Welshrogue

My wife likes to pretend she is a nurse.

Now if she did want to dress up all nursey like and administer a bed bath or something as pleasurable then I obviously wouldn’t be complaining but sadly, thats not what I mean.

My wife looks after me when I am ill. Having had some sort of gastro explosion this week and having spent most of a night sat on the toilet puking and wondering how can stuff come out of both ends at once, my wife let me sleep in, something I never do, and then bought all sorts of medicines and supplies to keep me alive until I had my strength back, or at least until the room stopped spinning and my stomach stopped grumbling.

She does this without complaint, which I am afraid is more than I would do. You see, although it may be a surprise to you, I can be a bit of a bastard!

Now I just have to find a nurses uniform for my wife to wear when she is wiping my brow….

Kevin, under appreciated and unassuming, works at a bank, run by a loud mouthed, incompetent bank manager. But Kevin has had enough, he is going to rob his own bank.

Written for World Book Day, The Grey Man is a 99 page book. As such, it quickly setup the main characters, plot and locations. That being said, for an author such as McNab who is more often found writing about his characters hiding in the mud as bullets fly over their heads, The Grey Man is a great, quick read about the kid at school you don’t remember. The one that you see in school pictures and don’t even bother to wonder what his name was. The main character of Kevin is so different to anyone else that McNab has written about and yet seems to capture him so perfectly.

This is a good book, not hard to read by any standards but yet in the half hour or so it took to read it, fulfilling. A very simple plot is made all the more enjoyable with good characters.

While taking it easy in Australia, Nick Stone sees a tv report of a massacre in Georgia which causes him to accompany a friend into the dangerous streets of that country.

While other authors write about subject that they have researched and read about, Andy McNab writes about what he knows. He doesn’t avoid the details, and it is in the details that an Andy McNab book truly excels. His writing style is ultra-realistic and very addictive as you are drawn into one dangerous situation after another. His main character, Nick Stone, screws up, makes mistakes, and yet keeps going. He isn’t a member of MENSA, but he tries to get the job done and can handle nearly all sitatuions.

Aggressor is another great McNab book. With a fast moving plot that, like many Alistair MacLean books, doesn’t let the reader worry about the last paragraph before giving the reader something else to think about.

Another brilliant book. If you like military, or just action books, Aggressor is a great book!

A quadriplegic criminalist teams up with a street cop to track down a killer who is creating horrific murders. Each murder is more bizzare than the last and more gruesome, as the pair work each scene looking for clues that might identify the killer.

Based on the book of the same name by Jeffery Deaver, The Bone Collector is a different take on the usual ‘hunt the murderer’ movie. While it is gruesome and at times, disturbing, it also gives the viewer a different take on the forensic work other than the CSI take.

The Bone Collector stars Denzil Washington as Lincoln Rhymes and Angelina Jolie as Amelia Donaghy (changed from Sachs in the book). Washington is excellent as the brilliant yet sarcastic and grumpy bed ridden Rhymes, so much so that with every book I read, it is his face that I see, rather than the original written description.

The Bone Collector is a good movie but perhaps a little too gruesome for some.