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Book review: The Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan
Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I enjoyed this post-American Revolutionary seafaring tale for its new twists on an old traditional sailor plot-line. Young Jack O’Reilly is at that late teen-age point where he longs to…
Book Review: Agent ZigZag by Ben MacIntyre
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre My rating: 5 of 5 stars The stories that keep coming out of the Second World War never cease to amaze me! The recently opened files on Eddie Chapman have…
Book Review: Power of the Sword, by Wilbur Smith
Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars I am once again reading Wilbur Smith’s books as inspiration to writing another novel. This amazing work puts it all together in telling the tale of two rival half brothers, Shasa…
Into the Inferno – a novel by Earl Emerson
Into the Inferno by Earl Emerson This is a fast-moving firefighter book with a twist that may not be as rare as we would like to think. When a firefighter pulls open the door to a burning house, car or barn they have no…
Book Review: Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard My rating: 5 of 5 stars Author Athol Fugard has captured the true essence of disenfranchised criminal African youth in the townships of South Africa during the Apartheid era. The descriptions of the daily life of Tsotsi, the leader of…
Book Review: Home by Harlan Coben
Home by Harlan Coben My rating: 3 of 5 stars I generally like author Coben’s writing, but this particular book just didn’t fit with my style. It’s not a page-turner. The plot seems quite disjointed, bouncing back and forth between my favorites and an…
Book Review: No Man’s Land by David Baldacci
No Man’s Land by David Baldacci My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is not the Author’s best work by far. The thesis behind the novel is excellent and I was absorbed with that once we got to the actual story. The first 200…
Book Review: Harry’s Game by Gerald Seymour
Harry’s Game by Gerald Seymour My rating: 5 of 5 stars Seymour is in his groove with this one and once again he’s got it right with his characterization, situation and the plot. War isn’t really about our morals and higher values, Queen and…
Choosers of the Slain by James H. Cobb: a book you’ll want to read!
Choosers of the Slain by James H. Cobb My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here’s to the US Navy’s response to G.I.Jane and a techy introduction to twenty-first century naval warfare. In an environment more hostile than outer space, America’s Amanda Garrett, Commander of…
Book Review: “Home Invasion” by ghost writers of William W. Johnstone
Home Invasion by William W. Johnstone My rating: 2 of 5 stars Here we have a novel with serious flaws and misconceptions put together after the author’s death from notes and outlines. Could this book be prophetic and was W.W. Johnstone thinking of writing…
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