Chris Birdy's Blog - Posts Tagged "thriller"

★★★★★ This fast-paced, action thriller was easy to read and difficult to put down. From headless murder victims to a terrorist plot, Detective Paul Friedman has his work cut out for me. Even the Magic Kingdom isn't safe. The tale was so engrossing and well-written that I read half of it in one sitting when I merely wanted to read a chapter to get a feel for the work. Kudos to Gunnar Angel Lawrence! He's becoming the new master of suspense.

Of all Robert Crais' novels, this is my favorite. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike together kicking ass and taking names with Pike doing most of the heavy lifting as usual. The story is full of surprise twists and and turns. This one's a must read.

Standard II - The Citadel is the second book in this incredible series. M16's William Shanahan is teamed up again with Jack Gawain to get to the core of an arms smuggling gang known as the Citadel. They work with Lucretia Corcosa, the Europol agent. This story starts off with a bang and keeps on going. Reading this made me feel like I was inserted into a James Bond/Jason Bourne thriller that just kept moving with plots and sub-plots until the end. John Dizon is a gifted writer who knows how to take readers on a super-fast, roller coaster ride and then leave them breathless at the end saying, "Wow! I want another ride!"

When vagrants are slashed to death on the outskirts of a small West Virginia town, the townspeople are upset and the sheriff does what he can to solve the crimes with little to go on. But when the son of a wealthy businessman is murdered, the town is in a frenzy clamoring for justice. Jake Hamlin, the sheriff, has problems at home and is being pressured to solve this murder before it taints a business deal between Lexington Steel and Cook Construction. The pressure and tension slowly build in this thriller until the explosive end. This is book no one should miss.

When I pick up a P.S. Winn book, I expect to be entertained and I'm never disappointed. BA-47 starts with the chilling tale of an accident in a bio-fuel plant in Montana. The lab workers are killed and the plant survivors plus the residents of the surrounding town are in a race to save their lives. And questions arise. Was this an accident or an experiment overseen by a disturbed military scientist. When Jack Carlton teams up with the local radio personality to expose possible government involvement, things go from bad to worse. Warning! This is one of those books that is difficult to put down once you start reading.

What an incredible story! Knowing that John Dizon writes in different genres, I wasn't sure where this story would fall. After finishing this great book, I still don't know. It's a great thriller and crime drama but with a vampire who is a direct descendant of Dracula. The story moves across two continents as an NYPD detective tries to prove his girlfriend's innocence in a strange murder with a missing body. This book is a real page turner, and John Dizon has proved once again that he is the master of suspense.