Thots while reading:Hard to believe such a 'short' book can be taking so LONG to read! Having a hard time holding my attention. Who knows - in this case, it probably would have helped starting at book 1, but the person who loaned this to me assured me it was also a 'stand-alone' story.The Presi...
posted to facebook Exciting, fast paced, suspenseful action story in the Presidential Agent series.
I really like The Badge of Honor series. I like the main characters and feel as if I know them. The stories are interesting and keep my attention. The main complaint I have is all the dialogue describing a scene or what someone is thinking, it can go on for pages. Then there are the text messages...
Sometimes I wonder at my inability to put pieces together. In this case, it's character names - the main character being a police officer who has lost several people close to him and who has shot people in the line of work. Last name Payne. His wise superior at work, last name Washington. 2 o...
I enjoyed this crime fiction, not only because the entire plot takes place within a square mile from my place of residence - so there was definitely that cool recognition factor - but also because it is a pretty good story, complete with the obligatory car chase in the last chapter where the bad ...
OSS Recruits Frade, Assigns Him to Argentina. Jerked back to the Star Tour following his becoming an ace, Frade is recruited by the OSS to go to Argentina ostensibly to surreptitiously attack a fake Nazi submarine tender. Jorge, his estranged father, is the most powerful man in Argentina and the ...
WEB Griffin has been churning out books in various series for years and they all follow the same format. Great characters, bureaucracy, forms to be filled out, duty, honor, country, brotherhood, friendship, someone who has a lot of money, great plot, oh and a lot of action in the last 20 pages. L...
I read the audio book, in no small part because Scott Brick is the reader here. Like the really great readers, he can use his voice to clearly portray the characters distinctly. And in this case there are lots of characters, most of them with German or Spanish accents. I did not know that this ...
I love W.E.B. Griffin books and can't wait for new ones to come out, but his last few have begun to drag. He repeats far too much information I already knew from the last book that doesn't really impact the current book and could be left out. I think the repetitiveness and minutiae is beginning t...
This is the first volume of what became the Honor Bound series, introducing First Lieutenant Cletus Howell Frade, who—like most of Griffin’s heroes--happens to been born filthy rich and therefore can get away with most everything-you know: he smokes Cuban cigars, drinks Old Grouse, and sleeps wit...
A smiling H. Rapp Badde Jr.—wearing sunglasses of Italian design, a white silk shirt, tan linen shorts, and brown leather sandals—had just stepped down to the sunbaked tarmac from the glistening white Gulfstream IV jet aircraft when he heard his Go To Hell cell phone start ringing. &n...
Payne left the Bellvue-Stratford Hotel by the rear service entrance and walked quickly, almost trotted, up Walnut Street toward his apartment on Rittenhouse Square, Mr. John Francis “Frankie” Foley walked, almost swaggered, into the Reading Terminal Market four blocks away at Twelfth and Market s...
When Lowell saw the lightning out the plate glass windows in the Bird Cage Lounge in the Grand Hotel, he recalled the weather briefing he’d had that morning at Hurlbert Field. A band in the Bird Cage Lounge played music from the forties and fifties, catering to the fiftyis...