Win by Harlan Coben

March 19, 2021June 5, 2022Leave a comment

Harlan Coben is a world class thriller writer whose novels have been adapted for the the silver screen by Netflix Studios.

This book features his new hero Windsor Horne Lockwood III, or Win as he is known.

An heiress, Patricia Lockwood, was kidnapped two decades previously. She escaped along with those who captured her. .The proceeds of the robbery went unfound.

Then a New York recluse murdered in his penthouse apartment. Items at the crime scene throw light on the Lockwood kidnapping and on another another FBI cold case. They implicate one man.

Windsor Horne Lockwood III or ‘Win’ has no idea how his suitcase and his family’s stolen Vermeer ended up in the dead man’s apartment. When the FBI tell him that the perpetrator who is still at large and who kidnapped his cousin may also be a terrorist his interest is ignited.

Other writers have said of Harlan Coben that he:

‘…is the modern master of the hook and twist’ Dan Brown

‘…never ever lets you down’ Lee Child

‘…is one of the world’s finest thriller writers’ Peter James

You can’t beat reviews like that from some of the other world best selling authors.

Harlan Coben is a superb writer and I look forward to every new fiction book he writes. If you enjoy conspiracy books and political thrillers then keep reading my blog for updates on exciting new authors!

Daylight by David Baldacci

November 26, 2020June 5, 2022Leave a comment

Daylight is the new fiction book by talented writer David Baldacci.

Daylight is the New York Times bestseller and sequel to Long Road to Mercy and A Minute to Midnight . The novel features FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine. Pine hunts for Mercy, her twin sister, becoming embroiled with a military investigators case. It leads into a global conspiracy.

The new book by David Baldacci is a masterpiece of the writing craft that leads the reader through an intricate plot with worldwide implications.

A book which is well worth a read!

Daylight es el nuevo libro de ficción del talentoso escritor David Baldacci.

Daylight es el bestseller del New York Times y la secuela de Long Road to Mercy y A Minute to Midnight. La novela presenta a la agente especial del FBI Atlee Pine. Pine busca a Mercy, su hermana gemela, y se ve envuelta en un caso de investigadores militares. Conduce a una conspiración global.

El nuevo libro de David Baldacci es una obra maestra del oficio de la escritura que guía al lector a través de una intrincada trama con implicaciones mundiales.

¡Un libro que vale la pena leer!

Daylight est le nouveau livre de fiction du talentueux écrivain David Baldacci.

Daylight est le best-seller du New York Times et la suite de Long Road to Mercy et A Minute to Midnight. Le roman présente l’agent spécial du FBI Atlee Pine. Pine est à la recherche de Mercy, sa sœur jumelle, mêlée à une affaire d’enquêteurs militaires. Cela conduit à une conspiration mondiale.

Le nouveau livre de David Baldacci est un chef-d’œuvre de l’art de l’écriture qui guide le lecteur à travers une intrigue complexe aux implications mondiales.

Un livre qui vaut la peine d’être lu!

Daylight ist das neue Fiction-Buch des talentierten Schriftstellers David Baldacci.

Daylight ist der Bestseller der New York Times und die Fortsetzung von Long Road to Mercy und A Minute to Midnight. Der Roman zeigt FBI-Spezialagent Atlee Pine. Pine jagt nach Mercy, ihrer Zwillingsschwester, und wird in einen Fall von Militärermittlern verwickelt. Es führt zu einer globalen Verschwörung.

Das neue Buch von David Baldacci ist ein Meisterwerk des Schreibhandwerks, das den Leser durch eine komplizierte Handlung mit weltweiten Auswirkungen führt.

Ein Buch, das es wert ist, gelesen zu werden!

Daylight ist das neue Fiction-Buch des talentierten Schriftstellers David Baldacci.

Das neue Buch von David Baldacci ist ein Meisterwerk des Schreibhandwerks, das den Leser durch eine komplizierte Handlung mit weltweiten Auswirkungen führt.

Ein Buch, das es wert ist, gelesen zu werden!…

Daylight is het nieuwe fictieboek van de getalenteerde schrijver David Baldacci.

Daylight is de bestseller van de New York Times en het vervolg op Long Road to Mercy en A Minute to Midnight. De roman bevat FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine. Pine jaagt op Mercy, haar tweelingzus, die verwikkeld raakt in een zaak van een militaire rechercheur. Het leidt tot een wereldwijde samenzwering.

