James Brady Books In Order

Stowe and Dunraven Books In Order

  1. Further Lane (1997)
  2. Gin Lane (1998)
  3. The House That Ate the Hamptons (1999)
  4. A Hamptons Christmas (2000)

Novels

  1. The Marines of Autumn (2000)
  2. Warning of War (2002)
  3. The Marine (2003)

Plays

Non fiction

  1. The Coldest War (1951)
  2. The Scariest Place in the World (1980)
  3. Why Marines Fight (2007)
  4. Hero of the Pacific (2009)

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Further Lane

As Another Gorgeous East Hampton season climaxes, a remarkable woman, admired by the millions who know her only through television and her books and cordially despised by some of those closest to her is found dead on the beach with a stake of privet hedge driven brutally through her heart. Who killed lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting and why? With the rich and famous of the lovely resort village among the suspects, foreign correspondent Beecher Stowe, back home at his family home on Further Lane, traces Hannah’s roots while digging for clues. Competing with Stowe is a young book editor dispatched to the scene by Harry Evans of Random House to find and retrieve the tell all manuscript on which Hannah was working when she died. This is Alix Dunraven, a member in London of Princess Di’s set of ‘Sloane Rangers.’ Now Stowe and Lady Alix make for an unexpectedly sassy and stylish team as they lead an elegant but deadly romp through the Hamptons, from redneck bars to the Maidstone Country Club, from rich men’s estates to the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, from surfer hangouts to the tennis courts, as all the tensions and frictions of America’s famous summer playground play themselves out: Old Money vs. New, tree huggers vs. land developers, Hollywood arrivistes vs. Establishment WASPs. As Alix and Beecher close in on why Hannah died, a great September hurricane comes boiling up the East Coast toward East Hampton’s golden beaches and dune top mansions.

Gin Lane

No one chronicles the hilariously haughty world of the Hamptons better than Parade columnist and bestselling author James Brady. Now, in his second novel of the Hamptons, Brady invites you to take a stroll along Gin Lane, where name dropping, celebrity spotting, and attempted murder heat up the glistening sands of New York’s hottest summer haunt. Everyone from the Southampton’s moneyed WASPs to the local church elders has their noses out of joint over the arrival of offensively irreverent morning DJ ‘Cowboy’ Dils and his buffoonish entourage of radio sidekicks to the perfectly manicured and utterly intolerant Gin Lane. Loud, lewd, and out to ruffle more than a few feathers, Cowboy doesn’t expect a block party in his honor, but he certainly doesn’t anticipate several attempts on his life. When Parade reporter Beecher Stowe and his lovely partner Alix Dunraven step in to write the hottest story of the summer, their efforts are somewhat sidetracked by a prominent local wedding, a possible visit from the President, and the egregious antics of Cowboy & Co. Now Beecher and Alix are determined to get to the bottom of this sizable sand dune, leaving no shell unturned and no fishy motive unchecked.

The House That Ate the Hamptons

The House That Ate the Hamptons is a sleekly comic romp through the elegant summer for Parade magazine correspondent Beecher Stowe and his gorgeous lover, Lady Alix Dunraven, in the spirit of Brady’s best sellers Further Lane and Gin Lane. Roiling the waters this time is Congressman Buzzy Portofino, a young political firebrand with his eye on the White House. Invited to speak at East Hampton’s posh, snobby Maidstone Club, the Hon. Buzzy stuns The Establishment by denouncing sin and demanding a national crusade against lust! Plus a boycott of films by the randy, tormented director Sammy Glique, a Lily Pond Lane resident, whom the Congressman assails as a ‘voluptuary’. As intriguing as this is, plunging the neurotic Glique into depression and delighting the gossips, the amuseme*nt is abruptly halted when in the pre dawn darkness Buzzy is ambushed on the Maidstone golf course with an arrow through the throat. Thundering Portofino is reduced to communicating through his PC. Does the attack have anything to do with an annotated copy of Salman Rushdie’ accursed book found in Buzzy’s pocket? Or, more likely, is it linked to a controversial construction project menacing the gracious old resort with its sheer scale: the largest private house ever built in America, twice the size of the White House, larger than Bill Gates’ place. Swiftly dubbed by Vanity Fair and The Times ‘The House That Ate the Hamptons‘, the scheme so appalls local folk hero Kurt Vonnegut Jr. that he declares he’s selling and getting out. While other famed and wealthy Hamptonites form protest committees, bring lawsuits, and send their servants to form picket lines. But who is behind the assassination attempt and this grotesque architectural assault on cultured sensibilities? Can Beecher and his stunning Lady Alix get to the bottom of all these murky doings and save the Hamptons? While rubbing elbows, dropping names, and enjoying a chilled Dom?

