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Evan Tanner
Evan Tanner
Series · 8 books · 1966-1998
By
Lawrence Block
Books in series
#1
The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
1966
Evan Michael Tanner hasn't slept in more than a decade—not since a small piece of battlefield shrapnel invaded his skull and obliterated his brain's sleep center. Still, he's managed to find numerous inventive ways to occupy his waking hours. Tanner is a card-carrying member of hundreds of international organizations, from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Order to the Flat Earth Society—not because he believes in their myriad lost causes, he's simply a joiner by nature. Besides, it gives him something to do. The Russians think Tanner is a CIA operative on a covert mission. The CIA is certain he's a Soviet agent. Actually, he's in Turkey pursuing a fortune in hidden Armenian gold. But Tanner's up for anything, including a little spycraft, if it helps him reach his big payday. And if need be, he'll even start a small revolution . . .
#2
The Canceled Czech
1966
Sent on a mission to Prague to free Nazi war criminal Janos Kotacek before he is sentenced to hang, Evan Tanner runs into a wealth of trouble and must fight to keep himself and his captive alive. Reissue.
#3
Tanner's Twelve Swingers
1967
Spy Evan Tanner is in over his head when he agrees to help a lovesick friend find a lost love and encounters a motley crew of disaffected Eastern Europeans who dream about emigrating, and see Tanner as their ticket out. Reprint. BAKER & TAYLOR Bks
#4
Two For Tanner
1985
Secret agent Evan Tanner journeys to the jungles of Thailand in a desperate attempt to rescue a lovely jazz singer from the vicious guerrilla band that kidnapped her
#5
Tanner's Tiger
1985
Determined to enjoy a well-deserved vacation in Montreal, international spy and thief Evan Tanner has to use all of his skills to get across across the border from the United States into Canada.
#6
Tanner's Virgin
1968
The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol—not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for hopeless causes? (Actually he's a little bit of all of the above. Plus he never sleeps. Ever .) One thing's for Tanner's a true romantic, which is why he can't refuse a distraught mother who begs him to rescue her lost, pure-as-driven-snow daughter. Phaedra Harrow (nee Deborah Horowitz) once shared Tanner's apartment but not his bed. And now the virginal beauty's been abducted by white slavers in the Afghan wilderness. Finding Phaedra will be difficult enough. Bringing her back alive and unmolested may be impossible. And first Tanner will have to swim the English Channel, survive trigger-happy Russian terrorists . . . and maybe pull off a timely assassination or two.
#7
Me Tanner, You Jane
1986
It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him. No stranger to impossible missions and international peril, Tanner's been in over his head before. This time, however, he's in imminent danger of being buried alive. And it all has to do with the CIA, white supremacists, moderate revolutionaries . . . and a blond jungle bombshell named (no joke!) Sheena. Tanner's always been a sucker for a pretty face and a curvaceous body, especially one that's wrapped in leopard skin. But this red hot renegade daughter of a local missionary is a maneater. Which means this time Tanner's goose is well and truly cooked.
#8
Tanner on Ice
1998
The author's first book featuring Evan Michael Tanner in twenty-five years finds the globe-trotting adventurer on a covert mission to stop Burma's drug trade and topple its corrupt government that matches him with an exiled Russian beauty. Reprint.
Author
Lawrence Block
Author · 185 books