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Category: ThrillerBy 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 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 7, 2010 in Stephen W. Frey, Thriller, book review | 0 Comments
Day trading is a new practice that emerged with the Internet. For a while it was extremely popular. A day trader is commonly thought of as a guy (or girl) that sits at his computer, hooked up to the net, and moves great amounts of money around electronically, usually buying and selling share of [...]
By Peter on Jul 15, 2009 in Patrick Robinson, bestseller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
The plot in Hunter Killer focuses on Saudi Arabia, both its internal political and economic problems, and it’s role in the wider world economy as the prime provider of oil. In this book, Robinson has created a scenario where the Saudi royal family and the numerous princes and other family members spend so much money [...]
By Peter on Jul 6, 2009 in Daniel Silva, Thriller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
Another strong, dark story from one of the new masters of spy thriller writing, Daniel Silva! This book too features an ensemble of very fascinating characters. In The English Assassin we meet, once again, Israeli assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon. His prime opponent is an extremely wealthy Swiss banker who controls the Swiss [...]
By Peter on Jun 24, 2009 in Andrew Klavan, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Edgar-winner Andrew Klavan’s Empire of Lies (see also his True Crime) is a strange but appealing book. It is a thriller, but it is also a pretty wicked satirical book. It tells the somewhat strange the story of the middle aged Jason Harrow, a man living a pretty boring and extremely conservative life, but [...]
By Peter on Apr 1, 2009 in Excellent book, Fiction Books, Norwegian Writer, Susan Choi, The World of Books, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
After fictionalizing elements of the Patty Hearst kidnapping for her second novel (the 2004 Pulitzer finalist American Woman: A Novel), here Choi combines elements of the Wen Ho Lee accusations and the Unabomber case to create a haunting meditation on the myriad forms of alienation.
The suggestively named Lee, as he’s called throughout, is a solitary [...]
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