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Warren Adler’s twenty-five published novels have won popular and
critical success all over the world, and they have been translated into
more than twenty-five languages. Two of his books were made into major
motion pictures, the classic “The War of the Roses” with Michael Douglas
and “Random Hearts” with Harrison Ford. Three of his short stories were
adapted as a three-hour trilogy on PBS titled “The Sunset Gang.”
Mr. Adler’s themes deal primarily with intimate human relationships – the
mysterious nature of love and attraction, the fragile relationships between
husbands and wives and parents and children, and the corrupting power of
money. Readers and reviewers have cited his books for their insight and
wisdom in presenting and deciphering the complexities of contemporary life.
His website www.WarrenAdler.com has been called the best author website in
the world and is linked to many interesting places in the literary and
bookseller universe. Through Stonehouse Press, Mr. Adler has reacquired the
English language and foreign rights to his entire backlist of 25 novels and
has made them available in all ebook formats and Print-on-Demand formats in
trade and hardcover.
Mr. Adler was born in New York City and graduated from New York University.
He is the founder the Jackson Hole Writers Conference and was Chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Teton County Public Library. He is married to
the former Sonia Kline who was Editor-in-Chief and founder of the Dossier
Magazine. They have three sons and four grandchildren. For more information
about Warren Adler,
go to the author's homepage.
It's the silver anniversary of "The War of the Roses" and Warren is
celebrating with a Divorce Story Contest! If you have a jucy, mean and
veracious divorce story, write about it in 1500 words or less and submit
it. Entries will be published on the website. The winner will be announced
on Valentines Day!
If you were never married you can submit a story about a bad break-up
instead. A great way to get all those bad feelings out - and be published
on a celebrated writer's website as well!
Children Of The Roses
By Warren Adler
"The Children of the Roses," is a modern tale of family deception and redemption
that follows the second generation of the Rose family, years after the horrific
divorce saga so poignantly recorded in "The War of the Roses" (his 1985 novel
made into a successful film starring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner).
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American Quartet
By Warren Adler
Never underestimate the power of failure. In the first chapter of the Fiona
series, four seemingly unconnected D.C. murders stimulate Fiona
FitzGerald's sense of history as she delves into the past. In her search to
solve the crimes, she finds the disturbing obsession of a socially
prominent but failed Washington politician. His failures had fueled a
distorted passion--to replicate the murders of the four assassinated
American presidents.
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American Sextet
By Warren Adler
A political sex scandal of massive proportions! A beautiful young woman
dressed in virginal white is found beneath the Duke Ellington Memorial
Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona FitzGerald, possessed by a
painful personal dilemma, is determined to find out, even if her demons
might drive her out of the police force. As Fiona goes deeper into the fire,
a sexual conspiracy is uncovered involving six men from the highest offices
in the country -- a great American Sextet!
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Banquet Before Dawn
By Warren Adler
After serving his safe Brooklyn district for years, Sullivan discovers that
his once comfortable Irish American majority has given way to a diverse
district of blacks and Hispanics. Challenged by a more liberal opponent,
he tries everything to maintain his seat only to painfully learn that he
and his views are irrelevant to today's world. He does not bow out
gracefully, but the fierce campaign brings new insights into the meaning
of democracy and the terrors of a swiftly changing world. If, as it is said,
all politics are local this compelling story transcends politics and puts a
human face on how the American democratic system really operates.
Unforgettable characters and a powerful plot offer a remarkable and tense
story of how tragic endings affect new beginnings. It is a story prescient
with wisdom and will engage the readers understanding of more recent events.
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Blood Ties
By Warren Adler
An arms-dealing family confronts a moral dilemma in the nuclear age. During
a family reunion in their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family,
who has been engaged in arms dealing for a hundred years, suddenly find
themselves in possession of stolen plutonium able to create the most
destructive weapon on earth. Always aloof from the moral implications of
their business, the family is torn apart by the potential of this material
and it ignites conflicts that have long been avoided by their family
solidarity and the insulation of their wealth and power. Through
fascinating and startling relationships within the family, the reader is
drawn into the web of power and intrigue that motivates people who had once
believed they are above any moral or ethical considerations.
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The Casanova Embrace
By Warren Adler
Three women become sex slaves to a diplomat's murderous impulses. Through
the power of his sexuality, a South American diplomat recruits three
Washington women to engage in international terrorism. Unaware of the
consequences and greedy for the man's erotic favor, they willingly and
eagerly allow themselves to be manipulated. Unknown to each other, the
women unwittingly enter into the man's bizarre, devious, and destructive
plot. When they discover how they have been duped by their need for erotic
fulfillment, they become enraged. Overcoming their jealousy toward each
other, they band together to destroy their ruthless lover. This is an
erotic thriller of deep sexual overtones and explicit descriptions. It is
not for the faint of heart.
