Hilger showdown.
Which shows that even smart guys can do dumb things. Hilger and what is left of his crew kidnap Dox as a lever to get Rain to perform some assassinations for them. All part of a greater do something about the oil plot involving suborning a port official.
So yeah, Rain wants to kill him. And that usually works, especially if the CIA and Mossad want him dead too.
4 out of 5
Friday, January 27, 2012
Darkness Falling - Peter Crowther
The Langoliers meets Invasion of the Zombie Body Snatchers.
Or a few people left around after a strange electromagnetic incident find out that the fellow that all wear shades and gloves are out to get them. And something is in their heads.
3.5 out of 5
Or a few people left around after a strange electromagnetic incident find out that the fellow that all wear shades and gloves are out to get them. And something is in their heads.
3.5 out of 5
Thursday, January 26, 2012
The Last Assassin - Barry Eisler
Here's a three-way teamup for Rain and company as a dying Tatsu has a request. Finally get rid of Yamaoto so he can expire in peace.
Rain agrees and convinces Delilah to help. Things get messy when Midori and his son are endangered by Rain's existence as they are a link to find him. Yamaoto being hard to get to has to get drawn out of hiding by the good old make him think his business partner is out to get him trick.
So it is highpriced nightclub assault time.
4 out of 5
Rain agrees and convinces Delilah to help. Things get messy when Midori and his son are endangered by Rain's existence as they are a link to find him. Yamaoto being hard to get to has to get drawn out of hiding by the good old make him think his business partner is out to get him trick.
So it is highpriced nightclub assault time.
4 out of 5
Wind Slayers - Robert W. Walker
A lot is packed into this novel, the third of a series of which I have not read the other two.
A special unit of cops gets some dangerous situations in a unit that bears the series name.
Their lead also had Internal Affairs and FBI problems. As well as wanting some vigilante revenge about the people that kidnapped his family.
Plenty is packed into this one - crimelords, assassins, dumb hoods, partners who are partners, shootouts, insane actors and their even worse mothers so the first two should have some interest, too.
This is the opposite of slow, despite the length.
3.5 out of 5
A special unit of cops gets some dangerous situations in a unit that bears the series name.
Their lead also had Internal Affairs and FBI problems. As well as wanting some vigilante revenge about the people that kidnapped his family.
Plenty is packed into this one - crimelords, assassins, dumb hoods, partners who are partners, shootouts, insane actors and their even worse mothers so the first two should have some interest, too.
This is the opposite of slow, despite the length.
3.5 out of 5
Zombie Kong - James Roy Daley
A man is swallowed by a giant undead ape and his spousal unit has to try and get him back.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Creeping Death - Maxwell Grant
The Shadow has to deal with a madman who wants all the world's gold supply - employing his own titular method of getting rid of people to help him to get there. Even if they are Secret Service agents.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Killing Rain - Barry Eisler
This time it is the Mossad that wants Rain to remove someone - thanks to Delilah's recommendation. And interestingly a couple of small sections are told from Delilah's point of view - sign of increasing importance?
Things go pear-shaped when he is about to knock off his explosives expert target and the man's kid walks in on them. So he just does over a bodyguard or two and a couple of ex-CIA guys. Who are in league with Hilger from the last book.
So he and Dox have to try and get this done so everybody is happy and doesn't want to kill them - Hilger's mob, the Israeli gunman or the CIA.
Add in a newly found nuclear weapons expert of the bad sort to complicate matters.
3.5 out of 5
Things go pear-shaped when he is about to knock off his explosives expert target and the man's kid walks in on them. So he just does over a bodyguard or two and a couple of ex-CIA guys. Who are in league with Hilger from the last book.
So he and Dox have to try and get this done so everybody is happy and doesn't want to kill them - Hilger's mob, the Israeli gunman or the CIA.
Add in a newly found nuclear weapons expert of the bad sort to complicate matters.
