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Category: Excellent bookBy 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 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 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 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 [...]
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 Apr 2, 2010 in Excellent book, Historical Fiction, Robert Harris, book review | 0 Comments
Cicero, or rather Marcus Tullius Cicero, has always been an elusive historical character. He is hard to pin down. There is much evidence to suggest that he was one of the foremost legal scholars of the Roman Empire. Beyond doubt, he was also a first rank public speaker and a rhetorical marvel. Also that [...]
By Peter on Mar 4, 2010 in Crime Books, Excellent book, Kerstin Ekman, Swedish writer, book review | 0 Comments
Swedish Kerstin Ekman is a very talented writer and, along with fellow Scandinavians Karin Alvtegen and Karin Fossum, a master of psychological thrillers. In her first novel published in the United States, Ekman, creates an aura of fear and malaise as she depicts a suspicious, isolated community shocked by a crime but unwilling to [...]
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.
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