Alex Abella

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Alex Abella (born 1950) is an American author and journalist best known for his non-fiction works Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008) and Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (2003, with Scott Gordon).

Early life

Abella was born in

Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961.[1] The family settled in New York, where Abella attended Columbia University on a Pulitzer scholarship. At school, he wrote for the Columbia Daily Spectator.[2][3]

Career

After college, Abella moved to California to work for the San Francisco Chronicle initially covering local news, then network news as a reporter, writer, and producer.[1]

Abella left the

Los Angeles Superior Court.[1] His first novel, The Killing of the Saints (1991), is a Los Angeles crime thriller about the beliefs of the Santería religion used as a defense for murder.[4] Saints and its sequels, Dead of Night (1998) and Final Acts (2000), feature a Cuban-American lawyer and investigator of Cuban heritage.[5]

Abella's second novel, The Great American (1997) is set in Cuba in 1957 during the

United States Marine who fought on the side of Fidel Castro
.

Abella's non-fiction work includes Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (2003), co-authored with law professor and current Los Angeles Superior Court judge Scott Gordon. The book is set in Germany during World War II and follows a group of German-American agents trained in sabotage and terrorism.[6]

The author's most recent book, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008), is the first history of the foreign policy

United States Government.[7][8]
The book was longlisted for the National Book Award.

In addition to his nonfiction books, Abella has been a contributing writer with the

Huffington Post.[9]

Awards

At KTVU-TV, Abella was nominated for an

Emmy Award for "Best Breaking News Story." His first novel, The Killing of the Saints (1991), was a New York Times Notable Book.[10]

Works

Novels

Non-fiction books

  • Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States (with Scott Gordon, 2003)[12]
  • Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (2008)[12]
  • More than a Woman (2013)[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c Garry Abrams (September 1991). "Writes of Passage". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
  2. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 17 December 1971 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  3. ^ "Columbia Daily Spectator 11 November 1971 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  4. ^ Christie, John S. (1998). Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination: Literature of the Borderlands. Routledge. p. 177.
  5. ^ Pepper, Andrew (2001). The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, and Class. Routledge. p. 161.
  6. ^ Abella, Alex; Gordon, Scott (2003). Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States. Lyons Press. shadow enemies.
  7. ^ "Soldier of Reason: Kirkus Review". Kirkus Reviews. 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
  8. ^ Herken, Gregg (2008-07-06). "Dr. Strangelove's Workplace". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
  9. ^ Abella, Alex. "Alex Abella at the Huffington Post". Retrieved 2010-11-26.
  10. ^ "Notable Books of the Year 1991". The New York Times. 1991-12-01. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
  11. ^ ThriftBooks. "The total banana (An Original... book by Alex Abella". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  12. ^ a b c d e f "Alex Abella Books In Order - Complete List of Novels". Mystery Sequels. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  13. ^ "Alex Abella". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
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