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Steve Anderson

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Steve Anderson writes the Kaspar Brothers historical thrillers and other novels. His latest novel is Lines of Deception. Anderson was a Fulbright Fellow and has translated bestselling German fiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Years ago, Steve Anderson planned to become a history professor. He even landed a Fulbright Fellowship in Munich. Then he discovered fiction writing — he could make stuff up, he realized, using actual events and characters to serve the story. Now he writes novels that often introduce a little-known aspect of history, mixing in overlooked crimes, true accounts, and gutsy underdogs.

Steve has also written narrative nonfiction, short stories, and screenplays. His day jobs have included busy wa
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Steve Anderson Thanks for asking, Brooke. And thanks for loving my translations! I loved translating them and would’ve loved to translate more. Despite many interest…moreThanks for asking, Brooke. And thanks for loving my translations! I loved translating them and would’ve loved to translate more. Despite many interested readers, the publisher unfortunately decided to stop publishing any more of them. I’m hoping this changes someday as there are more good ones out in the original German. I wish I could’ve had better news for you!(less)
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Out Today: Lines of Deception

It's been a long time coming and it’s finally here: The new novel Lines of Deception is now available. Here’s what it’s about:

In 1949, a West German nightclub owner goes behind the Iron Curtain on a desperate mission to save his brother.

Lines of Deception (The Kaspar Brothers) by Steve Anderson




Lines of Deception is available wherever books are sold, from big retailers to your local bookstore. For more: www.stephenfanderson.com/lines-of-dec...

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"While this is a novel, as Anderson says in his Afterward, it is set in the time when the CIA had just been formed. It was a fledgling entity still finding its way. Communists were intently trying to gain power after WW II and the CIA was trying to es" Read more of this review »
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"Twists and Turns should be the name of this book. I've never traveled a literary road that had so many steep hills and bumps along the way.

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“Let’s honor a man or woman who was there, but never a war itself and those who start it.”
Steve Anderson, Under False Flags
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“In decades from now, I’m sure they’ll say we Joes were all noble, every one of us grimy but patriotic cherubs. Because we won a war. Back home they already do think it, thanks to the publicity teams, the ads, correspondents, censors. I’m not buying it. If we have to come here and fight to do away with your Hitler and the sorry mess he created, then people ought to know just how much the effort sucks all our souls. That way, maybe no one will try a war again.”
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“I don’t blame Germans,” Emil said. “I don’t even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.”
Steve Anderson, Liberated: A Novel of Germany, 1945
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Steve Anderson Great to hear you received one. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoy it.


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