Welshrogue

From the Publisher
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world.

Lady Kara Kensington’s family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. And her search for answers is about to lead Kara; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery’s brilliant and beautiful curator; and their guide, the international adventurer Omaha Dunn, into a world they never dreamed actually existed: a lost city buried beneath the Arabian desert, where something astonishing is waiting.

A covert government operative hunting a dangerous turncoat — his former partner — is being drawn there as well. But the many perils of a death-defying trek deep into the savage heart of the Arabian Peninsula pale before the nightmare to be unearthed at journey’s end — an ageless power that lives and breathes, an awesome force that can create a utopia … or tear down everything humankind has built over millennia of civilization.

Mix Indiana Jones, Lawrence of Arabia, and Delta Force and you get something similar to this. Fast paced with only a few poopy parts, a enjoyable journey into the fantastic! good book

A remake of a movie that has already been remade (Mean Machine) to great success (if you like that sort of thing) but this time its funny. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds star.

Started off fast and funny, faltered towards the end in the funny department but kept up the break neck pace. Pretty true to the original.

Enjoyed it a lot!

From the Publisher
Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of American commandos killing everyone in sight. Carmellini escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor-a stunningly attractive translator, who then steals his car and abandons him after a deadly mountain car chase. But someone else survived the massacre-someone who holds the answers to a deadly conspiracy.
Catapulted into a life and death struggle, Tommy must employ all his savvy and skill just to stay alive. But to find out who is hunting him and why, he’ll need the help of retired Admiral Jake Grafton. Now they must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day…

A CIA operative who sometimes breaks the law for himself, a plot to kill a KGB defector and a presidential race.

The first Stephen Coonts book ‘starring’ Tommy Carmellini, written in the first person, is a fast paced novel with wit, style and action packed with things that go boom! Jake Grafton makes an appearance.

Very good book!

Ho hum. Looked very pretty but missed having a plot. A movie over two hours long that tied up loose ends. R2D2 can suddenly fly although he loses this ability before Star Wars 4. And as for the “funny” robots that talk a lot….. why?? Lightsaber battle was more flash than anything else, hard to see what was happening…….. not the best movie ever, not the best star wars movie ever, come to think of it, not even the best of the recent 3 star wars movies….

From the Publisher
Harlan Coben, author of the coast-to-coast bestseller No Second Chance, delivers an emotionally powerful thrill-ride of a novel that asks the question: How far would you go to protect your family?

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can’t identify. But there is one face she recognizes—that of her husband, from before she knew him.

When her husband sees the photo that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She doesn’t know where he’s going, or why he’s leaving. Or if he’s ever coming back. Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. Because there are others interested in both her husband’s past and that photo, including Eric Wu: a fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.

Her world turned upside-down, filled with doubts about her herself and marriage, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past she struggles to learn the truth, find her husband, and save her family.

A woman finds an out of place picture in a set of freshly printed family snaps and her world turns on it’s head!

Lots of twists, fast paced, and thrilling. A real page turner!