Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they
meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the
crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood
struggle for independence.
Underworld is a story of men
and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in
stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching
conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of
these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful
work of fiction.
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This, the first Wexford novel and Rendell's debut in the world of the
published writer, is a remarkable crime novel, for several reasons.
Firstly, and most importantly of course, it is an excellent mystery; a
brilliant puzzle, worthy of Agatha Christie. The investigation twists
and turns down unexpected paths, and the diligent Inspector Wexford
follows each clue faithfully, until the entirely satisfying and
surprising solution. However, unlike Christie, Rendell's mystery is
more rounded. It is more socially conscious (although that's not at al
to say that some of Christie's weren't; she was excellent at the divide
between the upper- and lower-classes), the characters are more real,
more developed, more human and thus more interesting. The writing is
also better; more compelling, with greater clarity; precision.
The Devil's Alternative
is a novel by Frederick Forsyth first published in 1979. It was his fourth full-length fictional novel and marked a new direction in his work, setting the story several years in the future rather than in the recent past.
The villain is a middle-class small businessman who decides to
assassinate the President of the United States. He spends his life
savings to carry out the theft of an army shipment of the two precursor
chemicals that form a deadly nerve agent.
The nerve agent VX was intended to be detonated in Downtown San
Diego, corresponding with the arrival of the President to attend a
Republican party conference taking place there.
The Nerve Agent was contained inside two alacran (a combustible
plastic) tanks, and plastic explosive was placed in between, so that
when the explosion occurred, the two binary gases would form VX.
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Cell: A Novel by Stephen King
In Cell King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution. (amazon.com).