The Fort, by Bernard Cornwell

January 18, 2011

Internationally renowned historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell is perhaps best known for his sword and musket historical adventure novels and for his excellent and action-packed writing. He is one of my favorite historical fiction writers. This time he presents a novel which departs from his usual type: The Fort is a fictionalized account of a [...]

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The Chairman, by Stephen Frey

December 30, 2010

One of the things that make Stephen’s Frey’s novels extremely enjoyable is his detailed knowledge of the financial markets and the investment industry. Another is his ability to create action filled plots with a lot of misdirection. In The Chairman both of these abilities are on display. The book provides an interesting glance into the [...]

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The Golden Keel, by Desmond Bagley

December 29, 2010

Desmond Bagley is one of England’s almost forgotten thriller writers. A great thriller writer, actually, The Golden Keel was his debut novel, and a book that really got him noticed. It is said to have been based on a true story, in the sense that it was a story overheard by Bagley in a bar [...]

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The Temporal Void, by Peter F. Hamilton

December 28, 2010

The sequel to The Dreaming Void continues Peter F. Hamilton’s epic narrative chronicling humankind’s potentially self-destructive search for existential and spiritual fulfillment inside an ever-expanding black hole at the galactic core. The book – and the series – is excellent and very interesting in the sense that it mixes science fiction and fantasy. There are [...]

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David Sklansky: The Theory of Poker

December 27, 2010

David Sklansky is widely recognized as a leading theoretician of poker. In this book he introduces you to the Fundamental Theorem of Poker, its implications, and how it should affect your play. Other chapters in the book discuss the value of deception, bluffing, raising, the slow-play, the value of position, psychology, heads-up play, game theory, [...]

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Hell’s Gate, by Stephen Frey

December 26, 2010

Stephen Frey’s latest novel differs considerably from his previous ones – Stephen Frey is know for his excellent financial thrillers. In Hell’s Gate, Frey takes us out to Big Sky Country – Montana – and away from The Big Apple, Wall Street and the world of finance. And the key character in this book is [...]

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The Wolf Sea, by Robert Low – Vikings

December 25, 2010

This is the second novel in Robert Low’s series about the band of brothers known as the Oathsworn, Vikings from the far North on a quest for glory and riches. They are fiercely independent, committed only to each other, feared by many. In The Wolf Sea, we find the band of Vikings washed up in [...]

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The Servant of the Shard, by R. A. Salvatore

December 24, 2010

R.A. Salvatore’s Servant of the Shard is part of two different series of books. It first appeared the third book in the Paths of Darkness series. Then later it became book one of the Sellswords series after a sequel was published a few years ago. It is classic sword and sorcery fantasy. The two main [...]

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