Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Ace Atkins
Prolific crime writer Ace Atkins's Everybody Wants to Rule the World combines cloak-and-dagger intrigue and pop-culture nostalgia. This comedic throwback to 1985, the "Year of the Spy," follows a defecting Russian, a high school freshman who suspects his mother's new boyfriend isn't what he seems, and a mysterious man who engages in espionage with a D.C.-based pole-dancing informant, among an array of memorable characters in this high-concept thriller.
Author of numerous short stories and more than 30 novels, including the Quinn Colson series with titles such as The Heathens and The Lost Ones, and a member of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame, Atkins is a former college football player and newspaper reporter, as well as the recipient of the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award and the Harper Lee Award. He's known for his dazzling wit, complex plotting, and clever characterizations, all qualities on prodigious display in this Cold War caper.















