The Enemy by Lee Child was a terrific police detective novel. The central character is an Army Military Police Major named Jack Reacher based in North Carolina. On New Year’s Eve 1989/90, he receives a call that a two star general has died in a seedy motel located near the post. The subsequent investigation...
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The First Law by John Lescroart was a very good thriller. It features San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky who are the primary characters in all the John Lescroart novels I have read so far. This novel was slightly different as there was no primary legal proceeding that the...
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“The Hearing” by John Lescroat is a good legal thriller on par with his other novels. The center characters are Dismas Hardy, a defense attorney, and Abe Glitsky, a homicide lieutenant, who are close friends in San Francisco. The plot revolves around a heroin addict, Cole Burgess, who is found holding the gun and...
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I finished The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown last night. It was a good a thriller on par with The Da Vinci Code. Mr. Brown was able to replicate the frantic quest to translate mystic clues that was found in The Da Vinci Code. The novel starts out with a hokey “Fact” page that...
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I finished John Lescroart’s “The Second Chair” last night. I am not sure if I have read anything by Mr. Lescroart before, but will certainly put him on my ‘to read’ list. The Second Chair is about a young associate, Amy Wu, in a law firm who finds her self involved in a major...
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Found Silent Partner by Stephen Frey on my bookshelf a couple of days ago. I think my Dad gave it to me last year after he read it. Read it in less than a day as it was an enjoyable thriller and wasn’t in the mood to do anything constructive. The story is about Angela Day who...
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The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst was a good historical spy novel. I found out about the book from a New York Times travel section article. Since I regularly travel through Warsaw, I was interested to learn more about the city. While the novel mentioned places and streets in Warsaw it didn’t paint...
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Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child is the ninth Pendergast novel. It came out in May 2009. It was an interesting read, but I don’t think as good as past novels. The story revolves around a cult that has been squatting in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan. Bill Smithback, who has been featured...
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Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child was a good fast adventure thriller. It only took me a couple of nights to read. The plot was very similar to Relic, Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston’s most famous book/movie. The story revolves around a group of scientists researching global warming at a mothballed USAF radar station in...
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I finished Utopia by Lincoln Child last night. It is a solid adventure thriller that had plot similarities to the original Die Hard movie. The basic plot is that Utopia, a cutting edge amusement park near Las Vegas is having troubles with its master robotic controller network. The designer of the “Metanet,” Andrew Warne...
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