Archive for the 'Fiction:' Category
Friday, July 16th, 2010
By Christie Golden (New York: Ballantine Books, Lucasfilm LTD, 2010, 359 pages) The latest offering in the ‘Fate of the Jedi’ series. Grand Master Luke Skywalker is still banished and he and his son Ben continue their quest to discover what has been causing young Jedi to flip out and become crazy. They have discovered [...]
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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
*NOW IN PAPERBACK By Brad Thor (New York: Pocket Books-Simon & Shuster, 2009, 516 pages) Brad Thor’s latest ‘Scot Harvath’ action adventure. This time it takes place in Afghanistan. It begins with the kidnapping of a American Doctor on a relief mission by the Taliban. They are demanding the release of one of their major [...]
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Action/Spy, Fiction:, Thriller
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Monday, May 31st, 2010
By Phillip Jose Farmer (New York: Tom Doherty Assoc.,LLC, 2010, 443 pages, including two books: “To Your Scattered Bodies Go” and “The Fabulous Riverboat”) The first half of the book follows Sir Richard Francis Burton who along with everyone who ever lived from early Neanderthals up to 2200 AD were resurrected at the same time [...]
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Book Review, Religious Content, Sci-Fi
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010
By Robert Ferrigno (New York: Scribner: Simon & Schuster, 2009, 356 pages) A non-stop action/adventure stand alone novel. The third and final book in the ‘Assassin’ series-previous: “Prayers For The Assassin” and “Sins of The Assassin” The year is 2045. The former United States is split in two major nations including The Islamic Republic based [...]
Filed under: Action/Adventure, Book Review, Fiction:, Islam
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
By Dan Brown (New York: Doubleday, 2009, 509 pages) Another fast paced Robert Langdon novel by Dan Brown. This time the focus is on Washington DC and Freemasonry. Professor Langdon produces under pressure and threat once more to solve every clue and symbol put before him. The life of a close friend, Peter Solomon, is [...]
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
By Michael Crichton (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009, 312 pages) The last novel of Michael Crichton published posthumously. I received the book as a Christmas gift and couldn’t put it down until the last page. Typical of any Crichton book, a lot of research must have gone into the work. The story is real and [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
By Vince Flynn (New York: Atria Books, 2009, 431 pages) A brilliant continuation of the story line that started in the previous book of this series: Extreme Measures. The story left of with al Qaeda terrorists devastating Washington DC with a series of explosions and then directly attacking the Counterterrorism Center itself killing 185 people. [...]
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
By Brad Thor (New York: Pocket Books (Simon & Shuster), 2008, 480 pages) Scot Harvath was in Paris with his girl friend Tracy Hastings recovering from his last assignment. Scot, a Navy SEAL who was assigned to the President’s Secret Service detail had been released by the President to seek and destroy terrorists wherever he [...]
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
By Eric Flint (Riverdale, NY: Baen Publishing, 2000, 597 pages) 1632 actually begins in the year 2000 with a wedding in a small town mining in West Virginia—Grantville. Through an inexplicable event referred to later as the ‘ring of fire’, Grantville and the entire valley was transported to the middle of Germany and the year [...]
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Sunday, May 17th, 2009
By Aaron Allston (New York: Random House Pub., 2009, 318 pages) “Outcast” is the first book in the new Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi series. The war is over, Jacen Solo is dead and gone, and the Galactic Alliance is expanding under leadership of Natasi Daala. In a move to consolidate her power and [...]
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