A Hamptons Christmas

Beecher Stowe couldn’t be more pleased than to find himself spending that delicious season between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the Hamptons. On his first weekend back, East Hampton stages its annual ragtag, irresistibly corny, small townish Santa Claus parade, complete with a high school band and Santa on a flatbed truck. It’s an old fashioned American village Christmas even if the elves include Spielberg’s kids!. Stowe has even convinced his lady friend Alix Dunraven to join him and see the Hamptons without the summer people. But Beecher and Her Ladyship’s plans for an ‘out of season’ frolic are complicated by the puzzling arrival of a small girl who may be named ‘Susannah’ she uses pseudonyms, she admits, skinny, precocious, and armed with a platinum card. The kid, who turns out to be the child of Dick and Nicole, a wealthy power couple whose bitter divorce has become the stuff of Page Six gossip and legal wrangling before the World Court at The Hague, has been farmed out by her parents to a Swiss convent. Now, as Christmas nears, Susannah descends on East Hampton intent on spending the holidays with her role model, Martha Stewart, from whom she expects a warm welcome when she presents herself at her front door. The problem? Martha does Christmas at her other home in Westport, Connecticut. As the snow begins to fall, Beecher encounters a forlorn young Susannah sipping Shirley Temples at The Blue Parrot bar. Can Alix and Beecher possibly salvage Christmas for this little girl lost?

The Marines of Autumn

War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a novel that captures that courage and sacrifice. When Captain Thomas Verity, USMC, is called back to action, he must leave his Georgetown home, career, and young daughter and rush to Korea to monitor Chinese radio transmissions. At first acting in an advisory role, he is abruptly thrust into MacArthur’s last daring and disastrous foray the Chosin Reservoir campaign and then its desperate retreat. Time magazine at the time recounted the retreat this way: ‘The running fight of the Marines…
was a battle unparalleled in U.S. military history. It had some aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, and some of ‘the retreat of the 10,000′ as described in Xenophon’s Anabasis.’ The Marines of Autumn is a stunning, shattering novel of war illuminated only by courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline. And by love: of soldier for soldier, of men and their women, and of a small girl in Georgetown, whose father promised she would dance with him on the bridges of Paris. A child Captain Tom Verity fears he may never see again. In The Marines of Autumn, James Brady captures our imagination and shocks us into a new understanding of war.

Warning of War

Late November of 1941. Half the world is at war and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce between ourselves and the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China. By November 27, FDR is convinced Japan is about to launch a military action. Washington doesn’t know where, isn’t sure precisely when. But the Cabinet is sufficiently alarmed that War Secretary Henry Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox are authorized to send an immediate and coded ‘Warning of War‘ to American bases and units in harm’s way. In Shanghai two cruise ships are chartered and 800 armed American Marines of the Fourth Regiment serving in China since the Boxer Rebellion are marched through the great port city with enormous pomp and circumstance and embarked for Manila. Another 200 Marines, unable to reach Shanghai, and serving in small garrisons and posts from Peking to Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, are caught short by this ‘Warning of War‘. This is their story. Of how a detachment of American Marines marooned in North China as war erupts, set out on an epic march through hostile territory in an attempt to fight their way out of China and, somehow, rejoin their Corps for the war against Japan. James Brady dazzles us once again with a stunning and unflinching look at America at war. Warning of War is a moving tribute to sheer courage, determination, and Marine Corps discipline, and is a wonderful celebration of America in one of its darkest but finest hours. AUTHORBIO: JAMES BRADY was a baby faced marine commanding a combat platoon during the Korean War. He captured these experiences in his highly praised memoir The Coldest War and the New York Times bestselling novel The Marines of Autumn. His weekly columns for Advertising Age and Parade magazines are considered must reads by millions. He lives in Manhattan and in East Hampton, New York.

The Marine

A rousing new Marine Corps adventure from the author of the New York Times bestselling Warning of War and The Marines of AutumnThe Marine is Colonel James ‘Oliver’ Cromwell, a warrior forged at Notre Dame and the Berlin of Hitler’s Olympics, and honed by combat at Guadalcanal as one of Carlson’s Marine Raiders. With the world at peace, the thirty five year old Cromwell is restlessly, if pleasantly, beached on garrison duty in California, aware of how much he misses the war, when he is ordered to fresh duty beyond the seas, as military attach to the American ambassador in a dull Asian backwater half a world away. There, at dawn on a June Sunday, Ollie gets his wish for action. Korea violently erupts and Colonel Cromwell is caught up in the early, panicked, rout. While South Koreans cut and run, the first GIs hurried into battle are brushed aside by advancing Red tanks and tough peasant infantry. The Marine chronicles the war hardened Cromwell’s experience of the dramatic First Hundred Days of a brutal three year Korean War, the chaos and cowardice of retreat, the last ditch gallantry of the Pusan Perimeter, MacArthur’s brilliant left hook sending Marines against the deadly seawall at Inchon, and the bloody assault to liberate Seoul and promote MacArthur’s 1952 presidential ambitions. Ollie Cromwell s is the story of a ‘forgotten war’ that never truly ended, but for a bitter truce along what a recent U.S. president called ‘the most dangerous border in the world.’ In The Marine, James Brady crafts a powerful novel of one man s service to his country and Corps.

