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Killing Floor

December 19, 2008 in Detective, Thriller, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: Lee Child

Genre: Thriller, Detective Fiction

Rating: ***** (5 Stars)

Summary:


Jack Reacher is a former military policeman who lost his job to military downsizing.  He is living off his severance package and drifting from place to place without much of a plan.  On a whim, he gets of a Greyhound bus and walks into the small town of Margrave, Georgia, where he is falsely arrested for murder.

Reacher is interrogated by the town’s only detective, a man named Finlay who formerly worked in Boston.  Reacher convinces Finlay of his innocence, and because of his military police background, ends up helping the police department with the case.  He learns, to his horror, that the murdered man is his own brother, Joe, who was working for the Treasury Department investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters.

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The Broker

February 20, 2008 in Suspense, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: John Grisham

Genre: Suspense

Subject: Espionage and Intrigue

Rating: **** (4 Stars)

Summary:


Joel Backman is a notorious former lobbyist, now in prison for crimes that are not fully revealed until much later in the book. Whatever he did has caused Russia, China, Israel, and Saudi Arabia to want him dead. Backman is unexpectedly pardoned after the CIA director visits an outgoing president and exerts tremendous pressure (and a few million dollars). The CIA’s plan is to hide Backman in another country, get him comfortable, then leak his location to the Russians, Chinese, Saudis, and Israelis. The idea is to find out which of the four will kill Backman, which will answer a host of questions Backman did not answer before going to prison.

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Red Dragon

February 17, 2008 in Thriller, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: Thomas Harris

Genre: Thriller

Subject: Serial Killer

Rating: ***** (5 Stars)

Summary:


Red Dragon is one of four novels (that I am aware of) featuring Hannibal Lecter. In two of them, Red Dragon and The Silence Of The Lambs, Lecter is a relatively minor character. Already in a hospital for the criminally insane, Lecter, a highly perceptive psychologist, is called upon to help interpret clues in a series of bizarre serial murders.

In Red Dragon, Will Graham is a former special investigator for the FBI. He retired after sustaining severe psychological and physical wounds during the capture of Hannibal Lecter. Graham is persuaded to come out of retirement by Jack Crawford, an FBI agent who is leading the investigation into the bizarre but similar murders of two families in two different cities a month apart. After a few days of fruitlessly looking for a common thread that could lead back to the killer, Graham turns to his old nemesis, Hannibal Lecter, for advice.

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The Ambler Warning

February 10, 2008 in Thriller, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: Robert Ludlum

Genre: Thriller

Subject: Espionage

Rating: *****(5 Stars)

Summary:


Hal Ambler is a patient in a mental hospital for former spies run by the US government. He is not insane, but believes he has been put there as part of a conspiracy. With the help of Laurel Holland, a sympathetic nurse, he escapes and begins trying to find out who locked him up and why. He discovers that his friends do not remember him, and that any record of his government employment has been erased.

As Ambler visits places where he used to live and work, he finds himself dodging “recovery teams” sent to retrieve him. At the same time, he begins to remember long-forgotten bits of his past, including the assassinations he participated in.

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Paranoia

December 31, 2007 in Crime, Mystery, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: Joseph Finder

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Subject: Corporate Espionage, Blackmail

Rating: **** (4 Stars)

Summary:


Adam Cassidy is a slacker. He prides himself on doing as little work as possible, and it shows in his performance reviews. He has not had a raise or promotion since he started work at Wyatt Telecom, a high-tech company. The only reason he is working a white-collar job instead of tending bar is that he is helping out with his dying father’s medical expenses. The older Cassidy has end-stage emphysema, and is so grouchy and unpleasant to be around, that his live-in caregivers keep quitting. It falls to Adam to find a replacement each time, despite the fact that nursing agencies won’t give him the time of day anymore, and only convicted felons will answer the want ad.

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Thinner

December 12, 2007 in Fiction, Horror, Uncategorized by admin | No comments

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Author: Stephen King (Writing as Richard Bachman)

Genre: Horror

Rating: *** (3 Stars)

Summary:


Billy Halleck is a successful lawyer, husband, and father. He is also dangerously overweight. One day, driving with and distracted by his wife, he runs over and kills a jaywalking gypsy woman. He is tried and acquitted of any wrongdoing, but as he leaves the courthouse, the woman’s father approaches, lightly strokes Billy’s cheek, and whispers, “Thinner.”

Although Billy’s eating habits don’t change, he begins to lose weight, passing his ideal weight and continuing downward. Concerned, he visits his doctor, who, after a series of tests, assures him that nothing is wrong. The weight loss continues, and Billy, who by this time has become desperate, sends a private investigator to find out where the band of gypsies has moved on to. At the same time, he learns that the police officer who responded to his accident, as well as the judge in the case, have each developed mysterious afflictions of their own.

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