FICTION
Released: Dec. 11, 2012
"In his third Inspector Trave thriller, Tolkien's plot surpasses his prose, which often lacks subtlety or style. But satisfying twists and authentic WWII elements should keep readers engaged."
In the early years of World War II, a plot as ingenious as it is outrageous unfolds in London and Berlin.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 4, 2012
"A satisfying thriller, with enough evildoers left over to ensure the possibility of another Ryan-Ryan adventure."
In which Jack Ryan, Junior and Senior, take on most of the bad guys in the world. Guess who wins.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"It's not the game, but how well you play it, and Haas plays it very well indeed in what clearly seems a series launch."
Once more to Moscow and the Russian tundra on a supersecret mission goes a solitary hero in a thriller that makes the familiar seem fresh.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 13, 2012
"Ranging from Panama and Mexico to Idaho and Washington, D.C., this book is constantly on the move--one reason it avoids dull spots so well."
The United States is on the brink of approving the fastest, most powerful attack submarine ever when its designer is killed and his plans are stolen. In his efforts to recover a crucial piece of the prototype, superseaman Dirk Pitt faces a series of violent encounters on land and water.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 6, 2012
"A mayhem-rich view of the world through the eyes of mummies and villains, and a lot of fun."
Taut, entertaining archaeological murder mystery–meets-spy thriller by genre-meister Sussman (
The Hidden Oasis, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 30, 2012
"A winning book."
Thomason (
The Rule of Four, 2004) delivers a fast-moving tale that weaves ancient Mayan predictions of the end of the world with modern science.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"An engaging crime caper. This book hits the mark."
The triumvirate writing as Miles Arceneaux (aka Texas authors Brent Douglass, John T. Davis and James R. Dennis) debuts with a hurricane-ravaged thriller in the atmosphere-and-action mode of Sue Grafton's Santa Teresa and James Lee Burke's Cajun country.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2012
"Edward makes Dan Brown look like Shakespeare. And that's a powerful bit of conjuring indeed."
There's no psychic powerful enough to ferret out where celebrity medium Edward mislaid his writing talent, but it certainly isn't in this flaccid suspense novel.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Jason's attempts to reach his son--and to rescue him from his ex-wife's new partner--provide the book's strongest scenes and the key to Jason's redemption."
First-time author Sears does the near impossible in this high-finance thriller: He turns a Wall Street executive who's just served jail time for fudging figures into a sympathetic character.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Ruthless and remorseless James Bond-ian escapades, sans skirt-chasing intervals, in the name of Western ideals."
In Simmons and Graham's (
The Missing Sixth, 2011, etc.) spy thriller, Jake Conlan is called back undercover.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
Fired by the TV station that got sued for libel when she refused to reveal a source, a Boston reporter gets thrown into the even more dangerous shark tank of a U.S. Senate campaign.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 4, 2012
"Brown deserves credit for his prodigious research; no one can possibly argue that he doesn't know his stuff. Every detail in the story feels plausible, which is not to say every detail is necessary."
The latest military thriller by Brown is a workmanlike offering that may please his many fans.
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