The Confessor

Each year I look forward to Daniel Silva's new thriller. The Confessor was worth the wait. After starting off slowly, the novel quickly picks up steam.
As is usual with a suspense novel, there are a few plots to keep track of, three in The Confessor. Though it is hard to remember the various characters at first, they quickly become integral parts of the novel. Silva develops his characters wonderfully. None are faultless, but all are a joy to read about.
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The English Assassin

The English Assassin is another fine novel. Daniel Silva provides the reader with his usual blend of action, excitement, intrigue, and plot twists -- all set within the historical context of the secret world of the Swiss banking system from WWII to the present. In a reprise of Gabriel Allon, the art restorer and sometimes Israeli spy from the Kill Artist, Silva spins a tale of a secret Swiss society, long-ago collaboration with Nazi Germany, and a quest to recover art treasures plundered by the Nazi's in WWII. Gabriel is drawn into the plot when he is sent to restore a painting belonging to an elderly Swiss banker. Finding the banker dead, Gabriel is quickly forced to match wits with the mysterious English Assassin and members of the clandestine Swiss organization that seeks to keep the past of Switzerland buried.
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The Kill artist

The Kill Artist is a 2002 Spy novel by Daniel Silva and the first book featuring Gabriel Allon. It was released on 20 June 2002.
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Moscow rules

I've only recently discovered Silva's work and I must say I'm impressed. All of his books keep you glued to the page when you should be doing something else. "Moscow Rules" I found to be particularly engaging. Protagonist Gabriel Allon is no superhero. He's just a well-trained, bold, talented agent who is dedicated to doing the right thing.
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Hollywood Series

Hollywood Series

• Hollywood Wives (1983)
• Hollywood Husbands (1986)
• Hollywood Kids (1994)
• Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2001)
• Hollywood Divorces (2003)

Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

If you enjoy reading about sex, cheating spouses, drug abusers, a cast of characters with no depth and a plot that just doesn't add up, then this is the novel for you.
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Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon is the most famous novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler. Published in 1940, it tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik old guard and 1917 revolutionary who is first cast out and then imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he once helped create.

The novel is set in 1938 during the Stalinist purges and Moscow show trials. It reflects the author's personal disillusionment with Communism; Koestler knew some of the defendants at the Moscow trials. Although the characters have Russian names, neither Russia nor the Soviet Union are actually mentioned by name as the location of the book. Joseph Stalin is described as "Number One", a barely-seen and menacing totalitarian leader.
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CRADLE and ALL

 I've read quite a bit of James Patterson -- this book is decidedly different from many that I've read. This is not the usual good guy vs. bad, evil, murderer guy. This is a story about two girls who are pregnant virgins -- one in the US and one in Ireland. It's confirmed that they are indeed "intact" and are virgins.

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Hollywood Kids

Dynamite. Jackie Collins has done it again. A book you will enjoy. Full of witty dialogue and sizzling sex, the way only Jackie Collins can deliver. One of her best books.

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Hollywood Divorces

HOLLYWOOD DIVORCES is the typical trashy Jackie Collins tale that somehow is fun to read (sort of like the tabloids in a supermarket). The cast for the most part are not a likable group as they are shallow and egotistical except perhaps Shelby who seems naive. The story line is thin yet this reviewer cannot explain why, but once again Ms. Collins hooked me with her latest Hollywood drama.

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DEADLY EMBRACE

This book had everything I was looking for in a good read and more. It was so good that I had cut back on most of my activites just to finish it. Once you began reading you WILL NOT be able to put it down. It's fast-paced, exciting, and unpredictable. Michael Castelli/Castellino is the best character ever written. He's everything I wish I could be and more! I hope Collins writes more about him in the future. I am now buying all of Jackie Collins books, cause she has just recieved herself a new loyal fan in me.
(customer review from amazon)

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The Defector

The Defector is Daniel Silva's 9th book in the Gabriel Allon series due for release on July 21, 2009. The cover depicts the House of Parliament and Big Ben in London indicating the next location for Gabriel's adventures.

