Yeah it's a page-turner - finished it in one sitting. And like the best of this sort of crime thriller you get all sorts of, er, educational details on the the workings of various criminal enterprises…
Gary
Atkinson brings the same engaging narrative style and excellent researcher's eye for the telling detail to the American Revolution as he did for his masterly WW2/Europe trilogy. (And as a longtime citizen of Concord and history fan I'm a demanding audience!)
Gary
Such was the ongoing intellectual ferment of the City of Light that even in the squalid Depression decade an extraordinary cast of characters lived singular lives and created exciting things, in spite of - or perhaps stimulated by - the gathering geopolitical dread...
Gary
Every house should have one! Paging through this beautiful volume can light up your mind with humanity's creative pageant, as well as inspire, elucidate and finally identify that certain half-remembered painting (the one with the thing) that you've been trying to recall for years now...
Gary
Existentialism, jazz hot, expatriates, blood & guts intellectualism in sidewalk cafes, proto-feminism...an electrifying moment in thought and art grown from the depths of the Occupation. Delicieux!
Gary
Novelist (Going Away) Sigal was a Hollywood talent agent and secret communist in the blacklist-plagued 1950s. An outrageously entertaining, naming-names memoir (with a ration of b.s. too...sweetheart, whaddya expect, he's an agent!), What Makes Sammy Run meets L.A. Confidential. The cover should be a lot more lurid!
Gary
This probable masterpiece in the flavorful oeuvre of the great Joe R, joins LITTLE BIG MAN, TRUE GRIT and Cormac McCarthy's border trilogy in being unique and entertaining literature set in the Old West but above and outside the Western genre.
Gary
A fascinating lens through which to view their historical time and place. The concept really works, and you also get a good thumbnail bio of each of these 20th century giants.
Gary
I only knew (or cared,really) of Jonathan Swift as the author of Gulliver's Travels - but John Stubbs work was recommended to me as a sterling example of the biographer's art. I found it a most pleasurable reading experience and an excellent life study.
Gary
Topnotch, often brilliant police procedural, plus inside Hong Kong pre-, post-, and during Crown Colony handover.
Gary
