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Book Review: “End Game” by David Baldacci
Genre: Thriller After two “successful” assignments, one in London and the other in Iraq, Will Robie and Jessica Reel are teamed up for the most important assignment of their lives……. Blue Man went on vacation to his hometown in eastern Colorado for some rest, releaxation, and fishing (and also to catch up with old flame,…
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Short Story Summary: “The Intern: An Orphan X Short Story”
Lucas is a reporter for an online “news” organization, and Aurora is an unpaid intern for the same organization. Together they have been watching a destroyed church thinking that they might meet the legendary Nowhere Man who is said to watch over the place. Lucas is obsessed with the Nowhere Man. Aurora….not so much. After…
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Short Story Summary: “Fish Files” by John Grisham
Several years ago, Clanton, Mississippi lawyer, Mack Stafford (Law Offices of Jacob McKinley Stafford, LLC) started a class action suit against a chainsaw company, Tinzo, for defects that maimed four clients. Mack promised his clients a large payout…..then for three years…..nothing happened. A phone call with a lawyer from New York City ended with the…
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Short Story Summary: “The Hunt for Dmitri”
1983 Dmitri Garnitsky was a dissident in Moscow marked for death. One day, he was found by assassin Oleg Olenkov and his hired “wet” man assassin, Carnivore. In the standoff that followed, Dmitri was saved by the Carinvore, escaped Russia and changed his life. Now Liz Sansborough, Ph.D. is attending a faculty meeting / party…
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Short Story Summary: “Heirloom” by Joseph Finder
Long time residents, Walter and Ruth, were invited to dinner by their new neighbors, Hutch and Morgan. The house Hutch and Morgan moved into is a beatiful Cape Cod with land. And they purchased it at a reasonable price. During dinner, Walter, started giving the new neighbors a history lesson on the old house, the…
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Book Review: “The Switch” by Joseph Finder
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Book Review: “Crucible of Gold” by Naomi Novik
Genre: Fantasy “Crucible of Gold” is book #7 of 9 in the Temeraire series. Will Laurence and Temeraire have been in Australia for a while now and are adjusting to life there as civilians (remember that Laurence was found guilty of treason, his commission in the military revoked, and they were exiled to Australia as…
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Book Review: “Oath of Loyalty” by Vince Flynn / Kyle Mills
Genre: Thriller By my count, “Oath of Loyalty” is book #21 in the Mitch Rapp series. “President Anthony Cook was very different from his predecessors. He was autocratic, ruthless, and had no love for the country he ran or the people who inhabited it. …………His only goals appeared to be basking in the adulation of…
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Book Review: “The Fifth Assassin” by Brad Meltzer
Genre: Thriller This is the second book in the Culper Ring trilogy. Archivist Beecher White is working with his mentor Tot Westman at the National Archives. They are also both members of a secret society started by George Washington…..the Culper Ring was started to save, if needed, the Presidency. Not the President, but, the Presidency.…
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Book Review: “Code of Conduct” by Brad Thor
Genre: Thriller Pierre Damien is rich beyond belief. Life has been good to him, and to keep that streak going, Helena, his current girlfriend, is beautiful, caring, and best of all….she loves him without question. Pierre has work to do coordinating the plan he has conjured up to make the world a better place, a…
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