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Category: bestsellerBy 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 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.
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1991: A Cool Breeze on the Underground
1992: The Trail to Buddha’s [...]
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 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 Apr 22, 2010 in Alistair MacLean, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
This book is one of Alistair MacLean’s finest books. It is, of course, a work of fiction, but based on the real events surrounding the Battle of Leros in World War II. As a World War II thriller, it is outstanding. The story in The Guns of Navarone is very suspenseful, excellently told, and [...]
By Peter on Apr 4, 2010 in Excellent book, John Grisham, Short stories, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
John Grisham is a world renowned writer of legal thrillers. He is also a great writer – a great teller of stories. With Ford County he shows that he can also write excellent short stories. He returns to Ford County, the setting of his very first novel A Time to Kill (in my opinion [...]
By Peter on Feb 22, 2010 in Desmond Bagley, Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
The Vivero Letter is an extremely fast paced thriller by the British thriller master Desmond Bagley that was turned into a great movie with the same name. All of the characters are believable, and the descriptions of the locations are so vivid that they place you firmly into the middle of the action.
Jeremy Wheale’s very [...]
By Peter on Feb 2, 2010 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Herman Wouk, Historical Fiction, World literature, bestseller, book review | 1 Comment
The Winds of War (1971) told the story of the extended family of Captain Victor “Pug” Henry up to and including the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Captain Henry, is a military man, to some extent a scholar, a translator, and an advisor to Franklin Roosevelt and other statesmen. War and Remembrance picks up the [...]
By Peter on Jan 4, 2010 in Classical novel, D.H. Lawrence, Excellent book, Fiction Books, The World of Books, World literature, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a delightful novel and surely one of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century. It is a book with a history – a previously banned book. It was banned in England and the United States after its initial publication in 1928 due to the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its [...]
By Peter on Dec 9, 2009 in Excellent book, bestseller, book review | 2 Comments
P.D. James has been extremely successful as a writer. Her series about the famed Adam Dalgliesh, who now along with his creator P.D. James is nearing retirement (P.D. James is 89 years old) has enjoyed millions of readers all over the world. If anything, the series have told us two things about P.D. James. [...]
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