The Hunter and The Outfit were written by Donald E. Westlake, who was one of the most amazing and perhaps least known American writers of the 20th Century. As unbelievable as it sounds, he was the author of over 100 thriller novels, screenplays, and short story collections written under 14 pen names, both male and […]
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The Colonel’s Mistake by Dan Mayland – Book Review
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 consultant living in Baku, the country’s hot, […]
Silence of the Lambs – From Novel to Screenplay to Movie
The suspense thriller Silence of the Lambs — whether you look at the novel written by Thomas Harris in 1988, the working screenplay and storybook by Ted Tally from 1990, the resulting movie directed by Jonathan Demme in 1991, or the magical performances of its lead actors, all of those pieces come together to make […]
Book Review – Flowers From Berlin – Noel Hynd – Thriller Novels
“Flowers From Berlin” by Noel Hynd was first published in hardback 1985. Kindle released the “25th Anniversary Edition” last year, and while I don’t quite understand Amazon math, like “Day Of the Jackal,” in 1971, “The Eagle Has Landed,” in 1975, and “Eye of the Needle,” in 1978,” it remains one of the standards of […]
Book Review – “First To Kill” by Peterson – Action Adventure
“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 earlier mission that went badly wrong. McBride gets called […]
Book Review – “Deadly Stillwater” suspense fiction by Roger Stelljes
Deadly Stillwater is the third book of what is currently a five-book series of police, action-adventure suspense fiction set in St. Paul, Minnesota. No doubt, there will be more to come. Although series books are very much in vogue these days; I usually dislike them, because they all-too-often cheat the reader. I feel a story should […]
AWOL on the Appalachian Trail – Book Review
5-Stars! “A Great Book about People Hiking the Appalachian Trail If you were ever a Boy Scout, Girl Scout, or just like the outdoors, download a copy of AWOL on the Appalachian Trail. It is a fascinating chronology of doing a “through–hike. on the AT ─ the whole thing, all 2,172 miles of it, from […]