If you want international adventure and thrills this is the book for you. And no CIA! Samuel Carver arranges accidents all over the world, accidents to bad people. One particular job in Paris seems ridiculously simple for the extraordinary high price he’s paid. He doesn’t figure it out for a while but is stunned when he [...]
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Feast Day of Fools – James Lee Burke
JLB is one of the great American writers. His first novel the Lost Get Back Boogie garnered 111 rejections but resulted in a Pulitzer Prize nomination. I can relate to that. In Feast Day of Fools Sheriff Hackberry Holland takes on a variety of bad guys in his Texas county along the Mexican border: psychopaths, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »10 Reasons to Read eBooks.
1) You are not limited to specific eReader devices. Smashwords and a few others can download your selection and match any format for any device, including laptops and PCs. 2) Price. EBooks are cheaper than hard copies, even new releases. 3) EBook providers never run out of copies. 4) A virtual library at your fingertips. [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Gil Adamson – The Outlander
This book won a handful of prestigious literary awards. Why do I keep torturing myself by reading literary books? For starters there’s no suspense and the beginning sets up the reader for a confrontation that ends up a real disappointment. It’s two red-headed twins seeking revenge on their sister-in-law for killing their brother. They track [...]
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