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Brian Garfield has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2000s.
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Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon begins struggling to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
Dir. Joseph Ruben · With Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
Dir. Nelson McCormick · With Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley