Stephen Alter: 5 books

Hailed as a "wondrous book" by Gretel Ehrlich, and winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Book Award for Himalayan Literature—a journey of healing that becomes a pilgrimage for the soul. Stephen Alter was raised by American missionary parents in the hill station of Mussoorie, in the foothills of the...

A spy thriller set along the geopolitical fault lines of South Asia, from an author who “knows how to keep things zipping along and dial up tension” (Kirkus Reviews).   Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India’s legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which...

An “engaging international thriller” set on India's rugged Tibetan frontier (Kirkus Reviews). The sleepy Himalayan hill station of Mussoorie is home to everyone from Tibetan refugees and former guerrilla fighters to missionaries, tourists, and spies. It is there, in a top-secret facility,...

When three sixth-graders break into the town library to read aloud from a book of sorcery, little do they know they are about to raise the dead. The spirits they conjure are trapped within the pages of library books, and must now rely on the children and their determined librarian to set them free.

When two modern-day kids discover a grotesque secret in an abandoned mailbox, they have no idea they are about to be drawn into a mystery that began on the other side of the world. Through the help of an English genie and a phantom postman, the two children begin to communicate with another boy, a...