Smashbomb

Those of you that love sci-fi reading either know of or should be familiar with Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" series.
It's a futuristic Robin Hood style story with the action and intrigue of James Bond with the moral flexibility of Han Solo.
It's amazing that this has never made it to the big screen, seeing as how it has most genres covered: action, mystery, thriller, romance, science, technology, fantasy, sci-fi, politics and family.

It's easy reading, go enjoy the trip.

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Paige (428 KP) Jul 28, 2017

Thanks for reminding me of that series. I enjoyed it, too. May be time for a reread.

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Trish (4 KP) rated The Whispering Room: A Jane Hawk Novel in Books

Feb 8, 2018

READ THE SILENT CORNER FIRST!!!

This book picked up right where the first left off. Jane Hawk is a smart, bad ass heroine. She astonished me at every move. The situation she has put herself in is quite a difficult one. The technological intrigue makes you wonder what is real and what is not in my own life. Who can really track us and to what extent. Human nanotechnology? This book really caught my attention and I can't wait for the next one!!

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Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Disappearing Act in Books

Mar 1, 2018

I made it about 100 pages in, then lost patience. The story began well enough, then got bogged down in planetary politics and industrial intrigue. Too many people are introduced, but the reader is given no reason to care about them. I probably would have enjoyed reading about the "replaced" character far more than the protagonist. Too bad--I adored Riva from [book:Mathemagics], and would love to read more in that universe, but otherwise it seems that Ball's work just isn't for me.

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ClareR (5726 KP) rated The Failsafe Query in Books

May 26, 2018

The Failsafe Query

Michael Jenkins | 2018 | Crime, Thriller

9.0

(2 Ratings)

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A bit of a personal eye-opener!

This isn’t my usual type of book at all, but I’m glad I read it - very entertaining and fast paced. It did require a bit of concentration with all of the intrigue, back story, twists and turns, but I think I ‘got it’ in the end! I can’t say as I’ve ever really read a book based on espionage before, but thanks to The Pigeonhole (again!) I tried it and I liked it.