Welshrogue

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Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered . . . and a fortune in gold vanishes.
Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel.
Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot.
Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus gets police detective Sharky bounced from the narc squad into the dreaded dregs of the department–vice. That’s where he stumbles on a high-priced call girl and her pimp who are fleecing rich johns in an even higher-priced blackmail scam. Together with his “machine” of hard-bitten vice squad veterans, Sharky closes in for a big sting. He doesn’t count on falling for Domino, his alluring target. Or falling into the middle of the murderous design she’s a part of–involving a hot presidential candidate, the shadowy multimillionaire who’s backing him, and the ice-cold assassin they’re using to wipe out the past . . . before it blows their future to hell.

A vice cop falls for a prostitue who happens to be involved with possibly the next president of the USA. I don’t remember much of the movie based on the book other than Burt Reynolds and Rachel Ward starred. Its a fast paced story of love, lust, betrayal and violence. Enjoyable and well written.

Detective Lucas Davenport knows he has met his match. For his newest nemesis is more intelligent–and more deadly–than any he has tracked before. A kidnapper. A violator. A pure, wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas himself.

Yet another Lucas Davenport book, this time searching for a kidnapped woman and her two daughters. Violent, gritty, sometimes original, while I can’t explain why I enjoy the books, I do seem to!!

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The most destructive natural disaster in history isn”t natural….

THE PLACE

Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick.

THE EVENT

On Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely placed nuclear warheads buried 2,000 feet beneath the ice detonate in sequence, shearing the Ross Shelf from the underwater rises that anchor it.

The nuclear shock wave drives the shelf into the Pacific at 500 miles per hour, creating an initial wall of water 1,400 feel high. Unseen, unsuspected, unstoppable, the displacement wave formed by the wall”s collapse radiates northward. In thirty-five hours, it will lay waste to Hawaii. In thirty-eight hours, the southeastern regions of Japan will become little more than swampland. And in forty hours, the entire Los Angeles Basin will be flooded to a depth of twenty feet. By then, the death toll will be measured in the millions.

Set against a split-second race to prevent global devastation, and based on the astounding cutting-edge technologies that will take the U.S. military into the next century, Icefire is the story of Navy SEAL Captain Mitch Webber and oceanographer Cory Rey. Once lovers, now enemies, they”re plunged into a maelstrom of international intrigue and betrayal reaching from Beijing to the highest levels of the Pentagon.

The Ross Ice shelf is blown up and creates a killer wave travelling around the world. Not bad story although the pace sometimes lacked the story. Enjoyable.

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One enemy spy knows the secret if the Allies’ greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin–code name:

Another world war II thriller, as the athorities chase down the one man who can stop the allied invasion of Europe. Tense, fast paced and well written!

Again, another book that is OK, readable, with funny parts that isn’t all that but still is a page turner. It passes the time.

A mad man is running around killing women, while obsessing over another. Can the cops find him in time to save the day? While the books are never classics, they are page turners and they are enjoyable.

OK, I am biased, I loved Clive Cussler books, including Sahara so I was a little concerned about seeing this. I shouldn’t have been. Its greeeeeeeeeeeaaaat. I didn’t think the movie lagged at all, had great music, action, humour everything infact that one might want from a movie. Dirk Pitt was real, Al was …. still thinking about it, Sandecker was real, all these characters that I had read about time and time again became real people…… definatly a get the DVD movie!!

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In the critically acclaimed novels The Advocate and Officer of the Court, Bill Mesce Jr. introduced readers to a new hero in the world of military suspense. The Defender is the electrifying tale of Major Harry Voss’s most riveting case yet: a wartime court-martial that could cost an innocent man his life—and cover up another innocent man’s murder.

THE DEFENDER

The case against Lieutenant Dominick Sisto is overwhelming. It’s so overwhelming that Major Harry Voss hasn’t been called in to prove him innocent—but to fight for a less severe sentence when the guilty verdict is read. Charged with disobeying a direct order from a commander, Sisto is accused of fleeing in the face of the enemy at a place called the Huertgen Forest. But the more Harry looks into the case, the more he suspects the official story is far from the real one. As Voss is raced to a secluded castle in Wiltz to defend Sisto, the war in Europe escalates and the Allied forces mount an offensive against the Nazis that will reach a climax in the Battle of the Bulge. Summoned personally by an old friend who will preside over the trial, Voss has a personal connection with the accused going back to the neighborhood where he watched the young lieutenant grow up. Still, determined as he is, Voss isn’t sure he’s the right man for the job. He hasn’t defended a criminal case in years and he’s up against an ambitious hotshot JAG prosecutor chosen by the brass to win at any cost.

And that cost may well be justice, truth, and the lives of innocent men. For as Voss unravels what really happened on Hill 399, he discovers that Sisto was a hero, not a traitor, and that the one man who can prove it vanished in the blood and chaos of war. As the trial builds to a shattering climax, Harry is driven to visit the Belgian site where the drama unfolded—and it’s there he must find evidence that he’s not just walking the hallowed ground of a battlefield…but the scene of a crime.

Evocative, tense, and relentlessly paced, The Defender is a superior military thriller that takes us to a place where loyalty turns into betrayal, allies turn into enemies, and comrades in arms can become cold-blooded killers.

This book finally delivers what has been promised in his other two books (The Advocate and Officer Of The Court). A rip-snorting (did I just say that?) military courtroom battle. Close in intensity to Word of Honour by Nelson DeMille but quite as good. Still a good book!

Set at the start of world war 2, a sea plane is flying from England to America. On board the passengers include a gangster, a thief, a scientist, a facist. Ken Follett takes over 100 pages to devlope the characters before getting into the action of this 500 page thriller. Loved it, had to rush to finish it!

Highly stylised (mainly black and white, with colour thrown in for effect) and violent as hell. All star cast making this a very cool movie. Should do well. Definatly a DVD to buy…. wanna see it again!