The Defector, was published in July 2009 and was a #1 New York Times bestseller

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Gabriel Allon series

Gabriel Allon series:

1. The Kill Artist (2000)
2. The English Assassin (2002)
3. The Confessor (2003)
4. A Death in Vienna (2004)
5. Prince of Fire (2005)
6. The Messenger (2006)
7. The Secret Servant (2007)
8. Moscow Rules (2008)
9. The Defector (2009)

The Bitch

THE BITCH is the story of two characters: Nico Constantine who married into wealth at a young age, and Fontaine Al Khaled, who also married into wealth. Both of them are single by the time they meet accidentally on an airplane. Instant attaction....
The novel of course has several subplots weaving in and out, with lots of gratuitous sex and outrageous plot twists. But that's expected from a Jackie Collins novel. Nico finds he's dead broke and spends the rest of the novel trying to get himself out of this mess (big time gambling debt). Fontaine in the meantime is trying to rejuvenate her London night club, while at the same time ignores all advances from Nico, although deep down she is very attracted to him.
For a quick light read and some trashy writing, THE BITCH is recommended.

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Everything was going perfect for Lucky Santangelo in spite of turning the big 40. However, her run of good luck abruptly ends when a carjacker kills the wife of her half-brother. Being the daughter of a powerful Vegas mobster, no one messes with a member of the Santangelo clan and escapes free because Lucky takes care of her kind and their enemies. Lucky begins to track down the odious killer with special plans to enact revenge.

While she is on her quest, other problems arise. Claudia accompanied by a small boy comes from Italy claiming that her child's father is Lucky's husband, a by-product of a one-night stand. Her goddaughter Brigette Stanislopoulos has been raped and fed heroin by her disgusting spouse. As she adds these two situations for super clean up, Lucky must deal with Alex Woods of the DANGEROUS KISS, who wants back into her life.

The Lucky Santangelo tales are all entertaining fun and fluff that turn into a fast reading experience. The fifth entry DANGEROUS KISS is fast-paced, filled with humor, sex, and death. Lucky remains an enjoyable lead character and the returning cast members continue to augment the story line. Jackie Collins provides her fans with a pleasurable tale and anyone who scorns this novel without reading it will miss a fun time.

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AMERICAN STAR

A rags-to-riches Hollywood superstar rescues a naive young girl left alone and unprotected in a perilous environment.

Steamy erotica from the pen of Jackie Collins. Strong language and very explicit descriptions of sex. publisher unknown copyright unknown isbn unknown While American Star contains descriptions Of Unprotected sex appropriate to the period in Which the story is set, the author wishes to emphasize the imprtance Of practicing safe sex and the use Of condoms in real life.

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Roses Are Red

Alex Cross returns for the sixth book in the series with a new killer on the loose. A series of meticulously planned bank robberies leave behind a wake of bodies. Alex Cross must not only battle against the sadistic criminal who calls himself The Mastermind, but also the risks that he may be putting his family in. Cross takes a plunge into a case where mind games lead to violence and the slightest mistake will be punished with death.

This is serial book Alex Cross


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The Rescue

Volunteer fireman Taylor McAden is driven to take terrifying, heroic risks to save lives. But there's one leap into the unknown he can't bring himself to make: He can't fall in love. A man who likes to rescue troubled women, he inevitably leaves them as soon as they want more from him. Then, one day, a record-breaking storm hits his small Southern town, and Taylor comes across a young single mother named Denise Holton in a crashed car. When she revives, Taylor finds himself looking for her missing son---and involved in a rescue different from all the others. This one will require him to open doors to his past slammed shut by pain. And, with Denise's help, dare him to make the greatest commitment of all: Love someone forever


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Child 44

Child 44 is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith, and features disgraced MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Stalin's Soviet Union.
The novel is based on real Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, also known as the Rostov Ripper, who was responsible for 52 murders in communist Russia. In addition to highlighting the problem of Soviet-era criminality in a state where "there is no crime," the novel also explores the paranoia of the age, the education system, the secret police apparatus, orphanages, Homosexuality in the USSR and mental hospitals.
The book is the first part of a trilogy.[citation needed] The second part is called The Secret Speech and also features the character of Leo Demidov and his wife, Raisa.
Child 44 was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2009.