Het nieuwe boek van David Baldacci is een meesterwerk van het schrijfvak dat de lezer door een ingewikkeld plot leidt met wereldwijde implicaties.

Een boek dat het lezen waard is!

Päivänvalo on lahjakkaan kirjailijan David Baldaccin uusi fiktiokirja.

Päivänvalo on New York Timesin bestselleri ja jatko Pitkälle tielle armoon ja Minuutti keskiyöhön. Romaanissa on FBI: n erityisagentti Atlee Pine. Mänty etsii Mercyä, hänen kaksoissisartaan, sotkeutuen sotilastutkijoiden tapaukseen. Se johtaa maailmanlaajuiseen salaliittoon.

David Baldaccin uusi kirja on kirjoituskoneen mestariteos, joka johtaa lukijan monimutkaisen juoni läpi maailmanlaajuisesti.

Kirja, joka on lukemisen arvoinen!

Daylight è il nuovo libro di narrativa del talentuoso scrittore David Baldacci.

Daylight è il bestseller del New York Times e sequel di Long Road to Mercy e A Minute to Midnight. Il romanzo presenta l’agente speciale dell’FBI Atlee Pine. Pine va a caccia di Mercy, sua sorella gemella, coinvolta in un caso di investigatori militari. Conduce a una cospirazione globale.

Il nuovo libro di David Baldacci è un capolavoro del mestiere di scrittura che guida il lettore attraverso una trama intricata con implicazioni mondiali.

Un libro che vale la pena leggere!

Daylightは、才能ある作家のDavidBaldacciによる新しいフィクションの本です。

Daylightは、ニューヨークタイムズのベストセラーであり、Long Road toMercyとAMinute toMidnightの続編です。小説はFBI特別捜査官アトリーパインを備えています。パインは双子の妹であるマーシーを捜索し、軍の捜査官の事件に巻き込まれました。それは世界的な陰謀につながります。

デイヴィッドバルダッチによる新しい本は、世界的な意味を持つ複雑なプロットを通して読者を導くライティングクラフトの傑作です。

Daylight huwa l-ktieb ġdid ta ‘finzjoni mill-kittieb b’talent David Baldacci.

Daylight huwa l-aqwa bejjiegħ tan-New York Times u segwiment għal Long Road to Mercy u A Minute to Midnight. Ir-rumanz fih l-Aġent Speċjali tal-FBI Atlee Pine. L-arżnu jfittex lil Mercy, oħt it-tewmin tagħha, imdawra b’każ ta ’investigaturi militari. Dan iwassal għal konspirazzjoni globali.

Il-ktieb il-ġdid ta ’David Baldacci huwa kapulavur tal-inġenju tal-kitba li jmexxi lill-qarrej permezz ta’ komplott kumplikat b’implikazzjonijiet mad-dinja kollha.

Ktieb li jiswa jaqra sew!

Dagslys er den nye skjønnlitterære boka av talentfulle forfatteren David Baldacci.

Daylight er New York Times bestselger og oppfølger til Long Road to Mercy og A Minute to Midnight. Romanen inneholder FBIs spesialagent Atlee Pine. Pine jakter på Mercy, tvillingsøsteren hennes, og blir involvert i en militær etterforskersak. Det fører til en global konspirasjon.

Den nye boken av David Baldacci er et mesterverk av skrivehåndverket som leder leseren gjennom et intrikat plot med verdensomspennende implikasjoner.

En bok som er vel verdt å lese!

Daylight to nowa książka fabularna utalentowanego pisarza Davida Baldacciego.

Daylight to bestseller New York Timesa i kontynuacja Long Road to Mercy i A Minute to Midnight. W powieści występuje agent specjalny FBI Atlee Pine. Pine poluje na Mercy, swoją siostrę bliźniaczkę, wplątaną w sprawę wojskowych śledczych. Prowadzi do globalnej konspiracji.

Nowa książka Davida Baldacciego to arcydzieło kunsztu pisarskiego, które prowadzi czytelnika przez zawiłą fabułę o ogólnoświatowych implikacjach.

Książka, którą warto przeczytać!

Daylight é o novo livro de ficção do talentoso escritor David Baldacci.

Daylight é o best-seller do New York Times e a sequência de Long Road to Mercy e A Minute to Midnight. O romance apresenta o agente especial do FBI Atlee Pine. Pine caça Mercy, sua irmã gêmea, envolvendo-se em um caso de investigadores militares. Isso leva a uma conspiração global.

