In Search Of Mercy by Michael Ayoob (Minotaur, $24.99, 293 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-64492-5) I just finished reading a new, award-winning first novel by a young upcoming writer named Michael Ayoob, for whom I predict a major writing career. IN SEARCH OF MERCY features an unlikely private eye named Dexter Bozjak. He’s twenty-something and mentally depressed, lives in Pittsburgh, where his only accomplishment in life until now, was to be
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens (Crown, $23.00, 307 page, ISBN 978-0-307-71709-2) When I first picked up The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens, I did so because of the praise it was receiving from authors like Vince Flynn, Tess Gerritsen and Colin Harrison, among others, and I wasn’t disappointed. They were all spot-on. This debut novel features a heroine named Vanessa Munroe, known as “Michael.” She deals in information, through her
Gideon's Sword by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing, $26.99, 342 pages, ISBN 978-0-446-56432-8) Gideon's Sword is another thrill ride from two of my favorite authors who introduce a brand new character named Gideon Crew in this one. The adventure starts on the first page and never lets up as Gideon fulfills his mothers dying wish to avenge his father’s murder, but that chore is only the