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About: Operation Shylock: A confession by Philip Roth takes place in the 1990s during a turbulent time in Israel. Mr. Roth is an American writer known for blurring fiction and reality. My rating for Operation Shylock – 3Buy Operation Shylock from Amazon.com*More […]
About: The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva is the 12th book in the Gabriel Allon series, sending the master spy and art restorer extraordinaire from the Vatican to Jerusalem. Once again, Allon founds himself in the middle of geopolitical events. Just when […]
About: Brokenclaw by John Gardner is the 10th book in the author’s tenure as the official author of the James Bond novels. The book expands the 007 universe, and goes back to a more suave secret agent, which made the earlier books […]
Despite a seemingly complex plot, involving many characters & financial crimes, I found it easy to follow & am looking forward to see if it is part of a series
American Spy tells of Marie Mitchell works as an FBI intelligence officer, but cannot break into the old boys club being an African-American woman.
A Pulitzer Prize winning historical fiction taking place in 1975, Viet Nam of a man who, after college in the US, goes back to Vietnam to fight the communists.
The first thing I noticed, right off when starting to read The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer, is that it is absolutely believable and well written
