FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"A book that offers lots of action and gloomy shadows but not much dramatic traction. "
Washington, D.C., is the setting for this John Grisham-style thriller about a recent Harvard Law graduate who gets in way over his head at a sinister consulting and PR firm that will stop at nothing to control all 500 of the capital's top movers and shakers.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Provocative, with strong action sequences, but weak in character development and plotting."
In the near future, a schoolteacher with a cranially implanted "amp" must master an array of hidden talents when a wave of bigotry against those like him threatens to tear the country apart.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Starr doesn't let plot development or characterization impede the flow of violence or improbable twists and turns in this tale about a guy who parents by allowing his 3-year-old to hang out with people-eating werewolves."
Jason Starr continues the saga of regular-guy-turned-werewolf that he began with
The Pack (2011).
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"The book has its share of entertaining oddities, but they aren't enough to make it more than a run-of-the-mill thriller. "
The latest installment in Tanenbaum's long-running Karp-Ciampi series (
Escape, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"Classic Cussler: testosterone-driven action, over-the-horizon technical wizardry, beautiful and talented women and exotic locations."
Cussler (
Devil's Gate, 2011, etc.), with co-author Brown, dips into the NUMA Files for another Kurt Austin action-on-the-sea escapade.
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FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"If you enjoy multiplayer shooting games and know or want to learn more about weapons systems, this book is for you."
Capitalizing on the success of the memoir Wasdin wrote with Stephen Templin,
Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper (2011), the pair returns with a cartoonish novel.
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FICTION
Released: May 29, 2012
"With dialogue that can go off like gunfire and a streak of nostalgia that feels timeless, this book takes its place among espionage novels as an instant classic."
In 1945 Istanbul, Allied veteran Leon Bauer is running spy missions under the cover of a U.S. tobacco-importing business.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"An ably told tale that will keep you entertained during a long plane ride or a few idle hours. But like some of Peter's friends who lose their memories, you may not long recall having read this book."
An adequate thriller set in a world that includes demons, witches, warlocks and New Yorkers.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"The Nazis are determined to have the last gruesome laugh in this efficient doomsday thriller. "
One of the only survivors of a bizarre holocaust in Miami caused by lethal red flakes falling from the sky, NCIS agent Lincoln Miller must defuse a late-developing plot hatched by the Nazis to reboot the planet with Aryans by killing everyone else.
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FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"Damn good."
Deutermann's latest (
Nightwalkers, 2009, etc.) is a strong thriller that mixes archaeology, history and geopolitics.
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FICTION
Released: May 15, 2012
"Acceptable action. Vague villainy. Intriguing milieu."
Even though he's a Bow Street Runner, Matthew Hawkwood can get caught up in international intrigue.
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FICTION
Released: May 8, 2012
"Though this is McDonald's first adult novel, it boasts the assurance and authority of a veteran spymaster, making us feel like we've been reading this author for years. "
Living in Paris in 2004, former CIA spy Shawn Maguire accepts a freelance job to find an Iranian named Darius Osmani.
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