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A Faint Cold Fear

Robert Daley enters the dangerous world surrounding Colombia’s drug trade, where investigation crosses boundaries between policing, private loyalties and criminal power.

Crime fiction

Portraits of France

Robert Daley

Nineteen portraits move between travel, history and cultural observation, bringing different corners of France into focus through their distinctive lives.

History

Strong Wine Red as Blood

Robert Daley

An American's château-buying assignment draws him into Bordeaux's wine country, where business becomes an immersion in regional life and its pleasures.

Nonfiction

The Dangerous Edge

Robert Daley

An American expatriate plots a bank robbery, but his scheme develops into a story of detection, desire and increasingly dangerous choices.

Crime & mystery

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