One of the more enjoyable novels I've read in a while. Great blend of espionage, sci-fi, & thriller conventions, along with a clever premise that keeps you guessing how it will end up. I particularly liked the unusually deep characterizations - Mullen spends a lot more time with his characters' i...
Working in a cube farm, I dread the cold & flu season because you’re surrounded by hacking, sneezing, phlegm-filled germ factories who insist on coming to work and spreading their misery because they don’t want to burn their sick days on ‘just a cold’. I’ve often thought that we should set up so...
Louis physician he claimed would treat him. It was midday when the elderly driver steered them into the city, past an old brewery that had been reincarnated as a pop manufacturer during Prohibition but was now off the wagon again, as ecstatic billboards praising Repeal were plastered on top of un...
He turned west, and the canopy of trees thickened as he approached Rock Creek Park. Hyun Ki Shim’s house was on a quiet side street from which the hustle of 16th and the flow of traffic on the Rock Creek Parkway seemed farther away than they actually were.Leo had driven through the neighborhood o...
On the table before him was a loaded gun, and just beyond it, the two wide eyes of a man he’d very much like to give a third eye. The music from the trumpet and bass and drums was making everything seem dizzy, every now and again a cymbal crashed and the floor would shake,...