A Trip From the Corner Office to Istanbul
By Steve Dougherty
Robin Straus
Joseph Kanon, author of Istanbul Passage.”
The view from his publisher’s office overlooking Rockefeller Plaza is pretty spectacular. It doesn’t quite compare to the sweeping, history laden vistas Joe Kanon describes in “Istanbul Passage,” his latest time-traveling thriller set in the ancient Ottoman imperial capital, but for Mr. Kanon, 66, his recent visit to this corner office is also a trip back in time. Before he embarked on his second career as a novelist in 1995, Mr. Kanon, who worked summers as a reader at Atlantic Monthly magazine while an undergrad at Harvard, spent much of his first three decades as an editor and publishing executive in power suites a lot like this one.
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