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William F. Brown
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The Undertaker
— published 2011 — 2 editions |
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Amongst My Enemies
— published 2011 |
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Thursday at Noon
— published 1987 — 5 editions |
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The Undertaker www.amazon.com/dp/B004NIFSVG (Mystery & Thrillers)
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When Pete Talbott found himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary, it was a mystery he couldn’t leave well enough alone. Someone with a penchant for sharp scalpels and embalming tables is planting bodies under other people’s names. From the cornfields of Ohio to the slums of Chicago, a bloody kitchen in a Back Bay townhouse, New York’s Washington Square, and the nation’s Capitol itself, the hunt is on. Talbott is a lowly computer wonk who spends his days solving software glitches, not running from County sheriffs, mafia hit men, the FBI, and an army of Chicago cops. But if he doesn’t stop them, he and his quirky new girlfriend, Sandy Kasmarek, will be next on the Undertaker’s list.
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Point of View: This author does well to bring out Randall's viewpoint. Through the eyes and thoughts of Randall you will lose yourself in his world.
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I'm rounding up. This was an action-packed and exciting thriller. I put life on hold to finish it. If he keeps writing, I'll keep reading because his books are a great escape. This isn't mind-altering prose, just lots of fun.
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Great read. Story of Germany, Hitler, U-Boats loaded with Gold and sunk in the Baltic sea. Story of intrigue and one man's quest for survival and redemption.
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| A good story -- one of the very few 'free' e-books I thoroughly enjoyed and will be looking for others from this author. | |
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Snake Skin (Lucy Guardino FBI Thriller, #1)
by C.J. Lyons (Goodreads Author)
read in September, 2012
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| This is a very good suspense novel, richly populated with some interesting characters. The story is intricate and fairly long. I enjoyed it. | |
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| Clunk! I pride myself in usually reading all of a book I start. This one tried my patience. For a suspense/ action novel, it was very long on plot-by-conversation, plot-by-meeting, unnecessary details, too many no-don't-go-in-there moments, too much...more | |
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The Reversal (Harry Bosch, #16; Mickey Haller, #3)
by Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
read in July, 2012
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5-Stars! “A truly great, well-crafted read from a master of the genre. (posted on Amazon) There are a few contemporary mystery / suspense writers for whom the current 5-Star rating system simply doesn't apply, particularly given the current trend of `...more |
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| John Lescroat's mystery/ courtroom/ lawyer series starring Dismas Hardey, a doggedly clever San Francisco defense attorney is an excellent one to follow. So far, they've all been well-written, and make great airplane or beach books. The cases usually...more | |
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As “The New Yorker” said, Thursday at Noon is “a thriller in the purest cliffhanger vein. The technique is flawless. It could only have been learned in a thousand Saturday afternoon movie matinees.”
Cairo, 1962. Richard Thomson was already having a very bad day when someone left a corpse lying on the rear steps of his hotel. Its head had been lopped off like a ripe melon and had been posed so it could look back down at its own body. Thomson is a burned-out CIA Agent and the body belongs to Mahmoud Yussuf, a fat, petty thief who tried to sell him photographs of a long-abandoned RAF base in the Egyptian desert. What the photos have to do with a dead Israeli Mossad agent, Nazi rocket scientists, the fanatical Moslem Brotherhood, and two missing Egyptian tank regiments could start the next Arab-Israeli War or stop it.
Alone and on the run, no one believes Thomson’s answers -- not the CIA, the US Ambassador, Colonel Ali Rashid of Egyptian State Security, and most assuredly not Captain Hassan Saleh, Chief of the Homicide Bureau of the Cairo Police, who wants to hang Thomson, preferably around the CIA’s neck . Under pressure from within and without, the slums of Cairo are a tinder box of discontent and the first faint whiffs of a military coup against the shaky, new government of Abdel Gamal Nasser are in the air. Thompson and the young daughter of one of the German rocket scientists have five action-packed days and nights to figure it out. Tick Toc, Tick Tock! Something is about to blow up in Thomson’s face at Noon on Thursday.
Like "Night of the Generals," this is a murder mystery wrapped inside an international crisis. It is from the author of "The Undertaker", with 21 Amazon Five Star! Reviews and "Amongst My Enemies"", now with 11. This is the e-book edition of his successful hardback, a Joan Kahn Book published by St. Martins and in paperback and foreign editions by Harlequin. In all, he has written 6 international thrillers and four award-winning screenplays.