Posts about books, reading, and literature.
In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Holcroft Covenant, set in the late 1970s, a New York architect named Noel Holcroft stumbles upon a shocking secret. He’s the heir to a massive fortune linked to a clandestine agreement made by his Nazi officer father and two others during World War II.
In One Shot, a sniper kills five in an Indiana city, but Reacher doubts the accused's guilt and investigates a frame job tied to local corruption.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Chancellor Manuscript, a heart-pounding conspiracy thriller, novelist Peter Chancellor, mourning the loss of his family, uncovers a terrifying rumor: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s death was no accident...
The Enemy flashes back to 1990, with Reacher as an Army MP investigating a general's death that uncovers a conspiracy threatening national security.
In Robert Ludlum’s epic World War II thriller, The Gemini Contenders, a secret vault filled with ancient documents that could shake the very core of Christianity is smuggled out of a Greek monastery in 1939.
In Persuader, Jack Reacher goes undercover in a Maine arms dealer's fortress to rescue a kidnapped agent and settle a decade-old score from his Army days.
In Robert Ludlum’s hilarious satirical thriller, The Road to Gandolfo, written under the pseudonym Michael Shepherd, U.S. Army General MacKenzie Hawkins, a decorated but disgraced war hero, comes up with a crazy plan to kidnap Pope Francesco I and demand a billion dollars for his release.
Lee Child's Without Fail sees Reacher hired to test Secret Service security for the Vice President-elect after credible assassination threats surface.
In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling World War II espionage novel, The Rhinemann Exchange, U.S. intelligence officer David Spaulding embarks on a secret mission in 1943 Buenos Aires.
In Echo Burning, Reacher hitches a ride in Texas with a woman who claims her abusive husband plans to kill her upon his prison release.
In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling conspiracy novel, The Cry of the Halidon, geologist Alex McAuliff is hired by a mysterious corporation to lead a survey in Jamaica’s dangerous Cockpit region.
Lee Child's The Visitor forces Reacher to work with the FBI to profile a serial killer targeting Army women with bizarre, traceless murders.
In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling political thriller, Trevayne, Andrew Trevayne, a wealthy and principled businessman, is chosen to lead a secret government subcommittee investigating corruption in the U.S. defense industry.
In Tripwire, Jack Reacher is digging graves in Key West when a private investigator's murder pulls him into a web of extortion and revenge tied to his military past.
In Robert Ludlum’s thrilling novel, The Matlock Paper, English professor James Matlock gets roped into a dangerous mission by the U.S. Justice Department. He’s tasked with infiltrating a notorious drug trafficking ring operating from fancy New England colleges.
Lee Child's Die Trying sees Jack Reacher kidnapped alongside an FBI agent by a militia group plotting a massive terrorist attack.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Osterman Weekend, a gripping psychological thriller, TV executive John Tanner gets entangled in a dangerous conspiracy when CIA agent Laurence Fassett recruits him to uncover a Soviet plot called “Omega”.
In Lee Child's Killing Floor, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher arrives in the small Georgia town of Margrave and is promptly arrested for a murder he didn't commit.
In Robert Ludlum’s first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, a wild adventure of espionage and betrayal takes place during the tense pre-World War II era.
To ease prison crowding the new president plans to execute long-term inmates, so the Daltons escape the noose the only legal way left, by getting married.
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code thrusts Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon into a thrilling quest after a curator’s murder in the Louvre reveals a trail of clues tied to the Holy Grail.
Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he races to stop an ancient secret society, the Illuminati, from destroying Vatican City with a stolen antimatter device.
It is the thirty-third book in the Asterix series. Aliens land near the village. They want the magic potion for their galactic wars.
The final book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, is an absolute must-read!
Frodo and Sam keep going on their dangerous mission to Mount Doom, with the sneaky Gollum leading the way.