Background
Stuart Archer Cohen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1958 and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1976.
( In Buenos Aires, a corrupt cop is assigned to investiga...)
In Buenos Aires, a corrupt cop is assigned to investigate a murder he committed Commissioner Miguel Fortunato is nearing retirement after a long, dishonest career. Six months ago he was ordered to kidnap foreigner Robert Waterbury for reasons left unclear. The kidnapping turned to murder. Now the Americans are sending their own investigator, and Fortunato is assigned to support her. Fortunato is quickly drawn into the dazzling world of his victim, a failed novelist who came to Buenos Aires desparate to make a big score. As he uncovers the vast outlines of a global crime, Fortunato begins to unravel not only the murder, but the deeper mystery of his own career and the lies that have sustained it.
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Stuart Archer Cohen was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1958 and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1976.
Columbia University; Johns Hopkins University.
He produced a hybrid advertising/theater piece called MediaWave, then left for Alaska upon finishing in 1981. He wasn’t given his diploma due to having failed physical education. Cohen began traveling to South America in 1984 and began an import company.
On a trip to Inner Mongolia in 1992 he began writing a short story about going to Inner Mongolia in the dead of winter, which became Invisible World (Reganbooks, 1998) a novel translated into 6 languages.
Much of the book was written in hotel rooms in China and South America, and is about antique textiles, smuggling, and the invisible world of the imagination, memory and the future, a world that often overwhelms the book’s characters. On the publication of Invisible World, encouraged by two-book contracts in the United States and Germany, Cohen closed his store to devote himself to writing.
He spent three years writing The Book of Rumor, a novel set in Juneau, Alaska, about a long-ago mine strike, a homeless Tlingit man, and strange messages that appear in the newspaper attacking the leading citizen of the town. Neither publisher accepted the book
Facing an increasingly dire financial situation, Cohen went to Buenos Aires to research petty criminals and corrupt police, and quickly wrote 17 Stone Angels, (Orion, 2003) about a corrupt police chief in Buenos Aires who is assigned to investigate a murder he committed.
Published as The Stone Angels, the book was translated into 9 languages and optioned by Paramount Studios. In 2008, Cohen published The Army of the Republic (Street Martins, 2008), a novel about insurgency set in the United States. In April 2015, Cohen will publish his new novel This Is How lieutenant Really Sounds (Street Martin"s Press), a novel about skiing, rock "n roll, malignant high finance, espionage, and three men who share the same name.
( In Buenos Aires, a corrupt cop is assigned to investiga...)