Book Review - The Grey Man - Andy McNab

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 [...]

Book Review - Aggressor - Andy McNab

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, [...]

Book Review - The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer

The evil Opal Koboi escapes from where is was being held in a coma and executes a plot that will give her revenge on those who helped have her captured in the first place, Holly Short, Julias Root and Artemis Fowl.
The fourth in the Artemis Fowl series is the best so far,  filled with action, [...]

Book Review - The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl

Boston, 1865, a group of poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell, along with their publisher, J.T. Fields find that the book they are attempting to translate, Dantes Inferno, is the inspiration for a killer who is stalking the streets and murdering his victims in ways mentioned in the book.
Think of [...]

Book Review - Where’s My Cow - Terry Pratchett

Where’s My Cow is a picture book for children featuring Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch and his young son, Sam Jr. Set in the real world of Ankh-Morpork, the senior Vimes reads the book to his son every day at six O’Clock.
This is a beautifully illustrated book. It truly looks wonderful, bringing to [...]

Book Review - Thud! - Terry Pratchett

Racial tension between Dwarfs and Trolls threatens to overflow into full fledged war and Commander Sam Vimes is the only man standing between them. Vimes must battle not only two species but a mysterious darkness. Oh and he must read to his son every night.
Terry Pratchett’s books have matured over the years, moving from [...]

Book Review - The Vets - Stephen Leather

Set in Hong Kong, a group of Vietnam War veterans are put together to pull of a daring robbery under the leadership of a mysterious man.  The mastermind of this robbery sets his own plan in motion, with much more at stake than a few million dollars.
This is a fun plot, with twists, turns and [...]

Book Review - The Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer

When a business meeting goes wrong, Artemis Fowl’s trusty bodyguard, Butler, is mortally wounded and a computer that could revel the existence of the magical fairy’s is stolen.
Artemis Fowl’s third book is also the biggest challenge for the 13 year old criminal genius. He has to save his bodyguard’s like and recover the stolen computer [...]

Book Review - Larry Bond’s First Team - Larry Bond & Jim DeFelice

A special team put together from the CIA, Special Forces and the Marines search for stolen radioactive material that they fear will be used against the United States in a terrorist attack.
First Team started slowly but picked up the pace towards the climax. The danger with a story dealing with such a subject as radioactive [...]

Book Review - Kill all the lawyers - Paul Levine

Steve Solomon wakes up to a 300 lb marlin sticking in his door. A freshly released shrink with whom Solomon has a somewhat murky legal history with is calling him name on the radio and his girlfriend and legal partner Victoria Lord is having doubts about their desicion to move in together.
The third book in [...]