Il dossier Hadrian

The Hadrian Memorandum, excellent read. Everything stopped in my household as I read the continuation story of Nick Martin, aka John prior LAPD detective. Nick has received a call from his friend, the President of the USA, to go to an African nation, undercover as a landscaper. Nick is a landscaper f Leggi tutto

A great followup to The Machiavelli Covenant and The Exile. An enjoyable trilogy with lots of action without the feeling of trying to fit too much in. Folsom's novels flow easily and the characters are well defined. This was a complicated read, but the author very smartly refreshed vital points alon Leggi tutto

Nicholas Marten, a landscape architect with a hidden past as an L.A. Police Detective, becomes involved in a misadventure in Equatorial Guinea that throws him headlong into tribal rebellion as well as murder and intrigue involving global oil interests, and possible international conflict, embroiling Leggi tutto

I stayed up way too late to finish it, which is definitely a good sign! It's a good thriller, with a great slow build up to an exciting chase, the usual fun. Unfortunately, like most thrillers, I was disapointed with the ending, though that's not the author's fault - when a whole book is suspenseful Leggi tutto

This overwritten, overlong thriller is nothing else if not cleverly plotted. The problem comes when the author keeps invading the mind of his characters with meaningless soliloquizing. "If I do that, he will do that etc.." This becomes tedious and breaks the rhythm of the story which is a good one.I Leggi tutto

A very complex and well written thriller. With as many twists and turns that this one takes it will serve the reader well to pay close attention to all of the action and who is playing for what team. The main character is actually Nicholas Marten of whom two books have been written previously. Stran Leggi tutto

Wow. I have never read a book with a format like this (the story being told hour by hour, sometimes minute by minute) and if I can find more that are anything like the Hadrian Memorandum it will not be my last. This really was a book that I had a hard time putting down. At one point I just wanted it Leggi tutto

This is the third Allan Folsum book that I have read. I really enjoyed the Day after Tomorrow (4.5 stars) and liked Day of Confession (4 stars). As I was reading this book, I wondered what had happened - was this written by the same author? I was thinking that this was a 2 star book. Thankfully, the Leggi tutto

This could have been so much better in my opinion. The excessive language was over the top at times and was worse as the book went. I should have cut my loses after 100 or so pages but I kept going. The storyline was okay, the ending plausible and overall good. I won’t read this author again.