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Robert Cosgrove
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How might terrorists next strike the United States? Retired FBI agent James Ring weaves a fictional tale based on real possibilities, in Necessary Assets. The good, the bad, and the ugly of the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security, et al.
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Don Zomberg
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VALIANT AMBITION, the second book in Nathaniel Phillbrick's history of the Revolutionary War.
Edited by Don Zomberg on 14 July 2017 at 6:43am
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James Best
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Now starting the latest book from Thomas Friedman... This one is going to take me a while :-) Loved his earlier stuff such as The World Is Flat and The Lexus And The Olive Tree.
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Robert Cosgrove
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Darktown by Thomas Mullen. "Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers . . . The newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers; they aren't allowed to arrest white suspects, drive squad cars, or set foot in the police headquarters. But they carry guns, and they myst bring law enforcement to a deeply mistrustful community." "Darktown" is the black section of Atlanta. Set in the postwar, pre-civl rights South. Ostensibly a murder mystery, but the usual mystery twists take a back seat to the depiction of the black officers and their struggle for respect.
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John Byrne
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THE SILVER AGE ADAM STRANGE OMNIBUSADAM STRANGE was not a series I followed closely when I was a kid, but I have nevertheless nurtured a fondness for the character in the back of my mind. So when I saw this tome on Amazon I ordered a copy at once. It's just so darn sweet! Innocent even. I find myself getting annoyed all over again at the crap that has been forced into the tale.
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Michael Penn
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I just started the series of Travis McGee books by John MacDonald.
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James Best
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Just finished: IQ by Joe Ide, the first novel in the new mystery series featuring Long Beach sleuth Isaiah Quintabe, who has some nice Sherlock skills in his kit bag. One of the best debut novels I have read in a very long time.
Now starting: SEPTEMBER HOPE by John C. McManus, which tells the American side of Operation Market Garden, which is best know to folks as being the subject of the movie A Bridge Too Far.
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Wallace Sellars
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I'm reading L. T. Fawkes' COLD SLICE (Terry Saltz Mystery #1) for the fourth
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William Costello
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Reed Crandall (Illustrator of the Comics) by Roger Hill
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Robert Cosgrove
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Same here, William. An excellent book, well-researched, with lots of great art. Only gripe is the white type on grey ground for the photo and picture captions--hard for my tired old eyes to read.
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Robbie Parry
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Just about to start CARRIE, which, if I have it right, was the first novel Stephen King got published.
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Matthew Chartrand
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Just finished ALOHA FROM HELL by Richard Kadrey. Book three of the Sandman Slim series.
Now starting THE LATE SHOW by Michael Connelly.
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