A Fugitive Englishman
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Edwin James reaches the height of his professional career in the law when, on the brink of being...
The Heist
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Gabriel Allon, master art restorer and assassin, returns in a spellbinding new thriller from No.1...
Limit: Part 1
Shaun Whiteside, Frank Schatzing, Jamie Searle and Samuel Willcocks
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Helium-3 is a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems - and it's been...
Neptune's Brood
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Neptune's Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted...
Pelagia and the Red Rooster: The Third Sister Pelagia Mystery
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The next caper in the Sister Pelagia mystery from the bestselling author of THE WINTER QUEEN....
Ruth Frampton (577 KP) rated ISAN - International Sensory Assassin Network in Books
Jun 25, 2020
The search for the story of the main characters past and why she is now an assassin is an intriguing idea and is well told. The author leaves it on a good cliff hanger which made me go straight into reading the second book in the series, I'll review that separately.
The characters felt realistic and believable, the plot, whilst set in a dystopian future, was believable and kept up the mystery of what had actually happened making it fitting for whatever the reader chose.
Definitely worth a read.
Reviewed freely after receiving an ARC copy.
In the Line of Fire (1993)
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A gripping, gut-wrenching thriller that delivers suspense in almost unbearable doses, IN THE LINE OF...
From the Kop to the Kelpies: The Alex Totten Story
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In an incredible 50-year football career Alex Totten has seen service at some of Scotland's biggest...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Saga, Vol. 2 in Books
Jan 6, 2021
I read the first volume of this years ago and was intrigued by why these two characters were causing a war across almost all the universe and this one explains it a lot more. They are from rival sides of a war and Marko was Alana's prisoner after he handed himself in. They grew closer and she eventually helps him escape his imprisonment. Fast forward a while and almost every assassin in the galaxy is after them. They get interrupted by Marko's parents who cause havoc for a while and we see a few childhood scenes.
I do quite like this series but it isn't grabbing me as much as the other recent Graphic Novel I read is. I'm intrigued as to what's going to happen in the end and if the trio will survive and win the war against everyone who's gunning for them.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Manchurian Candidate (1962) in Movies
May 8, 2021
Sounds a bit like a Red Scare movie, but surprisingly apolitical: the main villain seems to be more fascist than communist, and even the Russian characters appear to have corrupted by American consumerism. Instead, the focus is more on character, and the damage done to people by their experiences in wartime. An intelligent and cynical movie, well-played for the most part, and with an astonishingly good turn from Angela Lansbury. Inevitably linked in the culture to the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers in the 1960s, but still feels remarkably un-dated.