Looks like you’re new here. Get all the fun of 52 Novels as it happens and subscribe by e-mail or subscribe using your favorite RSS feed reader. Might as well. Don’t cost nothin.Yesterday at The Outfit, Marcus Sakey takes a tip from Newsweek and posts his five most important books. It’s a great list, and [...]
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32 I was quite eager to read this book after stumbling across Robert’s blog, called Anatomy of a Book Deal, several months back. The thing, it seemed, was still in edits and I was frothing over it.
I have to say it’s not a bad debut thriller. Jack Donovan, a G-man on the hunt for a [...]
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31 I didn’t finish this book. It didn’t pass my “100 pages” test… if it doesn’t grab me in a hundred pages, I stop reading it.
I can’t put my finger on why this failed for me. The writing was great. I loved the premise.
I think it didn’t pull me in because there wasn’t enough action. [...]
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30 Coming on the heels of Barry Eisler’s REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN, I was pleasantly surprised by this book… mostly because I didn’t expect it to be another non-official operative story.
Jason Peters is an American living abroad—he’s also an assassin with a love of painting seascapes, his dog, and his anonymity. A former mid-level military [...]
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JA Konrath is giving away 1,000 electronic copies of his debut novel, WHISKEY SOUR. Get one while you can!
This is where the Lt. Jack Daniels saga started. Meet Jack’s arch nemesis, the Gingerbread Man, for the first time… and, as always with Konrath, you’ll laugh your booty clean off and shake-in-your-shoes from the non-stop terror!
Here’s [...]
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