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By Peter on Aug 1, 2010 in Excellent book, Frederick Forsyth, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
The Devil’s Alternative is a spy thriller from the end of the 1970’s – from the Era of the Cold War. The Russian leader and the American President face off in a crisis situation. Spies and intelligence play a crucial role: The British happen to have a spy with access to the Russian [...]
By Peter on Jul 30, 2010 in About authors, Camilla Lackberg, Crime Books, Hakan Nesser, Jo Nesbo, Karin Fossum, Liza Marklund, Norwegian Writer, Stieg Larsson | 0 Comments
It is interesting to notice how tightly interrelated things are, and how developments internationally have domestic effects even in such areas as literature and, more specifically, crime fiction. Some years ago the traditionally industrious Swedes started to build an impressive crime fiction literature, with writers like Henning Mankell, Jan Guillou, Liza Marklund, Håkan Nesser, Åke [...]
By Peter on Jul 26, 2010 in Crime Books, Don Winslow, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
Don Winslow
Don Winslow is an American author. He is most recognized for his crime and mystery novels. Many of his books are set in California. He has published a series of five novels that have a private investigator named Neal Carey as their main character.
Bibliography
1991: A Cool Breeze on the Underground
1992: The Trail to Buddha’s [...]
By Peter on Jul 20, 2010 in Fiction Books, Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer, book review | 0 Comments
This is an intriguing anthology of poetry by Swedish author Lars Gustafsson. It has been translated from the original Swedish by John Irons.
A Time in Xanadu raises some rather big questions. Where are we? How do we know? It contains powerful musings, written in a sparse and compact language. But beneath lie strange, eerie [...]
By Peter on Jul 9, 2010 in Classical novel, Excellent book, William Styron, World literature, book review | 1 Comment
This masterpiece of a novel won Styron the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Also, Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. It was controversial at the time it was published, due to a large extent to the heated discussions about issues concerning race in the USA at the [...]
By Peter on Jul 7, 2010 in Aldous Huxley, Classical novel, Excellent book, Science Fiction Books, World literature, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Some books are more scary than others – and some science fiction books have been unbelievably scary because they have raised alarming questions about social development and political organization. George Orwell’s Animal Farm, written in 1945, and his 1984, written in 1949, are two such books. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is another. Kurt Vonnegut’s [...]
By Peter on Jun 30, 2010 in Peter F. Hamilton, Science Fiction Books, book review | 0 Comments
The tale in this book begins in 2380. Humans have had wormhole technology for over 300 years. It was the work of Nigel Sheldon and Ozzie Isaacs, that strange pair of men that made this possible. And the wormhole technology has been put to good use since it was invented. The human race has [...]
By Peter on Jun 25, 2010 in Daniel Silva, Excellent book, Thriller, bestseller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
The ninth book in Daniel Silva’s excellent, intelligent and fast-paced series about the assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon is perhaps the best so far. It is a tough book, full of violence and feels very realistic. Many of the great characters from the previous books are present here as well. The book most [...]
By Peter on Jun 14, 2010 in Anias Nin, Fiction Books, World literature, book review | 1 Comment
Little Birds is an evocative and superbly erotic journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. This collection of thirteen excellent erotic short stories span all the way from the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans. The stories, written by the imaginative and compelling story teller Anias Nin, tell [...]
By Peter on Jun 8, 2010 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Karin Alvtegen, Swedish crime book, Swedish writer, book review | 1 Comment
Shadow is Karin Alvtegen’s fifth book, and a great Scandinavian crime fiction book. In my opinion it is her best so far. Shadow is more a psychological thriller novel than a crime or mystery book in the traditional sense. There is no detective, police or private, investing crimes in this book, even if there [...]
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