Tag Archives: thriller

Jennifer Government

Posted on July 15, 2009 by smellincoffee

Jennifer Government © 2003 Max Barry 321 pages A number of years ago some friends and I began playing the online game “NationStates” in which users create a nation and make daily decisions to shape its progress (or descent). The … Continue reading →

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Sleep No More

Posted on June 16, 2009 by smellincoffee

Sleep No More © 2002 Greg Iles 382 pages Circumstances warranting my reading a third Greg Iles this book , which is a bit unusual. I have in times past read two books in one week by the same author, … Continue reading →

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Turning Angel

Posted on June 12, 2009 by smellincoffee

Turning Angel © 2005 Greg Iles 501 pages I didn’t intend to read two books by Greg Iles this week: frankly, I don’t want to exhaust my library’s Iles collection prematurely. As it happens, I finished Third Degree much more … Continue reading →

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Third Degree

Posted on June 11, 2009 by smellincoffee

Third Degree © 2007 Greg Iles 385 pages After being utterly captivated by The Quiet Game last week, reading more of Iles was a foregone conclusion. Although I had intended to read the fantasy-like Sleep No More, my sister — … Continue reading →

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The Quiet Game

Posted on June 4, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Quiet Game© 1999 Greg Iles576 pages Caitlin Masters: “God, I’m trapped in a Southern gothic novel!” (p. 204) Wow. I have rarely been as transfixed by a book as I have in the past two days while reading The … Continue reading →

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The DaVinci Code

Posted on May 17, 2009 by smellincoffee

The DaVinci Code© 2003 Dan Brown454 pages I don’t know that there is any point in introducing this book: given the controversy of its plot developments, I think it is safe to say that the whole of the English-speaking western … Continue reading →

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The Associate

Posted on April 22, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Associate© 2009 John Grisham373 pages I will admit to taking John Grisham for granted. Like old t-shirts and Star Trek, when I begin a Grisham novel I do so with the expectation that I will enjoy it. Grisham rarely … Continue reading →

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The Ghost

Posted on April 5, 2009 by smellincoffee

The Ghost: a Novel© 2007 Robert Harris412 pages I know the Internet is the stuff a paranoiac’s dreams are made of. I know it parcels up everything — Lee Harvey Oswald, Princess Diana, Opus Dei, AL Qaeda, Israel, M16, crop … Continue reading →

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Archangel

Posted on March 23, 2009 by smellincoffee

Archangel: A Novel© 1998 Robert Harris432 pages No one can accuse Robert Harris of same-ness in his settings: after one alternate history mystery novel set in 1975 Nazi Germany, two novels set in ancient Rome, and another set in 1943 … Continue reading →

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Enigma

Posted on March 12, 2009 by smellincoffee

Enigma© 1995 Robert Harris320 pages Publishers are fond of affixing swastikas to book covers when they involve Nazi Germany in any way. Enigma is one such book, as it is a historical action-mystery story set in the grim days of … Continue reading →

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