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Finally, the backstory for one of our favorite characters, Assad! Since he found the basement over ten years ago, we have little information about his life before Department Q. And although he's confounded Carl in the past with his esoteric knowledge of the Middle East and shadowy references to military skills, we never get a... Continue Reading →
Without Sanction is a thrill ride with intense action in the Middle East and political maneuvering in the Oval Office. A team of CIA opperatives infiltrates a base in Syria only to find evidence of WMDs. Three of the four soldiers are killed and the fourth is taken prisoner. Cabinet infighting and the return of... Continue Reading →
Cassandra Cain has been raised for one purpose: to be an assassin. Bred to carry the mantle for her father, she lacks even the basic ways of communicating but can kill a person a thousand different ways. Her life changes when one of her targets desperately utters one of the few words she knows, "daughter."... Continue Reading →
Europe in the late 21st century is shadow of its former self. Climate change has destroyed industry and immigrants are flooding the few remaining places where people have been able to survive. Caleb is a 12-yr-old boy who has been enslaved in a community near Manchester. He is newly promoted to head of designed for... Continue Reading →
There's anger.... and there's thrown-into-the-Pit-by-the-enemy-to-dig-maze-like-tunnels-til-infinity hatred. That's Eskara. She's a young sorceress whose side has lost the war. Her Sources (magic made solid) have been removed from her body, but she still knows things. And every week she is pulled into a room, enticed by fresh food and clean clothes... but she doesn't relent. It's... Continue Reading →
I don't know if I've ever seen a cover that so perfectly encapsulates what a book brings... so that's how I'm going to organize this review: Dutch McGuire: the expert driver and all around bad ass. She is broken out of prison only to be coerced into competing in the Run, a Mad Max-style race... Continue Reading →
One may find dates and short descriptions in a text book, or you could sit through a lecture to get a bit more personality, or even watch a documentary to see some moving pictures... but you wouldn't get the depth and insight that you do in an Erik Larson book. In The Splendid and the... Continue Reading →
This memoir follows Tracy Wilder's life as she is recruited out of her USC sorority house into the CIA. She joins the service just before 9/11 and goes into counterintelligence where one of her jobs is to analyze satellite pictures of terrorist encampments looking for evidence of Bin Laden and other key leaders. Tracy is... Continue Reading →
Hits all the right notes, all the inside jokes, all the nostalgia of the 1990s. I was gripped by The Rome of Fall for a quick day and a half. Told in two threads, thirty years apart, in the life of Marcus Brinks, high school senior/ washed up rock star... 1994: Marcus is forced to... Continue Reading →
