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THE WHITE TOWER, by Dorothy Johnston

by Rob @ 52 Novels on July 22, 2007

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.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 [...]

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GATES OF HADES, by Gregg Loomis

by Rob @ 52 Novels on July 18, 2007

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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REQUIEM FOR AN ASSASSIN, by Barry Eisler

by Rob @ 52 Novels on July 10, 2007

29 I’m finally up to date with the Rain series and it was worth every word.
The sixth installment in Eisler’s awesome hit man thriller series didn’t disappoint. Our hero comes to the U.S. to try and put his bloody past behind him once and for all by taking out his new arch nemesis, the rogue [...]

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SWEETIE’S DIAMONDS, by Raymond Benson

by Rob @ 52 Novels on July 3, 2007

28 I had high hopes for this book.
I used to work in the diamond biz, so I like to see how accurately people depict the industry. Konrath gave the book a nice blurb, and the other blurbs on the cover were good, too.

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THE LAST ASSASSIN, by Barry Eisler

by Rob @ 52 Novels on June 27, 2007

27 Just when I thought the action in a John Rain thriller couldn’t get any better… it does! Times a thousand.
As if the stakes for Rain weren’t always high, Eisler’s gone and propelled them to the stratosphere with THE LAST ASSASSIN. Rain’s lost love Midori and their newborn son are threatened by Rain’s old nemesis, [...]

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