Book Review

[Over-Head]

Traveling 25mins on a ferry everyday go to and coming home from work gives me a lot of time to catch up on my reading.

I’m a fan of Jack Higgins,
so I tried John Clarkson’s "One Man’s Law".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0425142493/103-9324340-9227841?v=glance&n=283155


The plot moved along good, descent action, great character chemistry.

Basic plot is like that of "Dillion" the character Jack Higgens created.
On another adventure, only this guy has the moves of "Dirk Pitt" from Clive Cussler, and is as nasty as Richard Marcinko from "Rouge Warrior fame.

In this book our hero Jack Devlin is a former Nam tough guy, looking into the murder of his army hero/ buddy Billy.
-Meets up with the inevatable bad guy’s who’s leader turns (oh say you didn’t expect it) madman who our hero MUST take down.
-He get’s the girl,
-yadda, yadda, yadda.
The book is well written, and combines just enough action with story line to make the 355 pages fly.

All in all I give it a 8..
-It’d be 9 if it were not for the well used and often repeated premise of the story line.
Former CIA/ARMY/Special Op’s/Seal/Street Cop going private working for some one else as a free lance investigator who happens to have no problem killing people only when necessary.
-And the way he ends the book

I look forward to reading his first novel "And Justice for One", then "One way Out"

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Traveling 25mins on a ferry everyday go to and coming home from work gives me a lot of time to catch up on my reading.



What's his name?

[Over-Head]

What's his name?
It’s name would be either MV "Flanders" or MV "Nonia".

[Fish]

Ever read any Stephen Hunter? He has a couple decent books about a character very similar.... Point of Impact and Time to Hunt are a couple good ones of his.

Also check out The Black Cross, by Greg Iles. Very interesting character set in WWIIish dealing with nerve gas.... pretty good read as well....

[Adept Havelock]

Higgins is great. Oberst Felix Steiner and Liam Devlin are two of my favorite fictional characters ever.
Donald Sutherland made a superb Devlin in "The Eagle has Landed".

[BucEyedPea]

Romantic comedy or trashy romance novels for light reading such as:


Susan Elizabeth Phillips Romantic Comedy Novels (http://www.susanephillips.com/books.html)

Witty and very humorous…turned me into a football fan due to a hilarious WR as a lead character.

Lisa Kleypas Historical Romance Novels (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/lisa-kleypas/)

This one made me a Buc fan…..

"The newlywed bride of a Creole aristocrat, Celia Vallerand prays for deliverance from the blood thirsty brigands who abducted her from a New Orleans-bound schooner. Though she believes her beloved husband slain and despairs for her own life, the shy French beauty fears above all the dashing privateer who pays a king's ransom to claim her ... and boldly risks capture to possess her. The most notorious pirate of the open seas, he is called "the Griffin" — a rugged and powerful renegade who arouses within Celia desires as dangerous as they are irresistible. But the magnificent adventurer is a man trapped in a perilous deception-and he guards a shocking secret that could deny him the love of the gossamer-haired enchantress who stirs his manly passions and enslaves his heart"....you get the idea.



And historical tomes and politics for serious reading … like Atilla the Hun’s biography to read during the hurricanes or Von Mises treatise : Socialism