3.5 out of 5
Shades of Gray - Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge
The second Icarus project book follows on from the first, as Jet and Iridium deal with the breakdown of the drug and mind control of the Extrahuman population of the USA.
To do so involves one of the good old methods - ask some of the less nasty villains rotting in prison for help. Which of course includes Iridium's father. Some flashbacks in his life are interesting, as well as the history of some of the Corp slaves and head honchos.
And it appears more help is out there to deal with crazed mutated people monsters.
3.5 out of 5
To do so involves one of the good old methods - ask some of the less nasty villains rotting in prison for help. Which of course includes Iridium's father. Some flashbacks in his life are interesting, as well as the history of some of the Corp slaves and head honchos.
And it appears more help is out there to deal with crazed mutated people monsters.
3.5 out of 5
ToxiCity - Libby Fischer Hellman
A young policewoman is involved with a detective in the same force. A distinct no-no by the regulations. He is trying to solve multiple poisoning murders and deal with what happens after they get caught. They both have other women expressing interest in them as a result of the case, which doesn't make things easier. Especially when it appears that the father of the rich cop chaser is the developer that did the project that is the root problem of the series of murders.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Master of the House of Darts - Aliette de Bodard
A third solid entry in this series as now High Priest Acatl has to deal with murder and worse in a magical epidemic. As he has grown to realise more and more, these things are usually the results of a power struggle from those passed over or yet to come into more power - even if your relatives or students.
And monsters. They seem to always use monsters.
3.5 out of 5
And monsters. They seem to always use monsters.
3.5 out of 5
Rain Storm - Barry Eisler
Not quite as strong as the first two. Here Rain follows through on his plans to decamp to Brazil for security reasons, in a couple of stages. However, the CIA pulls him back into, wanting him to dispose of an arms dealer. It isn't as simple as that though, pointing out that the CIA right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. As in attempting to hire an old sniper acquaintance from Afghanistan named Dox to get rid of Rain. This pleases neither of these gentlemen. Further complications ensue as he discovers his target's current girlfriend is actually a Mossad spy.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Dark Prince - David Gemmell
The son of Philip of Macedon?
Alexander of Macedon.
Yeah, that Great guy with the big black horse that took a fancy to taking over the world. First he has to survive being a kid and kidnapped into another universe that still has centaurs and minotaurs. Then getting Greece together with Parmenion's help so they have enough of an army to go and take the Persian Empire away from Darius.
All the while battling Chaos plots to take over Alexander.
3.5 out of 5
Alexander of Macedon.
Yeah, that Great guy with the big black horse that took a fancy to taking over the world. First he has to survive being a kid and kidnapped into another universe that still has centaurs and minotaurs. Then getting Greece together with Parmenion's help so they have enough of an army to go and take the Persian Empire away from Darius.
All the while battling Chaos plots to take over Alexander.
3.5 out of 5
Ghost College - Scott Nicholson and J. R. Rain
First of the Ghost Files series apparently.
A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair banter back and forth in this investigation of a young girl's spirit from old history of the school. So if looking for something breezy, a good choice.
3.5 out of 5
A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair banter back and forth in this investigation of a young girl's spirit from old history of the school. So if looking for something breezy, a good choice.
3.5 out of 5
Monday, January 23, 2012
The Bell - Paul Lewis and Steve Lockley
A man goes on holiday, looking for a fairdinkum old fashioned Welsh put to stay it. He finds one including the odd inhabitants who don't look too happy. The couple that owns the place are happy to feed and beer him but when he asks for a room they encourage him not to stay.
As apparently in the past one town killed all the other when there was a plague and when it gets dry enough for the Lake to go down a bone monster comes hunting.
3.5 out of 5
As apparently in the past one town killed all the other when there was a plague and when it gets dry enough for the Lake to go down a bone monster comes hunting.