The Coldest War

America’s ‘forgotten war’ lasted just thirty seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. On the fiftieth anniversary of this devastating conflict, James Brady tells the story of his life as a young marine lieutenant in Korea. In 1947, seeking to avoid the draft, nineteen year old Jim Brady volunteered for a Marine Corps program that made him a lieutenant in the reserves on the day he graduated college. He didn’t plan to find himself in command of a rifle platoon three years later facing a real enemy, but that is exactly what happened after the Chinese turned a so called police action into a war. The Coldest War vividly describes Brady’s rapid education in the realities of war and the pressures of command. Opportunities for bold offensives sink in the miasma of trench warfare; death comes in fits and starts as too accurate artillery on both sides seeks out men in their bunkers; constant alertness is crucial for survival, while brutal cold and a seductive silence conspire to lull soldiers into an often fatal stupor. The Korean War affected the lives of all Americans, yet is little known beyond the antics of ‘M A S H.’ Here is the inside story that deserves to be told, and James Brady is a powerful witness to a vital chapter of our history.

The Scariest Place in the World

Half a century after he fought there as a young lieutenant of Marines, James Brady returns to the brooding Korean ridgelines and mountains to sound taps for a generation. In the spring of 2003, Brady flew in Black Hawk choppers and trekked the Demilitarized Zone, interviewing four star generals and bunking in with tough U.S. recon troops. He recalls that first time on bloody Hill 749, the men who died there, what happened to those who survived, and experiences yet again the emotional pull of a lifelong love affair with the Corps. The result is uplifting, inspiring, often heartbreaking, and this new memoir proves as powerful as his first.

Why Marines Fight

Why Marines Fight is a candid collection of courage and esprit de corps that serves as a reminder that when America needs a real hero, it doesn t need to look beyond its military. The San Antonio Express News United States Marines, for more than two centuries, have been among the world’s fiercest and most admired of warriors. They have fought from the Revolutionary War to Afghanistan and Iraq, in famous battles that have become the bone and sinew of American lore. But why do Marines fight? Why do they fight so well? James Brady, to some an unofficial poet laureate of the Corps, interviews combat Marine veterans from World War II to Afghanistan, and their replies are in their own individual voices, unique and powerful. What results is an authentically American story of a country at war, as seen through the eyes of its warriors; a story of the motivations and emotions behind this compelling title question. Included are accounts from Senator James Webb and his Corporal son, Jim; New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly; Yankee second baseman and Marine fighter pilot Jerry Coleman, and of teachers, fireman, authors, cops, Harvard football players, and just plain grunts. Why Marines Fight is a ruthlessly candid book about professional killers not ashamed to recall their doubts as well as exult in their savagely triumphant battle cries. A book of weight and heft that Marines, and Americans everywhere, will want to read, and may find impossible to forget. Praise for James Brady:Why Marines Fight Brady explores both the emotions and motivations of the men who willingly run toward guns. Read this and you’ll be steeled to stare down your own fears. Men s Health For anyone who wants to know how the U.S. Marine team works in war and peace, this book is indispensable. Booklist starred review’Brady’s book succeeds in delivering honest, front row accounts of war the gritty details and the hard realities and provides a veritable smorgasbord of answers to the question of Why Marines Fight.’ Chattanooga Times Free Press’These inspirational tales cover as many Marine experiences as Brady can pack in.’ Kirkus ReviewsThe Scariest Place in the World A graceful, even elegant, and always eloquent tribute to men at arms in a war that, in a way, never ended. Kirkus Reviews James Brady has done it again. A riveting and illuminating insight into a dark corner of the world. Tim RussertThe Coldest War His story reads like a novel, but it is war reporting at its best a graphic depiction, in all its horrors, of the war we ve almost forgotten. Walter Cronkite A marvelous memoir. A sensitive and superbly written narrative that eventually explodes off the pages like a grenade in the gut…
taut, tight, and telling. Dan RatherThe Marine In The Marine, James Brady again gives us a novel in which history is a leading character, sharing the stage in this case with a man as surely born to be a gallant warrior as any knight in sixth century Camelot. Kurt VonnegutThe Marines of Autumn Mr. Brady knows war, the smell and the feel of it. The New York Times

Hero of the Pacific

From New York Times bestselling author James Brady the story of Marine legend John Basilone, one of three main characters in HBO’s The PacificGunnery Sergeant John Basilone was a Marine legend who received the Medal of Honor for holding off 3,000 Japanese on Guadalcanal and the Navy Cross posthumously for his bravery on Iwo Jima. This is the story of how a young man from Raritan, New Jersey, became one of America’s biggest World War II heroes. Profiles one of three main characters in HBO’s The Pacific, the successful sequel to the popular mini series Band of Brothers’A carefully reported, briskly written book…
that could go a long way toward correcting…
historical oversight.’ The Los Angeles TimesSorts through the differing accounts of Basilone’s life and exploits, including what he did on Iwo Jima and how he diedThe final book by James Brady, the Korean War veteran and well known columnist and author of books that include Why Marines Fight and an autobiography, The Coldest War, a Pulitzer Prize finalistAn incredible story masterfully told, Hero of the Pacific will appeal to anyone with an interest in World War II and military history as well as fans of HBO’s The Pacific.

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