A Army criminal investigator is called in to investigate an apparent rape and murder. It becomes more complicated when it is discovered that the victim is the daughter of a high placed general who is looking to go into politics.
Based on the excellent book of the same by Nelson DeMille, The Generals Daughter is a [...]
June 29, 2008
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December 14, 2007
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Mysterious earthquakes are destroying oil facilities around the world as Dirk Pitt gets involved in the kidnapping of an oil exploration team.
I remember a time when a Clive Cussler book was unputdownable, exciting, and always enjoyable. Those times have moved on and instead what you have is a slow, average sort of a tale. Yes [...]
November 20, 2007
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Everyones favourite wiseass ex cop and now Anti Terrorist task force member, John Corey is back and this time trying to avoid the US being bombed by fellow Americans.
DeMille’s previous book, Night Fall, had one of the most breathtaking endings I have ever read in a book. It truly was amazing and shocking and one [...]
November 7, 2007
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As Russia looks to invade the middle east, the ultimate weapon for the opposing American forces isn’t on the battlefield, it orbits many miles high above it. A space station with a powerful radar, but is it enough to stop Russia winning the war?
With the grand scope of the action, the book feels more like [...]
November 1, 2007
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An expert on Russian History is attending a conference in Moscow when he hears rumors of a document linked to Stalin. As he delves deeper into the story, he is unprepared for the discovery that lies at the end of the trail.
Archangel is a very Russian tale, with the surroundings of the country merging with [...]
October 24, 2007
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The Hollywood Division goes about its everyday work while investigating a violent jewelry robbery, watched over by the sergeant everyone refers to as the Oracle.
This is an amazing book, one filled with anecdotes of police life and stories of life on the line which are layered around a crazy plot about jewelry robbery that goes [...]
October 15, 2007
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When a underwater volcano begins to grow under the Antarctic, millions of lives are threatened as the Ross Ice Shelf is broken free and begins to move into warmer waters. If the natural threat was not enough, Russia looks to use the broken off shelf as a way to get America to surrender.
Not only do [...]
October 9, 2007
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On a Russian factory boat, up in the cold of the Bering Sea, working on a line, gutting fish, is Arkady Renko. Formerly an Investigator in Moscow, he now hides far from his enemies reach, unknown, undiscovered, unimportant. Until that is, one of the women workers is found caught up in a fishing net from [...]
September 28, 2007
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Jack Reacher is in the wrong place at the wrong time when a woman is kidnapped. Taken along, he discovers who the woman is, and may have found out why she has been kidnapped. Now he has to save her.
A well paced plot that keeps the action ticking, Die Trying is the second book featuring [...]
September 26, 2007
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