O novo livro de David Baldacci é uma obra-prima da arte da escrita que conduz o leitor por um enredo intrincado com implicações mundiais.

Um livro que vale a pena ler!

Daylight är den nya fiktionboken av den begåvade författaren David Baldacci.

Daylight är New York Times bästsäljare och uppföljare till Long Road to Mercy och A Minute to Midnight. Romanen innehåller FBIs specialagent Atlee Pine. Tall jagar efter Mercy, hennes tvillingsyster, och blir inblandad i ett militärutredningsärende. Det leder till en global konspiration.

Den nya boken av David Baldacci är ett mästerverk av skrivhantverket som leder läsaren genom en invecklad plot med världsomspännande implikationer.

En bok som är väl värt att läsa!

Daylight är den nya fiktionboken av den begåvade författaren David Baldacci.

Den nya boken av David Baldacci är ett mästerverk av skrivhantverket som leder läsaren genom en invecklad plot med världsomspännande implikationer.

En bok som är väl värt att läsa!

Daylight yw’r llyfr ffuglen newydd gan yr awdur talentog David Baldacci.

Daylight yw llyfrwerthwr a dilyniant New York Times i Long Road to Mercy a A Minute to Midnight. Mae’r nofel yn cynnwys Atlee Pine, Asiant Arbennig FBI. Mae pinwydd yn hela am Mercy, ei gefaill, yn cael ei frodio ag achos ymchwilwyr milwrol. Mae’n arwain at gynllwyn byd-eang.

Mae’r llyfr newydd gan David Baldacci yn gampwaith o’r grefft ysgrifennu sy’n arwain y darllenydd trwy blot cymhleth gyda goblygiadau ledled y byd.

Llyfr sy’n werth ei ddarllen!

The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz

April 25, 2020June 5, 2022Leave a comment

Dean Koontz is a highly prolific and readable American author who has used many other names to write under. In fact he wrote this thriller novel in 1981 under the name Leigh Nichols. He has sold over 450 million copies of his works and was ranked in the top ten for highest paid world authors.

A camping trip in the mountains turns into a nightmare for one mothers son who is called Danny. Despite having gone on similar trips many times before, on the final occasion and with no explanation everyone dies. Finally the mother accepts the inevitable, that her son is gone.

However, she soon begins to receive threatening and cryptic messages about her son. They say that Danny is in fact, not dead. With the help of, Elliot Stryker, the mothers friend – she starts to try to unravel the mystery around her sons apparent death.

Many have said that there are striking resemblances in the fiction book The Eyes of Darkness with the current world pandemic of Corona virus which began in Wuhan, China. This has led to renewed interest in, what is, a very well written and insightful thriller novel from the early 1980’s by Dean Koontz.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

October 23, 2012August 27, 2021Leave a comment

The Da Vinci Code thriller by Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, is a 2003 mystery-detective novel. It tells the story of Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu who investigate a gruesome murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris. It relates to a supposed battle between Opus Dei and the Priory of Sion. The title of the thriller novel relates to the murder victim being found in the Louvre in the Grand Gallery. His body was naked and artificially posed to resemble Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing called, the Vitruvian Man. A pentacle is drawn on the victims chest in his own blood and a cryptic message scrawled beside his body.

The fictional book has been very successful though, it has come in for criticism on many levels.

In a 2008 issue of The Paris Review Umberto Eco said , “Dan Brown is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.”

During a lecture, the writer Salman Rushdie said, “Do not start me on ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ A novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name.”

Stephen Fry has been more vitriolic saying of Dan Brown’s work, “complete loose stool-water” and “arse gravy of the worst kind.” He went on to say, “I just loathe all those books about the Holy Grail and Masons and Catholic conspiracies and all that botty-dribble. I mean, there’s so much more that’s interesting and exciting in art and in history. It plays to the worst and laziest in humanity, the desire to think the worst of the past and the desire to feel superior to it in some fatuous way.”

Stephen King said of Dan Brown’s work that it was like, “Jokes for the John,” calling this level of work the “intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.”

The New York Times said the book was “Dan Brown’s best-selling primer on how not to write an English sentence”.

The New Yorker reviewer Anthony Lane said its “unmitigated junk” and described “the crumbling coarseness of the style.”

Among others, linguist Geoffrey Pullum called Brown one of the “worst prose stylists in the history of literature” and saying Brown’s “writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad.”

