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‘Freedom’s Forge’ by Arthur Herman – How US Industry and WW II
"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 not only for the...
Book Review – Dress Her in Indigo – John D. McDonald
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. Travis McGee is the...
Book Review of Robert Tannenbaum’s “Tragic”
Book Review of Robert Tannenbaum's "Tragic" by William F Brown. I used to love this series and read all of Tannenbaum's excellent thriller novels and bought the new book as soon as it came out. Robert K. Tannenbaum has published 25 novels, perhaps a dozen of which...
The Racketeer by John Grisham – Book Review
The Racketeer, by John Grisham. He Is usually the master of the southern legal thriller, with well-known and best-selling books and films such as “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief,” “A Time to Kill,” “The Client,” “The Runaway Jury,” “The Chamber,” and many more. “The...
The Hunter and The Outfit, Richard Stark’s Thriller Novels
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...