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Cult
By Warren Adler
"Cult" is about a man's desperate attempt to rescue his brainwashed wife
from a religious death cult. In the light of the World Trade Center horror,
it provides a timely insight into the dangers posed by these destructive
organizations. A thriller with a chilling climax, it shows how the power of
sinister forces using mind control techniques can turn innocent people into
weapons of destruction
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Henderson Equation
By Warren Adler
Flushed with power, the people who run the influential Washington Chronicle
have just exposed and brought down a President through their investigative
reports. Now they are attempting to create their own choice for Chief
Executive. Clashing relationships within the media and in the political
arena reveal the motives, insecurities, and thirst for ascendancy between
factions thirsting for power. With rich emotional characterizations, this
story tears the curtain from the spin-doctors and sinister figures that
people the power corridors of the nation's capital. Anyone who wants
deeper insights into the nature of Washington intrigue will revel in this
tense and suspenseful tale of what really goes on in the cradle of
democracy.
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Her Moment
By Warren Adler
Another in a series from Warren Adler who reports about the intimate looks
into the sexual mores of official Washington and the erotic stimulation of
power. In this delightful story, a woman proudly recalls her adulterous
sexual experience with a womanizing ex-President and uses the story to
enhance her allure to a potential lover.
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The Housewife Blues
By Warren Adler
The inevitable conflict between "country mouse" and "city mouse" gets
sophisticated treatment when a small town girl is carried away by her
"Prince Charming" to the super- charged canyons of modern New York City.
Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers,
the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive
innocence. She befriends many of the offbeat tenants in her apartment
building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic lives and
conflicts. Her gradual discovery of city ways and its crazy quilt mix of
diverse people with competing agendas offer a compelling insight into the
vast gulf between big city and small town life. Her journey from naiveté
through disenchantment and eventual wisdom makes for a suspenseful story of
a young woman's inner turmoil and how culture shock can impact on deeply
held values. A must read for those leaving the bucolic joys of small town
life for the challenges and dangers of life in the big city.
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Jackson Hole - Uneasy Eden
By Warren Adler
A collection of fictional short stories, based on the author's experience
as a resident of this pristine valley in Wyoming nestled in the heart of
the Grand Tetons, America's most beautiful mountain range. In these stories
one will find insights and truths engendered by the modern invasion of "new
folks" to these mountain enclaves, now dubbed "resorts" and how they clash
with the customs and mores of the long established and cherished western
culture. Acclaimed and reviled, these stories capture the truth, warts and
all, of how modern life can both corrupt and enhance a traditional
environment.
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Madeline's Miracles
By Warren Adler
When a commercial artist, her stockbroker husband and their twin daughters
move to Los Angeles they unwittingly fall prey to a woman who convinces
them that she is a psychic and can foresee their future. By persuading them
that she holds the key to their success and can protect them from the dangers
that threaten them she gradually takes full control over their careers,
their parenting, and their sex lives until they become her willing
accomplices. This chilling tale rises to a tense crescendo as the psychic
dissects and manipulates their aspirations and beliefs and paralyzes their
will to fend for themselves. This classic story of brainwashing offers a
cautionary tale for anyone who has lost the ability to question an
illogical certainty.
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Mourning Glory
By Warren Adler
Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position,
upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm
Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to keep her
16-year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they're scraping
by . . . until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, Grace
reluctantly pursues a cynical and bizarre scheme to snare a rich widower.
But when she finally comes within a hair's breadth of her goal, she finds
herself enmeshed in a self-spun web of deception and danger that threatens
to rob her of everything she holds dear.
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Natural Enemies
By Warren Adler
A young New York couple whose marriage seems to be sputtering and who
cannot conceive children are advised to leave their tense urban lives and
take a vacation in a more bucolic environment. Out West they are suddenly
confronted by rednecks that chase them into the wilderness where they lose
their way and are thrown up against the vicissitudes of nature. Braving
floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face-to-face
with death. This test of endurance and their passion to survive gives them
new insights into themselves and their future together. This gripping,
fast-moving, and suspenseful story will hold the reader's interest until
the last turn of the page.
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Private Lies
By Warren Adler
When Ken Kramer, an advertising copywriter, meets the wife of his wife's
computer client, he discovers she is an old flame. Baffled by her non-
recognition, he discovers that she has totally reinvented herself and
snagged a rich husband who has no knowledge of her real early life.
Unbeknownst to Ken, his own wife is carrying on an affair with her client.
When the old love between Ken and his old love bursts into flames again,
the plot thickens as both couples embark of an African Safari with
startling and tragic results.
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Random Hearts by Warren Adler
By Warren Adler
In an ideal world, they would never have met. Vivien Simpson is a happy
housewife with a young son who adores her successful lawyer husband. Edward
Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife.
