A thriller written more than 15 years before the events of 9/11, but the story it tells is strangely similar. Racing from Manhattan to Paris and finally to the Oval Office itself to stop the mysterious Green Band's efforts to destroy Wall Street, Caitlin Dillon teams up with Federal Agent Arch Carroll to hunt down the Operation Black Market terrorists.

Synopsis: Anti terrorists try to prevent the renegade Green Band from destroying Wall Street.

Review: I found this book boring to begin with, but glad I continued to read out of sheer desperation, it is a brilli...

 

Plot summary: Mark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, how to smoke Virginia Slims heisted from Mom's purse. He's a pretty upright kid--he's determined to protect his brother from drugs, and he once defended his mom with a baseball bat. The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a guy trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his Mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buried him in the concrete under his gara...

 

A delicious travel trough the history of Indian cuisine accompanied by recipes that are easy to try.

Review: This is just the kind of book that's serialised in the Sunday Times.

A potted history of India following the development of its culture and cuisine, hilariously brief in many parts.

Rather than being a history of Indian cooking, it is more a history of the inrtoduction of Indian cuisine in English culture and the acceptance and development of Indian restaurant in England.

Yes, the author does look into the evolution of the various schools of gastronomy in Indi...

 

This book is not a horror novel, but a 'secret-government-agency-hunts-good-people-with-superpowers' thriller. I really liked it, it kept me reading well into the night, which is not so surprising because it's by THE King:)

Review: Having already taken in Insomnia, The Stand, and Salem's lot, I was already a Stephen King fan before I read Firestarter but this one re-affirmed my love of Kings books. The book follows Andy and Charlie who are on the run from a government agency known as 'the shop' who want to find out what makes the little girl (Charlie) tick and how they can make use of the pryrokenetic pow...

 

A classical TOS novel

Review: i normally enjoy anything written by the Reeves-Stevens duo, and again i couldn't put this one down. At last someone gets punished for breaking the Prime Directive. About time! This is a truely ripping yarn that shows the crew written at their best. This is a must for any fan!

Review: Firstly let me admit I am a massive Star Trek fan and so I had a definite advantage knowing all the characters inside out before page one. But even for the novice Science Fiction fan then this is still a great read. The initial situation Kirk finds...

 

Book 3 of 6 in the Earth: Final Coflict tie-ins series.

Review: Requiem for Boone is an incredible look at the life of William Boone, from his service in the SI war to his work in the Denver PD. It also provides brilliant insight into Kate Boone, in the form of correspondence. Every other chapter is written as one of Kate's e-mails. Though this is a somewhat unorthodox method of story-telling, it is very effective in letting the reader understand her, while still advancing the plot. This is a must-read for any fans of the series, especially given that it shows the first meeting between Boone and Augur. One...

 

Book 3 from the Pearl Saga trilogy. An enthralling mix of sorcery, technology and myths.

Review: This is the third novel in Eric Van Lustbader's Pearl Saga. The complex story and scope of the previous two books is effortlessly picked up. As with Viel of One Thousand Tears this installment takes the series in a new direction - to find the ninth Banestone. The characters that I have come to love were all here and if people liked the last two books they should enjoy this. The strong points of the series are the huge amount of detail that goes into this world - the castes, the religion and the loctation...

 

Book 1 in the Pearl Saga trilogy. An enthralling mix of sorcery, technology and myths.

Synopsis: Eric Van Lustbader leads off his Pearl series by mixing science fiction and fantasy into an exciting adventure with The Ring of Five Dragons. Although much of the book's mythology is standard fantasy fare, Lustbader creates intriguing and conflicted characters and spins a complex world of religion, magic, and technology around them. The Ring of Five Dragons tells the tale of the people of Kundala, who have suffered for 101 years under the oppression of the alien invaders, the V'ornn. The Kundalan people are...

 

I wouldn't compare this to the 'Da Vinci Code', but it's still quite interesting.

Review: The cover looked promising....the blurb sounded promising.....the book was pretentious rubbish!!! I love books...I read it through just so that I could consider revising my opinion but no....I'd been right all along....badly written....no engaging characters....I considered donating it to the local charity shop after writing 'this book is VERY BAD' on the inside cover but even that I felt would be cruel to the poor person who bought it....so what else can a girl do?????? Bin it-----tore it up and binned it....waste of...

 

The second book in the Egyptian series.

Synopsis: Duraid Al Simmu and his half-English wife were the first to discover the tomb of Queen Lostris and the clues to an Ancient Egyptian treasure, but there are those who are prepared to murder to obtain this information.

Review: A masterpiece. The Egyptian series was brilliant (except perhaps his most recent novel in the series).

Review: Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Have I mentioned it's brilliant? I don't read a huge amount of fiction, but this was on my brother's b...