Martin Fletcher and Andrew Gross

In conversation with Alison Law, Publicist and Consultant, Alison Law Communications; Host, Literary Atlanta Podcast

MARTIN FLETCHER, Promised Land: A Novel of Israel

For many years, Martin Fletcher was best known as the NBC News Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv; however, in recent years, he has made a name for himself as an award-winning and bestselling novelist. Fletcher last appeared on our Book festival stage with his international bestseller, Walking Israel. He returns with Promised Land, a sweeping saga of two brothers and the woman they love, a devastating love triangle set against the tumultuous founding of Israel. Promised Land is at once the gripping tale of a struggling family and an epic about a struggling nation.

ANDREW GROSS, Button Man: A Novel

After a string of New York Times bestselling suburban thrillers, including many with James Patterson, Andrew Gross has reinvented himself as a writer of historical thrillers. In his latest novel, Button Man, he delivers a stirring story of a Jewish family brought together in the dawn of the women's garment business and torn apart by the birth of organized crime in New York City in the 1930s. This novel is equal parts historical thriller, rich with the detail of a vibrant New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, and family saga, based on Andrew Gross's own family story and on the history of the era.