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ID Man One of iTune’s Top Audiobooks

December 9, 2012 News

Andrew’s gritty, twisty thriller The Identity Man spent much of this week on iTune’s list of bestselling Audiobooks. The AudioGo version, first released in 2011, features Andrew narrating his own novel. The book tells the story of John Shannon, a petty thief on the run for a murder he didn’t commit, who is offered a chance [...]

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Andrew to Record Killer

October 7, 2012 News

Andrew will be visiting his friends at Deyan Audio later this month to record the audiobook of his new thriller for adults A Killer in the Wind. Killer, which will be published by Grove/Atlantic in January, will be released as an audiobook by AudioGo. AudioGo previously released Andrew’s Identity Man, which he also voiced at [...]

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After “Empire” Cancellation, “ID Man” Gets French Release

November 28, 2011 News

French publisher Calmann Levy has published Andrew’s latest adult thriller The Identity Man under the title Un tout autre homme. The novel tells the story of a thief, John Shannon, given a new identity and a chance to redeem himself in a corrupt and burned out city. The Calmann Levy edition is Andrew’s first French [...]

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ID Paperback Skedded for Fall

May 3, 2011 News

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced it will publish the paperback of Andrew’s novel The Identity Man in November under its Mariner banner.  The novel deals with fugitive John Shannon’s attempt to redeem his life after he’s given a fresh face and identity.  Published in hardcover and e-book form last year, Identity Man was hailed as [...]

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Late Praise for ID Man

February 8, 2011 Books

Here’s a late, but nonetheless lovely, review for The Identity Man from New Hampshire.  Seacoastonline.com reviews my latest thriller for adults and says: “Klavan interweaves his themes of identity and redemption with thriller pacing and enough twists to keep the pages turning. Fans will not be disappointed.” You can read the whole thing here.  And [...]

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Christianity Today Loves Identity Man

January 11, 2011 Books

An extremely nice review for The Identity Man from the excellent magazine Christianity Today. Don’t start this novel unless you have plenty of time to keep reading. Yes, as the title suggests, it probes the meaning of identity (and shows why a lot of fashionable ideas about “identity” are destructively wrong), but Andrew Klavan prompts [...]

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Me on the American Identity

January 4, 2011 Books

There’s an interview with me up at the California website NoozHawk, in which I discuss some of the themes of The Identity Man: I feel that because of identity politics, the old idea of America that you can become anybody you want to be, that old idea has kind of gone by the boards.  I [...]

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Identity Man Audiobook Now on Sale

January 4, 2011 News

Andrew’s newest thriller for adults, The Identity Man, is now available as an audiobook – narrated by Andrew himself.  The unabridged novel, published by AudioGo, is available as a download from Audible.com where it made the Top 2000 Best Sellers List for the month of November.  The novel, which tells of a fugitive’s search for [...]

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ID Man “A Parable for our Age”

December 8, 2010 Books

A nice – and smart – review of The Identity Man from Bookreporter.com. THE IDENTITY MAN does not neatly fit into a genre classification. It possesses elements of a political thriller, a crime novel, and a supernatural work. Interestingly enough, it also can very easily be considered an inspirational novel, though some of the language [...]

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Charlotte Observer: Klavan a Virtuoso

December 4, 2010 Books

Some kind words for me and The Identity Man out of North Carolina.  The Charlotte Observer says: Andrew Klavan is a virtuoso who can dabble convincingly in any writing style. In “The Identity Man” he steers clear of narrow styles and gives us a just-plain-good story… The whole review is here.

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