Summer is winding down, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy another thriller or two. You might want to check out Robin Cook’s latest, “Crisis,” in which Cook sees intrigue and mystery in the world of high-class medicine. In nonfiction, Chad Milman takes a look at the case of some German saboteurs who blew up an arms cache in New York Harbor as World War I was blowing up in Europe. Karen Fisher’s delightful novel “A Sudden Country,” set on the Oregon Trail, is out in paperback. Coming in the fall, look for Ian Rankin to cook up another pulse-pounder in “Bleeding Hearts.”
FICTION
Crisis, by Robin Cook, Penguin, 480 pages, $25.95| Cook takes on the emerging story of “concierge medicine,” where the rich can get special medical care unavailable to the rest of us.
Against a Crimson Sky, by James Conroyd Martin, St. Martin’s, 384 pages, $24.95|Continuing the story he started with “Push Not the River,” Martin continues the story of four Polish aristocrats in Napoleonic times.
What Is Mine, by Anne Holt, Warner, 400 pages, $24.95| Based on a true story about a serial killer on the loose in Norway, this is the author’s American debut.
NONFICTION
The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice, by Chad Millman, Little, Brown, 352 pages, $24.95|Millman takes the reader into the little-rememberd plot to blow up an arms depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor in the early days of World War I.
The Definitive Book of Body Language, by Allan and Barbara Pease, Bantam, 400 pages, $23| The authors update the earlier version, released in 1984 as “Signals,” which shows how to interpret gestures and nonverbal clues to what people really mean.
Mao’s Last Revolution, by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Harvard University Press, 720 pages, $35|The authors take off the gloves in examining the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976, when Mao turned his guns on his own people.
PAPERBACKS
A Sudden Country, by Karen Fisher, Random House, 400 pages, $13.95| Set during the migration on the Oregon Trail, the novel follows the fortunes of two characters as they struggle for survival.
The Boys at the Bar: Antics of a Vanishing Breed of Cowboys, by Sureva Towler, Johnson Books, 144 pages, $15|A collection of humorous essays centered on the views of a group of cowboys on such things as developers, second-home owners and cappucino bars.
Lost in the Forest, by Sue Miller, Random House, 272 pages, $13.95| Set in California’s wine country, a young girl seeks solace in the arms of an older man after tragedy strikes.
COMING UP
Bleeding Hearts, by Ian Rankin, Little, Brown, 400 pages, $24.95, November| When a hit man takes out a TV reporter, his nemesis, a private detective hired years ago by another victim’s father, is hot on his trail.
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man, by Dale Peterson, Houghton, Mifflin, 672 pages, $35, November|The author details how Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and helped set new standards for the study of animal behavior.
The Secret Lovers, by Charles McCarry, Overlook, 320 pages, $24.95, November|Paul Christopher receives a secreted Russian dissident’s novel that is sure to bring the Soviet Union to its knees in this Cold War espionage thriller.
