Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva Harper, $26.99, 448 pages, ISBN 978-0-06-207218-4 We’re reviewing a thriller by one of the big-guns in MBR number 40. The book is Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva. Daniel Silva is hands down, the best international thriller and spy novelist writer in the genre today. If you liked Ian Fleming, John LeCarre, or Robert Ludlum at the top of their game,
The Detachment by Barry Eisler Thomas and Mercer, $9.99 E-Book, ISBN 1612181554 My morning alarm is a radio, set to the local National Public Radio, or NPR station. I mention this because one morning a few days ago the discussion was an interview with a thriller writer named Barry Eisler, about his new book, which will be the subject of this week’s MBR NO. 27. Eisler is an author
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Putnam, $25.95, 354 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-15748-6) Some of the best thrillers and mysteries are driven by the idea that an ordinary woman or man is somehow caught up in an extraordinary situation. Time and place, or circumstances and events force the protagonist to act. Maybe it’s fate, maybe it’s not, but he or she is inexorably compelled to get involved. The Ranger is just
Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Putnam, $26.95, 435 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-15741-7) Have you ever thought about your dreams, noticed how real they seem when you’re asleep? But then when you awake, it’s just in time to escape, or lose the elusive goal that’s always just out of reach? That’s how mine end anyway. But what if you couldn’t wake up? What if your nightmare never ended? What then? How would
Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane (Harper Collins, $26.99, 325 pages, ISBN # 978-0-06-183692-3) I have to preface this week’s Mysterious Book Report by saying that I’ve never read a novel by Dennis Lehane that I didn’t like. Mystic River, The Given Day and ShutterIsland all grabbed me and never let go. Lehane’s newest, Moonlight Mile (Harper Collins, $26.99, 325 pages, ISBN # 978-0-06-183692-3) is no exception. Highly entertaining and