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The Mark: The Beast Rules the World

The now-Antichrist declares that every single person on earth must receive his mark of loyalty and worship his image or lose their head to the guillotine, or "loyalty enforcement facilitator


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The Last Precinct

Following the death of Diane Bray in Black Notice, Kay finds herself the target of a corrupt police investigation that will dredge her darkest secrets from the deepest corners of her past. Torn between a desire to clear her name and the instinct of a wounded animal to turn against even its would-be rescuers, Kay sifts through the forensic evidence that seems to link Chandonne to other horrific events in her past, up to and including the murder of her lover, Benton Wesley. Physical analysis, however, will not be enough to right her up-ended world. Instead, Kay must rely on the strategic support of her niece, cofounder of the Last Precinct, and on her willingness to examine her own fears, misconceptions, and anything-but-altruistic motives.


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The Bear and the Dragon

In the book Jack Ryan is President of the United States. After Russia discovers oil fields rivaling those of the Persian Gulf in Siberia and gold deposits just as big, it looks as if the struggling Russian economy is on the road to recovery. But China decides to speed up its plan to invade Siberia, which had been delayed after the defeat of Japan in the book Debt of Honor.


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Catch-22

Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of World War II from 1943 onwards, is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century.[2] It has a distinctive non-chronological style where events are described from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.

"Похождения бравого солдата Швейка" в вольной интерпретации американца.

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The Brethren

Трое бывших судей преклонного возраста отбывают наказание в тюрьме. В заключении они изобрели интересный способ заработка. Подавая объявления о знакомстве в газеты от имени молодого гомосексуалиста, они заводят переписку с другими состоятельными гомосексуалистами. Затем начинают шантажировать их прямо из тюрьмы, выманивая крупные суммы. Некоторые гомосексуалисты находятся на грани самоубийства вследствие стресса.


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List of bestselling novels in the United States in the 2000s

1. The Brethren by John Grisham
2. The Mark: The Beast Rules the World by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
3. The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
4. The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye
5. The Last Precinct (novel) by Patricia Cornwell
6. Journey by Danielle Steel
7. The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
8. Roses Are Red by James Patterson
9. Cradle and All by James Patterson
10. The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel

The Information

The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty year old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that both characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. It is, says Amis, a book about "literary enmity".

Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull have been friends since they roomed together at university. Richard Tull was a promising writer with a seemingly bright future. However his career flags and he finds himself depressed writing book reviews for a small literary paper and running a vanity press. To his chagrin, Gwyn Barry - whose literary skills Tull holds in low esteem - has written a phenomenally successful novel and won a lucrative and respected literary prize. Barry begins to enjoy a rarified life whilst Tull toils away with his unsuccessful pursuits.

Tull, increasingly envious, begins to manufacture ways of bringing Barry down. These begin relatively innocently, attempts to cause Barry inconvenience. But later things become much more serious as Tull makes contact with violent men he later finds he cannot control.


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Déjà Dead

Déjà Dead is the first novel by Kathy Reichs starring Temperance Brennan. It won the 1997 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel

The novel is set in Montreal, Quebec where a series of women are found brutally murdered.They are brutally hit on the head and their dead bodies are packed in plastic bags and buried.


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206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs

206 BONES, by Kathy Reichs.
Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy.

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Temperance Brennan

Temperance Daesee Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs and is the hero of her crime novel series. She was introduced in Reichs' first novel, Déjà Dead, which was published in 1997. Like her creator, Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, who divides her time between work in North Carolina, and working in Montreal for the Laboratoire des Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. Brennan is divorced and has a daughter named Katy. Throughout the books, she is constantly meeting with Detective Andrew Ryan and has developed a romance with him.

The character shares the same name with the protagonist of the American television series, Bones, whose character was not based on Reichs' books or the Brennan of her books but rather on the author herself.[1] In the TV series, Temperance Brennan is played by Emily Deschanel.

Brennan makes a cameo appearance in Jasper Fforde's 2007 novel First Among Sequels.

Novels

* Déjà Dead (1997)
* Death du Jour (1999)
* Deadly Decisions (2000)
* Fatal Voyage (2001)
* Grave Secrets (2002)
* Bare Bones (2003)
* Monday Mourning (2004)
* Cross Bones (2005)
* Break No Bones (2006)
* Bones to Ashes (2007)
* Devil Bones (2008)
* 206 Bones(2009)

Ulysses

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Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris. It is one of the most important works of Modernist literature.

Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyssey (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). Joyce fans worldwide now celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday.

