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    VEON

    VEON

    Social Networking and Lifestyle

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    A new way to keep in touch with anyone, anytime. VEON uses your phone's mobile network or Wi-Fi...

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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated The Kill Switch (Tucker Wayne, #1) in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
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The Kill Switch (Tucker Wayne, #1)
James Rollins | 2014
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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I love James Rollins' Sigma Force series, and I've enjoyed Tucker and Kane's guest appearances, so I was looking forward to reading this story that focused on the two of them and not the whole Sigma team. I was a little nervous about it after seeing another author's name on the cover though. Not because I have anything against Grant Blackwood - I've never read his books - just because I was afraid the book would lose the James Rollins feel, if you know what I mean, but I wasn't disappointed in the writing.

In The Kill Switch, Sigma enlists the help of Tucker and Kane to get a scientist and his daughter out of Russia. They are pursued by the Russian military, secret service agencies, and hired assassins as they try to escape the country and then locate an ancient plant specimen that is the focus of the doctor's work. The story was very enjoyable. I'm looking forward to Tucker and Kane's next adventure, whether that is with Sigma Force or on their own.
  
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David McK (3557 KP) rated The Commodore in Books

Apr 27, 2020  
The Commodore
The Commodore
CS Forester | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Fourth published but chronologically the ninth of CS Forester's Hornblower series of novels, this is the one that is set mainly in and around the Baltic, starting with Hornblower's investiture as Lord of the Manor alongside his second wife, lady Barbara (nee) Wellesley - yes, of that Wellesley name - and with his sole surviving toddler son from his first marriage.

Finding shore life stifling, dull and tedious, Hornblower is (secretly) relieved when he receives a summons from the Admiralty, and is sent off to the Baltic to shore up Britain's interests and (hopefully) stop further French incursion into Sweden and Russia.

As such, this is thus set before Napoleon's disastrous (for the French!) Russian campaign, with the starts of that campaign occurring in the latter pars of this novel: a novel which takes in court intrigue (even meeting the Russian Tsar), sea battles, unusual sailing vessels (the bomb ketches) and land battles before its denouement - a denouement that will see Hornblower return back to Blighty before his next mission.
  
    Snow

    Snow

    Marcus Sedgwick

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    Of all weathers, snow is the one that has always affected Marcus Sedgwick the most. While many...