabel Cobb...The period details are spot on...This tale of shifting allegiances and worldwide consequences enthralls."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"""

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Robert Olen Butler is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of sixteen novels, including Hell, A Small Hotel, and the Christopher Marlowe Cobb series. He is also the author of six short story collections and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and received the 2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University. Ray Chase graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in theater and a minor in cinema and television. He has since worked extensively as a voice-over artist. Among his dozens of audiobook narrations are Ian Douglas' Heritage trilogy and Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb thrillers.

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