Books by Douglas Kennedy

For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the shadows of the Cold War. And so Thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept hidden.

Manhattan 1945. Krigen er forbi, og USA koger af begejstring. Til en fest hos sin bror i bohemekvarteret, Greenwich Village, møder Sara, en ung skribent, den netop hjemvendte krigskorrespondent, Jack Malone. Den regelrette, uniformsklædte Jack passer ikke ind i selskabet af bøsser, kunstnere, forfattere og studerende, men Sara falder omgående for ham. De to indleder et intenst kærlighedsforhold, der bliver skæbnesvangert for dem begge. For inden længe afløses optimismen i kølvandet på krigens afslutning af skræk og paranoia. McCarthys heksejagt sætter ind. New Yorks kunstnermiljø finkæmmes i jagten på kommunister – en jagt, som både Jack og Sara bliver involveret i, og hvis ofre findes alt for tæt på Sara. Mange år senere hører Jacks datter, Kate, som netop er blevet skilt, historien om sin far og Sara – og får et helt nyt perspektiv på tilværelsen. DOUGLAS KENNEDYS roman er bredt anlagt og fortæller på en gang om kærlighedens væsen og de tilfældigheder, der til tider får altafgørende betydning for vores liv, men den giver også indblik i en mørk periode i USAs historie, som fik katastrofale følger for en lang række mennesker.

I hele Hannahs opvækst beundres hun for sine fantastiske forældre. Faren er en populær, politisk meget engageret samfundsdebattør og universitetsprofessor, og moren er en karismatisk, kunstnerisk begavet, farverig personlighed, som Hannahs veninder elsker at komme på besøg hos, fordi hun er så anderledes.For Hannah er det imidlertid FOR MEGET. Hun elsker sine forældre, men det er svært at komme ud af deres skygge. Derfor slår hun også til, da den helt igennem almindelige, ordentlige og, nå jah, farveløse læge, Dan, frier til hende og derefter flytter sin familie næsten helt op til den canadiske grænse. Her begår Hannah af lutter kedsomhed imidlertid sit livs fejltagelse.Tredive år efter rammer fejltagelsen, som ellers har været godt begravet, hende som en boomerang i nakken, og i løbet af ganske få måneder ligger hendes liv fuldstændigt i ruiner.Nationens Tilstand er både et meget stærkt debatoplæg om, hvorledes en i og for sig ganske uskyldig ting kan blæses helt ud af proportioner af en sensationslysten presse og mennesker, der er villige til at dømme på de allerspinkleste indicier, men det er også en uhyre vedkommende, både knugende og opløftende, men især meget læseværdig bog, der fuldt fortjent straks røg til tops på den engelsksprogede verdens bestsellerlister og i Frankrig, hvor forfatteren nærmest har stjernestatus.

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies.

After years spent chasing the affections of the people who are supposed to love her unconditionally, Alice is beginning to realise that, though you can't choose your family, you can choose your future, and Alice sees her future far away from her dysfunctional family and the doldrums of small-town life.

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children.

Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job and his marriage.

Money as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex and love. Money as status ... This intriguing and extraordinarily well-written book is cheering for those of us who aren't rich, and will go happily to our graves without ever pulling down 300,000 per annum' Simon Hoggart, LITERARY REVIEW'How we chase Mammon defines us. Because, like it or not, we are what we earn,' CHASING MAMMON is the first travel book ever written about the uses of money and the attitudes of the wheelers and dealers in the international marketplace. Douglas Kennedy spent a year loitering with intent in six very disparate financial realms, including the Casablanca bourse (where stocks and bonds are listed on a blackboard), the squeaky-clean Singapore money markets, the Sydney futures market and the first Hungarian stock exchange to open since 1948. From the 'New Age' City folk in London, unsure whether greed really is good for you, to the tireless toilers of Wall Street, Knnedy's encounters with money-makers around the globe make for an exhilarating and quirkily original journey through the modern cash nexus.

David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined.

'Palm-tingling sensation ... captivating ... a completely convincing imaginative performance ... enthralling' The TimesOn the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He wants - has always wanted - to be a photographer. When he discovers his wife has fallen in love with another man, the consequences of a moment of madness force him to question not just the design of his life but the price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else. From the picket fences of yuppie New England to Montana's untouchable splendour, The Big Picture spans states and states of mind in a thrilling novel of genuine originality.Reviews for The Big Picture'The Horse Whisperer recast by Patricia Highsmith ... a compulsive page-turner and a dark moral fable' Mail on Sunday'Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story' Esquire

As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before - one who is destined to change Sara's future forever. But finding love isn't the same as finding happiness - as Sara and Jack soon find out.

'A furiously paced, compulsive thriller' The TimesNed Allen is young, smart, and upwardly mobile. Several years into his career as an ad salesman for a successful computer magazine, Ned's finally left his small-town roots behind, and is certain that the sophisticated Manhattan world he covets is his forever. His wife Lizzie is also a rising star of a prestigious PR firm. It seems that Ned's made it. But then what appeared to be a career break shows its true colours. Ned's forced to make some tough calls, among them a question of ethics and the small matter of whether to lie to his wife - and when the tough calls just keep getting tougher he finds himself on the brink of losing everything ...Readers say: 'Classic Kennedy. Brilliant plot, wonderful dialogue and characters. You are bowled over by the pace.''Excellent five star read from the first to the last page''If you haven't read any of Douglas Kennedy books please do'

Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo.

Though much has been written about the political implications of the religious revival which has engulfed America in recent years, a question remains unanswered: what pushes its people into 'declaring for Jesus'?Douglas Kennedy spent a long hot summer cruising through that expanse of the American South known as 'The Bible Belt' exploring that question. In a remarkable journey into one of the strangest corners of the United States, Kennedy finds himself spending time in Miami with a one-time member of the Mafia turned charismatic preacher, discovering Christian heavy metal music in Nashville, and visiting Death Row in South Carolina with an evangelist who ministers to the condemned.Repeatedly discovering the extraordinary within the ordinary, IN GOD'S COUNTRY is a profound, yet brilliantly entertaining exploration of life in late twentieth century America.

That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ... That map had been a serious mistake'The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape.'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr