Just started The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer, (had I been aware of it beforehand I would have begun with his earlier book The Tourist, but 'spilled milk' and all that).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/Hammer-t.html
I've been reading the last few Anne Tyler books. I love her writing, but it's not for everyone.
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Unlike most here, I mainly read nonfiction.
The latest is an extraordinarily well written account of how genes were discovered and understood (as far as they are currently understood).
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Zero Day - David Baldacci
The first "John Puller" book, murders in "coal country" WV. Yup they knew too much. Puller and the local cops thwart terrorism in America.
Thrilling.
Burn - James Patterson
A bizarre tale of cannibalism in NYC. This one has been sitting on the shelf for a while and I think I should have left it there. Kinda weird and disjoint.
And Clancy is dead, but he's still writing eh? Amazing.
Not really though, Jimi Hendrix released a couple albums after he died. Show me the money!
I'm cheap so I set up an alert at bookbub.com
Daily emails of free or almost free books base on the profile you set up. These are mostly Kindle versions, some from established authors, quite a few from new authors. But hey they're cheap or free.
Just started book 5 of 6 in "The Expanse Series"
This is set in a future where Earth, Mars, and people who live their entire lives in the asteroid belt and moons of Jupiter are at odds with each other (at times). And then some really weird stuff happens that nobody can explain.
There was a TV show for one season on SyFy that covered parts of the first and second books. Watching that, even before starting the books, might be a good idea (so you can picture the characters). I watched the series in between the first and second book, and I thought it might be hard to follow the show, but if you just relax into it, it comes together.
The universe of the series mostly acts with the physics we know (acceleration is not ignored), but has unexplainable stuff that all the players are trying to figure out to their own advantage.
It's kept me engaged, the characters are likable, so I've kept reading. Some series we a marathon, and I kept going because "I've gone this far", but this one I look forward to each new twist and what my friends will do next.
The Nest...
An Inheritance lost, greed and all the bad choices we humans make and have made..
Good stuff so far.