Ulysses totals about 265,000 words from a vocabulary of 30,030 words (including proper names, plurals and various verb tenses), divided into 18 "episodes". Since publication, the book attracted controversy and scrutiny, ranging from early obscenity trials to protracted textual "Joyce Wars." Ulysses' stream-of-consciousness technique, careful structuring, and experimental prose—full of puns, parodies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisations and broad humour, made the book a highly regarded novel in the Modernist pantheon. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library. In the spring of 1998 the Modern Library polled its editorial board to find the best 100 novels of the 20th century.

Editors' list

Editors' list

# Year Title Author

1. 1922 Ulysses James Joyce

2. 1925 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce

4. 1955 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

5. 1932 Brave New World Aldous Huxley

6.1929 The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner (fb2)

7. 1961 Catch-22 Joseph Heller

8. 1940 Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler

9. 1913 Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence

10. 1939 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

11. 1947 Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry

12. 1903 The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler

13. 1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

14. 1934 I, Claudius Robert Graves

15. 1927 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

16. 1925 An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser

17. 1940 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers

18. 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

19. 1952 Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

20. 1940 Native Son Richard Wright

21. 1959 Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow

22. 1934 Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara

23. 1938 U.S.A. (trilogy) John Dos Passos

24. 1919 Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson

25. 1924 A Passage to India E. M. Forster

26. 1902 The Wings of the Dove Henry James

27. 1903 The Ambassadors Henry James

28. 1934 Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald

29. 1935 Studs Lonigan (trilogy) James T. Farrell

30. 1915 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford

31. 1945 Animal Farm George Orwell

32. 1904 The Golden Bowl Henry James

33. 1900 Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser

34. 1934 A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh

35. 1930 As I Lay Dying William Faulkner

36. 1946 All the King's Men Robert Penn Warren

37. 1927 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder

38. 1910 Howards End E. M. Forster

39. 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin

40. 1948 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene

41. 1954 Lord of the Flies William Golding

42. 1970 Deliverance James Dickey

43. 1951-1975 A Dance to the Music of Time (series) Anthony Powell

44. 1928 Point Counter Point Aldous Huxley

45. 1926 The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

46. 1907 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad

47. 1904 Nostromo Joseph Conrad

48. 1915 The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence

49. 1920 Women in Love D. H. Lawrence

50. 1934 Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller

51. 1948 The Naked and the Dead Norman Mailer

52. 1969 Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth

53. 1962 Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov

54. 1932 Light in August William Faulkner

55. 1957 On the Road Jack Kerouac

56. 1930 The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett

57. 1924-1928 Parade's End Ford Madox Ford

58. 1920 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

59. 1911 Zuleika Dobson Max Beerbohm

60. 1961 The Moviegoer Walker Percy

61. 1927 Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather

62. 1951 From Here to Eternity James Jones

63. 1957 The Wapshot Chronicle John Cheever

64. 1951 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger

65. 1962 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess

66. 1915 Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham

67. 1902 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

68. 1920 Main Street Sinclair Lewis

69. 1905 The House of Mirth Edith Wharton

70. 1957-1960 The Alexandria Quartet Lawrence Durrell

71. 1929 A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes

72. 1961 A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul

73. 1939 The Day of the Locust Nathanael West

74. 1929 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

75. 1938 Scoop Evelyn Waugh

76. 1962 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark

77. 1939 Finnegans Wake James Joyce

78. 1901 Kim Rudyard Kipling

79. 1908 A Room with a View E. M. Forster

80. 1945 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

81. 1953 The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow

82. 1971 Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner

83. 1979 A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul

84. 1938 The Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen

85. 1900 Lord Jim Joseph Conrad

86. 1975 Ragtime E. L. Doctorow

87. 1908 The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett

88. 1903 The Call of the Wild Jack London

89. 1945 Loving Henry Green

90. 1980 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie

91. 1932 Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell

92. 1983 Ironweed William Kennedy

93. 1965 The Magus John Fowles

94. 1966 Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys

95. 1954 Under the Net Iris Murdoch

96. 1979 Sophie's Choice William Styron

97. 1949 The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles

98. 1934 The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain

99. 1955 The Ginger Man J. P. Donleavy

100. 1918 The Magnificent Ambersons Booth Tarkington