Bøger af Michael Mewshaw

In Money To Burn, Michael Mewshaw tells the story of tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children in 1985 who were victims of a car bombing.A year after the bombings, Margaret's surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Mewshaw tells the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.

From Simon & Schuster, Year of the Gun is Michael Mewshaw's novel about one writer's quest for the truth.In Rome, where anarchy prevails under The Red Brigade, American writer David Raybourne finds inspiration for a novel on terrorism. But when an overly ambitious photojournalist meddles in his affairs, the manuscript falls into wrong hands and Raybourne discovers no one can be trusted, not even his lover, as he fights for his life.

From Simon & Schuster, Playing Away is Michael Mewshaw's experience on Roman holidays as well as other Mediterranean encounters.Playing Away includes a wide variety of chapters, including ones on traveling by train, enjoying summertime and alfresco living, the unique aspects of the different Mediterranean cities, and much more about exploring this magic region.

When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks its possible that in the same process he will discover the answer to questions that have plagued him for decades. But first he has to make sure that she is who she claims to be.In this fascinating memoir, Mewhsaw confronts his own past, the chaos of his family, and complicated memories of the woman he once loved who went on to success as an ambassador, Under Secretary of State and a member of one of Americas most influential families. His unusual role in the babys birth, her adoption and, now, her search for her biological parents sets the stage for a revealing personal odyssey that offers a quest for identity and a journey of discovery, an obsession with recapturing the past and righting old wrongs, the constant potential for disappointment balanced against the possibility of redemption. As he finds his old flame and her old lover, rediscovering who he was and who he has become, he finds his life enriched in the process.