Egypt in World War 2, the Axis powers are closing in on Cairo and a desperate hunt is on for a Nazi spy, giving Rommel all the allies plans. The Major looking for the spy resorts to using a woman to entrap the spy but the woman changes things for him.
A good wartime story with great characters. While the action takes place over a small amount of time, a lot goes on, and yet the reader doesn’t feel rushed and as if they are missing anything. The characters, for the main part believable, draw in the reader, especially the female lead.
While shorter than most of his books, Ken Follett creates a book similar in pace and fashion to Alistair MacLean albeit more raunchy, violent and frank. Perhaps not his best but not a bad book by any means.
Jack Reacher is sitting in a bar in the Florida Keys when a private investigator comes looking for him. Reacher is drawn to New York where a person from his past gives him a reason to followup the work an old friend had started.
The third book featuring Jack Reacher, Tripwire is a violent, sometimes grusome story where things are not what they seem and yet Reacher always appears to be. Reacher is a character that is complex almost because he seems to have a very simple thought process. He doesn’t panic, he doesn’t run around, he doesn’t do anything that he doesn’t need to do and yet he is ruthlessly efficient when needbe and clever all the time. Reacher is such an interesting character although he himself doesn’t appear to think so.
The plot is a good one although the twist becomes obvious long before Reacher works it out and after that you are just waiting for the shoe to drop rather than wondering what else might happen.
A good book, one that keeps the readers attention but not that original.
A county prosecutor is involved in a rape case but it triggers a dirty deeds campaign against him that questions not only his past but what happened many years ago when his sister, along with three others, were brutally murdered by a serial killer at a summer camp where he was a counseller.
Harlan Coben has a way of drawing in the reader that few other authors seem to possess. It almost feels as if the reader turns over the pages quickly as their heart rate increases. For once, a stand alone book by Coben contains the sharp humour of the Myron Bolitar books. It helps make the characters more human. It also makes them seem more honest with their opinions.
I did find the ending weaker than I was hoping for but not by much. This is a book the defies you to put it down during the last 100 pages as the action and tension increases page by page. If you do put it down, you keep thinking about it as you do other things but its still there.
Harlan Coben is one of the finest thriller writers around today and has written many amazing thrillers and The Woods is a great addition to his bibliography.
An earthquake may be coming, caused by the construction on Cascadia Island but only one man believes it. Can he make people believe him before its too late?
A departure from the standard aerial stories by John J Nance but one that still contains a fair bit of flight, albeit, rotary rather than fixed wing. In essance, the book is a disaster story with the plot intertwined around those caught up in the moment. The main characters are interesting in the most part, and believable without becoming boring. While the plot’s main twist is unexpected and slightly unbelievable, the book features a slow build up to allow the reader to get aquinted with the characters before throwing them into the deep end.
Perhaps not the strongest book I have read by John J Nance, but still a very enjoyable one!
