Jackl Reacher Killing Floor Lee Chid So, I made it two weeks and four books since my last Jack Reacher book, but the promise of five hours on a plane pulled this off of the shelf. This is actually the first appearance of Jack (even if a latter novel went back […]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by toddg
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John Connolly The Reapers This is a hard novel to classify and describe, but an easy story to follow and enjoy. Louis and Angel are hired killers, handled by men that act as agents and used as simple tools of destruction. A fellow reaper ends up dead in a bar bathroom, […]
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Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by toddg
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Jack Reacher Lee Child Without Fail I didn’t actually read this book, so I can’t count it towards my 2008 quota, BUT having found myself facing nine hours on the road today, I picked up this Reacher book-on-CD to keep me awake. I was so entertained that I drove four hours […]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by toddg
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House of Wolves Matt Bronleewe This is the author’s second novel featuring August Adams, a rare bookseller, and this time August receives a surprise package from his estranged father which contains a copy (or is it) of the Gospels of Henry the Lion. Of course, there must be an evil group searching for […]
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by toddg
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Heather Graham The Death Dealer Novels are difficult to write - I know, I’ve tried - and as a result I will usually give an author the benefit of the doubt. This was not a good book, and I had to force myself to the end, hoping all the while that something would […]
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Posted on August 10th, 2008 by toddg
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Bad Luck and Trouble Jack Reacher Lee Child I stayed up past 1am on a Wednesday to get through the final pages, simply because I couldn’t wait to find out how the story would turn out! Jack Reacher is a past-CO of an Army investigations unit, and his old colleagues are […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2008 by toddg
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Shadow of Power Steve Martini Foremost, I loved this book! Although I have collected this author for years as a keystone writer of legal fiction, until this book I hadn’t found the dust jacket copy that made me pick one off of my shelf. The plot here starts with the murder a […]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by toddg
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Einstein Final Theory Mark Alpert Unified Field Theory This book has an interesting premise that applies the Da Vinci formula, but instead of a religious quest, this story has a science historian chasing the Einheitliche Feldtheorie, Einstein’s unified field theory, the calculations that attach all things. When Einstein’s past students […]
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Posted on July 6th, 2008 by toddg
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James Rollins Sigma Force The Last Oracle The Sigma Force is back! The Russians are using augmented autistic children, descendants of the Romani Gypsies and the original Oracle, to forecast the future and otherwise being Russia back to its role as a superpower. As with all of Rollins’ books, this […]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by toddg
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Jack Reacher Lee Child Nothing to Lose This was my first novel with this author, and so my first experience with the character Jack Reacher. This is the latest in the series, the 12th book, so I’ve missed quite a bit of back story but this book reads well on its oown […]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by toddg
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