hardback
385 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-1-4165-9520-5
KILL SHOT - VINCE FLYNN
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR VINCE FLYNN DELIVERS THE YOUNG, HUNGRY, AND LETHAL MITCH RAPP AT THE ONSET OF HIS CAREER AS A CIA SUPERAGENT.
In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp's silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of his life.
The next morning, nine bodies are discovered in one of Paris's finest hotels --- among the Libyan oil minister. Back in Washington the finger-pointing begins in earnest as no one wants any part in waht has become an international crises and potential embarrassment for the CIA. Rapp's handlers have only one choice --- deny any responsibility fro the incident and pray that their newest secret weapon stays that way.
Rapp must avoid capture or die quietly. One person in the group, however, is not prone to leaving such important things to chance. Rapp has become a liability,and Stan Hurley will not allow Rapp to be taken alive by the French authorities, even if it means killing him. Operating on his own and outside the control of his handlers, it will soon become clear that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded and cornered Mitch Rapp.
1. Mitch Rapp at 25 years old.
2. Victor Bramble passing information to Paul Cooke, Deputy Director of the CIA.
3. Mitch Rapp kills Paul Fournier (DGSE- France's General Directorate for External Security , Paul Cooke and Max Vega (Spanish businessman funding various radical Muslim groups) and Samir Fadi (lieutenant from Islamic Jihad)
4. Mitch finds in Cooke's pocket another envelope...mugshot of Stan Hurley
hardback
471 pages
copyright 2011
ISBN 978-1-4555-0147-2
LETHAL - SANDRA BROWN
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is widely acclaimed for her high-velocity and emotionally charged novels of suspense. Now, in her newest book, she returns to the bayous of Louisiana to deliver a heart-pounding tale of corruption, betrayal, and murder...and the stakes couldn't be higher.
Speaking in a whisper he said, "I promise not to hurt you or your kid. But you gotta do everything I say. Okay? Have we got a deal?"
She suddenly realized who he was, and that sent a bolt of terror through her.
You're...You're the man who shot all those people last night."
When Honor Gillette's four-year-old daughter, Emily, informs her that a sick man is lying in their front yard, Honor rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.
But everything changes when witnesses a shocking act of brutality --- and makes a terrifying discovert that even those closest to her can't be trusted. . Coburn claims that her beloved late husband, Eddie, a police officer, possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Honor has no idea what Eddie was hiding, but convinces here that he must find it before it falls into the hands of The Bookkeeper, a merciless crime boss and ruthless killer who will now stop at nothing until Coburn --- and Honor and Emily --- are dead.
From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, the desperate trio run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them and, risking all, unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society.
With her inimitable talent for combining nonstop action and suspense with riveting human drama, Sandra Brown once again proves herself to be one of the most mesmerizing storytellers of our time.
1. Hawkins twins Fred and Doral were the perpetrator of the murders.
2. Lee Coburn is an undercover agent
3. Lee Coburn kills Fred Hawkins.
4. Tori Shirah survives her gunshot wound in the head; Bonnell Wallace also survives the attack on his person.
4. Honor's tattoo is key to what Lee Coburn was looking for...USB implicating authorities to human trafficking
5. Janice, wife of Tom VanAllen is The Bookkeeper, who kills (bomb planted in his car) her husband with no remorse; she also shoots and kills Doral.
hardback
336 pages
copyright 2009
ISBN 978-1-4391-4791-7
THE 13TH HOUR - RICHARD DOESTSCH
A mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse!
"The 13th Hour" is the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life.
Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken -- "and completely innocent."
At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question: ""If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?"" He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future.
In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julia's murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julia's life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined.
A surprising and utterly original thriller, "The 13th Hour" is pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations.
1. Ethan Dance is the one who kills Julia etc...as seen by Nick as he moves through time
The novel is a psychological thriller about a woman suffering from amnesia. She wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is and the novel follows her as she tries to reconstruct her memories from a journal she has been keeping. She learns that she has been seeing a doctor who is helping her to recover her memory, that her name is Christine Lucas, that she is 47 years old and married and has a son. As her journal grows it casts doubts on the truth behind this knowledge and sets her on a terrifying journey of discovery.
paperback
449 pages
copyright 2006
ISBN 0-440-24288-6
THE THIEVES OF HEAVEN - RICHARD DOETSCH
THE MOST CLOSELY GUARDED TREASURE ON EARTH.
AN EXCLUSIVE ANCIENT SECRET.
A BREAKNECK JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF THE VATICAN.
In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs is an instant–to steal the most important treasure in the Vatican museum: two antique keys–one gold, one silver–that protect the secret of salvation….
But a surprise awaits Michael St. Pierre deep inside the Vatican, an ancient secret so explosive, it sends him running for his life—from the streets of Rome to a small stone church in Israel—with two stolen keys and a terrible realization: the consequences of his desperate, brazen act are far greater than he could ever have imagined.
For the treasure he has uncovered—the gleaming prize buried within the most clandestine structure on earth—is about to bring him face-to-face with an enemy more shocking, frightening, and insidious than anyone can guess....
1. Michael St. Pierre steals the keys of the Vatican ....the keys to heaven....then recovers it back from August Finster...the devil.
2. Wife of Michael St. Pierre dies.
3. Denis Thal is the assassin of Finster....the man whom he saw in a windowsill assaulting Helen Staten 5 years ago, the day he was caught and sent to prison.
paperback
265 pages
ISBN 978-0-307-94868-7
copyright 2008
translation copyright 2011
HEADHUNTERS - JO NESBO
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War II—and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.
With Headhunters, Jo Nesbo has crafted a funny, dark, and twisted caper story worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers
1. The Calydonia Boar Hunt is a copy.
2. Clas Greve and Lotte Madsen working together...knew each other in Suriname.
3. Ove Kjikerud is accidentally killed by Roger Brown.
4. Transmitter is placed when Roger's hair is stroked by Diana/Lotte.
5. Roger kills Lotte.
6. Down syndrome child only told to Lotte.
7. Jeremias Lander is hired CEO of Pathfinder, the guy from whom Roger burgles Munch's The Brooch
hardback
422 pages
copyright 2012
ISBN 978-0-446-57299-6
THE INNOCENT - DAVID BALDACCI
America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target.
But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . .
THE INNOCENT
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.
Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.
Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.
Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life . . . and perhaps his own.
1. Prince Talal was not killed. A double was used.
2. Annie Lambert is hired assassin.
3. Jerome Cassidy is Julie's biological father.
4. George Van Buren rage against the u.s government ; Saudi Arabia was excellent target for his rage.
5. George mentioned to wife ...wife told Broome....Broome told Wind and the Gettys...killed by Talal's people.
i've just returned to reading because i've stopped playing tennis for more than a month now (it was my primary hobbie and past time,especially the part after playing tennis) and i've just discovered the books of stieg larsson. i never thought his work entitled the girl w/ a dragon tattoo would be very entertaining.
i've just finished that book's sequel and i'm contemplating on buying the third and last chapter of this so-called millennium series if and when i can visit the bookstore again (i'm thinking of getting a discount/frequent buyer card too).
in retrospect, i should've just bought the 3 book package of larsson thereby saving some few pesos in the process
Mitch Rapp #12
Reply With Quote
