false 39304 2 0 184815 0515129496 9780515129496 6 <![CDATA[Resurrection Day]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523443m/184815.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523443s/184815.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184815.Resurrection_Day 3.96 26 Fatherland. Consider this striking blurb line: "Everyone remembered exactly what they were doing the day President Kennedy tried to kill them." History went awry in this world's Cuba crisis, leading to a 1962 nuclear war that devastated Russia, crippled America, and left Britain a major world power smugly giving aid to the USA. Cut to 1972 Boston and ex-soldier Carl Landry, now a newspaper reporter whose coverage of a routine murder is suppressed by military censors. He's unwisely curious, investigates further, and inevitably stirs up a hornets' nest. Attacks, deaths, and disappearances follow. With a new-found girlfriend--an English Times reporter who is not all she seems--Landry uncovers a succession of red-hot secrets about abandoned New York, perfidious British and military plotting, and crucial documents coveted by several factions with different beliefs about their contents. Is Kennedy unjustly despised for starting World War III? Is the rumor that he's still alive just this timeline's version of the Elvis myth? After building up terrific tension, DuBois delivers satisfying answers. Grimly plausible (apart from a few lapses in "British" dialogue) and worthy of the Fatherland comparisons. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk]]> 39304 3.72 273 65 1999 1820742 0312361378 9780312361372 11 <![CDATA[Twilight]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188802348m/1820742.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188802348s/1820742.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1820742.Twilight 3.55 20


Now it’s America’s turn.



Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada. Seeking adventure, he volunteers to become a records keeper for a UN war-crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. Months earlier, a crippling terrorist attack against the United States resulted in its cities being emptied, its countryside set afire, and its government shaken to its knees.



In the aftermath of this attack, a virtual civil war broke out, until UN peacekeepers arrived to establish an uneasy peace. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of an atrocious war crime, he promptly realizes that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner, or rest area. Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in his team, trying not only to conceal important evidence, but working to betray and kill them all, including the woman he loves.



Award-winning author Brendan DuBois paints a disturbing and poignant portrait in this smart, fast-paced thriller.

</div></div>]]> 39304 3.72 273 65 2007 166961 0312327331 9780312327330 4 <![CDATA[Primary Storm (Lewis Cole, #6)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172351624m/166961.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172351624s/166961.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166961.Primary_Storm 3.57 14
Usually, Lewis Cole, a magazine columnist and ex--Department of Defense research analyst, tries to stay out of the spotlight. However, when he attends a political rally for the front-running senator, gunfire breaks out, and Lewis becomes the initial suspect in the attempted assassination.

With the Secret Service shadowing his every move, with his budding romance with a campaign volunteer in jeopardy, and with the threat of continued violence against him and the candidate, Lewis desperately tries to find out who set him up for the attempted killing, and who is still stalking him.

Lewis is operating in the glare of the news media and among aggressive campaign rivals as he also tries to keep secret a decades-old connection with the leading presidential candidate, a secret that could have shattering consequences if revealed.

Drawing on his own shadowy government background and with the assistance of his friend Felix Tinios, a man with a foot on each side of the law, Lewis dives into the unsavory world of presidential politics, where secrets are traded for favors, where votes are cast and sometimes discarded, and where a trail of bodies and broken promises can lead to the White House.

Once more, DuBois brilliantly goes behind Lewis Cole’s quiet existence to the flickering black shadows of his past. Are unknown plotters using his secret DoD record to kill the candidate and pin the murder on Cole? And can Cole outsmart---or outshoot---them before their plan can work?]]> 39304 3.72 273 65 2006 1820741 188340245X 9781883402457 1 <![CDATA[Dead Sand (Lewis Cole, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188802348m/1820741.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188802348s/1820741.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1820741.Dead_Sand 3.92 12 39304 3.72 273 65 1994 105509 0312327315 9780312327316 1 <![CDATA[Buried Dreams (Lewis Cole, #5)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171555223m/105509.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171555223s/105509.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105509.Buried_Dreams 4.00 10 39304 3.72 273 65 2004 69836 031228487X 9780312284879 2 <![CDATA[Killer Waves (Lewis Cole, #4)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170713033m/69836.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170713033s/69836.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69836.Killer_Waves 3.80 10 39304 3.72 273 65 2002 1867490 0316854816 9780316854818 2 <![CDATA[Six Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189453103m/1867490.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189453103s/1867490.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1867490.Six_Days 3.10 10 39304 3.72 273 65 2001 184816 0743213149 9780743213141 0 <![CDATA[Black Tide (Lewis Cole, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523443m/184816.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523443s/184816.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184816.Black_Tide 4.00 7 39304 3.72 273 65 1995 184814 0312193327 9780312193324 0 <![CDATA[Shattered Shell (Lewis Cole, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523442m/184814.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172523442s/184814.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184814.Shattered_Shell 3.80 5 Shattered Shell the author paints a vivid picture of a New England coastal town held in winter's grip. Cole, given a free ocean-side house in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, and a large pension (as the only survivor of a biotech disaster), is ostensibly a columnist for Boston's Shoreline magazine. It's the cover he uses to dig into two crime stories--the rash of arson fires that are destroying closed motels in Tyler Beach and the brutal rape of the lesbian lover of Cole's best friend, police detective Diane Woods.

DuBois brings his characters to life gradually, giving even secondary players (such as Felix Tinios, who provides Cole with some major backup) full credibility. Equally important is the author's obvious love for the setting. When he describes Cole emerging from his snowed-in house during a blackout and observing the stars gleaming in the frozen sky, we know he's been there--and it puts us deeply into the scene as well. Other Cole books include Black Tide and Dead Sand. --Dick Adler

]]> 39304 3.72 273 65 1999 2822577 1594146160 9781594146169 2 <![CDATA[Final Winter]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2822577.Final_Winter 3.33 3 A group of elite officers from the police, the FBI and the CIA are recruited to form a special branch within the new organisation, operating in deep cover, their contact with each other and with other agencies strictly compartmentalised. One of these is Brian Doyle, an NYPD detective, chosen for his dogged determination and deductive instincts - instincts which serve him and his masters well, because at the heart of the organisation is one person ruthlessly using the carefully gathered intelligence to unleash a biological attack across the United States. And when Doyle does work out the truth it seems as though he is too late to stop it...

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