The Prodigal Spy, the only one of Kanon’s seven novels that I hadn’t yet read, was his second book. Unfortunately, like so many second novels, it appears to have been a struggle to write. The novel is very slow on the uptake, requiring a long, sometimes tedious recitation of the childhood observations of its protagonist, Nick Kotlar/5(). Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in the ’50s fear of the ‘red menace’ and forced to testify before the Committee on Un-American Activities. He seems a . The Prodigal Spy is a story of fathers and sons and the loyalties that transcend borders, and of a young man’s search for the truth buried in his own past, when a national drama was made personal and history itself became a crime bltadwin.ru: Joseph Kanon.
The Prodigal Spy is any early Cold War spy novel from Joseph Kanon () and shows all the promise that was to come in his later works, e.g. Leaving Berlin and The Defectors. It takes readers from the dark days of McCarthyism in the US to the subsequent years of disillusionment for many who stood their ground when their idealism had been. Books by Joseph Kanon. Joseph Kanon is the author of three novels, The Good German, Los Alamos, and The Prodigal Spy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City. Unlike Kanon's previous work, which is set in the years to about , The Prodigal Spy opens in , slips directly to , and then gets really interesting in The subject matter revolves around the anti-Communist witch-hunt in the United States in the s.
Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. P. Dutton in New York. Kanon began his writing career in His first novel, Los Alamos (), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German. Joseph Kanon is the internationally bestselling author of eight novels, which have been published in twenty-four languages, including: Los Alamos, which won the Edgar Award for best first novel, The Good German, which was made into a film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, which earned Kanon the Hammett Award of the International Association of Crime Writers, Istanbul Passage, and Leaving Berlin. He is also a recipient of the Anne Frank Human Writers Award. The Prodigal Spy, the only one of Kanon’s seven novels that I hadn’t yet read, was his second book. Unfortunately, like so many second novels, it appears to have been a struggle to write. The novel is very slow on the uptake, requiring a long, sometimes tedious recitation of the childhood observations of its protagonist, Nick Kotlar.
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