Struggling screen writer Marvin Waller is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Sarah Hall. NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko are convinced he's harboring a secret. Is anything in this tale what it seems?I recently stated that Good Reads is responsible for introducing me to interesting new ...
Inspector Inspector. You love fiction way too much. I loved the fact that this book is filled with literary references. The setting is duly foreign and the murder a real mystery. My one complaint is that the story was a short but I can see why if this were a longer novella or such it would lose...
I'm now working my way through Stephen Leather's series featuring undercover cop and former SAS team member Dan Shepherd, and this is the second (there are eight in all so far, I believe). In this one, he takes on two personas as he tries to juggle assignments to ferret out suspected "dirty" cops...
As I work my way through all of Stephen Leather's Dan "Spider" Shepherd series, it's always a pleasure to know I won't be disappointed (I'd have given this one 4-1/2 stars had it been possible). In this one, the fourth, Shepherd has started his new job under a new supervisor he hasn't yet learned...
In Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Minh was a Vietnemase killer but heswitched sides and went with the US and he became a ruthlesshunter of his former comrades. At the end of the war the North was overtaking the South and Nguyen had to get out with hisfamily. He made it to the American Embassy with passes t...
This is a great continuation in a great series that just keeps on going and going, entertaining and petrifying its audiences as it goes. This book really asks some hard questions of the reader as it focuses on terrorists and what we are willing to do about it. Are we willing to torture them for i...
I read Fair Game and I read Rough Justice and found them both to be very average of this genre. I did finish both books but thought they were both very easy to put down and without looking at the synopses I can't remember a thing about either one. And that's ok because I don't read this type of b...
Quote from author: ""One thing I have never been able to understand is why an organisation like the National Black Police Association is allowed to exist. It is by its very nature racist - hoping to promote the interests of a group solely on the basis of the colour of its members. A police office...