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Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post

Dec 9, 2022  
Sneak a peek at the historical suspense noir novel THUNDER ROAD by Colin Holmes on my blog. Watch the book trailer, read the fascinating interview with Mr. Holmes, and enter the giveaway for a chance to win an autographed hardcover copy of the book - three winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-thunder.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake.

When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt to a local mobster. The search takes Sharp from the hideaway poker rooms of Fort Worth's Thunder Road, to the barren ranch lands of New Mexico, to secret facilities under construction in the Nevada desert.

Lethal operatives and an opaque military bureaucracy stand in his way, but when he finds an otherworldly clue and learns President Truman is creating a new Central Intelligence Agency and splitting the Air Force from the Army, Sharp begins to connect dots. And those dots draw a straight line to a conspiracy aiming to cover up a secret that is out of this world⎯literally so.
      
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David McK (3576 KP) rated The Fallen Sword (The Hundred Years War, #3) in Books

Aug 3, 2024 (Updated Aug 3, 2024)  
The Fallen Sword (The Hundred Years War, #3)
The Fallen Sword (The Hundred Years War, #3)
A.J. Mackenzie | 2022
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The third and final entry in AJ MacKenzie's 'The Hundred Years War' series which, truth to be told, did not turn out at all as I expected.

By which I mean I was expecting something Cornwell-like; an action-adventure set during the period of The Hundred Years War between France and England over the throne of France.

What I got instead was a (I felt) slow-burner of a mystery over three novels, with the war really only providing the backdrop as the herald Simon Merrivale investigates a shadowy conspiracy amongst the nobles of both sides

The fault in expectation, of course, was wholly mine.

This follows on from the largely-Scotland set A Clash of Lions, itself following on from A Flight of Arrows, with Merrivale now back in France as the English besiege the key city of Calais. I have to say, I did find parts of this novel to drag on a bit: for me, it never really gripped me as much as parts of the previous entry did. One of those novels (and series) that I'm happy enough to have read, but not to the point where I would - yet - search out more by the author.