Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
Presenting EVAN TANNER-the first series character created by Lawrence Block, bestselling author of A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES...
Ever since a shred of shrapnel did a number on his brain's sleep center, Even Tanner has been awake 24/7. This gives him more time than your average underachiever. Time to learn the world's languages (he's fluent in Basque, but has trouble with Chinese). Time to embrace the world's lost causes and irredentist movements (The Flat Earth Society, the League for the Restoration of Cilician Armenia, the Society of the Left Hand). Time to write term papers theses for students with more money than knowledge. And, most important, time to do his dreaming while he's wide awake.

When we left Tanner-at the end of his 7th adventure in Me Tanner, You Jane-he was just back from Modonoland. That was in 1970-and now we meet up with him again and it's 1998. How on earth did that happen?

In Tanneresque fashion, it must be said. Because of his membership in an irredentist movement seeking to restore a province of southern Sweden to Denmark, agents of the Stockholm government lure Tanner and drug him. But, too Scandinavian in nature to kill him outright, they stow him in a frozen-food locker in the sub-basement of a house in Union City, New Jersey. (Hey, everybody has to be someplace.) When Tanner wakes up and thaws out, it's a quarter of a century later and he hasn't aged a day.

Which makes for interesting complications. His ward, the Lithuanian princess Minna, is now only a few years younger than he is. And an old drinking buddy of his and occasional playwright is now the president of half of Czechoslovakia. All in all, the world has changed beyond recognition.

So he goes to Burma. Like, where else?

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. Evan Tanner #8. LB Productions, ISBN: 9781516348534 (July, 2015), 0.54 MB (ca. 288 p.), $6.99.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s?

Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is glad his favorite operative's active again.

Tanner awoke to a different world, though some bad things have remained the same... or gotten worse. Even before he can fully acclimate himself to this perplexing future, Tanner's off to Burma (which isn't really Burma anymore) to pose as a monk, destabilize the government, dodge a lethal double-cross, and rescue a beautiful prisoner.

The world's still full of conspiracy, corruption, greed, political chicanery -- and beautiful women. So Tanner's back with a vengeance, with a lot of lost time to make up for.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. An Evan Tanner Novel. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0061283932 (September, 2007), 280 p., $7.99.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
Once, Evan Tanner was known as the thief who couldn't sleep, carrying out his dangerous duties for a super-secret intelligence agency. Then someone put him on ice -- for about twenty-five years. Returning to the world (and trying to catch up with a quarter century's worth of current events), Tanner is about to embark on a new covert assignment that will take him to the exotic Far East, where mystery and menace are a way of life...

Now, whether he's dodging double crosses or disguising himself as a monk, Tanner is learning that when it comes to power games, pretty women, and political wrangling, some things never change. And he's making up for lost time -- with a vengeance.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. The New Evan Tanner Novel. Signet, ISBN: 0451194101 (August, 1999), 248 p., $6.99.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (UK 1999)

From the Publisher:
Evan Tanner, a globetrotting adventurer to put Indiana Jones in the shade, not only had his sleep centre destroyed in the Korean War but now he has been on extended vacation... in the deep freeze for over 25years!

Thawed but not shaken, Tanner has a lot of catching up to do. No sooner than he's reacquainted himself with Minna, his "adopted daughter" and now a beautiful and desirable women and mastered a crash course in Internet learning than he is recruited for another covert assignment - to destablise the government of Burma (or should that be Myanmar?) and he finds himself in Rangoon (or is that Yangon?) Mix in exotic surroundings, an exiled Russian beauty, foreign intrigue, cross and double cross, a mysterious dead man and you have an edgy and entertaining puzzle that only Lawrence Block could create.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1901982394 (July, 1999), 248 p., £5.99.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
The eighth and latest Even Tanner novel the first new Evan tanner novel for 26 years.
Evan Tanner, a globetrotting adventurer to put Indiana Jones in the shade, not only had his sleep centre destroyed in the Korean War but now he has been on extended vacation... in the deep freeze for over 25years!

Thawed but not shaken, Tanner has a lot of catching up to do. No sooner than he's reacquainted himself with Minna, his "adopted daughter" and now a beautiful and desirable women and mastered a crash course in Internet learning than he is recruited for another covert assignment - to destablise the government of Burma (or should that be Myanmar?) and he finds himself in Rangoon (or is that Yangon?) Mix in exotic surroundings, an exiled Russian beauty, foreign intrigue, cross and double cross, a mysterious dead man and you have an edgy and entertaining puzzle that only Lawrence Block could create.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. The New Evan Tanner Novel. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1901982335 (November, 1998), 248 p., £10.00.

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Lawrence Block has created many of crime fiction's most memorable characters, from burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr to detective Matthew Scudder. Now Block invites readers to return to the world of Evan Michael Tanner, a globetrotting adventurer with a taste for lost causes. Missing in action for twentyfive years, Tanner is back, and making up for lost time with a vengeance

TANNER ON ICE
Once, Evan Tanner was known as the thief who couldn't sleep, living out the dangerous and glamour-filled fantasies others lived only in dreams -- until the day his assignment for the super-secret intelligence agency that employed him went awry. And Tanner disappeared, courtesy of a single conspirator with one mean double-cross.

Now Tanner is a little older, a quarter-century behind the times, and looking to play catch-up. No sooner has he returned to a world that forget him -- or so he thinks -- than Rufus Crombie, Tanner's new benefactor, contacts him for a new case. Crombie's concern is the subversive organization known as SLORC, which is stifling a growing rebel movement in faraway Burma. Tanner's covert assignment: destabilize the government.

Not an easy task, considering that once he arrives he's hounded by the local police; discovers a corpse in his hotel room; befriends a cool beauty with an agenda all her own, and receives an anonymous warning: Get out of Burma or you die. Putting all the pieces together is going to take Tanner's every waking moment.

Filled with dead-on dialogue, Tanner on Ice is everything Lawrence Block's fans have come to expect from this master of mystery fiction -- and a lot more. Fast, furious, and torally unpredictable, it proves that Evan Tanner can once again take rightful place alongside Block's legendary characters. And with Tanner back on the job, who needs to sleep?

Lawrence Block: Tanner on Ice. The New Evan Tanner Novel. Dutton, ISBN: 0525944214 (July, 1998), 248 p., $23.95.