The following books can be found alphabetically by the author's last name in the Adult Fiction area.

Location Codes:
MN - Main Library
DR - Dobson Ranch Branch
RM - Red Mountain Branch (East Mesa)

Altman, John. A Game of Spies. 2002. 259 p.
In England in 1940, a young sleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, who has a crucial piece of information and is on the run from the Germans and other enemies, finds herself plunged into a deadly game of ruse and counter ruse. (MN, DR, RM)

Bock, Dennis. The Ash Garden. 2001. 298 p.
The lives and fates of three people--a scientist smuggled into America to work at Los Alamos, a young woman quarantined on a refugee ship in the Atlantic, and a young Japanese girl--collide in August 1945 with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. (MN, DR, RM)

Bragg, Melvyn. The Soldier's Return. 2002. 346 p.
Scarred by memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family, which includes a young son who barely remembers him and a wife with a new sense of independence from her wartime job. (MN, DR, RM)

Canin, Ethan. Carry Me Across the Water. 2001. 206 p.
Follows the life and fortunes of August Kleinman, a man who shapes his destiny in the fires of World War II and its aftermath. (MN, DR, RM)

Follett, Ken. Hornet Flight. 2002. 420 p.
In June 1941, with the war not going well for the British, the lives of three people on both sides of the English Channel--MI6 intelligence analyst Hermia Mount, Danish police detective and collaborator Peter Flemming, and young Harald Olufsen--intertwine as Harald makes a discovery that could change the course of the war, if he can get the information to England. (MN, DR, RM)

Frayn, Michael. Spies. 2002. 261 p.
When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives. (MN, DR, RM)

Griffin, W. E. B. Secret Honor. 1999. 497 p.
With World War II in full swing, a German general conspires to kill Hitler while his son living in Buenos Aires falls under SS suspicion. (MN, DR, RM)

Holthe, Tess Uriza. When the Elephants Dance. 2002. 368 p.
In the final weeks of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators--a thirteen-year-old boy, his older sister, and a guerrilla commander--recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war, in a debut novel based on the experiences of the author's father. (MN, RM)

Humphreys, Helen. The Lost Garden. 2002. 183 p.
Leaving war-stricken London in 1941, Gwen Davis volunteers for the Land Army in the Devon countryside where she oversees a group of girls who plant crops for the war effort beside a regiment of Canadian soldiers. (MN, DR, RM)

Joyce, Brenda. The Chase. 2002. 391 p.
When her husband is brutally murdered, his throat cut with a weapon that has not been used since World War II, Claire Hayden is forced to team up with her late husband's enigmatic associate, Ian Marshall, to catch a killer. (MN, RM)

Knauss, Sibylle. Eva's Cousin. 2002. 329 p.
Twenty-year-old Marlene is delighted when her glamorous, older cousin, Eva Braun, invites her to Adolf Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where, in 1944, Marlene finds herself in an opulent and dangerous world. (MN, DR, RM)

Mesce, Bill. Officer of the Court. 2001. 341 p.
When the body of a much disliked American officer washes up on the shore of a remote Scottish island, Major Harry Voss, an attorney with the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate's office, is given the task of finding out who killed him and why. (MN, DR, RM)

Niles, Douglas. Fox on the Rhine. 2000. 397 p.
A cadre of SS generals seizes Nazi Germany from Hitler and places Himmler in power, as he immediately concentrates all his forces against the West, laying out the groundwork for a vastly different Battle of the Bulge with even higher stakes for the Allies. (MN, RM)

Pella, Judith. Written on the Wind. 2002. 461 p.
Returning to her beloved Russia, now under Hitler's threatening shadow, Cameron Hayes tries to distance herself from her father and establish herself as a journalist, and soon meets American expatriate, Dr. Alex Rostov. (MN, DR, RM)

Pratt, James Michael. Ticket Home. 2001. 356 p.
First, a woman comes between two brothers, then as prisoners of war, one will die and the other must make a difficult decision that will change his life forever. (MN, DR, RM)

Reasoner, James. Battle Lines : The Last Good War. 2001. 379 p.
On the eve of Pearl Harbor, four young Americans from Chicago--brothers Joe and Dale, their friend Adam and his girlfriend, Catherine--find themselves on a headlong rush to war as they enlist in diverse branches of the military. (MN, RM

Robbins, David L. The End of War : A Novel of the Race for Berlin. 2000. 398 p.
In the trenches of Eastern Europe, in the bomb-ravaged halls of Berlin, and along the speeding Western front, three powerful leaders--Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt--strive not for peace nor power, but for private victories, as the final months of World War II approach. (DR, RM)

Seiffert, Rachel. The Dark Room. 2001. 278 p.
Follows the lives of three ordinary Germans--a boy who works as a photographer during the 1930s, a teenage girl who journeys through occupied Germany in search of her grandmother, and a young man seeking the truth about his grandfather, imprisoned by the Russians. (MN, DR, RM)

Spencer, James. The Pilots. 2003. 168 p.
A novel told through a collection of vignettes follows the adventures of boyhood friends who take different military paths, a combat-weary flight surgeon, a captain with a troubled past, and a woman who affects all of them. (MN, DR, RM)

Vaughan, Robert. Touch the Face of God. 2002. 306 p.
During World War II, B-17 bomber pilot Lt. Mark White meets Emily Hagan only weeks before he ships out to England and they fall in love as they exchange letters, but the war and a misunderstanding may end their relationship. (MN, DR, RM)

Volpi Escalante, Jorge. In Search of Klingsor. 2002. 414 p.
Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman. (MN, RM)

Walbert, Kate. The Gardens of Kyoto. 2001. 288 p.
A coming-of-age story set during wartime retraces one woman's struggles with romance as her favorite cousin Randall is called away to the battlefields of the South Pacific. (MN, DR, RM)

Updated 6/05, KG; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL