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Category: ThrillerBy 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 [...]
By Peter on Mar 26, 2009 in Stephen W. Frey, Thriller, book review | 0 Comments
Stephen Frey is an interesting author. In “real life” he is a principal at a Northern Virginia private equity firm. He previously worked in mergers and acquisitions at J. P. Morgan. He has also been a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank in Midtown Manhattan. Thus Frey is an author that really [...]
By Peter on Mar 17, 2009 in Daniel Silva, Excellent book, Thriller, bestseller, book review, spy thriller | 0 Comments
Daniel Silva excels at writing about spy tradecraft. However, he is also very good at describing characters and the complex relationships between them. In The Messenger these qualities are at the fore. This is a very realistic, extremely exciting book.
The Messenger opens in London where a professor of Middle Eastern studies is suspected of having [...]
By Peter on Mar 10, 2009 in Crime Books, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, Jeffrey Archer, The World of Books, Thriller, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Jeffrey Archer, the somewhat controversial British master storyteller, whose novels and short stories have topped the bestseller lists around the world, and with sales of more than 135 million copies, has just published a new novel. This one, Paths of Glory, is different from other books Archer has written – it is a novel based [...]
By Peter on Feb 28, 2009 in Dean Koontz, Thriller, book review | 0 Comments
In The Good Guy, Dean Koontz lets a seemingly ordinary fellow by accident be placed in a situation where he comes between a murderous psychopath and a total stranger, a female named Linda, whom the psychopath is hired to kill. Initially he is mistaken for a killer for hire. Then he feels forced [...]
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