3.5 out of 5
Face of Evil - Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin
Dead Man 1
A man goes skiing with his more competent girlfriend and ends up getting caught in an avalanche.
Some history found out in flashbacks of the relationship between him and his best friend as three months later he thaws out and comes back to life.
His best friend now something evil that needs to be dealt with and a supernatural man keeps appearing to him.
3.5 out of 5
A man goes skiing with his more competent girlfriend and ends up getting caught in an avalanche.
Some history found out in flashbacks of the relationship between him and his best friend as three months later he thaws out and comes back to life.
His best friend now something evil that needs to be dealt with and a supernatural man keeps appearing to him.
3.5 out of 5
Zombiestan - Mainak Dhar
A special forces operation in Afghanistan comes across something disturbing. Taliban enemies that don't die if you shoot them. Also like to bite their foes.
As tends to happen in these things, this disease spreads exponentially. Those affected show the ability to actually learn. Use tools like rocks and then guns and even vehicles.
In the midst of this an elderly academic, a navy seal, a young man, a young man and her young brother have to try to get to safety because they have something more important than anything else. A boy that has been bitten and not turned into a 'Jiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaad' moaning monster.
3.5 out of 5
As tends to happen in these things, this disease spreads exponentially. Those affected show the ability to actually learn. Use tools like rocks and then guns and even vehicles.
In the midst of this an elderly academic, a navy seal, a young man, a young man and her young brother have to try to get to safety because they have something more important than anything else. A boy that has been bitten and not turned into a 'Jiiiiiiiihhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaad' moaning monster.
3.5 out of 5
Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Wayfarer's Advice - Melinda M. Snodgrass
I still love you, even if you destroyed your fleet and made a whole planet commit suicide.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Pounding your head might fix it. - Mark McLaughlin and Kyra M. Schon
Pounding your head might fix it.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Anything Can Be Dangerous - Matt Hults
A decent short horror collection with the title story the strongest.
Anything Can Be Dangerous : ANYTHING CAN BE DANGEROUS - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : FEEDING FRENZY - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : THE FINGER - Matt Hults
Blind dates and bad plastic bags.
3.5 out of 5
Cook not eaten.
3 out of 5
Arrowed and shot down in the good old burial ground.
3.5 out of 5
Possibly not dead.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Anything Can Be Dangerous : ANYTHING CAN BE DANGEROUS - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : FEEDING FRENZY - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : THROUGH THE VALLEY OF DEATH - Matt Hults
Anything Can Be Dangerous : THE FINGER - Matt Hults
Blind dates and bad plastic bags.
3.5 out of 5
Cook not eaten.
3 out of 5
Arrowed and shot down in the good old burial ground.
3.5 out of 5
Possibly not dead.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Through the Valley of Death - Matt Hults
Arrowed and shot down in the good old burial ground.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Mystery Short Stories Vol 1 - N. C. Hyzy
A decent short collection of crime stories with the first the better of the two.
Mystery Stories Vol 1 : Strictly Business - N. C. Hyzy
Mystery Stories Vol 1 : Panic - N. C. Hyzy
Killing Uncle Fred didn't go so well, Susan.
3.5 out of 5
Got Carrie.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Mystery Stories Vol 1 : Strictly Business - N. C. Hyzy
Mystery Stories Vol 1 : Panic - N. C. Hyzy
Killing Uncle Fred didn't go so well, Susan.
3.5 out of 5
Got Carrie.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Three Survived - Robert Silverberg
Simple kid's book as the author explains in an intro for this republication.
A spaceship's overdrive fails, much damage to craft, so bailing out to a planet is necessary, where three disparate characters have to try and survive the environment and aliens. An intuitive synthesist, a logician and a strong guy.
2.5 out of 5
A spaceship's overdrive fails, much damage to craft, so bailing out to a planet is necessary, where three disparate characters have to try and survive the environment and aliens. An intuitive synthesist, a logician and a strong guy.
2.5 out of 5
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