The Tango Briefing. Adam Hall.
The Tango Briefing.Adam Hall Pretty bad adventure/spy novel. This has two appealing aspects. First, Hall is not obsessed with either technology or violence, so one does not become … Read more »
The Tango Briefing.Adam Hall Pretty bad adventure/spy novel. This has two appealing aspects. First, Hall is not obsessed with either technology or violence, so one does not become … Read more »
The Da Vinci Code.Dan Brown.2003 The writing is mediocre. The characters are utterly unbelievable. The plot is ridiculous. Yet the book is the best-selling adult novel in years: … Read more »
King Solomon’s Mines.by H. Rider Haggard. Supposedly the first African adventure novel, this book contains interesting details of the white man’s experience of Africa circa 1885, but since … Read more »
The Five Flamboys.Francis Beeding. Little, Brown: 1929. This mystery/adventure gets a regular guy involved in an international espionage scheme involving the overthrow of the Roumanian government. It’s truly … Read more »
The books I blog are generally ones I read 3-4 years ago (I keep a handwritten journal. I am a nerd.) So, rather than wait that long to … Read more »
Genesis.W. A. Harbinson.Dell: 1982. Mad genius joins the Nazi’s in the 30’s to build flying saucers. By the 1970’s, he is starting to control world governments from his … Read more »
Twelve Trains to Babylonby Alfred Connable.Little, Brown: 1971. Jon is a spy, transferred to America several years ago. His job is to transfer messages or suitcases from one … Read more »
A Skeleton in God’s Closetby Paul Meier.Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1996 A fast-paced archaeological thriller about the discovery of Jesus’ bones. Since it was published by a Christian … Read more »
Memoirs of an Invisible Manby H. F. Saint. My penchant for invisible man stories has already been stated; this one is an excellent adventure. It is essentially an … Read more »
Toxin Robin Cook. Berkley: 1999. Called by the AP a “heavyweight of a book” and the “most socially significant work” of Cook’s, and recommended by my father as … Read more »