Tom Butler looses his job as a CIA analyst and pursues the answers anyway. These answers almost get him killed multiple times. The president is a good guy and tries to come up with answers that Tom already has but can't seem to get together with Tom. This book is one of the best written and most exciting books I have ever read. As I said this book is heart stopping and becomes so unbelievably suspenseful with twists that are just so smooth you don't see them coming but you just slide along with them. I would recommend reading this book just to read one of the most well written books you will ever hope to read. Mr. Murray McDonald, I thank you for a superb read.
An infamous love, destined nevermore, For death could not claim, the enchanting Lenore. Cursed by the malevolent spirit of the Headless Horseman, Ireland Crane ventures to Manhattan in search of a way to break her soul crushing bond. Instead, she discovers the lines between fact and fiction are blurring once more. Croaking ravens. Telltale hearts. Could the works of Poe be coming to pass with handsome Wall Street Midas Ridley Peolte as their unwilling target? She walks the Earth, a plague on mankind, searching for he, her rotted heart doth pine.
The breakout novel "Sanctus" by Simon Toyne has all the qualities of a good story; it has characters that cause things to happen and react to what has happened. It has action and suspense from the first chapter to the last. The novel has an intriguing premise; an ancient holy relic lies hidden in a Citadel built into the sides of a mountain in the city of Ruin in Turkey guarded by an order of monks. The monks in the stronghold are divided by levels of status distinguished by cassock colors. Only those in the highest order, the green cassocks of the Sacramental order know the secret of the ancient relic.
Santo can certainly craft her words and is well-thought out in her writing, but Three Story House never really captured me. I struggled night after night to care about the characters. I prefer to read a story chronologically rather than skipping around in time. It's just too confusing for me and it gets to the point that I don't want to read on long enough to figure out "OK - she's this old now, has what I just read previously already happened to her or not?" I want to be able to read for relaxation and enjoyment and not have to think too much about what I'm reading.
Greenlaw (The Hungry Ocean), known to readers of The Perfect Storm as the captain of the sister ship to the ill-fated Andrea Gail, gave up swordfishing to return to her parents' home on Isle Au Haut off the coast of Maine and fish for lobster. Her plainspoken essays paint a picture of a grueling life as she details maintaining her boat and her equipment, setting and hauling hundreds of traps with a crew of one (her father, a retired steel company executive), contending with the weather and surviving seasons when the lobsters don't bother to come around.
