Category: Brad Meltzer

Genre: Thriller This is the second book in the Zig & Nola Series Nola is the “Artist in Residence” for the U.S. Army. Her job is to travel where something important / horrible happened and draw what she sees. Nola is also a well-trained operative. Zig worked for many years as a mortician at the…

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.…

Genre: Nonfiction History Not quite a first, but, rare indeed when I read a non-fiction book! There is one reason, besides learning a bit about history, and that is………Brad Meltzer. 🙂 The colonies are starting to get restless and they see the need for an Army to protect their citizens from the oppressive rule of…

The First Lady is working in her garden when she unearths an arm. In the hand of that dead severed arm is a flattened penny (like those you get at the fair) that points to Beecher’s Dad’s Army unit: The Plankholders…..

“The Escape Artist” is a fascinating book filled with magic, history, intrigue, and insider information on one of this countries least known and most caring & needed facilities: the Dover Air Force Base Mortuary.

Genre: Thriller (Tell Your Stories) — Buy it! — The worlds first murder occurred when Cain killed his brother Abel. The murder weapon was never found, but, some theorize that that weapon was a book: “The Book of Lies”. In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was murdered by an unknown gunman in a robbery in Cleveland. His…

Genre:  Thriller Rating:  4 WaterTowers (Extremely interesting) During the Revolutionary War, the British knew who the American intelligence operatives were and captured them.  Good intelligence is key to winning a war.  George Washington, with the help of Benjamin Tallmadge,  formed a super secret organization called the Culper  Spy Ring (History Channel, Brad Meltzer’s Decoded, WikiPedia)…