Bear Hug

About the Book

"Tom Bethany is some guy … Mr. Doolittle is a slick stylist. His characters have heft … they talk like the people they're supposed to be."

—New York times.

"Riveting. As full of tension as Christmas Eve shopping at Toys'R'Us"

—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post.

"Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high-voltage storyteller:"

—Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times.

About the Author

Jerome Doolittle is a former Washington Post editor and columnist, U.S. Embassy spokesman in Laos, war correspondent in Southeast Asia, Chief of Public Affairs for the Federal Aviation Authority, speechwriter for President Carter, and Harvard faculty member. In addition to the Tom Bethany mysteries, he is the author of The Bombing Officer, a novel of wartime Laos.