Yes it is a bit violent. Most action thrillers are. I view action thrillers like going to a Saturday matinee movie of old. I couldn't wait till the end to see how it played out but then I was disappointed that it was over. To me that was the sign of a good movie...or a good book. Not very ar...
This was one of those books that I kept saying just one more chapter and then I'll go to sleep, but I could never find a good place to stop. There were a lot of twists and turns, and it reminded me a little bit of the DaVinci Code, but with more witty dialogue and some romance.Of all the Russell ...
An exciting novel describing briefly how Maya grew up and then her recruitment into Mossad. She starts while in the IDF honing her investigative and undercover skills, then after an unauthorized mission and getting caught, she is offered the chance to learn the real skills needed. After a coupl...
Pretty good book about a man discovering how it is to love something unconditionally, and about a dog and his journey with him. If you are a dog lover and have ever been through the life journey to the end with one, get ready to bring out the tissues. This book has a few emotional ups and downs...
He’d picked a fight with Dinah as El Rey had suggested, and had told her that he intended to take a day or two away from everything to clear his head at the rustic cabin he owned on the road to Cuernavaca in the hills just outside of the small town of Tres Marías. The hurt and lack of comprehensi...
He’d forced himself to stop switching his lights on and off, but his teeth were tingling from the constant brushing. He trembled with nervous energy at the thought of strangers soon to arrive in his abode, even though he knew it was necessary for them to be there. He couldn’t carry the boxes down...
The bartender saw her and came over, a surprised look on his face.“Nice to see you again,” he said.“Thanks.”“What’ll you have?”“A Panama,” she said.“Coming right up.”He turned back to her with the beer and set it down on the bar. “Anything else?”She leaned forward after glancing to either side. “...
The small craft was almost invisible against the inky surface at that hour of night, as were the two figures in the bow of the black-hulled skiff.The pilot pulled up to the rickety floating platform at the water’s edge, where a 38 foot Mediterranean sports fishing yacht rested, rocking gently fro...
The only vehicles on the street were a garbage truck emptying overflowing dumpsters and an army Jeep with four masked soldiers brandishing assault rifles. Drago waited until the Jeep had passed and knocked on the door. Moments later it opened, and a bouncer with a face like a ham nodded to him an...
She found a parking place on a side street and performed her customary stealthy perusal of the area to ensure there were no obvious threats – no suspicious vehicles, no questionable loiterers. This kind of area was a nightmare for counter-surveillance, with few places to hide and a lot of single ...
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He groggily checked his watch – it was three a.m., and he’d been asleep for six hours. Ruby’s halo of wild gray hair announced her presence before she spoke in a low voice.“The motion detector triggered. Someone’s here.”Lucas sat up as he came fully awake. “Could it be an animal? The horses?”“No....
The waiting had made him edgy, and the parade of scantily-clad young Latinas had grown stale after a few hours. Adrenaline from the day’s events had faded, replaced by a crash, and it was all he could do to keep his eyes open. The stream of clients in the brothel had increased to full flow – unsu...
At lunchtime he deliberately forgot his phone at the office – he would begin establishing a pattern of being forgetful, starting now. He left his car in the garage and walked to get lunch, trying to detect any surveillance without success. Perhaps after weeks of nothing, he was only being passive...
She’d circled the block as many times as she dared over the last hour, and had spotted two men lounging on either side of the building, obviously guarding it. The address belonged to a modest two-story home ringed by a perimeter wall, and her heart had sunk on her second pass – there was no way t...
Tango had performed valiantly, but Lucas had wrung about as much out of the stallion as he dared, and had slowed to a leisurely clip as the sun had crested and begun its steady descent. He estimated he’d covered fifty-five miles, though couldn’t confirm his impression, there being no obvious land...
As the ranking American in a region that was in constant turmoil, as well as the de facto head of field operations for military intelligence, he worked long hours seven days a week, and today was no different. He ran a hand through thick silver hair and eyed his watch – there was never enough tim...
Instead of a sense of descending to progressively lower and lower levels of awareness, or rather of increasing the level of tranquility and peacefulness at each stage, it was punctuated by random leaping thoughts and a vague sense of unease. It was far from relaxing. When he came to full awarenes...
He watched the display as he evaluated whether or not he was going to have a headache, and when the throbbing in his temples started, conceded that he had no reason to expect to get off scot-free after a bunch of rotgut tequila and a few beers. Sylvia was already awake, moving around in the kitch...
A box cutter made short work of the tape that secured the top row, and the figure moved the nearest container off the pallet and placed it on the floor. Three quick swipes of the blade opened it, and gloved hands lifted the flaps to reveal the contents.A small black light flickered to life, and t...
The head of his Houston security team entered the dining room, which was empty save for Snake, his guards ensuring that he wasn’t disturbed. Snake scowled at the man and forked another chunk of ham into his mouth.“What is it?” he demanded.“There’s a ship entering the harbor. Looks like a naval ve...
As one of the top dogs in the LAPD homicide detective pool, he tended to catch the high-profile homicide cases, and it was hard to imagine a higher profile one now than this – in light of the prior incidents, the explosion was being treated as a triple homicide.B-Side and the girls had been taken...