Up (2009), directed by Pete Docter, tells the tale of Carl Fredricksen, an old man who ties balloons to his house. Ed Asner voices Carl with gruff heart. He lost his wife Ellie. Christopher Plummer acts as Charles Muntz, the explorer gone wrong.
Monthly update 235 • November 2009 • 2009-11-01 - 2009-11-30
In Gone Tomorrow, Reacher spots a potential suicide bomber on a New York subway, triggering a hunt for Al-Qaeda connections and a corrupt politician.
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling sequel to Gaston Leroux’s classic, The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Erik, the Phantom, escapes Paris and starts a new life in New York City at the turn of the 20th century.
Monthly update 234 • October 2009 • 2009-10-01 - 2009-10-31
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he races through Washington, D.C. to save his mentor from a mysterious attacker seeking a Masonic secret.
Monthly update 233 • September 2009 • 2009-09-01 - 2009-09-30
In Frederick Forsyth’s Icon, a political thriller set in a chaotic 1999 Russia, a group of Western powerbrokers stumbles upon a dangerous plot.
Monthly update 232 • August 2009 • 2009-08-01 - 2009-08-31
Monthly update 231 • July 2009 • 2009-07-01 - 2009-07-31
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling Gulf War movie, The Fist of God, things get intense when British and American spies find out about Saddam Hussein’s secret weapon, a super powerful device that could change the whole war.
Monthly update 230 • June 2009 • 2009-06-01 - 2009-06-30
In Robert Ludlum’s The Bancroft Strategy, agent Todd Belknap seeks kidnapped friend Jared Rinehart, intersecting with Andrea Bancroft's probe into her family's foundation and enigmatic Genesis, unveiling a utilitarian cabal.
Monthly update 229 • May 2009 • 2009-05-01 - 2009-05-31
In Frederick Forsyth’s epic espionage novel, “The Deceiver,” seasoned British SIS officer Sam McCready, known for his cunning, is forced to retire as the Cold War ends in 1989.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Ambler Warning, agent Hal Ambler escapes a psychiatric facility, discovering his identity erased.
Monthly update 228 • April 2009 • 2009-04-01 - 2009-04-30
In Robert Ludlum’s The Tristan Betrayal, agent Stephen Metcalfe infiltrates WWII Moscow to sway a German general against invading Russia, rekindling a romance with ballerina Lana amid Nazi pursuits and betrayals.
Monthly update 227 • March 2009 • 2009-03-01 - 2009-03-31
In Frederick Forsyth’s The Negotiator, a high-stakes thriller set in the late 1980s, master negotiator Quinn, a battle-hardened American with a mysterious past, gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when the U.S. President’s son is kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries.
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Directive, ex-agent Paul Janson rescues philanthropist Peter Novak from terrorists, only for the mission to fail spectacularly.
Monthly update 226 • February 2009 • 2009-02-01 - 2009-02-28
In Robert Ludlum’s The Paris Option, co-authored with Gayle Lynds, Covert-One's Jon Smith hunts a DNA computer after a lab explosion in Paris.
Monthly update 225 • January 2009 • 2009-01-01 - 2009-01-31
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