The World of Books

The Day of the Jackal, by master thriller writer Frederick Forsyth is a novel whose main character is the Jackal. The Jackal was a real terrorist, at the time extremely high profile and very terrifying and infamous.  Forsyth, of course writes fiction, and he takes the liberty of creating a fictional plot around this real [...]

The Prodigal Daughter is the follow up on the great novel Kane and Abel. Both are outstanding novels or thrillers by Jeffrey Archer.
The main character, Florentyna Rosnovski, is a formidable and unforgettable character. She is one of the most interesting and memorable characters in Archer’s books. She endears herself to readers as [...]

The Great Train Robbery, an old thriller by Michael Crichton (first published in 1975) takes us to the underground world of betrayal and crime in Victorian England.
We witness, first-hand, probably the most intriguing money hoist in history. We travel with Edward Pierce, a criminal mastermind, and discover how he puts together a team of specialists [...]