end of April: thrillers
May. 1st, 2009 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eviltammyThe Unseen by T.L. Hines - Lucas is an urban explorer, exploring buildings, going into places he's not supposed to go. Then he meets a member of a group of explorers, who've taken the exploring a bit further - and then he's approached by another man who wants him to spy on the group. Group members begin to die and Lucas is named as the killer. And to clear himself, he must dig into his past and hunt for the memories he doesn't have before he becomes the next victim. Mostly positive - the urban explorer stuff that Lucas and the group do was interesting and kind of creepy to think about, but the ultimate conspiracy part was a bit too much. But a good read.(A to Z title, S/T, 100 bks)
Waking Lazarus by T.L. Hines - Jude Allman died three times. Not just heart-stopped & resuscitated - but clinically dead for much too long to come back from. Yet he did. Now a paranoid recluse using an assumed name to escape publicity and miracle seekers, Jude is visited by a strange woman who declares he has a purpose in life he must fulfill. He has no idea of her meaning - he's missing lots of his memories of his childhood, but it soon becomes clear. He has a gift of clairvoyance and needs to use it to save people. Things get really bad when one of those people turns out to be his young son, who, along with a friend, is kidnapped by a predator, who has committed a string of child abductions. Strong Christian bent but doesn't overpower the story. Liked "The Unseen" better, but still enjoyed it.(100 bks)
The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry - Cotton Malone calls in a favor to get his late father's file pulled from government archives to find out the whole story of what happened when the submarine his father commanded went down. What he finds is a connection to Nazi explorations of the Antarctic and a link back through history to Charlemagne. Oh, yeah, and people constantly trying to kill him. Fairly fun fluff along the lines of Dan Brown and Clive Cussler.(100 bks)
Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson - Robinson is more known as a SF author, but this and the preceding book "Very Bad Deaths" are more thriller with a SF edge. Russell Walker, an aging hippie and columnist for a Canadian newspaper, is trying to reconnect with his estranged son, when Nika, a no nonsense constable, shows up with news that someone has been tracking her and it has to be related to Zudie, Russell's college roommate, a telepath. Nika and Russell had helped Zudie find a murderer before he could kill again and the two of them had disposed of the body after Zudie killed the man. Now someone has connected them to Zudie, who's been pretending to be dead since he escaped the CIA in the 60's. Good characters, fast read, Robinson's feelings about the US, Canada, the health care system, and the future of the planet get a bit strident and pessimistic, but he obviously cares. And he writes it well :) Prefer the Callahan's books, but these are good reads too. Still need to check out his other, more SF stuff.
Robinson's book was #101 on my list, so I'm done with the 100 Book Challenge.
Waking Lazarus by T.L. Hines - Jude Allman died three times. Not just heart-stopped & resuscitated - but clinically dead for much too long to come back from. Yet he did. Now a paranoid recluse using an assumed name to escape publicity and miracle seekers, Jude is visited by a strange woman who declares he has a purpose in life he must fulfill. He has no idea of her meaning - he's missing lots of his memories of his childhood, but it soon becomes clear. He has a gift of clairvoyance and needs to use it to save people. Things get really bad when one of those people turns out to be his young son, who, along with a friend, is kidnapped by a predator, who has committed a string of child abductions. Strong Christian bent but doesn't overpower the story. Liked "The Unseen" better, but still enjoyed it.(100 bks)
The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry - Cotton Malone calls in a favor to get his late father's file pulled from government archives to find out the whole story of what happened when the submarine his father commanded went down. What he finds is a connection to Nazi explorations of the Antarctic and a link back through history to Charlemagne. Oh, yeah, and people constantly trying to kill him. Fairly fun fluff along the lines of Dan Brown and Clive Cussler.(100 bks)
Very Hard Choices by Spider Robinson - Robinson is more known as a SF author, but this and the preceding book "Very Bad Deaths" are more thriller with a SF edge. Russell Walker, an aging hippie and columnist for a Canadian newspaper, is trying to reconnect with his estranged son, when Nika, a no nonsense constable, shows up with news that someone has been tracking her and it has to be related to Zudie, Russell's college roommate, a telepath. Nika and Russell had helped Zudie find a murderer before he could kill again and the two of them had disposed of the body after Zudie killed the man. Now someone has connected them to Zudie, who's been pretending to be dead since he escaped the CIA in the 60's. Good characters, fast read, Robinson's feelings about the US, Canada, the health care system, and the future of the planet get a bit strident and pessimistic, but he obviously cares. And he writes it well :) Prefer the Callahan's books, but these are good reads too. Still need to check out his other, more SF stuff.
Robinson's book was #101 on my list, so I'm done with the 100 Book Challenge.