When an airplane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly
loving and now deceased spouses were involved in a deeply passionate love
affair and possessed the same apartment key, they are devastated and
baffled by the revelation. Determined to find the answers to their dilemma,
they embark on a search for both the reasons for their spouse's infidelity
and their place of assignation. In the process, they discover much about
themselves and how the mysterious nature of love can render people too
powerless to resist. Another classic love story that has achieved a
worldwide audience.
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The Sunset Gang
By Warren Adler
The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find
anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at
Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida -- where an
ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is
strenuous exercise -- does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in.
Not by a long shot.
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The Ties That Bind
By Warren Adler
Even judges must be judged. A Supreme Court Justice with a sado-masochistic
fetish is the target of Fiona FitzGerald's investigation into the murder of
the daughter of a prominent lawyer. This is one case that brings Fiona to
the darker side of the Washington scene and how sexual aberration and fear
of exposure plays a role in motive and murder.
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Trans-Siberian Express
By Warren Adler
International intrigue and suspense on the world's longest and most exotic
train ride. Dr. Alex Cousins, a famous American cancer specialist, is sent
to Russia by the President of the United States to prolong the life of the
Secretary General of the Politburo during the bad old days of the Soviet
Union. During his treatment of this powerful patient, he learns that the
Soviets plan to attack the People's Republic of China. Suspecting that he
knows this secret, the Soviets send him home via a long trip on the
Trans-Siberian Express, which, they hope, will keep him silent until it
will be too late to stop the Soviet Attack. On the train he meets a
beautiful KGB Agent who shares his cabin and has been coerced to keep him
under surveillance until the trip is ended. The inevitable occurs as both
Cousins and his gorgeous cabin mate transcend the political implications
and fall desperately in love. This powerful love story will keep the reader
transfixed and absorbed as the Trans-Siberian Express speeds its way over
the vastness of Siberia.
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Undertow
By Warren Adler
A womanizing married Senator, enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home
with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally
drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political
career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed
to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media
manipulation, and political chicanery has familiar overtones and exposes
the dilemma faced by any public figure who chooses the path of
dissimulation and lying to protect his or her career. This story mirrors
today's headlines and provides insights into the dark netherworld of
political manipulation. Here is a primer for anyone in public life
determined to hide his darker side from an overly curious and often
predatory press.
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The War of the Roses
By Warren Adler
This is the book that inspired one of the most famous movies about divorce
ever produced. Shown somewhere in the world every week, the movie is an
excellent adaptation of the book that has been translated in almost every
language on the planet. It tells the story of Oliver and Barbara Rose who
thought they had a perfect marriage, only to discover that their
relationship was barely skin deep. The war they wage against each other
eventually escalates into brutality and madness as they throw caution to
the winds and destroy their most prized possessions as they spiral into
chaos. The impact of both the book and the movie have made them both
classics and brought the title "The War of the Roses" into the accepted
jargon describing the terrible hatred and cruelty engendered in divorce
proceedings.
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We are Holding the President Hostage
By Warren Adler
Salvatore Padronelli, a.k.a. the Padre, an aging Mafia Don is confronted
with a dilemma when terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on
a trip to Egypt. Fed up with diplomatic caution that prolongs their
captivity, the Padre and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves
into the White House and hold the President and his wife hostage. Now the
Padre calls the shots on getting the President to take steps to release his
daughter and grandson. Laced with humor and illustrating how fierce love
can motivate even the most ruthless gangsters, the classic confrontation
between the Mafia and the President will glue the reader to the edge of his
chair. Those familiar with The Sopranos on HBO will see suggestive
similarities and overtones in a story that predates that series. Beneath
the humor and clever plotting, readers will discover sharp parallels with
present realities and discover how the intensity of paternal love can
motivate the most reckless acts of courage and bravery.
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The Witch of Watergate
By Warren Adler
A poison pen gets it back. When Polly Dearborn, the infamous Washington
Post investigative reporter whose poison pen had destroyed many a
politician's career, is found hanging from her Watergate apartment, the
elite of Washington rejoice since "The Witch of Watergate" is dead. No time
for celebrating for Fiona FitzGerald. Although suicide seems so logical for
this lonely and miserable woman, Fiona can't be fooled. Things are made
worse when Fiona is assigned to a new partner, a black woman who has a chip
on her shoulder against all white people.
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Yiddish
By Warren Adler
“Yiddish” is the story of Bill and Jenny, both in their late sixties, who
live at Sunset Village, a retirement community in Florida. Both join the
“Yiddish Club”, an organization in their community dedicated to keeping the
ancient language of Yiddish alive. Bill and Jenny are married to other
people who have little interest in the club, pursuing their own hobbies.
In joining the club each is trying to recapture the warm moments and
delicious nostalgia of their childhood when Yiddish was the language spoken
in the home by their immigrant parents. Bill and Jenny become fast friends,
communicating in the language that ties them together. The friendship
blossoms into love and they begin to wrestle with the possibility of
leaving their spouses and spending their remaining years together. The
ending will surprise you.
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