Posts about books, reading, and literature.
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.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, is a true gem of fantasy literature.
J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a classic fantasy adventure that immerses readers in the enchanting realm of Middle-earth.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes' is the final collection of twelve short stories featuring the great detective and Dr. Watson, including classics like The Three Garridebs and The Lion's Mane, showing an older Holmes still at the peak of his powers.
When Jolly Jumper falls for a Quebec mare, Lucky Luke travels north into French speaking Canada and finds himself facing a greedy banker and his gang.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'His Last Bow' is the fourth collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, featuring eight gripping cases including a dramatic World War I espionage tale that shows an older Holmes emerging from retirement to serve his country.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Valley of Fear' has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating a coded message and a brutal murder at an English manor, uncovering a dark secret from America's violent coal mines and a ruthless secret society.
Buffalo Bill turns the Daltons into the loveable stars of his Wild West show, and the real Daltons break out to claim the fame for themselves.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' brings the great detective back from the dead after Reichenbach Falls, delivering thirteen brilliant cases full of deduction, danger, and the unbreakable bond with Dr. Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the foggy moors of Devon to solve the mystery of a legendary spectral hound that has terrorised the Baskerville family for centuries.
Lucky Luke is sent to protect the painter Frederic Remington, who dreams of painting a great Native American chief and must enter tribal land to do it.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes' is the second collection of eleven short stories featuring the world's greatest detective and Dr. Watson, including the dramatic Reichenbach Falls confrontation and the famous Silver Blaze mystery.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' is the first collection of twelve short stories featuring the world's greatest detective and Dr. Watson solving baffling crimes with sharp observation and deduction in Victorian London.
The Daltons break out alongside a wild-eyed prophet and set up in a strange town with no sheriff, no saloon, no bank and no money to steal.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of Four' sends Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson after the Agra treasure when mysterious pearls arrive for Mary Morstan, leading to murder, a one-legged convict, and a thrilling Thames boat chase.
Arthur Conan Doyle's 'A Study in Scarlet' introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve a baffling murder in Victorian London using revolutionary methods of observation and deduction, launching the world's most famous detective.
Marcel Dalton, the honest Swiss banker uncle of the Dalton brothers, buys a bank in the West and hires his outlaw nephews as guards, hoping to make honest men of them.