No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • C. J. Box Marathon

    C. J. Box Marathon

    NOTE: This is a blog entry from January 2014…..I updated it on June 26, 2020. See the carousel below to access EVERYTHING C. J. Box on TracyReaderDad. 🙂 It’s been a while since I have done a marathon…the last was “Pendragon” by D.J. MacHale.  Look over there ——> For the next few months….I will be…

  • “Ricin Raisins” by Mike Pihlman

    “Ricin Raisins” by Mike Pihlman

    Sorry it has taken me soooooo long for another micro-horror story…. — Brian loves raisins.  His friend does not. His friends wife makes lunch everyday…including raisins. One day Brian was found dead in his green-doored office. One wife is happy, the other not. — Copyright January 29, 2014 by Mike “TracyReaderDad” Pihlman.  This is fiction,…

  • Book Review: “The Athena Project” by Brad Thor

    Book Review: “The Athena Project” by Brad Thor

    Genre: Thriller The Delta Force is an organization, much like the SEALS, that is used by the U.S. Government for secret operations around the world. The Delta Force operatives are, mostly, men.  But there is one special division where the operatives are beautiful, athletic, extremely intelligent women.  The advantages when infiltrating male dominated terrorist organizations…

  • “Three Weeks To Say Goodbye” by C. J. Box

    “Three Weeks To Say Goodbye” by C. J. Box

      Genre: Mystery / Thriller (Realistic and Scary) – Jack and Melissa McGuane recently adopted a happy, beautiful child, Angelina. They have come to love Angelina as their own. One day, a Federal Judge (John Moreland) visits the McGuane’s and states that, since his son, Garrett,  is the birth father and had nothing to do…

  • “The Six Sacred Stones” by Matthew Reilly

    — (Non-stop roller coaster action) — I have not read Matthew Reilly in awhile….sooo many books, sooo little time, but, when I do, I know that I need to take a deep breath, strap myself to my seat, and enjoy a 100 mph thrill-ride of a thriller. “The Six Sacred Stones” follows Jack West Jr.…

  • November 2013 Thrillers

    November 2013 Thrillers

    Lots of new books!  Happy reading.   Hot off the press: Click on a book title to read the feature story Special to the Big Thrill: Tribute to Michael Palmer Special to the Big Thrill: Common Forensic Mistakes Writers Makefeaturing D.P. Lyle & Jan Burke Between The Lines Interview with Lisa Scottoline by Brett King News from…

  • “The Swan Thieves” by Elizabeth Kostova

    “The Swan Thieves” by Elizabeth Kostova

    (Captivating Love Stories) Genre:  Fiction – “The Swan Thieves” follows the lives of, essentially, three people. Beatrice de Clerval, an incredibly talented Impressionist artist who lived in the late 1800’s.  Her love affair with an older man (her uncle), Olivier Vignot, and her love of painting are chronicled in a series of letters between Beatrice…

  • Tom Clancy Dies at 66

    We just learned that Tom Clancy has passed away from a short illness at the age of 66.  See this announcement. Mr. Clancy was my introduction to this wonderful genre called THRILLERS. Once I read his first few books, I was hooked.  It was then that I found the likes of Flynn, Baldacci, Grisham, &…

  • October 2013 Thrillers

    October 2013 Thrillers

    Happy October 2013 Reading!  A bunch of new Thrillers await. The October List by Jeffery Deaver Deadline by Sandra Brown The Quest by Nelson DeMille Dark City – a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson The Good Sister by Wendy Corsi Staub No Way Out by Alan Jacobson Crimes of Memory by L.J. Sellers Day One by Nate Kenyon The Cure by Douglas…

  • Book Review: “The Innocent” by David Baldacci

      Genre: Thriller (New Series) – Will Robie is an assassin.  He kills when the Gov’t tells him to kill, except this one time. Now Robie is on the run from the very people who hired him.  He needs to find out who sanctioned his demise before he…..well……dies. Along the way Robie meets up with…