Divine Justice – David Baldacci We pinched this from From Booklist *Starred Review* Readers who have been holding their breath since the end of Stone Cold (2007), the previous Camel Club novel, can inhale: Oliver Stone did survive his plunge into the water. For the uninitiated, Baldacci’s Oliver Stone isn’t the noted film director; he’s [...]

Those in Peril – Wilbur Smith Amazon.co.uk Widgets As its not available untill March 31 2011 there is not much to say beyond what Amazon has here. I for one have pre ordered at £9.99. I’m a sucker for Wilbur Smith. Product Description Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of [...]

The Gladiator – Simon Scarrow Amazon.co.uk Widgets Product Description The action-packed new novel featuring Roman army officers Macro and Cato from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow. While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely [...]

Amazon.co.uk WidgetsThe Legion: A great milestone in the current series, it being the 10th of an excellent highly addictive and action packed series. Carrying on from where Gladiator left off, with our heroes tasked with tracking down the vicious ex-Slave and one time Gladiator Ajax. Newly arrived from his adventures in Crete, having failed to [...]

Alain Burrese asked: “Die Trying” by Lee Child is his second Jack Reacher novel, and it’s a fast paced, tough, entertaining story of the capable hero who just happens to be at the wrong place at the right time. Or maybe he was in the right place at the right time to become entangled in [...]

Alain Burrese asked: “One Shot” by Lee Child is the first of his Jack Reacher novels I’ve read and it definitely won’t be the last. In fact, I finished “One Shot” yesterday and went out and found “The Hard Way” and started reading it this morning. I plan on picking up the earlier books of [...]

Elizabeth Lindsey asked: Lee Child (pseudonym for Jim Grant) was born in 1954 in Coventry, England. When Lee was four years old, his parents moved the family to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham. He says that he was a tough guy in a tough neighborhood, growing large at a young age.Although Lee Child didn’t get the [...]

I was a little surprised when I started reading the book that it was in first person, since the two others I read were not. I was also surprised to see Jack Reacher looking at his watch for the time. In “The Hard Way,” he always knew what time it was with his internal clock that he really couldn’t explain. The story being told in first person was still very well done and I enjoyed it. The bit about the watch was no big deal, just something I noticed and thought “hmmm” to myself

lillie!! asked: in the last harry potter book, the deathly hallows, does harry or voldemrt die? i know one of them does… Related Reading: Year’s Best SF 17 (Year’s Best SF (Science Fiction)) Little Book of Growing Up Smallworld: A Science Fiction Adventure Comedy Daughter of Joy (Brides of Culdee Creek, Book 1): Brides of [...]

This book is a prime example of an author delving deeply into the history books to create a world full of accurate details and realistic settings but forgetting that his main job is telling an engaging story… It all seemed to flit from one place to another without any real characterisation, while the end was [...]