Roger Ebert described it as a “potboiler written with little grace and style,” and then went on to say “I should read a potboiler like The Da Vinci Code every once in a while, just to remind myself that life is too short to read books like The Da Vinci Code.”

The author has also been embroiled in legal battles over alleged plagiarism in two of his novels.

I thought Tom Hanks who played Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou and Sir Ian McKellen were very impressive in the film and that managed to transform the written work into something quite acceptable.

However, I have to agree with the other detractors as I did feel that the book was surprisingly purile, badly written and I found it quite turgid. Not what I expected. I wouldn’t personally bother reading any others that he writes.

He said of The Bourne Trilogy by Robert Ludlum that, ‘Ludlum’s early books are complex, smart, and yet still move at a lightning pace. This series got me interested in the genre of big-concept, international thrillers.’

O Código Da Vinci, de Dan Brown, é um romance policial de mistério de 2003. Conta a história de Robert Langdon e Sophie Neveu, que investigam um assassinato horrível no Museu do Louvre, em Paris. Trata-se de uma suposta batalha entre o Opus Dei e o Priorado de Sion. O título do romance de suspense se refere à vítima de assassinato encontrada no Louvre, na Grande Galeria. Seu corpo estava nu e artificialmente posado para se assemelhar ao famoso desenho de Leonardo da Vinci chamado, o Homem Vitruviano. Um pentagrama é desenhado no peito da vítima com seu próprio sangue e uma mensagem criptografada rabiscada ao lado de seu corpo.

O livro de ficção tem tido muito sucesso, porém, tem recebido críticas em muitos níveis.

Em uma edição de 2008 da The Paris Review, Umberto Eco disse: “Dan Brown é um personagem do Pêndulo de Foucault! Eu o inventei. Ele compartilha as fascinações dos meus personagens – a conspiração mundial de Rosacruzes, Maçons e Jesuítas. O papel dos Cavaleiros Templários . O segredo hermético. O princípio de que tudo está conectado. Suspeito que Dan Brown pode nem mesmo existir. ”

Durante uma palestra, o escritor Salman Rushdie disse: “Não me comece com ‘O Código Da Vinci’, um romance tão ruim que dá má fama aos romances ruins.”

Stephen Fry foi mais mordaz ao dizer sobre o trabalho de Dan Brown, “água de fezes soltas completas” e “molho de bunda da pior espécie”. Ele prosseguiu: “Eu simplesmente detesto todos aqueles livros sobre o Santo Graal, os maçons e as conspirações católicas e toda essa baboseira. Quer dizer, há muito mais coisas interessantes e empolgantes na arte e na história. o pior e o mais preguiçoso da humanidade, o desejo de pensar o pior do passado e o desejo de se sentir superior a ele de alguma forma estúpida. ”

Stephen King disse sobre o trabalho de Dan Brown que era como “Piadas para o John”, chamando esse nível de trabalho de “equivalente intelectual do macarrão com queijo Kraft”.

O New York Times disse que o livro era “o best-seller de Dan Brown sobre como não escrever uma frase em inglês”.

O crítico do New Yorker, Anthony Lane, disse que é “lixo absoluto” e descreveu “a aspereza do estilo.”

Entre outros, o lingüista Geoffrey Pullum chamou Brown de um dos “piores estilistas de prosa da história da literatura” e disse que “a escrita de Brown não é apenas ruim; é espantosa, desajeitada, irrefletidamente, quase engenhosamente ruim”.

Roger Ebert o descreveu como um “potboiler escrito com pouca graça e estilo”, e depois disse “Eu deveria ler um potboiler como O Código Da Vinci de vez em quando, apenas para me lembrar que a vida é muito curta para ler livros como O Código Da Vinci. ”

O autor também se envolveu em batalhas legais sobre o alegado plágio em dois de seus romances.

Achei que Tom Hanks que interpretou Robert Langdon, Audrey Tautou e Sir Ian McKellen foram muito impressionantes no filme e que conseguiram transformar a obra escrita em algo bastante aceitável.

No entanto, tenho que concordar com os outros detratores, pois senti que o livro era surpreendentemente puro, mal escrito e o achei bastante empolado. Não o que eu esperava. Eu pessoalmente não me incomodaria em ler qualquer outro que ele escrevesse.

Ele disse sobre a Trilogia Bourne de Robert Ludlum que, ‘os primeiros livros de Ludlum são complexos, inteligentes e, ainda assim, movem-se em um ritmo relâmpago. Essa série me interessou pelo gênero de thrillers internacionais de grande conceito. ‘

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