4:00 pm - Wednesday, June 9

Author Talk: Kevin Swinson

Books & Literature

Warwick's will host David Swinson as he discusses his new book, City on the Edge, in conversation with Kim Howe. David Swinson grew up in Washington, DC, Beirut, Mexico City and Stockholm, the son of a foreign service officer. He is a retired police detective from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, having been assigned to Major Crimes. Swinson is the author of the Second Girl, Crime Song and Trigger. He lives with his wife and daughter in Northern Virginia.

In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on the edge of the sea and cataclysmic violence. Inquisitive and restless by nature, Graham suspects his State Department father is a CIA operative, and that their family's fragile domesticity is merely a front for American efforts along the nearby Israeli border. Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham's life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent's marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand.

Admission/Cost: FREE

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Wednesday, June 9 - 4:00 PM