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Desperate Passage (The Executioner)
Don Pendleton
Gold Eagle, 2008
Corruption in the Indonesian government reaches new heights when a top-level official sanctions a thriving piracy ring in the region. The profits are helping to fund a new bioterrorism weapon that will ultimately be used against America. When the U.S. State Department officials who unearthed evidence of the whole scheme disappear, Mack Bolan is ...
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A Tale of Two Cities: 150th Anniversary (Signet Classics)
Charles Dickens
Signet Classics, 2007
An Instant Classic
A Tale of Two of Two Cities is a great story and was an instant classic. A very famous quote from this book is "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." If you have read this book you should know this quote by heart.
I really liked this book with all of ...
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The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Vintage, 1998
A Brilliant, Colossal Project That is Worth Every Page
Norman Mailer's book "The Executioner's Song" made me a fan of journalistic fiction. He was capable of using elements from a journalist's world while incorporating the necessary elements to turn this epic project into a beautiful, insightful novel. This combination he ...
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Billy Budd and Other Tales
Herman Melville
Signet Classics, 1998
good and evil
Personally, I thought this was a great book. This book follows a man named Billy Budd through the end of his life spent in the English navy. Although this book had some boring parts, it was overall a great story line. I was impressed with story more than the writing, ...
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Love's Executioner: & Other Tales of Psychotherapy (Perennial Classics)
Irvin D. Yalom
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
The dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology
This excellent book takes an in depth look at the dark and sometimes disturbing world of psychology. Even the therapist sometimes doesn't know what's going on as he takes the journey into the windmills of the mind...very well written and very informative and sometimes ...
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Mission To Burma (Executioner)
Don Pendleton
Gold Eagle, 2008
A CIA asset carrying highly classified information disappears when her plane is shot down over Burma. Two paramilitary rescue teams are sent to track her but are compromised, captured or killed. There's only one person left who might be able to get her?and the intel?back to safety: Mack Bolan. Moving carefully through a maze of inhospitable and ...
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Newes from the Dead
Mary Hooper
Roaring Brook Press, 2008
"I was hanged, but I did not die...."
1650 England, a young woman wakens in darkness 'curled on her side like a wood louse'. She believes she's in Hell. Meanwhile, Robert, a young medical student, sees the eyes fluttering of a hanged murderess who is about to be dissected for the medical school.
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Blood Toll (Don Pendleton's Executioner)
Don Pendleton
Gold Eagle, 2008
Tensions are at an all-time high when Chinese and American fighter jets engage each other over the island of Taiwan. As diplomats point fingers, the situation behind the scenes grows dire. Intelligence reports indicate a terrorist group?backed by high-ranking officials in the Chinese government?has established itself on U.S. soil. Using hi-tech ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens
Penguin Classics, 2003
`It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'
I first read this novel almost 40 years ago. I've just finished rereading: it remains my favourite Charles Dickens novel. `A Tale of Two Cities' was initially published in weekly instalments over 31 weeks in 1859: it is historical fiction, encompassing the period ...
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Vintage, 1997
A Study That Can't Be Ignored -- but the Kindle Version Needs Work
"Hitler's Willing Executioners" is without doubt a highly important work that no one wishing to understand 20th-century history can afford to ignore. In this review, however, I will focus on the Kindle version.
The Kindle version has significant problems. First, ...
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The Executioner Always Chops Twice: Ghastly Blunders on the Scaffold
Geoffrey Abbott
St. Martin's Press, 2004
Michelle's review
This book was really interesting and informative. I had no idea all that went on.
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Black Death Reprise (Executioner)
Don Pendleton
Gold Eagle, 2008
BLACK DEATH REDUX
This is #353 in the Executioner/Mack Bolan series and concerns the Black Death from the 14th century being revisited to contemporary innocent victims.
The action moves from France to Australia to America, on the eastern seaboard in the vicinity of Boston. Bolan is ...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
Charles Dickens
Dover Publications, 1998
Epic tale of the Human Spirit
Was Charles Dickens a poet? Conversely, perhaps his structure and style are no longer suited to today's rushed lifestyle, as some reviewers lament. I believe Dickens is one of the most magnificent story tellers ever to put pen to paper, portraying vivid landscapes ...
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Aristocrat in the French Revolution!: A Horrible Time in Paris You'd Rather Avoid ...
Jim Pipe
Childrens Press, 2007
How do you explain the guillotine to a 4 year old?
My sons love the soundtrack to Les Miserable. I found myself explaining to them (they're 4 and 7) about the French revolution. Strange enough, then I discovered this book. They (and I) LOVED it!! It's silly, yet historically accurate. They've gone on to read a few ...
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Extreme Justice (The Executioner)
Don Pendleton
Gold Eagle, 2008
It was supposed to be an open-and-shut case against a high-ranking mobster on trial for conspiring to aid Middle Eastern terrorists in a series of brutal attacks against the U.S. But the so-called ?last don? of New York City is likely to be acquitted when mercenary hit teams kill every prosecution witness except one. Gilbert Favor is a retired ...
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