The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

46 NOVEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL The two lead a voyage with four younger researchers, all divided by conflicting goals, clashing personalities and sexual tensions. The crew’s final discoveries have profound implica- tions for today’s geopolitics. Will a rising China clash with the once-dominant United States? Or will the world’s two super- powers adapt to these new circumstances? By the end of the novel, Robin and Alan have overcome the friction between them and fallen in love. Then an oceano- graphic institute invites Robin to return to her life’s work, far from Alan’s home port. Must they end their romance? Will they voyage together again? Author of more than 100 published works, Michael Michaud was a U.S. Foreign Service officer for 32 years before turning to writing full time. Among his many assignments, he directed the State Department’s Office of Advanced Technology; served as counselor for science, technology and environment in Paris and Tokyo; and was consul general in Belfast. He is also the author of two non-fiction books: Contact with Alien Civilizations (Springer, 2007) and Reaching for the High Frontier: The Ameri- can Pro-Space Movement, 1972-1984 (Praeger, 1986). Harvest of Secrets: A Wine Country Mystery Ellen Crosby, Minotaur Books, 2018, $26.99/hardcover, 352 pages. For Lucie Montgomery, it’s an unusual harvest season at her family’s Mont- gomery Estate Vineyard in Atoka, Virginia. Long-lost crushes, dark family secrets and murder make their way out of the grapevine and into the light. It all begins with the uncovering of a skull and skeleton near the Montgomery family cemetery. Lucie learns that her long-lost crush, Jean-Claude Marignac, whom she hasn’t seen since she spent a summer in France 20 years ago, will be the head winemaker at the neighboring vine- yard. But not long after Jean-Claude moves in to La Vigne Cel- lars, he is found dead. With a long list of possible culprits, sus- picion circles around immigrant worker Miguel Otero. When he disappears, all of Lucie’s immigrant workers issue an ultimatum: either prove Miguel’s innocence or do the harvest without them. Not wanting to lose the vineyard crop, Lucie must embark on a journey to find Jean-Claude’s killer and the skeleton’s identity. Ellen Crosby—the spouse of FSO André de Nesnera, a Voice of America journalist—began writing during her husband’s Geneva posting. This book is the ninth addition to her Virginia wine country mystery series. She is also the author of Moscow Nights , which is based on her time in the late 1980s as Moscow correspondent for ABC Radio News. Crosby formerly worked as a freelance reporter for The Washington Post and an economist at the U.S. Senate. When a Dog Barks in Bangkok at Night—It’s the CIA! Bob Bergin, Banana Tree Press, 2017, $2.99/Kindle, 337 pages. American executive Rudolph Schmitz is mysteriously murdered in his Bangkok apartment. But is it just another local love affair gone wrong? Old Asia hand Harry Ross is asked to investigate by powerful friends in the world of Thailand’s military and intel- ligence elite. Politics intervene, protestors fill the streets, drones appear in the sky and Vietnam war flashbacks ensue. Can Harry solve the murder by unleashing his secret Chinese weapon? Bob Bergin is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer and spe- cialist in Southeast Asia, where he spent much of his career. He works with historic aviation groups in Asia and writes articles on aviation and military history for magazines and journals. He is the author of three novels: Stone Gods, Wooden Elephants, an adventure in the world of Asian antiques; When Tigers Fly, a contemporary search for a valuable Flying Tiger airplane; Spies in the Garden, a novel of espionage and war. He has also pub- lished two short story collections: A Delicate Beauty and White Goddess. The Typist Caroline Taylor, Black Rose Writing, 2018, $19.95/paperback, 250 pages. Judah Longquist was raised in the Midwest, had a strict religious upbringing and is now in Washing- ton, D.C. It’s 1966, and working as a typist for Tom Lawyer of Standard Life Insurance turns out to be something very different from what she had envisioned. In this page-turner, Judah learns that to survive in D.C., sometimes a girl has to be bad—really bad. She quickly finds herself caught up in a nightmare seemingly of her own making, and it’s up to her to decide if she will uphold her values—or is