![]() ![]() Istanbul Passage is a spy thriller set in that city in 1945. A film based on The Good German was produced in 2006, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. ![]() His novels are critically acclaimed, and reviewers from the Boston Globe and The New York Times have compared his work with the novels of Graham Greene and John le Carré. His stories are set in the period between World War II and 1950, and he has often used a real event, such as the Potsdam Conference or the Manhattan Project, as the background for a murder case. Further novels followed, including The Prodigal Spy, The Good German and Alibi. His first novel, Los Alamos (1997), became a bestseller and received the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1998. Kanon was the editor in chief, CEO, and president of the publishing houses Houghton Mifflin and E. As an undergraduate, he published his first stories in The Atlantic Monthly. Kanon studied at Harvard University, and at Trinity College in Cambridge. In 1946, Kanon was born in Pennsylvania, U.S. Joseph Kanon (born 1946) is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II. ![]()
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