By Dan Brown (New York: Doubleday, 2017, 480 pages) Dan Brown continued his assault on religion and particularly on Christianity in a major way in ‘Origin.’ In fact the first half of the book is full of one attack after another on religion. Also according to first impressions, all of the bad characters seem to […]

by Joel C. Rosenberg (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,  2015, 448 pages) Another non-stop action adventure from Joel C. Rosenberg. This is the first installment in a new series that, as usual with this writer, seems to have been taken right off the pages of world news. This time Rosenberg writes a fictional story about ISIS […]

By Phillip Jose Farmer (New York: TOR:Tom Doherty Assoc.,LLC, 2010) The third installment of the original and the 2nd book in the TOR reprint of the Riverworld  series by Phillip Jose Farmer. The main characters in this one build a couple of airships and a helicopter to make their way to the Tower at the […]

By Daniel Silva (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2010, 484 pages)   The Latest Gabriel Allon novel by Silva. Gabriel and his wife Chiara have retired from the spy business and moved to England to begin a quite life as an art restorer. Meanwhile an old acquaintance is murdered and in the process a priceless […]

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 […]