The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell

Figuring out who was & wasn't as the story progressed was half the fun. Great 'bad' guys since some weren't particularly. No worries, Morrell slowly pulled the threads together into a very logical tapestry. The plot was fantastic, but very confusing for the first half of the book. It was great having the characters from the last 2 books come together. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.I'm not sure what order I read this in last time compared to the others in the loose series, but this time I'm reading it third, after The Brotherhood of the Rose followed by The Fraternity Of The Stone. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, Morrell now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

To give his stories a realistic edge, he has been trained in wilderness survival, hostage negotiation, executive protection, antiterrorist driving, assuming identities, electronic surveillance, and weapons.

To make a new start, my wife and I moved to the mountains and mystical light of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where my work changed yet again, exploring the passionate relationships between men and women, highlighting them against a background of action as in the newest, Burnt Sienna. One year later, my fifteen-year-old son, Matthew, died from bone cancer, and thereafter my fiction tended to depict the search for a son, particularly in Fireflies (1988) and Desperate Measures (1994). With two professions, I worked seven days a week until exhaustion forced me to make a painful choice and resign from the university in 1986. During this period, I was a professor of American literature at the University of Iowa. The search for a father is prominent in that book, as it is in later ones, most notably The Brotherhood of the Rose (1984), a thriller about orphans and spies. The result of their influence is my 1972 novel, First Blood, which introduced Rambo. Eventually I decided to be a writer and sought help from two men who became metaphorical fathers to me: Stirling Silliphant, the head writer for the classic TV series 'Route 66' about two young men in a Corvette who travel America in search of themselves, and Philip Klass (whose pen name is William Tenn), a novelist who taught at the Pennsylvania State University where I went to graduate school from 1966 to 1970. I grew up unsure of who I was, desperately in need of a father figure. My mother had difficulty raising me and at the same time holding a job, so she put me in an orphanage and later in a series of boarding homes. My father was killed during World War II, shortly after I was born in 1943.

The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell