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Bloom Review

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Bloom ReviewI enjoyed this book, some very exciting moments for sure...This book will really make you stop and think about genetically engineered foods and how this story really could be a reality and may just be! The author uses great detail to paint a picture in your mind as you read. The ending really got me...I didn't see it coming and chaper after chapter kept me guessing on how this story will end. Great book!Bloom Overview

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Wild Fire Review

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Wild Fire ReviewNelson DeMille's The Lion's Game is one of the best thrillers ever written, but Wild Fire lags far behind. If you are a DeMille fan, this may be exactly the thing you like, but it put me to sleep. First, there is no plot. From the book's dust jacket and early pages, you know that a wealthy oil man wants to wipe out the people of the Middle East by exploding black-market, nuclear bombs in two American cities, triggering a massive nuclear response onto the Middle East from the United States (Project Wild Fire). We know that it won't happen, so we already know that someone will stop it. Second, the book has endless conversation that drags on forever. Third, we again have Detective John Corey and FBI Agent Kate Mayfield investigating the case, but this is not the capable John Corey that we saw in The Lion's Game. This John Corey is a wisecracking buffoon, and an entire book of his one-liners becomes really tiresome. The story's end is exciting and ties up loose ends nicely. This is the first time that I did not like a DeMille book, but I suspect that his next will create the usual excitement.Wild Fire Overview

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Bloody Mexico: a novel of Cartel Wars Review

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Bloody Mexico: a novel of Cartel Wars ReviewYou really get the feeling that Larry has, "been there, done that" when you read this book. He is great at describing the action using a pointed vocabulary without giving you the vibe of someone who is trying too hard.
There is a bit of an overload of characters in the front; however, once introduced, you get to know them familiarly. The Gary and Track duo only let you peel back the onion one layer at a time, allowing the reader to fantasize about their history as the story progresses.
The bad guys are, as we all like them, intelligent, unpredictable and sociopathic.
As I understand it, this is one of Larry's first forays into the world of novels; you would never know it. I truly look forward to watching his writing style develop along side his proven ability to create strong plot lines and interesting characters.Bloody Mexico: a novel of Cartel Wars OverviewIn dystopian México, the absence of a just and moral government has led to a vacuum where evil runs virtually unchecked. Society festers where an underground empire rules a land in self-destruct mode. Rampant corruption at all levels thrives in an environment where many compromise their principles and their virtue for narco-money.

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Unfinished Business: A Novel Review

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Unfinished Business: A Novel ReviewThe book started out at a high pace and that continued until the end. Every time I finished a chapter, I looked at the clock and thought if I can sneak in just one more. The character development was excellent and the historical perspective was a refreshing change from other suspense/espionage books which brush over such details. The book will easily translate into a major motion picture. Mr. Byrnes has a sense for suspense and that is great news for his fans who are eagerly awaiting the next installment.Unfinished Business: A Novel OverviewInvestment banker Peter Armstrong believes he's left his past. He has an exciting new job in London and is managing the largest equity offering in European history. Behind him are an incident at his old employer, and a broken engagement. He thinks his only problems are a difficult client and an overleveraged company - until he receives a phone call from his ex-fiancee, Dayna Caymus, a beautiful and unpredictable CIA agent.

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THE OPERATOR: FEAR NO EVIL Review

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THE OPERATOR: FEAR NO EVIL ReviewI just finished reading The Operator: Fear No Evil and I loved it. If you like stories of surgical military operations in which really bad guys get punished properly you'll enjoy this book. Derwin Bradley's style of writing will keep you on the edge of your seat. Wanting to stay with the action, I found myself cruising through his 371 page book in just a few days. The fact that the author has experience in the field in which he writes adds credibility to the tactics he depicts. The story is about a highly trained and highly skilled modern warrior who puts together an anti terrorist team to combat a racist terror network. I look forward to reading his next book in the series: The Operator: Die By The Sword. Brett Licciardello, Police Officer, Writer. Vengeance At Port RoyalTHE OPERATOR: FEAR NO EVIL Overview

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Holding Hands with Heroes Review

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Holding Hands with Heroes ReviewPut James Bond aside. Holding Hands with Heroes truly describes the essence of intelligence work and the foot soldiers on the frontlines that get it done. Jack Kassinger's book is a story of a family collectively serving our nation against a background of today's challenging world. From the first days in boot camp - a day that many of us remember - to the tragic days in Mogadishu Somalia, Jack's book is captivating and an outstanding read. The efforts are a family affair. Many thanks to Jack and his family for their service.Holding Hands with Heroes Overview

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The Shot Review

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The Shot ReviewAt this point, I have read all of Philip Kerr's in-print works with the exception of the Berlin Noir trilogy (which I have but have not yet read). "The Shot" ranks about average among those works; it's pretty good but doesn't have either the deepness of thought exhibited by "A Philosophical Investigation" or the sheer energetic violence of "The Grid."
The plot, such as can be described in a short review, has been adequately set forth in other reviews: essentially, the anti-hero, Tom Jefferson, is a former U.S. marine turned hitman who in 1960 accepts a contract from the Mob and the CIA to kill Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. That is, until he learns that President-elect Kennedy slept with his wife. All of a sudden, Jefferson is off to kill Kennedy, and the Mob is in the strange position of having to work to protect Kennedy, whom they helped to elect by rigging the election in exchange for calling off the government dogs.
The fact that we know that Kennedy wasn't assassinated in 1960 actually doesn't affect one's enjoyment of the book, because Kerr does a good job of moving the plot along, and because his (for the most part) meticulous research about events in 1960 creates a feeling of verisimilitude. [Someone should tell Kerr that it's the Second Amendment, not the First Amendment, that allegedly guarantees the right to bear arms.]
One gets the feeling that Kerr's spark for writing his novels is something along the lines of "What if . . ." So, we have: (1) What if we could identify a physical characteristic linked to serial killers ("A Philosophical Investigation"); (2) What if there was a building run by a psychopathic supercomputer ("The Grid"); (3) What if there was a supercontagious blood-borne virus for which there was a cure, but the rich purposefully rationed the cure ("The Second Angel"); (4) What if I [Philip Kerr] tried to write a novel like Elmore Leonard ("A Five-Year Plan"); and (5) What if I [Kerr] tried to write a novel like Michael Crichton ("Esau")?
Along those lines, "The Shot" seems to have been inspired by two separate lines of thought: What if I [Kerr] tried to write a novel about an anti-hero like Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley; and what if I [Kerr] tried to write a Kennedy conspiracy novel?
"The Shot" was compelling enough that I read the last 150 pages in a single sitting. But if you haven't read Kerr before, I would suggest starting with "A Philosophical Investigation" or "The Grid," depending on your sensibilities.The Shot Overview

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The Cobweb Review

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The Cobweb ReviewIn recent years, Stephenson's work has become increasingly complicated. The Baroque cycle is a study in intricate plots, characters that seem to number in the thousands, and difficult material that is not readily accessible to the average novel reader. The Cryptonomicon met that description as well, but to a lesser degree. While I enjoyed those books precisely for their complexity, many readers probably found them to be frustrating to read and difficult to follow.

The Stephen Bury novels do not present this problem for the casual reader. They are stripped of most of the technical lingo, and they tend to follow more in the footsteps of modern thrillers. The difference between these novels and the average Tom Clancy clone is that they revolve around powerful critiques of modern political cultures and bureacracies.
The Cobweb is the better of these two novels. The central critique of the intelligence community is that competence without political acumen is tantamount to career suicide. The book tracks the months between Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and the start of Gulf War I and poses a terrifying question: what if the greatest enemies to our national security are the egomaniacs at the top of the security apparatus? Given the events that have transpired in between the writing of this novel and today, the question raised by this novel seems prescient.
The one thing that is lacking from the Stephen Bury novels is the decadence of Stephenson's other works. Stephenson is a novelist who has spent pages discussing the Captain Crunch-eating ritual of one of his characters (Cryptonomicon), the making of watered steel blades (the Baroque Cycle), and other incidental but vastly entertaining subjects too numerous to mention. These passages exquisitely sideline the plots of his books for an exercise in pure intellectual indulgence. Sadly, you will not find any such passages in this novel or in Interface.The Cobweb OverviewFrom his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University, Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far beyond the small college town—all the way to the Middle East. Shady events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal grant money for highly dubious research. And what it's producing is a very nasty bug. Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C., to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering of thousands of Americans. It's a lesson in foreign policy he'll never forget.

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Twice a Spy: A Novel Review

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Twice a Spy: A Novel ReviewEvery now and then, something comes along that you just can't get enough of. I'm thinking and hoping that readers will feel about the same way about the books Keith Thomson has put out. Because while I enjoyed "Once a Spy," I really, REALLY enjoyed "Twice a Spy," and thought his second effort was better than his debut! Among authors to talk about it are Christopher Reich, Chuck Hogan, and Lincoln Child, all with great things to say about this fresh, new talent.
Well, once again, we find Charlie at the racetrack to get things underway, and that racetrack is in Geneva, forty miles from Gstaad, where they've been staying. And with little to no warning, Alice finds herself kidnapped, and Charlie finds himself in trouble again. But the task for getting Alice back should be simple. That task is to simply find some ADMs (atomic demolitions munition) in a place called Martinique. No big deal there, right? Just call upon his Dad, Drummond, make sure he's in his right mind, then everybody can be safe and go home. That sounds like a plan, right? With Charlie and Drummond, such a plan is manageable, yet never remains so simple.
This is a world where you barely know who you can trust, especially for Charlie and Drummond. Your pilot could be talking about the simplest of pleasures, like eating ribs and enjoying a Bud beer, and for all you know, he could be a spook! And while trusting people is one thing, staying safe and alive is another matter.
Keith Thomson once again takes us to a place where the suspense is justified, and the adrenaline is fuel laced, and the hits keep right on coming! What hits me is that it isn't exactly so far-fetched that it could never happen. Terrorism can come in all shapes and sizes, and when you least expect it. Thomson isn't afraid to open up such possibilities, and he keeps the pages turning while doing so. And in the end, he does it so well that he has me starving for more! I'm hoping he cranks another one out just as good, just as quickly! Thanks again, Keith!Twice a Spy: A Novel Overview

