by Billbrown | Sep 10, 2016 | Book reviews
I have read and reviewed/ rated several of the author’s Vietnam novels and thought they were good fiction and rated right up there with Fields of Fire, A Rumor of War, or my favorite, The 13th Valley. I was there, and he did a very good job of creating for the...
by Billbrown | Sep 7, 2014 | Book reviews, Business History, Good Non-Fiction Books, Historical, WW II History
“Freedom’s Forge” is an excellent book and a must read for anyone interested in business history. It is the story of how US business ramped up from a dead start during the depression and produced all those tanks, airplanes, and ships that won WW II...
by Billbrown | Aug 26, 2014 | Action Adventure, Book reviews, Murder Mystery, Thriller Novels
A book review by Bill Brown of John D McDonald’s Travis McGee mystery story, “Dress Her in Indigo.” I think I discovered John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee thriller novels when I was a senior in high school and devoured all 21 at least once....
by Billbrown | Jun 25, 2014 | Book reviews, CIA spy stories, Middle East Thrillers
The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland , is the first book in a three book series featuring Mark Sava, the aging, low key, former CIA Station Chief in Azerbaijan in former Soviet Central Asia. You can’t get much more backwater than that. Sava has stayed on as a...
by Billbrown | Jun 20, 2014 | Action Adventure, Book reviews, Murder Mystery, Suspense Fiction, Thriller Novels
“First to Kill” is the first book in what is now a four book series of action adventure thriller novels from Andrew Peterson featuring the lead character, Nathan McBride. He is a cerebral CIA Special Ops contractor and ex-Marine sniper who is still healing from an...