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 [...]

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 based [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 to [...]

By James Patterson ( New York: Little,Brown and Co-Hachette Book Group, 2008, 406 pages)
The latest offering in the Detective Alex Cross series. This story begins with the incredible slaughter and dismemberment of a family in Washington DC by a teenage Nigerian gang. Cross follows the evidence all the way to Nigeria and then on to [...]

By James Luceno (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008, 317 pages)

The story follows the Millennium Falcon from the moment it was born (manufactured) at Corellian Engineering Corp. Assembly Facility 7. Then traces the history and different owners of the Falcon up to when Han Solo ‘won’ it from Lando.
Years later, Han and Leia go on a [...]

By Khaled Hosseini (New York: Riverhead Books, Penguin Group, 2007, 372 pages)
A Novel by the author of The Kite Runner.
The story of two women, Mariam and Laila. Mariam is 5 years of age in Afghanistan, 1964. She looked forward to the visits by her father Jahil until she is old enough to understand [...]

By Daniel Silva (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, Penguin Group,2008, 433 pages)
The latest Gabriel Allon novel, who is an art restorer by passion and cover, and an Israeli spy par excellence.
This story takes Allon to Moscow running down a lead that identifies a prominent Russian industrialist as a weapons dealer completing a potential major [...]