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The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror Review

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The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror ReviewI, too, heard the NPR Diane Rehm interview with this author yesterday. I downloaded the sample and immediately started reading it. I just downloaded the book on my Kindle and can hardly put it down! I'm not a fan of nonfiction books, but this reads like a better-than Tom Clancy book. The memories of the Germany-hosted Olympics where the Israeli athletes were mowed down by Palestine terrorists and then the Southern Airlines terror of having to fly back and forth from USA to Cuba are fully described in the early chapters of The Threat Matrix. What an awakening to terror from the "gangsta" days of J.Edgar Hoover!! This book is going to fly off the shelves and into the Kindles when the accolades get out!
Thank you, Amazon, for making it immediately available!!The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror OverviewThe Threat Matrix is the story of a small group of FBI agents who believed that they could confront a new generation of international terrorists like al Qaeda without sacrificing America's moral high ground. At the heart of this classic good versus evil battle are decades of tensions between the FBI and the CIA, which repeatedly fell short as America's eyes overseas.Given unprecedented access, thousands of pages of once secret documents, and hundreds of interviews, Garrett M. Graff takes us inside the FBI and its attempt to protect America. From the corridors of the Hoover Building to the cells of Gitmo and the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, Graff tells the true story of how a generation of FBI agents taught themselves to confront threats no one had ever seen before. Brilliantly reported and suspensefully told, The Threat Matrix peers into the darkest corners of this secret war and will change your view of the FBI forever.

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The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA Review

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The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA ReviewI worked very closely with Tony for many years and can attest to the authenticity of this book. I was saddened to learn through the book of the death of Karen Mendez . Tony truly was an action oriented person and his operational career was certainly not representative of Authentication Officers. This book says something about America and the Agency. The fact that a guy named Mendez , undereducated , from a town so small and isolated ( I spent the summer of 1946 there myself) could be so honored speaks volumes. For those who want to know about the can do sprirt that so characterized the Agency I knew , this is a must read.The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA Overview

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The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story Review

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The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story Review
Dayna and Robert Baer were in the CIA's clandestine service. The first half of the book is a bunch of spy anecdotes from their work on Hezbollah-related issues from Morocco to Central Asia, mostly in Bosnia and Syria. These are good stories, connected by the common set of policy targets but not really tied together in a narrative. Some seem to be heavily cleaned-up by CIA censors, and (perhaps as a result) the chronology is somewhat jumbled. Still, they're good stories.
They get to know each other on a mission in Bosnia and eventually become a couple. There's enough information about parents, former spouses, and Robert's kids to make clear the personal costs of the CIA life. When they leave the agency, their recognition of those costs drives a number of personal choices, which then become the focus of the book. The transition here is very rough, and doesn't really cohere - - in part because they're living well despite having no apparent career, though Robert in particular has a lot of good connections in shady places.
It all comes together in the third part of the book when they settle down, get married, and decide to adopt a child. At that point the book is no longer a spy story.
Those three different parts make it hard to evaluate the book as a whole and its audience. They both write well, but in eerily similar styles - if I were to read a random page I wouldn't be able to tell whether Robert or Dayna had written it. If you want some rip-roaring spy stories that then coasts into something rather different, it's an enjoyable, fast read.The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story Overview

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Denver International Airport: Lessons Learned Review

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Denver International Airport: Lessons Learned ReviewLessons Learned is a long-winded tome on DIA and the complexities of airport management and design. Most of the book's facts and information are derived from already published sources. I would have liked to have seen exclusive interviews with the actual people involved in the making of DIA (politicians, workers, et al) -- this book is simply devoid of the investigative touch. Nevertheless, a lot of time and work went into writing Lessons Learned, of which the authors deserve credit. DIA is a story worthy of the 500 plus pages of material, unfortunately Lessons Learned drifts off into territory that will only interest those involved in airport design and management -- some of the technical discussion is boring and does not pertain to DIA directly. The book does explain in detail the political maneuvering within Denver that went into the making of DIA -- this material is the most interesting part of the book. In conclusion, if you share an interest in DIA or airports, get this book. I did and I don't regret it.Denver International Airport: Lessons Learned OverviewThis work tells the story of Denver International Airport, addressing and interpreting every critical issue in the decision-making process, and ultimately delivering a three-dimensional account of the process by which the airport was created.

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